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French violinist Nicolas Dautricourt, winner of several international music awards, will give a performance for Vladivostok residents and guests on December 9. Dautricourt will play classical compositions together with the Khabarovsk’s Symphony Orchestra lead by another French citizen, conductor Emmanuel Leducq-Barome.

The concert is to be held in Vladivostok’s Pushkin Theater Hall and will feature works by Robert Sсhuman and Ludwig Van Beethoven.

Among the awards received by 29-year-old Dautricourt are the Henri Sauguet Grand Prix, and top prizes in both the Gian Battista Viotti International Competition and the Belgrade International Competition. In 2000, he received the Classical Discovery Award at the Cannes Classical.

The conductor, Emmanuel Leducq-Barome, 35, has performed with French and Russian orchestras, including The National Orchestra of the Capitole (Toulouse), the Radio-France Philharmonic Orchestra and the Baltic Chamber Orchestra in St. Petersburg.

In another upcoming event, a total of 62 school children from various Pacific Rim countries will participate in the second International Asian-Pacific Astronomy Contest scheduled in Vladivostok from December 5-11.

This contest, which will involve participants from Indonesia, Russia, China, S. Korea, Thailand and Kazakhstan, is aimed to attract talented youth to the study of astronomy, promoting astronomical knowledge among Russian and foreign school students as well as developing educational partnerships between Pacific Rim countries.

The competition will include three categories of astronomy: theoretical, practical and observational. Each team will consist of eight students and three teachers.

The contest, established by the international Euro-Asian Astronomical Society in 2005, is held with the assistance of the Association and Scientific Council of Russia’s Academy of Sciences.