Mosconcert
AbbreviationГБУК Москонцерт
Founded1931
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
Area served
Moscow
Secretary General
Ilya Bachurin
Websitehttps://mosconcert.moscow

Mosconcert is the oldest cultural organization in Moscow. Its full name is "Mosconcert, state budgetary institution of culture of Moscow" (ГБУК города Москвы «Москонцерт»)

History

At 25 January 1931, in Soviet Union, the National Association of Musical, Variety, and Circus Enterprises was formed. Mosconcert is the successor of it.[1][2]

During the years of the Great Patriotic War, the concert brigades of "Mosconcert" from masters of all genres performed at the forefront at the front, in the rear, in hospitals. Among the artists were the legendary masters of the Soviet stage: Lidia Ruslanova, Leonid Utyosov, Boris Brunov, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Nikolai Smirnov-Sokolsky, Maya Kristalinskaya, Viktor Besedin, Gennady Belov, Valery Kovtun and many others.

Some contemporary artists had collaborated with Mosconcert at various times: Zemlyane, Time Machine, Alla Pugacheva, Valentina Tolkunova, Zhanna Bichevskaya, Iosif Kobzon, Klara Novikova, Efim Shifrin, Nikolai Sokolov, Vladimir Baykov, Tatiana Sorokina. Mosconcert organizes performances, ballets, shows and concerts in Moscow, and broadcasts concerts online.

In 2019, Ilya Bachurin was appointed the Director General of Mosconcert.[3]

Structure

The structural divisions of Mosconcert are:

Concert halls

Mosconcert holds events at its concert venues:

  • «Mosconcert on Pushechnaya», which has a Hall of Mirrors, a Ballroom, a Theater hall and a Blue living room. Address: Moscow, Pushechnaya str., 4, p. 2.[13][14]
  • Mosconcert Hall Concert Hall. Address: Moscow, ul. Kalanchevskaya, 33[15][16]
  • «Mosconcert Art Salon». Address: Moscow, Leningradsky ave., 30, p. 2[17][18]
  • Children's music and drama Theater "A-Ya". Address: Moscow, Petrovsky lane, 5, p. 9[19]


References

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