Autumn motives 2025
Jury
Alexander Mikhailov is a director, theater teacher, professor,
Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the Fiddler on the Roof Prize
in the Theater nomination of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia in 2014.
He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Peoples'
Friendship University in Moscow, then the directing faculty of the Kharkiv
State Institute of Arts named after I.P. Kotlyarevsky, passed a director's
internship at the Moscow Academic Theater named after V. Mayakovsky
with the People's Artist of the USSR A.A. Goncharov.
For three decades he worked as the artistic director of the
Oryol State Theater for Children and Youth "Free Space" in Orel,
Russia; as well as the head of acting courses at the Oryol State Institute
of Culture and Art.Stage director of performances in theaters in Russia, Ukraine, USA.
Participant, laureate of international theater festivals in Russia, Ukraine, USA, Spain,
Germany, France, Israel, Turkey, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Cyprus,
Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia.
In 2017 he immigrated to Israel.
He staged performances in the theater studios of Israel "Nisan Nativ"
and "Beit Zvi", in the Russian-language theaters "Three lines",
Jerusalem, "Tarantas", Jerusalem, "Ladder" Ashdod, "Another Opera" Jerusalem.
Currently he runs the Free Theater Workshop in Jerusalem.
Olga Tsipina.
Born on 05/19/1961 in Moscow, Russia.
Field of activity - easel and monumental painting, mosaics, frescoes, stained-glass windows, icons.
Studied 1968-1978 - high school.
1975-1978 - painting and drawing at an art school.
In 1978 she entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, the department of graphics and design.
In 1980 she began to work in the genres of easel and monumental painting.
Since 1995 she worked in the icon-painting workshop of St. Alipia, participated in the monumental painting of temples.
In 2007 studied and worked in A. Kornaukhov's mosaic workshop.
She also made stained glass windows. She took part in exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
Since 2009 I have been living in IsraelHer works are in private collections and public buildings in Europe, Russia and Israel and other countries.
Member of the Russian Union of Artists since 2000 (icon painting) and a member of the Union of Russian Artists in Paris (painting) since 2005.
Veronika Khvalevsky Grace - mezzo-soprano opera singer, laureate of international competitions,
conductor, teacher with 25 years of experience, member of the jury of many vocal competitions
and head of the "Harmony" Vocal School - the leading creative group in the city of Jerusalem.
She is organaizer and director of Holy Land Company(International Festivals and Contests of Art and Creativity)
Veronika has participated in many festivals, including the festival dedicated to the visit of Pope John Paul II to Astana,
Kazakhstan. 2001 and the 2003 Young Talents Festival in Seoul, South Korea.
She was seen on the opera stage in such roles as Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro,
Giovanna in Verdi's Rigoletto, Larina in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin,
Kate in Madame Butterfly by Puccini; and Carmen in Bizet's masterpiece.
Since arriving in Israel in 2005, Ms Grace has performed both locally and abroad.
She has recently appeared in the Tel Aviv opera Sadna and the opera Aeterna in Jerusalem.
She was mentored by famous vocal teachers in Germany and the USA, namely:
John Norris from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Joan Donermann,
Mignon Dunn, Olga Makarina,Emma Sarkisian.
In 2008 she performed with Ranaana Orchestra,
and presented programm of Russian romances of russian famous composers.
In 2009 she gave concerts in Italy, in the theaters "Pergolesi" and "Gentile",
participated in the "Master class at the Teatro Rossini" in Pesaro,
Master class with Placido Domingo in Verona, participated in the festival of sacred music in Rome,
participated at the Opera Festival in Bergamo Italy 2012 at the opera Serenade in the Wind by Finzi as Countess,
and in numerous other vocal competitions and festivals, where she was awarded high prizes and awards.
In 2019 she was invited to the International Opera Project where she performed
at the Bolshoi Theater, on the Pokrovsky stage, in Puccini's opera Suor Angelica as Badesa, Moscow.
In 2021 performed in Concert of winners of "Classical Music Awards Contest" in Carnegie Hall in New York USA.
1993-1998 Master of Music Education
2000-2002 Walbrzych State College, Poland
Art education in the visual arts.
2004-2006 University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Music therapy in education
2007-2009 University of Zielona Gora, Poland
Philosophy with knowledge of culture.
2017-2018 Zielona Gora University, Poland
Education and rehabilitation of people with mental retardation
Oligophrenic pedagogy.
2018 graduated from the course "Dance in Animation".
1998-present Teacher of music, art, culture.
Zespół Szkół nr 1 in Nowe Miastechko
Teaches students to sing, play the piano guitar, keyboards, flute.
