From June 17 th to July 15 th Lviv hosted Diapason – the international festival of organ music which initiated completely new phenomenon in musical space of Lviv and Ukraine.

Dnister hotel received the cult Ukrainian writer Jyri Andrukhovish who opened the festival and real “star” representatives of the festival participants such as the festival initiator Irina Tsaits (Switzerland), professor of the Krakov's musical academy Marek Stefansky (Poland), soloist of Moscow's philarmony Lyudmila Golub (Russia), Rodolfo Belatti (Italy), professor of National musical academy Galina Bulibenko (Ukraine), Andreas Maisha (Germany), professor of Zurich high music school Berngard Billeter (Switzerland).

As Sergey Kaliberda mentioned the goal of this festival is "to return Lviv its title of the organ capital of Ukraine, present high traditions of musical culture of Lviv, make the city attractive for tourists and worth being proud of".