Choirs of Russia

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Teaching choral singing

• Academy of Choral Arts named after V.S. Popov (Moscow)
• Choir School named after M.I. Glinka (St. Petersburg)

Choruses

St. Petersburg

• Choral College of St. Petersburg
• Concert Choir of St. Petersburg
• Petersburg Chamber Choir

Moscow

• State Academic Russian Choir named after A.V. Sveshnikov

• Intrada

• The academic large choir "Masters of Choral Singing" of radio "Orpheus" was founded in 1928 as the Vocal Ensemble of the All-Union Radio Committee. The founder and first artistic director was A.V. Sveshnikov. The choir was repeatedly renamed, among the names: the Choir of the All-Union Radio Committee (VRK Choir), the Great Choir of the All-Union Radio (Great Choir of BP), the academic Great Choir of Central Television and All-Union Radio (Great Choir of CT and BP), etc.

Since 2005, the artistic director and chief conductor of the Masters has been People's Artist of Russia Lev Kontorovich.

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History

2004: Smolny Cathedral Chamber Choir renamed St. Petersburg Concert Choir

In 2004, Smolny Cathedral joined the St. Isaac's Cathedral State Museum-Monument and in the same year the art management of the Smolny Cathedral Chamber Choir was taken over by Honored Artist of Russia Vladimir Begletsov. The choir was renamed the Concert Choir of St. Petersburg.

1992: Olga Stupneva creates the Vocal Ensemble "Christmas" in St. Petersburg

The vocal ensemble "Christmas" was created in 1992. The team was created by Honored Artist of Russia Olga Stupneva, who at that time worked as regent of the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in St. Petersburg and teacher of the St. Petersburg Pedagogical Institute.

During his creative activity, the ensemble was awarded the title of laureate of the I Prize of international choral music competitions in Darmstadt (Germany, 1995) and in Riva del Garda (Italy, 1996), received the Grand Prix of two international competitions in Spain (Vittoria & Burgos, 2001). Since 2005, Christmas has been participating in the programs of the Days of Culture of St. Petersburg (Ireland, Iran, Finland, Latvia, Poland, Belgium, Serbia). The ensemble also toured in Switzerland, Holland, Japan, France, Norway and other countries.

Ensemble Christmas performed in joint programs with outstanding performers and musical groups: People's Artist of the USSR Irina Arkhipova, Ensemble "Soloists of St. Petersburg" under the direction of People's Artist of Russia Mikhail Gantvarg, Chamber Orchestra "Divertissement" under the direction of Honored Artist of Russia Ilya Ioff, Lege Artis Choir under the direction of Boris Abalyan, Ensemble of Ancient Music Gloria, Ensemble ia Talov and Organic ovoy.

The ensemble "Christmas" combined the traditions of choral performance and costumed stage action. In collaboration with director Alexander Lebedev and artist Tatyana Koroleva, musical and stage productions "Prodigal Son," "Pushkin Ball" (1999), "St. Petersburg Assembly" (2002) were created.

In 1999, the ensemble recorded the disc "Russian Folk Songs."

In 2003, the ensemble "Christmas" staged the opera by Vasily Pashkevich and Matinsky "As You Live and Know, or St. Petersburg Gostiny Dvor."

1991: The Chamber Choir of Smolny Cathedral in St. Petersburg was created

In 1990, Smolny Cathedral acquired the status of a concert and exhibition hall. In 1991, the Chamber Choir was formed. At first, the team was led by Stanislav Legkov, later the main conductors were Andrei Petrenko and Eduard Krotman.

1985: Anatoly Grindenko creates a choir at the publishing department of the Moscow Patriarchate

In 1985, Anatoly Grindenko, with the blessing of Archbishop Pitirim, organized a male choir in Moscow at the Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate.

1977: Nikolai Kornev creates the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir

The St. Petersburg Chamber Choir was created in 1977 by Nikolai Kornev.

1937:30 thousand amateur folk choirs

By 1937, about 30 thousand amateur folk choirs were registered in the USSR.

1929: Choral conductor Vladimir Minin was born

On January 10, 1929, Russian choral conductor Vladimir Nikolaevich Minin was born in Leningrad.

1742: Elizaveta Petrovna attracts court choir singers for the first time to perform choirs in operas

Main article: Music in Russia in the XVIII century

Jacob Stelin:

In previous times, the choir was not used for anything else, as soon as for church singing, and only from the time of Elizabeth it became used also in chamber and theater music. The reason for this was the following circumstance.

For the coronation of Empress Elizabeth in 1742 in Moscow, among other entertainments, the most charming opera Clemenza di Tito was intended. I was entrusted with the administrative part, the compilation of a suitable prologue for this outstanding event (La Russia afflitta e riconsolata ") and, in general, concern for opera.

At the first rehearsal, I found it very funny that Emperor Titus had to sing a song of praise or choir for himself along with his close associates and three other persons (since there were no more participating and other singers). To eliminate this difficulty, the empress ordered the singers of the court chapel to be taken into the orchestra and learn all the choirs. The order was carried out; Italian words were painted in Russian letters between four voices, and more than fifty selected singers were trained after a number of opera rehearsals. The empress herself deigned to attend one such rehearsal and witnessed what excellent results the choir had achieved. No wonder later, speaking to foreign embassies, he rightfully earned the name of the incomparable from them.

After this performance, these church singers were used in all operas where choirs met, as well as on large court holidays and in chamber music. Many of them so mastered the graceful taste in Italian music that in the performance of arias they were not much inferior to the best Italian singers.

Шаблон:XVIII Century Music CD