Prepares children to different international vocal performances and competitions
(Czestochowa, Nowy Targ, Prague).
Collaborates with cultural institutions.
Dorota Kret Poland-over 30 years of music teacher,vocal coach,jury of many competitions.
Founder of Studio "Piosenki Septyma",initiator and organaizer for 19 years of the
National English Song Contest,Malopolska Competition of Christmas Carols,
Pastorales,Malopolska Festival of Patriotic Greativity.
Her students are laureats of many international and national music festivals.
Decorated with the Silver Cross of Merit in the fieid of culture.
Evgenia is a pianist, singer, producer, tutor.
As a concert artist she performed extensively,
recorded 2 highly acclaimed CD albums,
was broadcast on major radio and TV channels.
She is a winner of several international piano
and singing competitions and prestigious awards,
such as Gold Franz Kafka Medal for her outstanding
contribution to the world culture and a “Queen’s Award”
from the British Council. She adjudicates at several
international competitions in Great Britain and Europe.
Her students successfully enter exams,
further their education at the
Royal College & Academy of Music,
Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.
She has created her own methods of teaching piano,
rhythm, sight-reading & singing yoga.
Evgenia works both in classical and contemporary music
genres and is consulting for prestigious labels and producers,
such as Ron Tom (Founder and CEO of Inteligenesis)
- Sugababes, Sinead O’Connor.
Evgenia is a founder and CEO of “Musica Nova”
International Academy of Music and
“Stars of the Albion” international performing arts
competition in London.
Pilishvili George
Honored Worker of Georgian Choreography.
Cavalier of "Order of Excellence" of Georgian Choreography.
"Honorary figure of Georgian culture".
Artistic Director and Chief Ballet-master of
Georgian Youth Folkloric Ballet "Egrisi"
President of the Georgian National Section
(IOV GEORGIA) of the international
organization of folk art IOV.
1985-86 State Folklore Ensemble
"Tbilisi" ballet dancer.
1991-2003 - dancer, tutor, member of the art.
Council of the State Folk Dance Ensemble "Mamuli"
- Ministry of Defense of Georgia.
1995 to date - Georgian Youth Folkloric Ballet "Egrisi"
Since 2001 - Member of the Tbilisi
City Council of the Union of Choreographers of Georgia.
Since 2010 - President of IOV Georgia.
Laureate of many festivals and competitions,
multiple winner of the Grand Prix,
other prizes and state awards.
Alexander Mikhailov is a director, theater teacher, professor,
Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the Fiddler on the Roof Prize
in the Theater nomination of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia in 2014.
He graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Peoples'
Friendship University in Moscow, then the directing faculty of the Kharkiv
State Institute of Arts named after I.P. Kotlyarevsky, passed a director's
internship at the Moscow Academic Theater named after V. Mayakovsky
with the People's Artist of the USSR A.A. Goncharov.
For three decades he worked as the artistic director of the
Oryol State Theater for Children and Youth "Free Space" in Orel,
Russia; as well as the head of acting courses at the Oryol State Institute
of Culture and Art.Stage director of performances in theaters in Russia, Ukraine, USA.
Participant, laureate of international theater festivals in Russia, Ukraine, USA, Spain,
Germany, France, Israel, Turkey, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Cyprus,
Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia.
In 2017 he immigrated to Israel.
He staged performances in the theater studios of Israel "Nisan Nativ"
and "Beit Zvi", in the Russian-language theaters "Three lines",
Jerusalem, "Tarantas", Jerusalem, "Ladder" Ashdod, "Another Opera" Jerusalem.
Currently he runs the Free Theater Workshop in Jerusalem.
Veronika Khvalevsky Grace - mezzo-soprano opera singer, laureate of international competitions,
conductor, teacher with 25 years of experience, member of the jury of many vocal competitions
and head of the "Harmony" Vocal School - the leading creative group in the city of Jerusalem.
She is organaizer and director of Holy Land Company(International Festivals and Contests of Art and Creativity)
Veronika has participated in many festivals, including the festival dedicated to the visit of Pope John Paul II to Astana,
Kazakhstan. 2001 and the 2003 Young Talents Festival in Seoul, South Korea.
She was seen on the opera stage in such roles as Marcellina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro,
Giovanna in Verdi's Rigoletto, Larina in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin,
Kate in Madame Butterfly by Puccini; and Carmen in Bizet's masterpiece.
Since arriving in Israel in 2005, Ms Grace has performed both locally and abroad.
