Violinist Ilian Garnet will receive aid from executive’s reserve fund

The Government decided to allocate a lump-sum allowance of 25,000 lei to violinist Ilian Garnet, Info-Prim Neo reports. At the Government’s meeting, Prime Minister Zinaida Grecianai said that the executive will make concerted effort to support the talented young persons. The informative note to the draft decision does not say whether the decision to provide aid to Ilian Garnet is an initiative of the executive or a response to the artist’s or an institution of culture’s request. The money will be allocated from the executive’s reserve fund. Ilian Garnet, 25, studies at the Academy of Theater, Music and Plastic Arts. He won the Top Prize of the International Violin Contest in Kazakhstan and of the International Contest “Remember Enescu” in Romania. He also medaled gold at the Moscow Delphic Games and won the first prizes of international violin contests in Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey and Finland and the special prize for the best performance at the International Violin Contest “David Oistrach” in Odessa, Ukraine. Ilian Garnet is ranked among the best violin players in Europe.