The Eighth International Festival “The Piano Nights in Moldova – The Black Sea” will be held in Chisinau, Tiraspol and Odessa during June 24 – July 8, as organizers promise it to be the most spectacular edition ever. The Festival will consist of 6 extraordinary concerts that will be given in Chisinau, Tiraspol and Odessa, - Adrian Cibotaru, the deputy director of the French Alliance in Moldova, has told Info-Prim Neo. The Festival will open on Thursday, June 24, with a concert at the Organ Hall, themed “Two Geniuses of the Piano Music – Mozart and Mendelssohn”, conducted by Didier Talpain (France). The concert will feature soloists Anatolie Lapicus and Iurie Mahovici (Moldova), Emmanuel Christien and Samuel Parent (France), Antoine de Grolie and Emmanuel Christien (Franţa), Stanislav Jar (Moldova) and Samuel Parent (France). The next concert, to be held on June 29 at the Organ Hall, will be dedicated to the 170th birth anniversary of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, featuring Guigla Katsarva (France), Vitalie Gavruk (Belarus), Konstantin Lifschitz (Rusia/Germany), with Valentin Doni (Moldova) performing as conductor. The Festival will continue on July 2 with “Two Major Anniversaries 1810-2010: Schumann – Chopin”, a concert conducted by Valentin Doni. Another concert, dedicated to French music, will follow on July 7, featuring the National Chamber Orchestra and the Symphonic Orchestra of Tiraspol, with Misha Katz (France) performing as conductor. All the concerts given in Chisinau will start at 19:00. Two other performances will be hosted by Tiraspol and Odessa. A total of 16 soloists from Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, France, Germany, the United States and Belarus will perform on the Festival's stages. The international piano and orchestra festival “The Piano Nights in Moldova” was started in 2003 by the French Embassy and the French Alliance in Moldova, in collaboration with the festival of the same name in Aix en Provence, traditionally organized by piano maestro Michel Bourdoncle. Over 17,000 spectators attended the Festival's concerts since 2003.