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Join us at the Akustika Fair at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre from April 4-6 Meet The Strad team at stand F08 and pick up a free copy of the magazine The Strad Directory Jobs The Bach Suites performed on the ‘shoulder cello’ prove more than just a curiosity Description: The Bach Suites performed on the ‘shoulder cello’ prove more than just a curiosity Musicians: Sergey Malov (violoncello da spalla) Works: Bach: Six Suites for solo cello BWV 1007–1012 It is known that Johann Sebastian Bach was familiar with the violoncello da spalla Contemporary pictures show the instrument within the orchestra and several solos from Bach’s cantatas (written into the concertmaster’s part) were almost certainly composed for it This evidence seems to legitimise a performance of the Cello Suites on this instrument Sergey Malov recorded three of them for albums released in 2013 and 2017 when they were combined with music by Bartók and Ligeti Here we have newly recorded versions of all six suites in what has to be the only set of them to require just one CD This was made possible by the omission of practically all repeats a practice by which Malov attempts to ‘preserve the clarity of the form… wishing to embrace the entire cycle… as one great story’ many movements flow into each other almost without a break which underlines their shared harmonic structure and makes them appear almost as variations of one another Malov’s minuets can occasionally sound impatient but his embellishments are always spontaneous the music unobtrusively recalls its origins in dance Malov – a violinist – has had years of experience handling this rather unwieldy instrument and it shows: whereas in his previous recordings the odd note could be less then perfectly focused (particularly on the low C string) the instrument’s sound quality is now beautifully equalised Not least thanks to the generous acoustics this recording on violoncello da spalla can be enjoyed without any tonal allowances whatsoever when compared with (almost) any others performed on a regular cello US correspondent Thomas May speaks with Anja Lechner about the German cellist’s latest endeavour for ECM: her first album for solo cello which combines two Bach suites with music originally for viola da gamba Laurence Vittes reads luthier Dmitry Badiarov’s account of the history of the ‘arm cello’ and how he became interested in bringing them back to the modern world  Robin Stowell reviews the first two volumes in Biobach Music’s details edition of Bach’s fugues US correspondent Thomas May reviews Midori’s performance of the Brahms concerto with the Seattle Symphony under guest conductor Anja Bihlmaier on 23 January 2025 An all-American celebration of the concept of home Fine musicianship can’t quite overcome a flawed programme concept Site powered by Webvision Cloud The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden The fire broke out in the basement of one of Novo Nordisk’s buildings at its Måløv facility It took around an hour for the fire to be extinguished from when the alarm was first raised at around 2:10 pm No injuries were sustained and the caused of the fire is unconfirmed Several Novo Nordisk buildings have suffered fire damage since the start of this year On May 22nd, at least 70 firefighters were involved in extinguishing a fire at an administrative building at Novo Nordisk's headquarters in Bagsværd and on May 16th another fire broke out on a roof at a new building being constructed by Novo Nordisk at its site in Kalundborg creating a pillar of dark smoke that could be seen from 30 kilometres away The latter fire was later reported to be possibly caused by builders working at the site In June, a second fire broke out at the pharmaceutical giant’s headquarters at Bagsværd near Copenhagen READ ALSO: Why have there been so many fires in Copenhagen this year? There was no evidence of any criminal acts related to the earlier fires Please log in here to leave a comment either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content Vladimir Malov, a Russian official in occupied Ukraine and ally of President Vladimir Putin was killed on Saturday after a car he was in exploded United Russia is a conservative political party in Russia and is the largest in the country with a majority of the seats in the Duma the Telegram account of the Russian state-run outlet initially reported the news of Malov's car exploding citing statements from another local official The incident occurred in the city of Nova Kakhovka roughly 53 miles east of the region's administrative center it was said that Malov had been taken to a local hospital "in extremely serious condition," with doctors "fighting to save his life." citing Russian collaborator and acting governor of the Russian-annexed Kherson Oblast Vladimir Saldo who called the incident a "terrorist attack" and implied that it had been orchestrated by Ukraine Officials in Kyiv did not respond to the outlet's request for comment on the matter Newsweek has reached out to officials in Ukraine via email for comment While the exact nature of Malov's death remains unknown officials like him who have been viewed as collaborating with Russian forces in Ukraine have frequently been made the targets of assassination attempts In July, Russian officials reported that such an attempt Sergei Askyonov, the Kremlin-backed head of occupied Crimea, had been thwarted. A suspect had allegedly planned to plant a