The story happened 15 years ago in Tashkent, where two married couples met by chance – the newlyweds Govher and Romain Gouvernet, who came to the Uzbek capital from Ashgabat for work, and the famous composer Pierre Tilua and his wife Greta Komur, who found themselves in Uzbekistan as part of the Bukhara Violin music project.

Deputy Prime Minister in charge of culture and mass media in the government, Mahrijemal Mammedova reported on the preparation of a draft resolution on holding the next Week of Culture in 2024 in the city of Arkadag. This became known following a meeting of the Turkmen Cabinet on Wednesday, TDH reports.

These days, French composer Pierre Tilois is in Turkmenistan, the owner of the most prestigious music awards in France, Germany, the United States, the author of about 300 works, including several operas, dozens of symphonies, concertos for a soloist and orchestra, symphonic poems, oratorios, quartets, music for cinema and more. For about ten years, Pierre Tilois has been the organizer of music festivals among composers, the founder of a number of creative teams, he is also actively involved in social activities.

The famous American country singer, songwriter Jeffrey Steele will perform in Ashgabat. The popular Californian vocalist will visit the capital from July 6 to 8, the US diplomatic mission in Turkmenistan reports.

To get to the concert of the "Ashgabat Camerata" and the ability to get a ticket for the performance of musicians – for fans this has already become something like passing an exciting quest. As soon as the artists put up a poster of the upcoming concert program, music lovers and fans literally open the "hunting season" for invitations and tickets, having obtained which, then they wait with a sense of the winner and count the hours until the cherished day. The audience expects and anticipates new and fresh musical impressions, with which it charges and "nourishes" itself until the next concert of the young metropolitan group.

44 Uzbek schools with the Turkmen language of instruction received new books of poems by Magtymguly. The new edition will be a gift, including for the entire Turkmen diaspora in Turkmenistan, which numbers about 200 thousand people.

Professor of the Turkish University of Pamukkale Soner Salgam together with the Turkmen scientist Rahimmammet Kurenov prepared for publication the book "Legends about the spiritual father of the Turkmen Magtymguly".

A concert was held in the Palace of Mukams of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan, where musical compositions based on the poems of the great Turkmen poet Magtymguly Pyragy were performed.

A photo exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of TURKSOY has opened at the Museum of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat. The exposition, which included various photographic materials, is aimed at popularizing the historical and cultural heritage of the TURKSOY member countries in the international arena.

The opening ceremony of the Week of Culture of the Turkic States, which is held to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the formation of the International Organization of Turkic Culture - TURKSOY, took place in Ashgabat.