Anna Vilenskaya. European Tour 2026

Anna Vilenskaya is a musicologist, lecturer and popularizer of classical and contemporary music. She is able to talk about complex things simply, entertainingly and with humor, helping listeners to hear music in a new way and understand how it works.

The topic of the lecture: Hit or Hype? Anna Vilenskaya and Natasha Panfilova

Debates between musician and marketer about the power of algorithms over the culture of taste and where hits are born: in the studio or in the marketing department.
Intellectual battle and performance in Paris with the audience, who with the help of real-time voting will decide whether the talent of the artist or the engineering of attention from his team is behind the hits of the 21st century?

What's in store for you

• A breakdown of the hits that the whole world knows
• Explanation of why these particular songs "shot up"
• musical experiments and mini-performances
• marketing tricks that make the track viral
• interactive: the audience votes on who is more convincing
• light atmosphere, humor and lively communication

Lecture topic: Musical Hearing: Instruction Manual

It is not uncommon to hear the phrase: "I have no musical ear", "a bear stepped on my ear". Maybe you even once uttered it yourself. In reality, this is not the case: all hearing people develop a complex set of several components of musical hearing in the first years of life. If you think that everyone has it, but you don't - come to the lecture and let's experiment together on your sense of fret and relative hearing.
We will check whether you have musical synesthesia - a phenomenon in which sounds turn into colors, and find out whether we see chords in the same colors. After the lecture, you will leave with an understanding of how to train your musical ear, how to use it properly, and most importantly, with the feeling that no bear has stepped on your ear.