The group of St. Petersburg musicians who came to Boston in October 2000 for the festival, Days of Russian Culture in Boston, included four St. Petersburg Conservatory Professors: Vladimir Ovcharek, Chairman of the String Department, Larissa Dan'ko, Chair of the Music History Department, Lydia Volchek, Assistant to the Rector and Director of the Concert Hall, Dmitry Tchassovitin, Vice-Rector in Studies; and Gregory Korchmar, Vice-president of the St. Petersburg Composers Association.  The schedule included the following events:

Master-classes

• in violin performance, by Professor Vladimir Ovcharek, Chairman of the String Department
• in string quartet class, by Professor Vladimir Ovcharek

Concerts

• Gregory Korchmar Chamber music at the Longy School of Music and Slosberg Music Center at Brandeis University
• Violin recital at Boston University Concert Hall – Vladimir Ovcharek and Horia Mihail

Lectures

• "Russian Composers and the St. Petersburg Conservatory", and/or "Prokofiev's Young Years in St. Petersburg", by Professor Larissa Dan'ko, Chair of the Music History Department
• "The Music of J.S. Bach as source material: A personal account by composer", Gregory Korchmar (Boston University Composers Forum, Longy School of Music, and Brandeis University)
• "Glazunov Concert Hall – the Heart of the First Russian Conservatory", and "The Role of Children’s Creativity in the Process of Their Musical Upbringing", both by Lydia Volchek, Assistant to the Rector and Director of the Concert Hall and an author of the series, "The Alphabet of the Musical Fantasy", for children

Composers' Forum at Boston University, Brandeis University and the Longy School of Music:  Composer Gregory Korchmar’s talk on his own music with live and recorded illustrations

Social events: meetings, lunches, tours, observing the Music division classes