On the 8th of December 2003 JSC Central Telegraph at its corporate site www.cnt.ru will organize live broadcasting of the final gala concert of the All-Russian Art Festival "Constellation of Youth". The concert will take place at 19:00 at the State Central Concert Hall "Russia". The concert will be performed by talented children from Vladimir Spivakov International Foundation.

"Central Telegraph is a partner of Spivakov International Foundation, - said Vaagn Martirosian, General Director of the company. – The purpose of our cooperation is to support talented children in Russia and CIS countries, to promote national cultural heritage".

This concert is the final show of young talents at "Russia" Concert Hall in this year. It will be performed by young musicians – laureates of international competitions – from Moscow, Blagoveshchensk, Bryansk, Vologda, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhni Novgorod, Saint-Petersburg, Saratov, Tolyatti, Ufa, Chelyabinsk and other cities. Exhibition of young painters from Moscow, Vologda, Izhevsk, Korsun, Saratov, Surgut and Ufa will take place at the foyer of "Russia" Concert Hall.

The festival is conducted in the framework of the traditional action of "Russia in "Russia" – Constellation of the Future". The purpose of this action is to support young talents in this country and to introduce them to the public. This action takes place in "Russia" concert Hall for the third time and the number of musicians increases each year. This time spectators will see the Chamber Orchestra of the college of Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical and Pedagogical Institute, GUDI Concert Orchestra, Russian Folk Instrument Orchestra of Gnesins Institute, Cadans Children Domra Ensemble from Bryansk, Vivat Accordion Ensemble of Shnitke Institute, soloists of the Children Chorus Chapel from Moscow South-West district, String Quartet of the lyceum of Zhiganov State Conservatoire (Kazan).

The concert also features the honorary guest of the festival – State Chamber Orchestra "Moscow Virtuosi" (directed by V.Spivakov). The program will be presented by Svyatoslav Belza.

This action is conducted with the support of Interregional public Fund "Health and Spirituality of the Nation", Jack's Catering company, OOO Montana Kofe, "Bely Gorod" publishing house, Fedorov Foundation for the Promotion of Advanced Technologies.

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JSC Central Telegraph is one of the largest telecommunication companies offering the full range of communication services to individual and corporate customers in the Moscow region. At present the company provides all types of modern telecommunication services: access to the Internet via dedicated and switched channels (Central Telegraph is "The Best Internet Provider 2002"), data transfer, local, national and international telephone services, connection of ATMs and POS terminals to X.25 network, installation of telephone numbers in Moscow and in the Moscow region on the basis of its own fiber-optic network Centel. Quality management system of the company corresponds to the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 standard applied to telecommunication services. Information about the company you can find at its Internet site www.cnt.ru

Vladimir Spivakov International Foundation - The Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation was set up in May 1994 with the purpose of supporting young people gifted for music, painting and choreography. Every day in Russia there are in average two concerts of the Foundation of young talented musicians. Yvery year Foundation grant receivers participate in International Music Festival in Colmar (France) (art director – Vladimir Spivakov). The Foundation also provides material aid to children in need. Young musicians received 202 musical instruments (grand pianos, violins, altos, violoncellos, saxophones, flutes, oboes, clarinets, balalaikas, bayans, accordions, domras, guitars). After its organization, the Foundation provided funds for medical examination of more than 150 people and for 90 complicated surgery operation. During 10 years the Foundation conducted 200 exhibitions of young painters.

Additional information:

JSC Central Telegraph
PR and Advertising Department
Ekaterina Zhuravleva
Tel.: +7 (095) 504-38-62
Fax: +7 (095) 745-33-96
E-mail: pr@cnt.ru

Vladimir Spivakov International Foundation
PRSG, Elena Gushchina
Tel. (095) 255-3495/71, 253-1377, 253-1242
e-mail: lena@prsg.ru