Winners of the Kochmondor Sanaty International Festival of Traditional Music Receive Their Awards

Today, 5 September, the closing ceremony and gala concert of the Kochmondor Sanaty International Festival of Traditional Music took place at the Chingiz Aitmatov Rukh Ordo cultural and ethnographic centre.

The Minister of Culture, Information and Youth Policy of the Kyrgyz Republic Mirbek Mambetaliev attended the event and congratulated the winners.

“I congratulate everyone on the successful close of the international festival held as part of the World Nomad Games. The festival introduced a wide audience to the traditional heritage of our peoples and helped strengthen friendship. I am sure the days our foreign guests spent in Kyrgyzstan left them with warm impressions and good memories,” the minister said.

At the closing ceremony the winners of the international competition in the storytelling, instrumental and vocal-instrumental categories received cash prizes and special diplomas.

Storytelling:

• Grand Prix — Nurzhan Tumenbaeva (Kyrgyzstan) — 200,000 soms;
• 1st place — Rasulbek Abdurakhmanov (Uzbekistan) — 100,000 soms;
• 1st place — Aidun Magamedov (Dagestan) — 100,000 soms;
• 2nd place — Zhasulan Esimkhan Nurlanuly (Kazakhstan) — 80,000 soms;
• 3rd place — Vitaly Nikiforov (Yakutia) — 65,000 soms;
• 3rd place — Zhanat Kanat uulu (Kyrgyzstan) — 65,000 soms.

Special prizes: Kunsulu Turikpen (Kazakhstan), Nikolai Shumarov (Altai) and Fakhraddin Bakhshaliev (Azerbaijan) — 40,000 soms each.

Instrumental:

• Grand Prix — Mehri Asadullaeva (Azerbaijan) — 200,000 soms;
• 1st place — Beksultan Abdilakimov (Kyrgyzstan) — 150,000 soms;
• 1st place — the trio Kartikeya and Travel Live (India) — 150,000 soms;
• 2nd place — Anvarzhon Normatov (Tajikistan) — 100,000 soms;
• 2nd place — the Kausar ensemble (Kazakhstan) — 100,000 soms;
• 3rd place — Nguyen Thi Trang (Vietnam) — 50,000 soms;
• 3rd place — the Qaybar ensemble (Kazakhstan) — 100,000 soms.

Special prizes: Alireza Shahini (Iran), Byambaa Narandelger (Mongolia), Miklos Feledgyazi (Hungary) and Anastasia Novoselova (Russia) — 40,000 soms each.

Vocal and instrumental:

• Grand Prix — Damdyn Dalai (Tuva) — 200,000 soms;
• 1st place — Daniyar Abylabek uulu (Kyrgyzstan) — 150,000 soms;
• 1st place — Osei Korankye Abena Serwaa (Ghana) — 150,000 soms;
• 2nd place — Irina Kiskorova (Russia) — 100,000 soms;
• 2nd place — the Marifat Sufi Band (Pakistan) — 100,000 soms;
• 3rd place — Baglan Babizhan (Kazakhstan) — 70,000 soms;
• 3rd place — Dilfuza Nurmetova (Uzbekistan) — 70,000 soms.

Special prizes: Horo Solomon Grant (New Zealand), Bolat Abdulatif (Turkey), Ulan Ismailov (Kyrgyzstan) and Rummler Bruno Christian (the Netherlands) — 40,000 soms each.

This year the festival brought together performers, scholars and researchers from 38 countries, becoming a single international platform for research and creative work in traditional musical art.

The festival programme included an international research conference, a competition for bearers of traditional art, master classes, creative sessions and concerts.

Kochmondor Sanaty is one of the cultural programmes of the World Ethnocultural Festival “The Nomad Universe: A Link Between Times”, held as part of the VI World Nomad Games.