What is in common between Kazakh and classic music?

The contemporary music admirers, one of which is Dana Meirbekova, professional music expert, to honour the heritage of the great turk ancestor, Korkyt, and to celebrate the finest opuses of the world classic, organized concerts for Almaty listeners. The Korkyt foundation has an exciting news of presenting two intriguing concerts in Kazakhstan.

The fact is interesting that two concerts, in Astana on April 19 and Almaty on April 23, will be performed by the world prominent violinist Ilya Grubert, who teaches at the Amsterdam Conservatory, and young talented Kazakhstani violinist Akhan Meirbekov, and with Erbulat Akhmediyarov the concert conductor (Kazakhstan).

The world known maestro Ilya Grubert was born in Riga, and got an excellent education at the Moscow Conservatory from Yuriy Yankelevich, Zinaida Gilel and Leonid Kogan. His exceptional talent highly commended at various international concerts, for instance, the Golden Tuning Fork in 1996 for his performance in the Sibelius and Bruch concertos. Besides, he has records with world top classic music company as Naxos and went on tours with concerts from Canada to Australia. The musical instrument, on which Ilya Grubert plays, a 1740 violin by Pietro Guarneri of Venice, formerly the property of Wieniawsky.

Akhan Meirbekov, who presented frequently his fantastic violinist concerts, came back to Kazakhstan after his one and a half year study in the reputed Moscow music school. Those who observe the cultural life in Almaty know that Akhan Meirbekov, always supported by his mother Dana Meirbekova, played all concerts at rather high level. At the age of five, Akhan, like his two brothers Chokan and Abylaikhan, was admitted to the Republic Music School named after Kulyash Bayseitova, Akhan's first teacher F.Podolnaya brough up love in Akhan for the stage. Since then Akhan became a laureate for a number of prestigious international competitions - "Veo Veo" (Spain), "Bravo Bravissimo" (Italy), REMEMBER ENESKU Compeition in Romania, TCHAIKOVSKY International Competition and others.

Seven years have passed since the public Korkyt foundation appeared, initiated by the foundation of the famous Russian violinist Vladimir Spivakov. "Korkyt" is a symbol of an outstanding figure, whose name is created outside the turk superethnos culture, and had an impact on world culture as a whole. Korkyt heritage, adventurer for immortality, inventor of kobyz and kobyz music, unites the cultures of turk peoples and gives them an unique opportunity to show true size of impact, that the turk nomad culture has on the world musical culture.

Experts say that spiritual and musical creative works of Korkyt are not discovered fully as yet, but his contribution to world culture as an inventor of kobyz is palpable, visual and studied by modern science

This fact was proved by the Western scientists Slavi Donchev and Verner Bachman invented by Korkyt the first ever stringed chordophone - kobyz, from IX to XV century spread in the peoples cultures almost among all ethnos of Eurasia to Scandinavia up to China (phidel, morinkhur, baykhu, godulka, krez, gidzhak, kemancha).