The VII international music festival White Lilac opened in the Saydashev State Great Concert Hall in Kazan. It is dedicated to the memory of the great Russian composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff. On the first evening of the festival, in the project of Artistic Director of the State Symphony Orchestra of Tatarstan Alexander Sladkovsky there performed young pianists - a British musician George Harliono, winner of Grand Piano Competition – a Georgian pianist Sandro Nebieridze, a pianist and composer from St. Petersburg Ivan Bessonov.