I sincerely admire the attitude to music and my work shown by all the musicians of the orchestra. The orchestra is in exceptionally high form. Many thanks to Alexander Sladkovsky for his work. Playing music with your band was a real pleasure!

Wonderful orchestra in Kazan. High level. It is a great pleasure to work with such conductors as Alexander Sladkovsky. Energetic and professional, he energized all of us today, performers and spectators. The success was such that the 4th part was bisected! The presence of the composer Alexey Rybnikov in the hall also played a big role. We all somehow gathered, although in the morning there was a rehearsal, a run and everyone was quite tired. Bravo!...

You have very professional musicians. We brought a concert performance of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" to Kazan. The score of this Opera is very complex. But in just a few rehearsals, the orchestra has exactly captured the style. I told the musicians that they played like real blacks.In fact, the orchestra played the way Gershwin wrote and felt the music.

I am delighted by the orchestra. I didn’t expect such preparation. The music is extremely difficult , it requires maximum concentration, discipline from musicians. Kazan listened to Penderecki, Gubaidulina, Olivero, Lutoslavsky in one concert. It is the event on the world scale.

As far as I know, Kazan has a good string school, and this is immediately audible - both sound and expressiveness. Everyone plays very sensitively, amazing dialogues were obtained today with the orchestra ... It is important that everyone is involved in the process of creating music, given not only to the conductor but also to me.

Tatarstan orchestra is just a dream! When I saw the orchestra on the stage for the first time, I thought that it was a bit big for playing baroque repertoire. But these musicians can listen! The really wanted to play that new repertoire for them! During today concert I heard, felt how each of them supported me. I will never forget this feeling! I hope to have new joint projects with this orchestra and Maestro Sladkovsky.

It was exciting for me to play the fourth Symphony of Maler with the orchestra. I played the Symphony for the first time. And I’m so happy that I touched to the masterpiece of this great composer and all those wonderful people! I hope to come back here again. Everything was great! Also, I was pleasantly surprised how quick the orchestra , under Maestro Sladkovsky, caught the exact manner of Italian playing. It was a good job!

There is an intuitive feeling of trust in the orchestra. The Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of maestro Sladkovsky gained both form and repertoire, and confidence. There is also such a thing as stress tolerance. The orchestra has big loads today. And the loads will only grow, as is always the case with good orchestras. But the ability to cope with the tasks is also growing with the team, it is audible and visible, and this, of course, causes a lot of respect.

I had heard before, but now I have made sure that the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra is a first-class orchestra, perhaps one of the best in the country! It was very nice to feel the energy return from the orchestra. It's great when you feel that not only are you interested in the result when absolutely all participants in the process act together. I am very glad that I managed to feel it today! It is far from always possible to meet the presence of all components. I played well with the maestro Alexander Sladkovsky and with the orchestra!

I had great pleasure from joint play with Maestro Sladkovsky and Tatarstan National Symphony orchestra. It’s a wonderful group of excellent musicians with whom I’d like to work more and more. I am already dreaming of new joint projects.