Josh Birnbaum The Daily Illini

Vlacheslav Semionov, a Russian Bayan Accordion player, plays Tuesday night at the Spurlock Museum in the Knight Auditorium. Semionov is a professor at Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, a renowned musical center in Russia. He has performed in more than 30 countries and in 1995 was named a “People’s Artist of Russia” by former President Boris Yeltsin.