The International Jazz Festival in Vladivostok is one of the most famous jazz festivals in the Russian Far East and one of the most important musical events in the Primorsky capital. Festival events take place on various stages in the city. In addition to concerts, the festival includes press conferences, master classes, and creative meetings. Every year, the International Jazz Festival in Vladivostok brings together hundreds of musicians and thousands of spectators. Each year, the festival presents the best musicians from different regions of our vast homeland and abroad, who present the public with modern avant-garde, jazz classics, jazz ethno programs, and symphonic jazz. Mariam Merabova (Moscow) and the Primorsky Philharmonic Pop Orchestra, the Artur Medvedev and Erzhen Haid Quartet (Saint Petersburg), the Igor Butman Quartet and the Oleg and Natalia Butman Trio (Moscow), Yerevan Calling Trio (Armenia), Billy Cobham (USA), Randy Brecker (USA), the Mezzo Forte group (Iceland), Stanley Jordan (USA), the Papanosh group (France), Marco Minnemann (Germany), Sebastian Studnicki (Germany), Greg Howe and Diana Penton (USA), David Helbock (Austria), Adam Peronczyk (Poland), Edmar Castaneda (USA), the Chicken & Friends jazz trio (Republic of Korea), Kishi Mitsuaki (Japan) – these are just a few of the names of world-class musicians who became guests of the festival.
