"De Boni Arte" charitable foundation / Concerts in Catholic Cathedral (Moscow, Russia)

About the “De Boni Arte” charitable foundation

The “De Boni Arte” foundation celebrates its 20th anniversary on December 25, 2021!
All these years we have tried to make the world a little more humanistic and beautiful by means of music. We have organized more than 3000 musical events, the proceeds from which went to scholarships for students and support for young musicians in need. Free tickets to our events are distributed to thousands of people through various social organizations.
We are happy to have been able to contribute to the development of organ culture in Russia. We raised funds to repair the Kuhn organ in the Moscow Catholic Cathedral, brought several “kings of musical instruments” to Russia, held a series of competitions, and organized training courses and workshops for beginners and professional organists.
We promote intercultural and ecumenical dialogue making the treasures of the European sacred music tradition available to the people of Russia.
We care about authenticity and wish everyone who is familiar with this tradition only theoretically (or not familiar at all) to see its centuries-old beauty. At the same time, we remain open to changes and experiments which help to demonstrate that the tradition is always young.
We have recorded hundreds of audio tracks and musical videos, published scores and Gregorian chant teaching materials.

And we did all this together with you, our dear guests, friends and partners! We did it! And we hope we will go on.
Thank you all!

De Boni Arte’s team

Concerts in Moscow

17.04.22 Sunday 15:00

“Harry Potter” (in the Tretyakov Mansion)

ARTBENE duo
Titular organist of the Roman-Catholic Cathedral in Moscow, international competitions winner
Anna Vetlugina (organ, piano)
Organist of St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Moscow, international competitions winner
Dmitry Maximenko (organ, piano)

Lidia Miller (sand animation artist)

Ingeborga Lyubomirskaya (declamation)

Music of the Harry Potter films, fragments of J. Rowling’s text

Joint choir of the Mendeleev Choir Congress conducted by Boris Tarakanov

Soloists – international competitions winners:

Anna Polovinkina (soprano)

Maria Zekova (mezzo-soprano, Bulgaria)

Anatoly Budanov (tenor)

Grigory Solovyov (bass-baritone)

Symphony orchestra of the Kosygin University’s Maimonides Academy (art director and conductor Igor Berendeev)

Titular organist of the Roman-Catholic Cathedral in Moscow Marina Omelchenko (organ)

Conductors: Igor Berendeev, Boris Tarakanov

Project’s chief choirmaster – Boris Tarakanov

Project’s art director – People’s artist of Russia, professor Vladimir Ponkin

Titular organist of the Roman-Catholic Cathedral in Moscow
Marina Omelchenko (organ)