PROGRAM:
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- Yurlov Capella Choir
- Conductor – Gennady Dmitryak
- Agunda Kulayeva (mezzo-soprano)
- Nikolai Didenko (bass)
Founded in 1919 as the State Republican A Cappella Choir, The Yurlov Capella Choir is one of the oldest and most respected choral ensembles in Russia. The ensemble gained international recognition in 1958, when Professor Alexander A.Yurlov, a People’s Artist of Russia, became its Artistic Director. Yurlov aspired to extend the range and repertoire of the chorus, as well as ground its performances on the centuries-old Russian choral tradition: pure and harmonious sound, huge sound range, and passionate interpretation.
During his 15-years as Artistic Director, Yurlov helped to bring many neglected Russian choral masterpieces of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries to an international audience; in recognition to his invaluable contribution, the ensemble assumed his name.
The Yurlov Capella Choir is noted for its performance of ancient Russian Orthodox chants, as well as Baroque and Classical choral polyphony by such native composers as Diletsky, Titov, Kalashnikov, Vedel, Beresovsky, and Bortnyansky—and particularly those working during the reign of Peter the Great (r. 1672-1726). The Yurlov Academic Choir was instrumental in reviving the lost treasures of Russian choral music tradition, and restoring them to the mainstream of Russian culture.
In 1981, the direction of the ensemble was passed to People’s Artist of Russia, Professor Stanislav Gusev. A graduate from the Moscow Conservatory, Gusev worked as a choral conductor with the Bolshoi Theater for ten years prior to joining the Yurlov Academic Choir.
Although the ensemble’s core repertoire remains the Russian spiritual music of the 16th-18th centuries, it also performs vocal and symphonic compositions by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Mozart, Verdi, Berlioz, Liszt, Mahler, Schubert, Dvorak, and Britten, among many others. The ensemble has performed throughout Russia, and has made concert tours to Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, Greece, Austria, and elsewhere. In 1992, the Choir participated in the prestigious Virtuosos of the World Festival in France.
The Yurlov Capella Choir has recorded more than twenty CDs, six of which have won international awards.
Dmitryak was a graduate of both the Gnessin State Musical College and Moscow Conservatory where he was under guidance from such music teachers as Alexander Yurlov, Kirill Kondrashin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Minin and others. He has worked with such theatres as the Novaya Opera, Pokrovsky and Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatres. He also was a conductor of the Moscow State Chamber Chorus under guidance from Vladimir Minin and at the García Lorca Theater of Havana, Cuba. Beginning from 1990s he began traveling throughout Europe and Asia with Moscow Kremlin Capella and ;later on became both musical director and conductor of the Yurlov State Academic Choir. The choir have appeared on many European and in Russian festivals under Dmitryak's guidance and after it success he became a conductor of both the Svetlanov State Academic and Moscow State Symphony Orchestras.
In 2004 he recorded National Anthem of Russian Federation and was a conductor of the Moscow Kremlin Capella during President Vladimir Putin inauguration the same year. Following that he was a director of choir dedicated to the 60th anniversary of World War II. In December, 2011 he was principal guest conductor at the 4th United Nations's Alliance of Civilizations conference in Qatar.
AGUNDA KULAEVA, mezzo-soprano.Agunda Kulaeva graduated from the Rachmaninov State Conservatory in Rostov as a choral conductor in 2000 and later as a singer (Professor Khudoverdova's class). In 2005, she graduated from the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center, where she sang Zibel in the production of Gounod's Faust, Lubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride, Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto and took part in concerts.The singer's repertoire includes the following parts: Marina Mnishek in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Olga in Eugene Onegin, Countess, Polina and the Governess in The Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky, Lyubasha and Dunyasha in The Tsar's Bride, Lel in The Snow Maiden by Rimsky-Korsakov, Zhenya Komelkova in Molchanov's Dawns Are Quiet Here, Arsace in Rossini's Semiramida, Carmen in Bizet's Carmen, Delilah in Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah, and the mezzo-soprano part in Verdi's Requiem.
In 2005, she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre as Sonya in Prokofiev’s War and Peace, conducted by Alexander Vedernikov. The singer is a guest soloist of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, where she has performed the following parts: Konchakovna in Borodin's Prince Igor, Carmen in Bizet's Carmen, Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Pauline in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride
She has given recitals in many Russian cities and towns and abroad. Agunda participated in the concerts in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Berlin, Paris, and St. Petersburg.
In 2012, the singer appeared as Carmen in Bizet’s Carmen and as Eboli in Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Varna Summer Festival. The same year she performed Amneris in Verdi’s Aida at the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Bulgaria. The highlights of 2013 include Dvorak’s Stabat Mater with Fedoseyev’s Big Symphony Orchestra, Taneyev’s cantata At the Reading of a Psalm with the Minin Academic Choir and the Pletnyov Russian National Orchestra, participation in the 5th Mussorgsky International Festival in Tver and the 4th Star Parade at the Krasnoyarsk Opera.
Since 2005, she has been a soloist of the Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow. Since 2014, she has been a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia.
- Nikolai Didenko (bass)
He studied at the Vladimir Stasov Music School in violin. He graduated from the Moscow Choral School named after AV Sveshnikov. In 1996 he continued his education at the Academy of Choral Art. In 2003 he also graduated from the postgraduate course (teacher - Dmitry Vdovin).In 2002-03. - the leading soloist of the Moscow theater "New Opera".In 2003-05 - actor of the Opera Studio of the Grand Opera of Houston (USA).
Since 2003, he has appeared on the stages of opera houses and concert halls in New York, Washington, Houston, Paris, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid, Copenhagen, Cologne, Warsaw, Salzburg, Moscow, etc.
In 2013, he took part in the production of the opera "Somnambula" by V. Bellini at the Bolshoi Theater, performing the role of Count Rudolph.In 2014, he sang the part of Atamanshi in the premiere series of performances of the opera The History of Kaya and Gerda by S. Banevich.In 2016, he took part in the production of Don Pasquale by G. Donizetti (the title role). Since 2005, Nikolay Didenko is the artistic director of the charitable program "The White Steamer Singing the Russian River", aimed at the creative development and rehabilitation of musically gifted children with disabilities, orphans, children from socially disadvantaged, incomplete, large families and low-income families.
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