The 2008–2009 music season was officially launched by Vladimir Spivakov’s International Charity Foundation at the Moscow Kremlin Armoury

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October 17, 2008 — Vladimir Spivakov’s International Charity Foundation officially launched the 2008-2009 music season at the Moscow Kremlin Armoury on 11 October 2008. The concert featured musicians from the St Petersburg branch of the foundation as well as students from several Moscow-based schools of music. The international network of PricewaterhouseCoopers audit and consulting firms was a partner in the event.

The St Petersburg musicians put on a performance that was both dazzling and diverse. Seseg Lubsandorzhiyeva sang two Buryat songs for the ethnic part of the programme. Alexander Vasilyev and Alexei Kozlov carried the audience away with their blues pieces. Sergei Redkin, a young pianist from St Petersburg, presented his own compositions (i.e. The Three Piano Preludes). The concert also featured pieces by Saint-Sanse, Grieg, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovitch and other composers.

The culminating event of the concert was PricewaterhouseCoopers’ presentation of grants to recipients of the foundation’s scholarship. The beneficiaries included: Alexandra Lee (violin), Nikola and Danila Kouznetsov (piano), Artyom Naumenko (flute) and Anastasia Vorotnaya (piano). The grants are meant to enable these young talented musicians to further their own development.

Peter Gulko, the concert’s master of ceremonies and arts director of the foundation, made an opening statement where he explained how important it was to Vladimir Spivakov that the St Petersburg musicians perform at the concert, because St Petersburg was the maestro’s hometown and the place where he first took up the violin. PricewaterhouseCoopers’ representatives congratulated the young grant recipients.

Notes to Editor:

  1. For more information and comments please contact Vera Totskaya, PR Senior Manager, or Anna Kogosova, PR Assistant Manager.
  2. Established in 1994, the Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation supports musically and artistically gifted children. To date the foundation has organised 5,000 concerts in Russia and abroad as well as 400 art exhibitions, published eight catalogues featuring the work of young artists, recorded scores of musical albums and donated more than 300 musical instruments.

    The foundation also organises the International Festival “Moscow Meets Friends” and co-organises the International Music Festival in Kolmar as well as other projects that have earned the organisation international acclaim among the artistic community. For years, the foundation has been the driving force behind a project called “Heed the Call of the Future” featuring such programmes as “Children for Children”, “Children In Trouble”, “Children On the Roadside”, “The Ecology of the Soul” and “Let Us Join Our Hands, Friends”.


  3. “PricewaterhouseCoopers” refers to the network of member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each of which is a separate and independent legal entity.
Social Responsibility

PricewaterhouseCoopers in Russia develops a programme of corporate responsibility, which is aimed at strengthening ties with society as a whole and solving specific problems in areas such as education, culture, environmental protection, and the protection of children. Our company has for a number of years already been supporting children’s homes, developing and implementing training programmes for university graduates, financing the restoration of Russian cultural and historical monuments, and participating in international charity initiatives aimed at raising money for both orphaned children and children from less well off families. Recently we have got involved in a new area — supporting Russian sport, and our first project in this connection was to sponsor CSKA, the legendary Russian ice hockey team.

In PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2005 the programme “charity instead of business gifts” was born. For two consecutive years the company independently implemented the concept of promoting a charity initiative rather than giving out New Year business gifts. In 2007, more than 90 Russian and foreign companies joined this initiative, and the number of participants in the programme continues to grow. This programme will help to not only solve particular social problems, but also promote a culture of charity giving in the country.