Professor Evgenia Terentieva and Yuri Verevkine were happy to accept the invitation to participate in the work of a jury of the contest. Members of jury included famous showbiz people and artists: poet Sergey Alihanov, who kindly signed and presented his book of poetry to Musica Nova Academy, producer and singer Evgenii Vedenin and many others. As special guests we were also happy to perform in front of the audience, contestants and jury. We were not alone. Members of our British delegation, superb musicians, laureates of international festivals "Russian Song" Dmitri Budak and famous singer Alexa Pol were also invited as special guests of the Contest. We were very impressed with the high level of contestants and their performances. Taking this opportunity we would like to wish every success to this wonderful project.

Our President Professor Evgenia Terentieva and the President of the "Russian Romance Music Club", visiting Professor of the Musica Nova Academy Yuri Verevkine visited the "Russian Song" Festival together with other 8 delegates who represented Great Britain.

The 2-nd International festival of the Russian compatriots the «Russian song» dedicated to the 65th anniversary of victory in the II World War took place In February, 7th - 12th 2010 in Moscow. The event had enormous success and was organised on the highest level. The festival has been organized by the International Council of the Russian Compatriots under auspices of the Moscow government. More than 500 artists from 54 countries took part. The festival concert programme was held simultaneously on nine concert platforms of Moscow city.

It were unforgettable days for participants: sated by concerts, master-classes, excursions to the Kremlin and other historical museums. The master-classes were given by famous ensembles and musicians: choir named after Piatnizkyi, professor of the Moscow Conservatory of L. Kontorovich and singer Valentina Tolkunova.

The finale of the Festival and the Gala-concert took place in the Columned Hall of the House of the Unions. In the introductory part of the concert Mayor of Moscow Jury Luzhkov handed over honourable awards «the Compatriot of Year ». One of them though young, but already very popular performer Alexander Rybak, the absolute winner of the Contest "Eurovision" in 2009. Mayor, as is known, the fan of a Russian song, has paid attention to a fine variety of the Russian songs performed by all participants of the festival and has expressed his thought, that the song culture of Russia abroad is in reliable hands. British delegation was represented by the following winners of the Festival of Russian song in Great Britain: Dmitry Budak, Alexa Pol, Maryanna, Darya Agafonova; judges of Festival-contest: musician Igor Seljutin and director of the Musica Nova Academy Evgenia Terentieva, and also, the winner of competition of 2007 and the president of the Club of Russian Romance Jury Verevkin. The delegation was chaired by a member of the Presidium of the International Council of Russian compatriots, Honourable Chairman of Community Council of Great Britain N.D. Lobanov and the head of the organisational committee of the "Russian Song" festival, chairman of the "Eurolog-UK" association of Russian speaking cultural and educational centres Olga Bramli.

" … Organized at the highest level, the festival is the unique project. Music is a universal language. It is capable to unite all us and to highlight the best from most various representatives of the Russian World. To music and Russian song we address both in pleasure and in sorrow. On behalf of the Academy Musica Nova we express our thanks to all organisers of our trip to the festival and we wish the festival further prosperity and creative development. …" Professor Evgenia Terentieva

In Russian

- Евгения, откуда Вы родом и есть ли у Вас «музыкальные корни»?

- Я родилась в Петербурге. Моя семейная ветвь Липень – Фаллевич происходит из старинного дворянского рода. К сожалению, об истории своей семьи я знаю лишь по многочисленным фотографиям да рассказам бабушки, которой, кстати, скоро исполнится сто лет.

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In October 2009 Musica Nova Anglo-Russian Music Academy was invited to participate in the International Annual Festival "Starry Bridge" in Moscow. One of our distinguished musician's and teacher's Mr. Youri Verevkine travelled to Moscow to perform at the Charitable Concert-Marathon which took place at one of the most prestigious concert venues in Russia - Concert Hall "Rossiya" in front of the audience of almost five thousand people. The idea of the Festival is to support vulnerable and disabled children and to attract attention of general public to problems of young talented disadvantaged children and youth. Major stars of Russian show business took part in the charitable concert-marathon Among them Vitas, Timothy, Alexander Peskov, Vlad Topalov and etc. Ukraine was represented by Taisiya Povaliy and Svetlana Loboda.

An official message from Musica Nova Academy to organisers of the Festival was read at the opening ceremony.

Congratulations to our student Julia Maria Fedoryk (vocal) who won 3rd prize at the Fourth International Children's Festival Contest "Starry Rainbow" in Varna, Bulgaria 22 - 27 June 2009.