Lermontov, Tchaikovsky | A Golden Cloud Spent the Night

Yakov Polonsky, Tchaikovsky | A Greeting to Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein

Yakov Polonsky, Taneyev | Look, What a Mist…

Rachmaninoff/Arr. A. Stepanov | Three Romances

I. How Fair This Spot

II. A Dream

III. Lilacs

Rachmaninoff/Arr. V. Mukhin | Little Island

Rachmaninoff/Arr. Yu. Vasiliev | Vocalise

Rachmaninoff/Arr. A. Yegorov | Italian Polka

Pushkin, Shebalin | The Winter Road

Ledenyov, Yesenin | Beloved Land

Konstantin Bodrov | Evening Prayer

Shchedrin | Serenade

Anatoly Ananyev | Russian Chastushka

Russian Folk Songs/Arr. Vasiliev | Steppe All Around

Russian Folk Songs/Arr. Feodosy Rubtsov | The Brooms

Russian Folk Songs/Arr.Sergey Ekimov | Along the Riverbank

Ivan Larionov/Arr. Alexander Sveshnikov | Kalinka

Matusovsky, Solovyov-Sedoi | Moscow Nights

Isakovsky, Blanter | Katyusha

Isakovsky, Dunayevsky | Oh, Viburnum Is Blooming

Mikhail Pilipenko, Yevgeny Rodigin | Ural Mountain Ash

Inna Goff, Yuri Frenkel/ Arr. Yury Poteenko | Russian Field

Evgeny Krylatov | My Fine and Distant Future

Vasilyev & Popov, Mikhail Kyuss/Arr. Vladimir Sokolov | The Waves Of Amur

Lebedev-Kumach, Isaak Dunaevsky | Youth Song

*Program is subject to change

 

 

 

 

The Chamber Choir of Moscow Conservatory was organized upon initiative of Prof. Alexander Sokolov, D.A., Rector of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, in December of 1994. Its founder was Prof. Boris Tevlin (1931–2012), People’s Artist of Russia, an outstanding choral conductor of today, who was continuously heading and leading the choir until his last days.

The Chamber Choir of Moscow Conservatory is a laureate of grand prix and an awardee of two golden medals at the Eighth Riva del Garda International Choral Festival (Italy, 1998), a laureate of the First Prize and an awardee of the Golden Medal at The First Brahms International Choral Competition in Wernigerode (Germany, 1999), a winner of The First Choir Olympics in Linz (Austria, 2000), as well as a laureate of grand prix at The XXIInd International Festival of Orthodox Church Music “Hajnówka 2003” in Białystok (Poland).

The choir has been on concert tours in Austria, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, the Ukraine, and the USA. In addition, the choir participated in such events as: “The Gidon Kremer Festival in Lockenhaus” (Austria, 1995); “Sofia Gubaidulina in Zurich” (1996); “Fabbrica del canto” and “In Memory of Alfred Schnittke” (1998), “Rodion Shchedrin’s Self-portrait”, The Sixth World Choral Forum in Minneapolis and The Ninth International Music Festival in Usedom (Germany, 2002); “Deuxième Biennale d’art vocal” (2005); “Mittelfest” (2007); The First International Choral Festival in Beijing and “Tchaikovsky’s Music in London” (2008); “Voices of Orthodoxy in Italy” (2009); as well as in Valery Gergiev’s Easter Festivals (the 2000s), in “Svyatoslav Richter’s December Evenings” (2011), in the Festivals of Russian Culture in Japan (2006, 2008, 2012), in the Festival “Moscow Autumn” (1996–2012), and in various other events.

The main trend of the creative activities of the Chamber Choir of Moscow Conservatory is the performance of pieces written by Russian and foreign composers, including Valery Arzumanov, Alexander Chaykovsky, Edison Denisov, Edward Elgar, Andrei Eshpai, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Roman Ledenyov, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Arthur Lourié, Knut Nystedt, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Arnold Schönberg, Rodion Shchedrin, Nikolay Sidel’nikov, Igor Stravinsky, Józef Świder, John Tavener, Romuald Twardowski and others.