These requirements come from a long-lasting experience of working with the performers at sacred music concert programs and help to avoid technicalities and mistakes in the printing of concert programs for the public. We strongly suggest complying with all the requirements below, for your program to be considered and approved as soon as possible. The failure to comply with the conditions stated below may result in a refusal to accept a most interesting and unique concert program proposed.

1. We require the program to be composed with a view to the fact that the music hall is a Roman-Catholic Cathedral. The general criterion of the choice of pieces to be performed is their belonging to sacred music. It is possible to use ‘secular’ classical music in the concert, but the Foundation reserves a right to suggest changing the program if some of the pieces are too ‘secular’ in character (for example, opera arias will not be accepted for a concert) or the imagery of the music is incompatible with the teaching of the Christian Church (occult themes, pagan images). Pieces with positive imagery from mythology or fairy-tales and dance music are acceptable in general, but each particular case will be considered by the Foundation’s creative committee separately.

2. The program may digress from the period of the Catholic liturgical year when the concert is to take place, but it is to be composed taking it into account and with an understanding of the traditions of the Catholic Church. For instance, a concert proposed for the Lent is not to contain Easter pieces and the word ‘Hallelujah’. A difference between Christmas and Easter music should also be considered, in spite of the fact that both periods are festive in ‘mood’. The presence of pieces corresponding with the period of the liturgical year when they are to be played, will count as an additional advantage to the program.

3. The program is to last no less than 70 and no more than 80 minutes.

4. The program is to be handed in with a full list of the pieces performed with their titles in the native language and in Russian, the names of the composers, years of their lives, and the titles of all parts of the pieces.

5. The program is to indicate the timing of each piece.

6. Please hand in the list of the performers with all their honorary titles together with the concert program. The biographies of the performers will simplify the process of the application’s consideration and approval greatly.

7. The program is to be as comprehensive as possible. If needed, the Foundation reserves the right to suggest changes to the program and discuss them with the performer. Any changes to the program made by the performer after its approval, appointment of the date of the concert and conclusion of the agreement between the Foundation and the performer, can result in punitive measures on the Foundation’s part, as serious as the cancellation of the concert.

If after reading the above requirements you still have questions, please feel free to ask Sr. Natalia Kabisheva, Head of the Concert Division.
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