Reinhart Kraus’ first Saint Petersburg concert appearance took place in the Conservatoire’s Glazunov Hall on 17 October 2003. That night’s program “To Russia with Love” featured R. Kraus with Saint Petersburg’s leading chamber musicians — V. Ovcharek, A. Stang, and S. Roldugin — in a performance of J. Haydn’s op. 33, “Russian Quartets”. At the General Consul’s initiative, two Franz Krommer quartets for bassoon, two violas and cello (op. 46) were performed for the first time in Saint-Petersburg as part of the 2004 International Conservatoire Week, and in April 2005 the works of Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Shubert, and Mendelssohn were performed in the program “Salve Regina”. Reinhart Kraus’ artistic credo is found in the words of Yehudi Menuhin “Art is the hope of humanity”.