bomb in the official's car but was detained in June before he was able to "An assassination attempt against the Head of the Republic of Crimea plotted by Ukrainian intelligence agencies has been thwarted," a statement from the FSB said at the time according to the Kremlin-backed media outlet Tass "The bomber failed to follow through with his criminal plans as he was detained while removing an explosive device from a cache." Few other details about the suspect were provided aside from the fact that he was a Russian national born in 1988 who had reportedly been recruited for the task by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and given mine-explosive training Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground Newsletters in your inbox See all An official with Putin's ruling United Russia party was killed Saturday in a car bombing orchestrated by Ukrainians Vladimir Malov, executive secretary of the pro-Putin political party, died in the bombing, Reuters reported Vladimir Saldo the acting governor of the Russia-occupied Kherson Oblast said in a Telegram post declaring the incident a "terrorist attack." It is unclear if Malov was specifically targeted in the incident Representatives for Ukraine's Ministry of Defense and the Government of the Russian Federation did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider By: Tim Wright Use of this constitutes acceptance of our privacy policy The material on this site may not be reproduced except with the prior written permission of Rodman Media The two musicians will join fellow string faculty professors Nora Chastain Ilya Gringolts and Andreas Janke from September 2017 Read: violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky on the importance of practising scales poised ensemble in lovingly sculpted French piano trios The two musicians will begin teaching at Southern Methodist University’s music school in Dallas Get quality reporting directly into your inbox Russian President Vladimir Putin insists that while the Panama Papers stories published by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and its partner Novaya Gazeta are correct they show no corruption or illegal activity on his part Putin has called the stories a Western plot to destabilize his regime But additional analysis of the records by OCCRP and Novaya Gazeta show that offshore companies connected to Sergey Roldugin profited obscenely in building the jewel of the financial empire of Putin’s inner circle: Bank Rossiya Bank Rossiya itself has profited massively at the expense of Russian taxpayers Bank Rossiya featured prominently in earlier OCCRP stories that showed Roldugin used offshores to conduct a series of highly suspicious transactions many of which made no financial sense but left Roldugin much wealthier Documents showed that Roldugin and his associates owned a number of offshore companies registered in the notorious tax havens of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Panama Billions of dollars flowed through the companies which received “donations” from Russia’s richest businessmen and controlled the activities of strategic Russian enterprises Bank Rossiya employees figured prominently in many of the transactions The bank is described by the US Treasury Department as “the personal bank for senior officials of the Russian Federation” whose “shareholders include members of Putin’s inner circle associated with the Ozero Dacha Cooperative a housing community in which they live[d]” New records found by OCCRP show that in 2010 a company linked to Roldugin bought shares of Bank Rossiya for US$ 6.50 per share and sold them just days later to an unknown investor for 32 times more than he paid for them paid more than 169 times what he had paid for the same shares: US$1,120 per share Gazprom would later sell most of them again for half that price earning large losses The records detailing these transaction were obtained by OCCRP from public records and the Panama Papers a set of documents that were leaked from an offshore services provider called Mossack Fonseca to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) with more than 100 media partners across the globe including Novaya Gazeta and OCCRP Putin, however, was adamant that the Panama files demonstrate no corruption or illegal activity on his part saying that some of my friends are involved in business and suggesting that some of the money from these offshore accounts finds its way to officials As retaliation for the annexation of Crimea and Kremlin support for pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine authorities in both the US and European Union (EU) imposed sanctions on individuals and companies from Putin’s inner circle One of the most important targets was Bank Rossiya Many of the figures involved in the bank owned houses in the Ozero Dacha Cooperative near Putin. The cooperative, founded in the mid-1990s, is a gated community of summer homes on the shores of Lake Komsomolskoe near St. Petersburg. One of his neighbors was Yuri Kovalchuk, the largest shareholder of Bank Rossiya (with about 38 percent). Kovalchuk is considered by EU authorities as Putin’s long-time acquaintance who is benefiting from his links with top Russian decision makers Russian businessman Yuri Kovalchuk Credit: REUTERS/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool At various times, Bank Rossiya shareholders have included Nikolay Shamalov (his son, Kirill, is married to Putin’s younger daughter Katerina Tikhonova); Mikhail Shelomov a distant relative of the president; and Roldugin a celebrated cellist and godfather to Putin’s oldest daughter The bank was established in 1990 in the twilight of the Soviet era with the participation of the St. Petersburg branch of the Communist Party. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, new investors stepped in former Minister of Education Andrei Fursenko and former Russian Railways head Vladimir Yakunin – all long-time friends and associates of Vladimir Putin In the mid-1990s, they were joined by powerful St. Petersburg criminal: Sergey Kuzmin and Gennady Petrov and companies affiliated with them controlled a significant stake in Bank Rossiya up until the end of 1990s when Putin became the head of the FSB Last summer Petrov was indicted by Spanish prosecutors as a leader of the Tambovskaya organized crime group and accused of money laundering Today Bank Rossiya is among the top 20 Russian lenders according to the Interfax rating agency with assets of about US$ 9 billion and equity of US$ 700 million It controls a sprawling financial empire with important strategic assets that underpin the Russian economy including one of the country’s largest insurers and the management company for Gazprom’s pension fund One of Bank Rossiya’s holdings owns 25 percent stake in Channel 1 a state-controlled TV network with the largest audience in Russia The Panama Papers detail how a few suspicious deals involving Bank Rossiya’s shares helped a company linked to Roldugin make a fortune in just two days The company got loans on preferential terms from the Cyprus-based RCB Bank, a large stake of which is controlled by the Russian state-owned VTB Bank. Sandalwood invested some of their funds in luxury projects linked to Putin. For instance, Sandalwood then gave loans to a Russian company called Ozon Reuters reported last year that Igora was the site of the 2013 wedding between Putin’s daughter Tikhonova and Kirill Shamalov son of the long-time Putin friend and Bank Rossiya shareholder Nikolay Shamalov On June 23, 2010, Sandalwood bought 66,198 shares (about 3 percent of the share capital) of Bank Rossiya from Evgeny Malov Malov is another well-connected businessman from St Malov was a business partner of Gennady Timchenko until they split their business interests in the mid-2000s Timchenko was a cofounder of an oil-trading firm called Gunvor a company that trades much of Russia’s oil According to the US Treasury Department, Gunvor is “one of the world’s largest independent commodity trading companies involved in the oil and energy markets Timchenko’s activities in the energy sector have been directly linked to Putin Putin has investments in Gunvor and may have access to Gunvor funds.” Timchenko is no longer a shareholder of Gunvor: on the day before the US levied sanctions against him, Timchenko sold his stake in the company to his long-time partner from Sweden “to ensure with certainty the continued and uninterrupted operations” of Gunvor The deal between Malov and Sandalwood was very lucrative for Sandalwood which bought shares from Malov for 200 rubles per share (US$ 6.50) spending a total of 13 million rubles (about US$ 425,000) for the stake in Bank Rossiya Sandalwood held those shares for just two days. On June 25, 2010, Sandalwood sold the whole stake to another offshore entity from Cyprus Sandalwood booked a profit of US$ 13.6 million an astounding 32 times its initial investment OCCRP could not identify the owners of Horwich Trading Bank Rossiya would do an even bigger deal – one that transformed it into a major Russian bank In 2010, about one month after Sandalwood sold the shares to Horwich, Bank Rossiya took over Gazenergoprombank (GEP) Shareholders of Bank Rossiya ended up paying nothing for a bank which filled their coffers with billions of dollars and more than doubled their assets from US$ 3 billion to more than US$ 8 billion GEP was established in 1996 by Gazprom’s subsidiaries Until 2010 the lender played a crucial role in the Russian gas industry by providing loans and accounts to gas distribution companies that were part of Mezhregiongaz Holding the company responsible for gasoline sales across Russia the board of directors of GEP approved a merger with Bank Rossiya The deal allowed Bank Rossiya to take over GEP in exchange for newly issued shares of Bank Rossiya But the deal turned out to be a very poor deal for taxpayers because the shares of Bank Rossiya tended to change value in such a way that benefitted the private bank and its shareholders at the expense of the state GEP was a larger bank both in terms of assets and equity than Bank Rossiya according to the Interfax rating of Russian banks GEP was the 43rd largest bank by equity compared to Rossiya’s rankings of 51st Although GEP’s contribution to the combined bank was more than half the equity and assets according to their financial statements GEP shareholders only got a bit more than 16 percent in the newly joined bank according to Bank Rossiya’s 2010 International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) report Reporters for Novaya Gazeta/OCCRP showed these documents to three independent banking and financial analysts and all of them said the merger hurt the state-owned companies which controlled GEP None of the experts agreed to talk on the record “You understand who is behind Bank Rossiya.” According to their calculations GEP’s shareholders should have received no less than 50 percent of the merged bank Records from the