LEADERS
The main Founder of the Fund
Artistic director of "Sirius" – the "Talent and Success" Foundation in Sochi, President and Artistic Director of the Semper Opera Ball in Dresden and the Dresden Opera Ball in St. Petersburg, Artistic Adviser to the General Director of State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia. Chief Executive and artistic director of a number of opera houses and concert halls in Europe and Russia, as well as the stage director of opera productions and gala concerts, as well as a manager of various international cultural projects.
Professor Hans-Joachim Frеy
President of the Fund
Viсtor Yampolsky
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fund
Mikhail Shvydkoy
Executive director of the Fund
Dr. Christoph Leitl
Tamara Klivadenko
Founder and member of the Board of the Fund; since February 2019 she became the Executive Director of the Fund. She is the cultural project manager of such projects as the International Singing Competition of Italian opera "Competizione dell'Opera" in Austria, Germany and Russia, the Dresden Opera Ball in Germany and Russia, she worked as the Chief Artists Relation Specialist of Educational Fund "Talent and Success" (The Sirius Educational Center, Sochi) from 2017 till 2019. She is also the laureate of international and Russian singing competitions.
The President of the Fund, Merited Artist of the Russian Federation, pianist, leader of the famous Rachmaninoff Trio ensemble, organizer of international festivals and educational projects related to classical music.
Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cultural Cooperation. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, Full Professor of Art Criticism, Professor of the Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS), Supervisor of the Higher School of Cultural Policy and Management in the Humanitarian Sphere (Faculty) of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Artistic Director of the Moscow Musical Theater.
Sergey Stepashin
President of the Russian Book Union, Chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society
Igor Milashevskij
General manager JSC GLONASS
Yevgeny Grigoryev
Chairman of the External Relations of Committee on external relations of the City Administration of St. Petersburg
President of the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry EUROCHAMBRES, Austrian politician (Austrian People's Party), former president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ)
Wolfgang Mayer
Honorary Consul of the Russian Federation in the Federal Land of Upper Austria, Member of the Executive Board of the Backaldrin International, the Kornspitz Company GmbH
Viktor Kiriyanov
President of the Russian Automobile Federation (RAF), member of the FIA World Motor Sport Council, Managing Director for Infrastructure Projects of Rostec State Corporation
The Board of Trustees of the Fund
Vadim Levin
Owner of the East Construction Company
Eduard Pichugin
Board member of Producers Guild of Russia
Irina Gerasimova
CEO and Artistic Director of the Russian State TV and Radio Music Centre
Thomas Dix
Director for Special Projects of Deloitte international audit and consulting company in Russia and CIS
Sayan Dondokov
Head of Government Relations of the Development Department of Deloitte international audit and consulting company
Maxim Shirokov
General Director of Unipro PJSC, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Management Board of Unipro PJSC
Gennady Alferenko
Social innovator, Holder of the Order of Saint Sergius of Radonezh of the Russian Orthodox Church
Matthias Schepp
Chairman of the Board of the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce
