Choirs of Russia

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Choruses

St. Petersburg

• Petersburg Chamber Choir

Moscow

• 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.

History

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.