 The Orchestra participated in numerous international festivals such as the Music Biennale Zagreb, the Beethovenfest Bonn, Ludwigsburg Festival, Bodensee Festival (Germany), the Europalia Russia Festival in Belgium and repeatedly in the Music Festival Crescendo in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Kaliningrad, the Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron international piano competition, and La Folle Journée in France, Spain and Japan.The Russian edition of La Folle Journee takes place in Sverdlovsk Philharmonic in Yekaterinburg since 2015.Maestro Valery Gergiev invited the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra to perform at the opening of the Mariinsky Theatre’s new concert hall in 2007, under his direction.