Art Premium Week will take place in St. Petersburg from March 22 to 26. The creative association Art Premium holds the competitions for Art-Premium Awards in the field of vocal art, music instrument performance, choreography, and theatre arts. More than 900 young people, including groups and soloists aged from the age of 5 to 25 from Russia and abroad participate in  the competitions.
Venues:
- Concert hall Colosseum
- Concert hall Oktyabrsky
- St. Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex
Guests of honour:
Antonio Banderas, Barry Douglas, Dave Scott, Pelageya, Danila Kozlowski, Yuri Bashmet, and Nikolay Tsiskaridze.
Art-Premium Week (March 22-26, 2016, St. Petersburg) is a large-scale cultural project of federal value. It aims at uniting cultures and arts of Russia, Europe and the USA and finding the prospect for cooperation among the countries participating in the event.
Art Premium Week ranks high in the cultural life of the Russian Federation and comprises organization and holding a wide range of cultural events, such as concerts, competitions, forums, seminars, and advanced training courses in Saint Petersburg. The cultural actions take place with assistance of the RF state institutions of all levels, leading experts in culture and art, stars of the Russian and foreign music, theater, ballet and cinema.
The main task of the Art Premium Week is to identify gifted children and youth for the purpose of promoting and encouraging their talents. The professional juries of competitions consist of Russian and international experts and leading teachers in the sphere of culture and art. The panel of judges includes the actor and musician Oscar Kucera, the stage and film actor Ilya Noskov, the winner of the Dances on TNT project Ilshat, the pianist Stanislav Solovyyov, and others.
The the creative association Art Premium grants the winners of competitions with participation in International Cooperation projects and touring in Russia, Estonia and France. The award ceremony and the gala concert of Art-Premium Week will take place on the stage of concert hall Colosseum on March 25.
"Art-Premium Week in St. Petersburg will become a bright event brinigng together competitions of children's and youth creativity, as well as concerts of modern music stars. The week of arts will please the participants and viewers with shows on the best stages of Saint Petersburg, performances of world ballet stars, concerts of St. Petersburg symphonic orchestras, and evenings with eminent figures of culture and art"– the head of the competition, the CEO of the Art-Premium creative association Svetlana Sukhanova said.
Thematic excursion held in the framework of the Art-Premium Week   will introduce contestants from other cities to the culture and history of St. Petersburg. Of special interest are educational events of the Art-Premium Week including workshops and free classes, seminars, creative meetings with teachers and graduates of musical educational institutions, and concerts featuring young talented musicians.