This unique musical gift on New Year's Eve will be presented to the public by both established performers and the next generation of pianists – Nicholas Angelich, Mira Yevtich, Piers Lane, Pavel Raikerus, Abisal Gergiev, Andrei Gugnin, Arseny Mun, Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev and Ilya Papoyan
On 25 and 26 December, in a continuation of the intense programme of the XI International Piano Festival at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be performances by the outstanding young South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho
On 22, 23 and 25 December as part of the XI International Piano Festival at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre Daniil Trifonov and the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will perform all of Sergei Rachmaninoff's piano concerti
From 21 to 27 December in Baden-Baden (Germany) there will be the now traditional Christmas and pre-New Year performances by the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra
On 19 December the Mariinsky II hosted the opening of the XI International Piano Festival. Valery Gergiev was conducting
On 18 December at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be the final concert in the series Peter and the Wolf at the Mariinsky. Together with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic tale Peter and the Wolf will be performed by winners of the Mariinsky Theatre's competition of young narrators, marking one hundred and twenty-five years since the birth of Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
The latest release on the Mariinsky label featuring a recording of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and music from the ballet The Nutcracker was listed among the best Christmas albums of 2016 according to WMFT radio (Chicago)
On 14 December at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo with the collaboration of the representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo the historical documentary exhibition Art in Its Pure Form has opened, marking one century since the first tour by a Russian ballet company to Japan