She has recently appeared in the Tel Aviv opera Sadna and the opera Aeterna in Jerusalem.
She was mentored by famous vocal teachers in Germany and the USA, namely:
John Norris from the New York Metropolitan Opera, Joan Donermann,
Mignon Dunn, Olga Makarina,Emma Sarkisian.
In 2008 she performed with Ranaana Orchestra,
and presented programm of Russian romances of russian famous composers.
In 2009 she gave concerts in Italy, in the theaters "Pergolesi" and "Gentile",
participated in the "Master class at the Teatro Rossini" in Pesaro,
Master class with Placido Domingo in Verona, participated in the festival of sacred music in Rome,
participated at the Opera Festival in Bergamo Italy 2012 at the opera Serenade in the Wind by Finzi as Countess,
and in numerous other vocal competitions and festivals, where she was awarded high prizes and awards.
In 2019 she was invited to the International Opera Project where she performed
at the Bolshoi Theater, on the Pokrovsky stage, in Puccini's opera Suor Angelica as Badesa, Moscow.
In 2021 performed in Concert of winners of "Classical Music Awards Contest" in Carnegie Hall in New York USA.
Algirdas Grinkevičius Lithuania
Professional vocal coach Long-term leader of choirs, ensembles and soloists.
Organizer of the international competition for young vocalists "Baltic Voice" .
Julia Vega is an artist and teacher.
Works in the areas of monumental and easel painting.
In 1987 she graduated from the painting and pedagogical
department of the Kharkov State Art School.
Upon graduation, she taught at an art school and began
to study the language of monumental painting.
She created several monumental works with an area
of more than 90 sq. m. She repatriated to Israel in
1999 and created an art studio "VEGA",
which she leads today. Lives in Jerusalem
and teaches drawing at the Mofet School.
Member of the Union of Professional Artists of Israel since 2002.
Organized and designed all-Israel exhibitions of children's drawings,
annually from 2001 to 2004 and 2010. Regularly participates in exhibitions in Israel.
In 2004, Julia met with the wonderful artist Khaim Kapchits and began to study and
practice the theory of contemporary art. The creative method is based on meditation,
the information received gives an impulse to create compositions.
The artist attaches special importance to plastic forms,
harmony of colors, rhythms of depths and tone balance.
Pilishvili George
Honored Worker of Georgian Choreography.
Cavalier of "Order of Excellence" of Georgian Choreography.
"Honorary figure of Georgian culture".
Artistic Director and Chief Ballet-master of
Georgian Youth Folkloric Ballet "Egrisi"
President of the Georgian National Section
(IOV GEORGIA) of the international
organization of folk art IOV.
1985-86 State Folklore Ensemble
"Tbilisi" ballet dancer.
1991-2003 - dancer, tutor, member of the art.
Council of the State Folk Dance Ensemble "Mamuli"
- Ministry of Defense of Georgia.
1995 to date - Georgian Youth Folkloric Ballet "Egrisi"
Since 2001 - Member of the Tbilisi
City Council of the Union of Choreographers of Georgia.
Since 2010 - President of IOV Georgia.
Laureate of many festivals and competitions,
multiple winner of the Grand Prix,
other prizes and state awards.
Giliomee Jacobs was born in South Africa on the 2nd of June 1976.
He started with Vocal Training at the age of 4 and did my first Corporate
function together with a few other older artists that same year.
Since then he have taken part in various talent competitions and
performed at various shows and functions.
At the age of 13 he helped my mother to organise shows at old age
homes where he usually sang and played the piano and keyboard.
The shows grew bigger and I had to start helping the other younger
performers to get their vocals and choreography in top shape for the shows.
He shared all the knowledge I picked up over the years with them
to make sure that they can give their best.
During all this time I was still getting
vocal coaching myself up to the age of 17.
In his final school year He decided to open my own business
called "The Gemini Music Academy".
He 've been a vocal trainer since.
"The Gemini Music Academy" turned 28 years in 2022.
He've worked with a lot of local South African artists
over the past years and also had lots of my students receive
Medals and Trophies in Talent Competitions.
Alexander Zlotnikov.
Conductor, pianist,
organist, accordionist, teacher.
Laureate of International Competitions.
Alexander - performs classical,
modern and jazz music.
For many years,
leading accompanist
of the Jerusalem Children's
Choir Festival.
He was invited as a performer
of klezmer music
to the festival in Zefat,
as well as to the
klezmer music festival
“Sounds of Jerusalem”
in Jerusalem.
Alexander is often
invited and in demand as a singer
and accompanist for the main
holidays and ceremonies of Israel.