An annual international music festival, inaugurated in 2014. Hobart Earle, People’s Artist of Ukraine, is the founder and artistic director of Black Sea Music Fest. In the years of the festival’s existence, such prominent musicians as: Mikhail Pletnev, Boris Berezovsky, David Geringas, Steven Isserlis, Valery Sokolov, Tetiana Melnichenko and many others, including the National Choir of Ukraine “Dumka” (artistic director, People’s Artist of Ukraine – Yevhen Savchuk) and the Choir of the Odessa Conservatory (choirmaster Halyna Shpak, artistic director – Grigory Lioznov) have taken part.