On December 7th, Dmitry Filatov, winner of the Second Prize of the last 2018 Evgeny Svetlanov Competition, organized and conducted a concert tribute to the 90th anniversary of Maestro Svetlanov.

The program,  which took place at the Belgorod Philharmonic Hall in Russia,  included two of Evgeny Svetlanov’s works: The symphonic poems The Read Snowball Tree (soloist – Vera Tsukalenko) and Daugava, Khachaturian’s Rhapsody-Concerto for cello (soloist – Anna Koshkina) and Olga Victorova’s magnificent work The Svetlanov Planet that was premiered during the Final Round of the 2018 Svetlanov Competition.