Dear friends, the time has come to meet the conductor and musical director of the project. We would like to introduce Miras Nurzhanov, lecturer at the Opera Training Department of the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, Artistic Director and conductor of the Kostroma Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. As a conductor Miras Nurzhanov has performed with many orchestras in Russia and abroad: with the Symphony Orchestra of the St Petersburg State Conservatoire, the Murmansk Philharmonic Orchestra, the Youth Chamber Orchestra at the Discover Europe in the Hermitage Festival, conducted G. Puccini’s opera La Bohème, and conducted the Kostroma Philharmonic Orchestra. Puccini’s opera La Bohème in Italy at the Teatro Mancinelli, and Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta at the Spring Tchaikovsky Festival. In 2019 Miras Nurzhanov won a high laureate and the Special Prize “Sympathy of Orchestra Artists” at the “V I.A. Musin International Competition for Young Conductors”.