The First International Festival of Morin Khuur will be organized by the Mongolian State Philharmonic, the Morin Khuur Ensemble, and the Cultural and Scientific Foundation for the Mongol Race on 4-7, May in the city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

The First International Festival of Morin Khuur will be organized by the Mongolian State Philharmonic, the Morin Khuur Ensemble, and the Cultural and Scientific Foundation for the Mongol Race on 4-7, May in the city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It is expected that the National Academic Ensemble of Folk Dance and Music, the Mongolian State Morin Khuur Ensemble, central art organization, top musicians of universities, musicologists, and morin khuur makers and famous creative workers will attend the festival. Furthermore, Mongolian young musician and morin khuur player A.Bat-Erdene, who carries out his art operation in Japan, and his Japanese students and his morin khuur band will participate in the first international festival.

Morin khuur players from Buryat, Russia will also attend it and Mongolian musicologists, professional teachers, composers, morin khuur creative workers, and foreign morin khuur teachers will deliver speeches and exchanged their viewpoints about the morin khuur.

During the festival, an interesting exhibition of the morin khuur creative workers will take place on 5-6, May at the Mongolian State Philharmonic.

The opening ceremony of festival will launch on 4, May and in the light with it, morin khuur exhibition, introduction of some training centers, and a performance of the Mongolian State Morin Khuur Ensemble and top musicians will take place in the Central Cultural Palace. On 5, May, musicians’ performance from Inner Mongolia, Japan and Buryat will be continuing at the stage of the State Philharmonic.

A scientific conference will be held at a hall of Petrovis company on 6, May and foreign and internal famous musicians, musical cultural figures, musicologists, teachers, and creative workers will share their opinions. In the evening of 6, May, a closing ceremony of the festival will be organized at the stage of the State Academic Drama Theater and the first international festival and the scientific conference will finish through a joint performance.

The Mongol Post Bank is working as a sponsor for this event whereas the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Mongolian National Commission of the UNESCO, the Morin khuur Center, the Mongolian Arts Council and the Companies "Admon", "Petrovis" together with the Centeral Cultural Palace, the Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, the University of Art and Culture are organizing the festival.

The Cultural and Scientific Foundation for the Mongol Race together with Tokyo University of Foreign Studying held international scientific conference themed “Mongol race’s early and present” in 2006 and scientists and researchers from the USA, Finland, Japan, the People’s Republic of China, and Mongolia delivered interesting speeches about above Mongol race. The scientific conference was a big measure for the 800th Anniversary of the Great Mongolian State. The second scientific conference took place in Ulaanbaatar in 2007 and scientists from the world’s six countries touched on Mongolians culture, custom, and pressing issues of the natural conservation.

/Olloo.mn/

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