RUSSIA – On December 5, the Kremlin will announce the results of the Victoria 2019 Russian Music Awards, which will present the best professionals for the past year – musicians, performers, composers, poets, producers, music critics, journalists and Heads of media holding services.
Zivert, Lolita, Max Barsky, duet # 2Masha, Loboda, Leningrad, Max Korzh, Little Big, Diana Arbenina, Khibla Gerzmava, Kirill Richter, Stas Mikhailov and many other artists whose songs, videos and performances reached the final-2019 became a real musical event of the outgoing year.
As a result, one of them will win, all – the audience, and the participants, and even the organizers of the Prize – will recognize only directly during the ceremony.
According to the regulations of the Victoria Prize, the names of the winners are strictly classified by the audit and consulting company E & Y, which controlled the voting process.
“Our goal is to unite the professional community and to work together to make a qualitative breakthrough in the development of the national musical culture. This is only possible thanks to fair competition,” says Yuri Kostin, president of the Russian National Music Award Victoria, General Director of GPM Radio.
The winners will be named in 15 categories, including all musical directions – from pop to rock, from hip-hop to classical, as well as the nomination “Composer of the Year” and “Poet of the Year”.
Kremlin palaces are waiting for a vibrant dynamic show staged by the famous director Andrei Boltenko and musical numbers performed by the B-2 groups, Nikolai Baskov, Sergey Lazarev, Polina Gagarina, Dima Bilan, Artik & Asti, RSAC, RASA, Julia Mikhalchik, Dimash Kudaibergenov and Igor Krutoy,
The ceremony will be hosted by Andrei Malakhov.
Best Pop artist
Polina Gagarina – “Melancholy”
Lolita – Champagne
LOBODA – “Bullet Fool”
MARUV- “Between Us”
Zivert – Life
Best pop artist
Max Barskih – “Unearthly”
Nikolai Baskov – “Heart to Heart”
Dima Bilan – “Lightning”
Philip Kirkorov – “Moon Guest”
Sergey Lazarev – Scream
Valery Meladze – “What Do You Want From Me?”
MONATIK – “Love It Rhythm”
Best pop group
“Na-Na” – “I think slowly to a hundred”
Artik & Asti – “Sad Dance”
A’Studio – Chameleons
IOWA – Sing
Little Big – I`m OK
The best rock band or rock artist
Alliance – Cosmic Dreams
Bi-2 feat Nastya Poleva – “Dream about Snow”
“Mumiy Troll” – “Summer without the Internet”
Nargiz – “Mom”
“Night Snipers” – “A Second Back”
Instrumentalist of the Year in Classical Music
Ivan Bessonov – Robert Schumann, the first play of the piano cycle “Carnival” – “Preamble”
Victor Zinchuk – Fantasy on the theme of Waltz No. 2 D. D. Shostakovich
Nikolai Lugansky – Prelude by Rachmaninov in F Sharp Minor (op.23 # 1)
Denis Matsuev – E. Grieg “In the Cave of the Mountain King” from the suite “Peer Gynt”
Cyril Richter – Concert retrospective of Cyril Richter and orchestra
Daniil Trifonov – Vocalise (S. Rachmaninov)
Vocalist of the year in classical music
Ildar Abdrazakov – Elegie
Aida Garifullina – Aria of Mimi
Hibla Gerzmava – Ave Maria
Dimash Kudaibergenov – Olympico
Anna Netrebko – Forsa Non Fu
Olga Peretyatko – Bellini: Norma, Casta Diva
Poet of the year
Leonid Agutin – “I Can’t See You”
Anatoly Alekseev and Artem Ivanov – “Bullet-Fool”
Max Barskih – “Shores”
Mikhail Gutseriev – “Love of Tired Swans”
Lara D’Elia – Scream
Denis Kovalsky – “Hooked”
Best Hip Hop Artist
Basta feat. Butler – “Without You”
Max Korzh – “Two types of people”
Egor Creed – “Heartbreaker”
Mot feat Valery Meladze – “How Many Years”
Elgej feat. Era Istrefi – Sayonara Baby
FACE – “Comedian”
Noize MC – “Everything Is Like People”
Best song (tune) to the motion picture (series)
Leonid Agutin and Sergey Shnurov – “Some garbage”
Diana Arbenina – “I Can Fly Without You” (Ost Mistresses)
Basta and Pelagia – “Under the scorching fire”
Vera Brezhneva – “To Love Each Other”
BrainStorm – “Motive”
FACE – “Comedian”
Urban romance
Stas Mikhailov – “This Long Day”
Stas Mikhailov and Tamara Gverdtsiteli – “Let’s forbid separation”
Sergey Trofimov – “Yadryona-Matryona”
Lyubov Uspenskaya and Brandon Stone – “And we loved”
Mikhail Shufutinsky and Masha Weber – “Repeat after me”
Dance hit of the year
# 2Masha – “Mom, I dance”
Max Barskih – “Shores”
Tim Belorussky – “Wet Crosses”
Arthur Pirozhkov – “Hooked”
Zivert – Beverly Hills
Best music video
Leonid Agutin and Angelika Varum – “On a pause”
Max Barskih – “Shores”
Philip Kirkorov – “Moon Guest”
Sergey Lazarev – Scream (Eurovision 2019)
Leningrad – Convertible
Composer of the year
Denis Kovalsky – “Hooked”
Victoria Cohan – “Heart to Heart”
Igor Krutoy – “Love of Tired Swans”
Konstantin Meladze – “Love”
Monatik Chilibi Sound – Love it Rhythm
Concert of the year
Leonid Agutin – Anniversary concert “Agutin 50”
Bi-2 – Show “Event Horizon” in the “Olympic”
Dima Bilan – Show “Planet Bilan”
“Time Machine” – “Time Machine. 50 years”
New Wave – New Wave 2019
Chanson of the Year – Chanson of the Year 2019
LOBODA – SuperStar, Crocus City Hall
Song of the year
Dima Bilan – “About White Roses”
Dimash Kudaibergenov – “Love of Tired Swans”
Alexander Marshal, Nikolai Rastorguev, Alexander Ivanov – “Good”
Valery Meladze – “What Do You Want From Me?”
Arthur Pirozhkov – “Hooked”
Zivert – Life
