Vladimir Ashkenazy - pianist, conductor

Peter Gabriel - English musician, songwriter

Nikita Mikhalkov - film director, People's Artist of Russia, President of the Russian Culture Foundation

Dmitry Bashkirov - pianist, People's Artist of Russia, Professor

Alexander Tchaikovsky - composer, People's Artist of Russia, Honorary Worker of Arts of Russia, Artistic director of Moscow State Philharmonic

Vladislav Chernushenko - conductor, People's Artist of Russia, Laureate of USSR State Prizes, Artistic director of St. Petersburg's State Academic Chapel

Zakhar Bron - violinist, teacher, Professor of Royal academies of London and Madrid, Professor of music institutes (conservatoires) in Zürich, Rotterdam, Köln; Honorary Professor of conservatoires in Japan, Poland, Bulgaria, Russia

Irina Nikitina - president, Musical Olympus Foundation

Andrei Eshpai - People's Artist of the USSR, Laureate of the USSR State Prizes, Laureate of the Lenin Prize, composer

Vladimir Gusev - Head of the State Russian Museum, art critic