thank from the bottom of my heart the moscow state academic philharmonic and personally alexey alekseevich shalashovpetersburg house of music and... dear vladimir vladimirovich, dear colleagues, dear friends, my family, i am eternally grateful for the high appreciation of my work and the work of a large number of people who work in general every day to create this festival. this year the festival turns 19 years old, next year we have an anniversary, and first of all i want to thank, well, vladimir teodorovich spevakov for asking me for this award, of course, he treats our festival very warmly, i thank him for this eternally grateful, but this is a lot of work people, these are the employees of the white steamship foundation, these are musicians, teachers, artists, volunteers who every year... during their only month of vacation, they go to our children, teach them and give their whole soul, all their heart. this summer the nineteenth white steamship music festival will take place, which will host unusually talented children from all over the country, we will have children from kamchatka, the kuril i