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The renowned pianist and festival director Alexey Botvinov is launching a new concert series "Botvinov and Friends" in Zurich. The aim of the project is to bring classical music to a young and broad audience at a high level in an innovative and traditional way.

This evening Alexey Botvinov will perform together with violinist Alissa Margulis.

Organizer Odessa Classics.

On Sunday, 24 August 2025, Ukraine’s Independence Day, world-renowned pianist and Odessa Classics Festival President Alexey Botvinov will perform a matinée concert open-air in Parco Ciani Lugano. The concert program "Romantic Piano" will include masterpieces by Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Glass and Ukrainian composers Silvestrov and Karamanov.

Odessa Classics is visiting Brugg festival

Alexey Botvinov and Mikhail Shishkin present a musical-literary evening

Alexey Botvinov presents the program "Between Conflict and Religiosity"

Alexey Botvinov was honored with the highest award by the Société Arts-Sciences-Lettres in Paris in October 2024. Arguably the most renowned Ukrainian pianist of our time, he has close ties to Zurich; among other, he organizes his international music festival Odessa Classics.

Valentin Silvestrov’s “Moments of Memory” (V) premiered in Istanbul in June 2025 and will be presented for the first time in Germany at the Beethovenfest Bonn.

The renowned pianist and festival director Alexey Botvinov is launching a new concert series "Botvinov and Friends" in Zurich. The aim of the project is to bring classical music to a young and broad audience at a high level in an innovative and traditional way.

This evening Alexey Botvinov will perform together with Burhan Öçal.

Organizer Odessa Classics.

The renowned pianist and festival director Alexey Botvinov is launching a new concert series "Botvinov and Friends" in Zurich. The aim of the project is to bring classical music to a young and broad audience at a high level in an innovative and traditional way.

The author, who has been translated into all world languages, is one of the most determined critics of current Russian politics.

Text by Mikhail Shishkin (in German) with music by Prokofiev and Shostakovich

Organizer Odessa Classics