On August 19, 2023, Novorossiysk Forum Square hosted the II classical music festival - "Novorossiysk Chimes". A large-scale five-hour gala concert on the Black Sea coast was held with the support of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium and in cooperation with the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization "Black Sea Symphony Orchestra".
This year, over 250 performers participated in the Festival, including the full Black Sea Symphony Orchestra conducted by Konstantin Milyoshkin and Alexei Pugachyov. Moscow violinists Sergei Pospelov and Tatiana Breslavskaya, accordionist Maxim Fyodorov, opera singers Tatiana Yeremina (Krasnodar) and Kirill Chursin (Rostov-on-Don) were the soloists. Famous symphonic works by Gioacchino Rossini, Edvard Grieg, Pal Abraham, Imre Kalman, Aram Khachaturian, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitry Shostakovich and other famous composers, music from movies, opera arias and scenes from ballets, waltzes and tangos - about 50 compositions in total - were performed.