merger show that GEP was valued at US$ 475 million (including US$ 263 million in cash) Bank Rossiya issued about 420,000 new shares to Gazprom which fully owned GEP The price was 169 times more than what Sandalwood had paid one month previously Gazprom would later sell these same shares for much less Gazprom officials said they considered the swap ratio fair and explained that auditors estimated Bank Rossiya share split by calculating assets of the larger Rossiya group and not just the bank Bank Rossiya’s assets had more than doubled to US$ 8 billion and its equity had increased to US$ 660 million while the deposits by corporate clients doubled as well Bank Rossiya had become an important financial player in the Russian gas industry Novaya Gazeta sought comment on this series of transactions from Kovalchuk Previously, a Bank Rossiya spokesman had told the newspaper Kommersant that the deal was approved by shareholders based on “independent estimations of both lenders” by the global accounting firms PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte CIS which weighed “all assets of each member of the merger.” Both auditing companies declined comment as well It is possible to find out some of what Gazprom lost by looking at part of the deal. Before the merger, Gazprom subsidiaries owned all the shares of GEP. Gazprom Gazoraspredelenie, the main distributor of gas in Russia, owned 73 percent of GEP and got 12 percent of Bank Rossiya’s shares the board of directors decided to sell its shares Bank Rossiya shares were priced at the time of the merger at US$ 1,100making the share of Gazprom Gazoraspredelenie worth at least about US$330 million in 2010 Gazprom’s subsidiary reported selling their Bank Rossiya’s shares for much less than half that price or US$ 153 million (in exchange rates for December 2013) during this time Bank Rossiya actually grew significantly from US$ 3.2 billion to US$ 12.5 billion; its equity more than tripled from US$ 270 million to almost US$ 950 million; and its net profit grew almost 10 times how the bank’s share value actually dropped is unclear made a fortune on Bank Rossiya’s shares by simply buying and reselling them in two days were also lucky by acquiring the valuable assets of a former Gazprom bank without paying any cash Not so lucky were the state-owned companies and Russian taxpayers who had to pay grossly inflated prices for assets which cost almost nothing for the president’s friends Malov and Gordin did not respond to calls for comment Support from readers like you helps OCCRP expose organized crime and corruption around the world you’ll be directly supporting investigative journalism as a public good You’ll also gain access to exclusive insights and benefits Sergey Roldugin isn’t just one of Vladimir Putin's closest friends He's connected with a group of companies that controlled.. Vladimir Putin has always denied having any serious wealth But one of his relatives somehow amassed as much as $573 million.. Thousands of emails sent and received by Kirill Shamalov — Vladimir Putin’s former son-in-law — showcase the fantastic.. 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The voiceover continued by saying that Malov "dreamed about having a white car Most regional governments also offer compensation varying between one and four million roubles (around $18,000-$73,000) It was the first admission that the servicemen a leader in providing high-level science and technology education to religiously observant students in Israel and worldwide has announced the 2022 recipient of an annual scholarship for outstanding computer or engineering students.Malki Malov a third-year industrial bioinformatics and pre-medicine student at JCT’s Tal Campus for women the scholarship towards tuition fees is awarded to one Tal Campus student through 2028 Eligible recipients are students who achieve an average score of over 90 in their studies.The prize is named after the late Dr and became a trailblazer for women in the fields of technology and business Schachter served as vice president of strategic initiatives at Herley Industries and vice president of business development at 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Siberian city of Norilsk on Friday releasing 15,000 tonnes of fuel into a river and 6,000 tonnes into the soil according to Russia's state environmental watchdog President Vladimir Putin has ordered a state of emergency to deal with the disaster On Wednesday he furiously criticised the delay in the cleanup response the metals giant that owns the collapsed fuel reservoir through a subsidiary insists it notified the proper agencies immediately Greenpeace Russia said the accident was the "first accident of such a scale in the Arctic" and comparable to the Exxon Valdez disaster off the coast of Alaska in 1989 Russia's Investigative Committee said a power station supervisor has been detained and will be charged shortly as it conducts three probes into environmental pollution and safety violations No information was given about the possible charges against the employee Reinforcements arrived at the remote location on Thursday spokesman for Russia's Marine Rescue Service which cleans up marine spills and was called in at the weekend "There haven't been such spills in the Arctic before," he told AFP "It needs to be collected very quickly because the fuel is dissolving in the water." a major body of water and the source of the Pyasina River that is vitally important to the entire Taimyr peninsula