This year the concert will feature an amazing synthesis of music in the program "Jazz and Classics". Outstanding masters of academic and jazz music - symphony orchestra and big band, choir, soloists, string quartet and jazz trio - will perform in concert, mass, chamber music genres. But this time the musicians in dress coats and with butterflies will swing and improvise.

THE FIRST TIME will be the concert of composer Nikolai Kapustin for piano and orchestra, accompanied by the united philharmonic and jazz orchestras under the management of Igor Shavruk and Nikolai Goloshchapov. For the piano - Anastasia Krasnobaeva.

The string quartet Harmony of the World - an ensemble of excellent masters from baroque to modern music - will perform jazz fantasies on the themes of Richard Rogers, Jerome Kern, Errol Garner, Jimmy McHugh, Antonio Jobim.

The magnificent chorus of Yuri Kuchurivsky, with the participation of the soloist of the Opera and Ballet Theater Alina Vorokha, together with the trio of maestro Alexei Petukhov, will feature fragments of the jazz Massin Blue of the English contemporary author Will Todd.

Alexei Petukhov and vocalist Ekaterina Kravchenko will perform for the first time with the symphonic orchestra of Igor Shavruk.

A special emphasis in the jazz marathon will be made on the performance of Rachel Terien (USA) with the trio of Alexei Petukhov.

The lady playing the trumpet will expand our understanding of the role of improvisers in modern jazz.

Leading "Lady Jazz" of Odessa - Elena Shevchenko.

"Jazz and Classic" - a large-scale project with the participation of 65 musicians - will appear before the audience on April 30, 2018 on the stage of the Odessa Philharmonic. Beginning at 19 o'clock.

The producer of the project is Mikhail Freidlin. So, the Odessa Philharmonic, April 30, 2018, starts at 19:00.