The Foundation’s concerts, festival and master classes rest not only on the musicians. If you are ready to help with your time and your hands — write to us.
The Foundation has been working since 1994 and runs about twenty projects each month — concerts, tours, exhibitions and educational programmes for gifted children. More about this — on the “Projects” page.
The Foundation’s flagship is the international festival “Moscow Meets Friends”. It has been held annually since 2004; the XXIII festival will take place on 1–10 October 2026 at the finest venues in Moscow. The programme includes concerts, exhibitions and master classes for young participants from Russia and from abroad.
Besides the festival, the Foundation holds concerts and master classes all year round: the calendar and the list of events are in the “Events” section. Every such event means meeting the participants, working with the hall, filming and coordination backstage. This is exactly where the help of volunteers is felt most.
Over the years, volunteers from Moscow universities have contributed to the work of the “Moscow Meets Friends” festival — the N. I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, MGIMO and GITIS.
Once the applications have been selected, the Foundation’s volunteer advisers contact every participant who has made the festival lists and explain what to do next.
190121, St Petersburg, Dekabristov St., 57, office 26.
Below are the areas where extra hands are needed most often. The particular set of tasks depends on the event and the venue, so it is agreed with the coordinators in advance.
Meeting and accompanying the young participants, helping at registration, working backstage and in the hall during the performances.
Photographing and filming concerts, master classes and exhibitions — for the Foundation’s archive, its news and the gallery of the site.
Guiding people around the venue, helping audiences and the families of participants, staffing the information desk, answering simple questions.
The festival receives participants from abroad, so help with interpreting and written translation is sometimes needed.
Tell us briefly about yourself and about what you would find interesting to help with. The Foundation’s coordinators will get in touch and tell you what tasks there are at the moment.
info@spivakov.ru