Russian fisheries agency spokesman Dmitry Klokov said restoring the polluted water system would take "decades" "The scope of this catastrophe is being underestimated," he told TASS news agency adding that most of the fuel had sunk to the bottom of the river and already reached the lake Malov said the marine rescue service has put up six oil containment booms in the Ambarnaya River to stop the diesel fuel going into the lake and was using special devices to skim off the fuel But the clean-up mission is being hampered by the lack of roads in the area and windy weather that has already caused blocks of ice to breach the barriers and everything can only be delivered there on all-terrain vehicles," Malov said predicting that the collected fuel will have to stay on site until the winter in special tanks Prosecutors in Krasnoyarsk region said in a statement that the spill also polluted 180,000 square metres of land before hitting the river Norilsk Nickel said the accident possibly occurred because the ground under the fuel reservoir subsided as the permafrost melted due to climate change WWF expert Alexei Knizhnikov said that while climate change does affect permafrost the accident wouldn't have happened if the company followed the rules there should be a containment structure around any fuel reservoir that would have kept most of the spillage on site "A lot of the blame lies with the company," he added The difficult terrain prompted some officials to suggest the collected fuel should be burned off at the scene but Russia's environmental watchdog chief Svetlana Radionova on Thursday ruled this out "There will not be any burning of the petroleum products," she was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying also promising to consult with the scientific community on the best course of action © Agence France-Presse Russian emergency workers and marine clean-up specialists on Thursday intensified efforts to clean up a major fuel spill that environmentalists say is the first such accident in the Arctic polar region releasing 15,000 tons of fuel into a river and 6,000 tons into the soil Malov said the service has put up six oil containment booms in the Ambarnaya River to stop the spill going into the lake and was using special devices to skim off the fuel But the clean-up mission is being hampered by the lack of roads in the area and chilly weather that has already caused blocks of ice to breach the barriers The difficult terrain prompted some officials to suggest the fuel should be burned off at the scene "There will not be any burning of the petroleum products," she was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying Putin on Wednesday lambasted the 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After all, you'd still have a British postcode if you moved here - but it appears as though you'd need more than just UK citizenship to settle down here The island we are talking about is Tristan da Cunha, which is located in the South Atlantic Ocean and is extremely remote It is 1,732 miles away from Cape Town in South Africa and 2,454 miles away from Mar del Plata in Argentina As you might expect, the island is sparsely populated, with only 236 residents, according to their website All of the inhabitants carry British Overseas Territories citizenship and with only 10 families living on the island everybody is pretty familiar with each other residents feel very comfortable in regards to the island's safety When being interviewed for a BBC documentary one resident said: "You can let the children go anywhere "We don't bolt the door or lock the door Well, don't start looking up visas just yet as it appears that the only way you'd be able to call the island home is if you have an existing 'family connection' there On the island's official website, it reads: "Immigration to Tristan is not possible unless you already have a family connection with the island there are certain restrictions on residency It is not possible to buy real estate or property on the islands." Moving to the island is an extremely tough job - and that's because there aren't any there very few expatriate jobs are available and they're fixed term contracts These contracts generally last for two years and are professional jobs such as doctors Job vacancies are shared between two to three times a year speak English and have the qualifications required If you were thinking you might want to visit Tristan then it won't be smooth sailing to do so Most ships heading to the island depart from South Africa and take almost a week to arrive Topics: World News Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker all the artists join in for a final celebration Pianists Izabella Simon and Dénes Várjon play Ravel with help from their daughter Liána; Sergey Malov plays and extends on Paganini; James Campbell leads in a trio by Khachaturian and Louise Farrenc's Piano Quintet No 2 - a hidden gem - rounds it all off This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions See terms of use for easy access to all your favourite programmes Sergey Malov won the 2011 Michael Hill International Violin Competition Sergey Malov was the star of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition No Brahms or Tchaikovsky for this young Russian - he carried off top honours with Bartok Malov is back in the country for his winner's tour travelling around 14 centres for Chamber Music New Zealand with pianist Michael Houstoun and Ashley Brown as well appearing with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra He is thrilled to be working with Houstoun and Brown again; their Monday concert takes him back to when the three men played together at the Michael Hill semi-finals last June "I was one of three violinists playing Beethoven's Ghost Trio in the semi-finals," he says dealing with three different interpretations "And they're just as flexible this time around," he laughs "There's such a marvellous flow of ideas between us and we've been able to get really deep into the music." has become one of the highlights of Malov's trip along with the chance to hone his hockey skills and ski in Queenstown where the Michael Hill hopefuls met for the first time "It's dedicated to my favourite violin virtuoso the recital will also include an Ysaye solo sonata Malov is struck by how Houstoun is so simpatico to what he describes as his "spontaneous and crazy ideas," reminding me that he once wrote a jazz-styled cadenza for a Mozart concerto Little wonder that the Russian is happy to revisit John Psathas's Gyftiko a wild and wonderful solo written as a Michael Hill test piece you have to get rid of those classical cliches of continuous vibrato and wonderful tone because they would simply make the piece boring." A touch of jazz improvisation might have been a useful preparation for a work that very much fits in with the violinist's priority on musical spontaneity "The whole idea of improvisation is what being a musician is all about for me," he confides "I'd like to encourage more classical musicians to do it "I'm sure that the great composers just wrote their improvisations down to make their music available for the next generation of players." Malov is guesting with Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra playing a composer whose diabolical talents on the violin forced him to carry a certificate confirming that he was Malov admits that Nicolo Paganini is one of his culture heroes and "At first Paganini didn't write down his own part for his concertos," he exclaims "Probably because he was the only violinist brilliant enough to play them." Paganini's Second Concerto is on Thursday's programme which Malov much prefers to the composer's more popular First Malov's Thursday performance will be recorded and released on Atoll Records - the perfect souvenir of what promises to be a memorable concert 'No one was meant to hear it,' Moller said while discussing his life You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image Malov is back in Queenstown as the most recent winner of the biennial competition and said he was thoroughly enjoying playing for audiences and himself without the pressure of competing ''It's not about being scared; it's about having fun and making music,'' Malov said He creates tunes with apparent ease on the borrowed violin he has been playing as his own instrument was stolen recently from a locker in Berlin The overall winner of the competition receives a monetary prize their music is recorded and they perform a winner's concert tour Malov said after his win ''it was a big tour in New Zealand - 20 concerts'' As a passionate musician the win allowed him to have '' this luxurious opportunity to choose what I want to play'' and not have to make any ''unpleasant compromises'' in order to make money or be on stage He stayed true to this sentiment when he said whatever the winner did with their prize money ''will be their business'' and he was not one to make a judgement on how they should spend it The competition was very well organised for the competitors and ''there is this wonderful tour that you really learn a lot [from] about concert life'' ''And I have to admit that it is sometimes fun'' Malov's charm and modesty seem as effortless as his musical talents and he described his performances as a returning winner as ''just pure fun'' although audiences have been amazed by them On a serious note he added ''this competition being held on the bottom of the world is so .. Upon returning to Europe after his 2011 win he found that people there were aware of who had won ''This is a major event in a global sense.'' he dreamily gestured towards the ceiling of the Queenstown Memorial Centre ''The future is obviously already written in the stars It's just about us being able to read it and trust it will come in the best way ''At the moment I have just enough concerts,'' he said adding he trusted there would be many more to come He also believed entering his 30s was the time to share his love for music in a teaching capacity and he would spend a semester as a relieving professor The annual festival of classical music this time around presents eleven laureates of international performing competitions State Slovak Philharmonic Košice and Slovak Youth Orchestra The 28th edition of the Allegretto Žilina 2018 music festival offers eleven international soloists – from France Japan and Taiwan – between April 16 and 21 Most of these musicians have already won respected international competitions but are still at the beginning of their career Six evenings offer three orchestral concerts (with Žilina-based Slovak Sinfonietta State Slovak Philharmonic Košice and Slovak Youth Orchestra) Slovak trumpeter Stanislav Masaryk will play Haydn – with the Slovak Youth Orchestra conducted by Australian/Dutch Benjamin Bayl who Russian Sergey Malov will not play viola but rather violin and violoncello of violin-maker Dmitry Badiarov Malov will play with the Musica Aeterna ensemble and their programme will include