Voskresenije Choir
Venue: St.Teilo's Church, Llandeilo
Date: Monday 17th October at 7.30pm
The next Friends of the Festival event will be a very special evening of choral music, performed by a Russian choir who truly bring a new dimension to the art of ensemble singing. Voskresenije, from St.Petersburg, consists of nine professional singers, all of whom were trained at that city's renowned Conservatoire. They will be under the direction of Jurij Maruk , who has worked at St.Petersburg's Marinskij Theatre and who was also Director of the St.Petersburg Radio and Television Choir. As this is a Russian choir one would perhaps expect it to have the particular bass resonance associated with that nation but in Anatoly Artamanov it has a Basso Profundo with a compass which few in Russia can match. Indeed to experience such amazing vocal prowess is worth the ticket price on its own !
Their programme will be a particularly attractive one, with its blend of Russian sacred music and exquisite folk songs and the thought of their performing in the superb acoustic of St.Teilo's is mouth-watering indeed.
We have set the admission price at £15.00, to include refreshments and wine after the concert. This is an evening which no music-lover would want to miss.
Tickets available from Peppercorn 01558 823294: Julia Jones 01269 594303: Nigel Williams Chemist (Llandeilo).
The Choir and Conductor
The vocal ensemble Resurrection -Voskresenije in Russian - was founded by Jurij Maruk in 1993. It consists of seven to ten professional female and male vocalists. The repertoire of the ensemble includes Russian Sacred Music as well as folk music. Guest performances in Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Austria, the UK, France and Italy have met with great success, and the choir has recorded several CDs of their repertoire, which includes some specially composed arrangements of Burns songs by John McIntosh
Their conductor, Jurij Maruk, was born in 1961 in Barnaul, West Siberia. In 1976 he began to study music and conducting at the local music facility in Barnaul. After finishing musical school he was admitted to the Novosibirsk State Conservatory (1980-1985) in Professor Boris Pevsner's class. At this time he worked with the Chamber Choir (Novosibirsk) directed by Pervsner, who was working in close cooperation with the Wladimir Minin Choir in Moscow. Between 1987 and 1989, Jurij Maruk worked at the Mariinsky Theatre (opera and ballet) in St Petersburg as a choir singer. Here he had his initial experience as a conductor and artistic leader of the Mariinsky Theatre (sacred music). Between 1990 and 1992, Maruk worked as the choirmaster of the St Petersburg Radio and Television Choir.
Photographs by Martin GJ Smith
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