For more than 20 years, Vitaliy has been organizing tours of professional award-winning musicians all across the United States. In 2003 Vitaliy founded the Rotary Children's Fund and initiated the Golden Gates Cultural Youth Program that invites talented youth from Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Georgia to the US. In addition to beeing a social entrepreneur, Vitaliy is a professional musician and plays bayan (accordion) leading all the Golden Gates and Moscow Nights concerts.

For the festival, Vitaliy is coordinating all Stage performances and invites talented musicians, singers, and dancers to participate in the event.

Venue Coordinator & Festival Committee Member | renee.anderson@apexnc.org

Renee is working as a Cultural Arts Program Specialist at the Halle Cultural Arts Center.

Renee is involved in all aspects of organizing the event as well as with all the venue coordination.