Belarus’ Grodno will host the 13th edition of the international Orthodox church music festival

Belarus’ Grodno will host the 13th edition of the international Orthodox church music festival “Kalozha Chime” on 19-22 February 2014. Teams from Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Armenia, France, and Lithuania have already applied for the participation in the festival. All in all, the festival is expected to feature around 40 church and secular companies. Among the guests of the festival will be a male secular group from Suprasl (Poland) and a female group from Armenia that performs at one of the churches of the Etchmiadzin Monastery, the spiritual center of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The opening ceremony of the festival will feature the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory Students Choir directed by Stanislav Kalinin, the Grand Prix winner of the 12th Kolozha festival. The contest performances will be held at the Svyato-Pokrovsky Cathedral.