Grand concert at RLS

14:04, June 19, 2017

On June 9, the Russian Language School celebrated the end of the school year by having a grand concert. Students and teachers were preparing for this event for the whole month: writing the script, rehearsing, choosing music, and making presentations. And, finally, the big day has come.

All exams are passed, and you can just enjoy life, rejoice, and have fun with your classmates and learn more about your teachers.

Our concert was conducted by two teachers of our school and our students Zhao Banyu from China, and Jimena Ospina Acosta from Colombia who speak excellent Russian and reached the B1 level by the end of the year.

During the whole academic year, our teachers taught and accompanied the students, supported them, tried to develop their talents, but it was only on the concert day that the students learned what the teachers themselves are passionate about, what they can do.

The concert was opened by our teacher Julia with the song of the famous Russian singer Zhanna Aguzarova “Be with me”.

Another teacher, Catherine, who sings in a musical apart from working at School, presented the song of the Russian band “Melnitsa”.

We appreciate and respect the cultures of other countries very much. So the teachers Evgeniia and Leah prepared a special number merging different elements of Irish, Spanish and Russian dances. There was a lot of dancing at our event!

Thanks to our students Pham Duc and Tien Han, we’ve seen Vietnamese dance and costumes and plunged into the atmosphere of modern rhythms with a whole group of dancers from China!

Russia really unites! So the Russian folk song “My room is light” was performed by our Russian teacher Ekaterina, Vietnamese students Liu Li and Wu Thi Thu Hang, and Wang Ziying from China, and threw off a stormy ovation!

The guys from China, led by their teachers Anastasia and Inna, performed the song “Bad weather” from the popular Soviet film “Mary Poppins”.

The students also performed national songs of their countries! We heard the national Mexican song “Beautiful Sky” performed by students from Mexico, Karen and Vladimir, and saw their traditional costumes.

Emma Eyermu and Jonathan Olofsen from Sweden played Seth Irish jigs. And Cheng Xinyi from China masterly performed the "Etude-painting in G minor" by Sergei Rachmaninov.

In addition to the musical numbers, we could enjoy a wonderful recitation of the poem “Wait for Me” by the Russian poet Konstantin Simonov, performed by Belgait Harun from Algeria.

And our talented students from China threw off a storm of applause: The rock star of our school is Zhao Banyu with the song “Pigeons and swans”.

Zhen Divan with an incredibly strong performance of the famous Russian military song “Katyusha”.

This event was very important for us and we are very proud of every our participant! We are grateful to the guests of our concert for the warm welcome and support of our artists! You can find all the concert numbers in our group “Vk” by the link: vk.com/rls_urfu