From June 9 to June 15, 2025, Moscow will host one of the largest jazz festivals in the world. Over 1,000 artists from Russia and abroad will perform in the capital for 7 days. Among the headliners this year: Igor Butman, Ildar Abdrazakov and the Moscow Jazz Orchestra, Veronica Swift (USA), Uma2rman, Rachel Z & Omar Hakim Trio with Jonathan Toscano (USA), Larisa Dolina and Oleg Akkuratov Trio, Valery Syutkin and the Syutkin Band, Igor Sklyar and Jazz Classic Communuty, Boris Berezovsky, Varvara Vizbor and many others. For the fourth year in a row, the Festival’s concerts will be held at the most popular urban venues in Moscow. The opening and Closing of the Moscow Jazz Festival will take place at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, and over the course of five days, renowned musicians and youth jazz groups selected by the results of the All-Russian Competition will perform in the Hermitage Garden, Zaryadye and Muzeon parks, VDNH, Tsaritsyno and other sites.

Igor Butman’s Moscow Jazz Orchestra and Ivan Rudin’s Moscow State Symphony Orchestra will perform together for the first time at the opening of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall on June 9. And at the Closing of the Moscow Jazz Festival on June 15, world jazz star Veronica Swift will perform with the Moscow Jazz Orchestra. The main venue of the festival will be the Hermitage Garden, where famous jazzmen and popular artists of other musical genres will perform from June 10 to 14, presenting jazz programs, including Igor Butman, Ildar Abdrazakov and the Moscow Jazz Orchestra, Rachel Z & Omar Hakim Trio with Jonathan Toscano (USA), Uma2rman, Larisa Dolina. and Oleg Akkuratov’s Trio, Valery Syutkin and the Syutkin Band, Igor Sklyar and Jazz Classic Communuty, Varvara Vizbor, Artemiev, Boris Berezovsky and Blues Doctors, Dmitry Noskov and many others. On the stages installed in Zaryadye Park, Sokolniki Park, Muzeon Art Park, on the TSUM Square and in the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve.