Pianist Fedor Aminov performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Composer Dimitris Arapis takes part in a news conference at the Chaikovsky Conservatory.

Bolshoi Theater soloist Irina Arkhipova before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Bolshoi Theater soloist Irina Arkhipova performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Bolshoi Theater soloist Irina Arkhipova performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Bolshoi Theater soloist Irina Arkhipova performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Conductor anf viola player Yuri Bashmet leads an orchestra during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Vila player of the Borodin quartet Valentin Berlinsky waits for the beginning of a concert at the Concervatory Great Hall.

Vila player of the Borodin quartet Valentin Berlinsky poses after a concert at the Concervatory Great Hall.

Composer Nikita Bogoslovsky poses during an interview at his house.

Conductor Andrei Bobeyko leads an orchestra during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Opera singer Olga Borodina poses before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Viola player Alexander Buzlov performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

The art director and the conductor of the Moscow symphony orchestra 'Russlaya Filarmonya' (Russian Philharmonic Society) performs during a concert at the Sound Recording House.

Jazz musician Grigory Garanyan performs during a concert.

Jazz musician Grigory Garanyan performs during a concert.

Eugenya Gelen, first violin of the Academical Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow State Academical Philharmonic Society, performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

The art director and the conductor of the State Academical Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergyev leads the orchestra during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

The former pianist of the jazz and rock group 'Arsenal' and the founder of the 'Quadro' group Vyacheslav Gorsky performs during a concert.

The art director of the State Symphony Orchestra Veronika Dudarova during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Composer Gya Kanchely vsits the Museum of Folk instruments.

Vocalist Mikhail Kozakov performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Concervatory Concert Hall.

Variety performer Roman Kartsev poses in a concert dress before the performance.

Variety performer Roman Kartsev poses during an interview at his make-up room.

Opera singer Makvala Kasrashvili poses during an interview.

Opera singer Makvala Kasrashvili poses during an interview.

Opera singer Makvala Kasrashvili poses during an interview.

Saxophonist and the leader of the company 'Arsenal' Alexei Kozlov performs during a concert.

Saxophonist and the leader of the company 'Arsenal' Alexei Kozlov poses during an interview at his study.

Saxophonist and the leader of the company 'Arsenal' Alexei Kozlov poses during an interview at home.

The conductor and the art director of the theater 'Novaya Opera' (New Opera) Eugeny Kolobov leads an orchestra during a rehearsal.

Pianist Dmitry Kosmachev performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Pianist Vladimir Kraynev performs during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Pianist Vladimir Kraynev poses during an interview.

Pianist Vladimir Kraynev performs during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Pianist Vladimir Kraynev takes part in a news conference on the creation of the season ticket. The news conference took place at the Conservatory.

Jazz musician Daniil Kramer poses during an interview.

Violinist Gidon Kremer performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Guitarist Alexei Kuznetsov performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Soviet People's Artist, the actor of the Vakhtangov Theater Vasily Lanovoy poses during an interview.

Opera singer Lyudmila Magomedova performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

The art director and the conductor of the Moscow Chamber Chorus Vladimir Minin leads the chorus during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Violoncellist and the leader of the string quartet Ivan Monigetti performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Harpist Emilya Moskvina poses behind her instrument during an inteview.

The pedagogue of the Chaikovsky Conservatory Lyev Naumov poses during an interview.

Musical score on the conductor's stand.

The conductor Pavel Ovsyannikov leads the President's Orchestra during a concert at the Kremlin Palace af Congress.

Conductor Mikhail Pletnev leads his orchestra during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Singer Alla Pugacheva performs during the concert 'Selected Songs' at the State Concert Hall 'Rossya'.

Opera singer Vladislav Pyavko performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Violoncellist and public man Mstislav Rostropovich speaks during an interview.

Violoncellist and public man Mstislav Rostropovich during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Violoncellist and public man Mstislav Rostropovich (left) and US pianist, the winner of the First Chaikovsky Contest Van Cliburn (right) meet teachers and students of the Moscow Conservatory.

Young violinist Mikhail Simonyan performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Conductor Vladimir Spivakov leads an orchestra during a concert at the Chaikovsky Concervatory Great Hall.

Pianist, the soloist of the Moscow Philarmonic Society Sergei Tarasov poses in front of the entrance to the Chaikovsky Concervatory Great Hall.

Pianist, the soloist of the Moscow Philarmonic Society Sergei Tarasov poses in front of the entrance to the Chaikovsky Concervatory Great Hall.

Pianist, the soloist of the Moscow Philarmonic Society Sergei Tarasov performs during a concert of Chaikovsky Contest laureates at the Chaikovsky Concervatory Great Hall.

Conductor Yuri Temirkanov is pictured in the wagon of the train 'Krasnaya Strela' (Red Arrow) on the way from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.

Conductor Yuri Temirkanov prepares for the concert at his make-up room.

Conductor Yuri Temirkanov leads an orchestra during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Conductor Yuri Temirkanov undoes his tie at his make-up room after a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Violinist Viktor Tretyakov performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Violinist Viktor Tretyakov performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Violinist Viktor Tretyakov (left) during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Violinist Viktor Tretyakov performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Composer Serafim Tulikov at the lobby of the Moscow Chaikovsky Conservatory.

Jazz musician Grigory Fayn performs during a concert.

Conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev (left) and violinist Viktor Tretyakov (right) during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev leads an orchestra during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev leads an orchestra during a rehearsal before a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Violinist Maxim Fedotov performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Composer Tikhon Khrennikov (right) kisses the hand of the companion (left) of violinist Maxim Fedotov (center) at the lobby of the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Violinist Maxim Fedotov (right) and his companion pose at the lobby of the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.

Opera singer Dmitry Khvorostovsky performs during a concert at the Chaikovsky Conservatory Great Hall.