Anastasia Shumanova
In the choir since 2018
Anastasia Shumanova graduated from the Shebalin Omsk Music College (class of Natalia Statkevich) and the Mussorgsky Ural State Conservatory (class of Vyacheslav Krasheninnikov) majoring in Choral Conducting. She has been the musicAeterna choir artist since 2018.
From 2006 to 2009 she worked as a choir artist at the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre (presently — Ural Opera Ballet). From 2009 to 2018 she performed in the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic choir conducted by Andrei Petrenko. As a soloist in the All-Night Vigil by Sergei Rachmaninoff she took part in the choir’s tours in Denmark and France. In the same period, she was a member of the Fleurs-De-Lys ensemble (directed by Vyacheslav Krasheninnikov).
In 2017, with the performance of the first alto part in Coro by Luciano Berio, the singer began her collaboration with the musicAeterna choir and her participation in the European tours of the collective.
In 2018, she became a full-time member of the choir.
musicAeterna choir events
Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Quatre petites prières de saint François d’Assise (1948)
Salut, dame Sainte
Tout puissant, très saint
Seigneur, je vous en prie
O mes très chers frères
Frank Martin (1890–1974)
Messe pour double choeur a cappella (1922–26)
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, 7 settings of poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins on poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Op. 17 (1939)
Prayer I
Rosa mystica
God`s grandeur
Prayer II
O Deus, eg amo te
The soldier
Heaven-haven
musicAeterna Сhoir
Сhief Сhoirmaster Vitaly Polonsky
Сonductor Ivan Gorin
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ in C Minor
for soprano, alto, mixed choir and orchestra (1888–1894)
Allegro maestoso
Andante moderato
In ruhig fließender Bewegung | With quietly flowing movement
Urlicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht | Primal Light. Very solemn, but simple
Im Tempo des Scherzos | In the tempo of the scherzo
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest soloists
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Soloists:
Sofya Tsygankova, soprano
Yulia Vakula, mezzo-soprano
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ in C Minor
for soprano, alto, mixed choir and orchestra (1888–1894)
Allegro maestoso
Andante moderato
In ruhig fließender Bewegung | With quietly flowing movement
Urlicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht | Primal Light. Very solemn, but simple
Im Tempo des Scherzos | In the tempo of the scherzo
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest soloists
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Soloists:
Sofya Tsygankova, soprano
Yulia Vakula, mezzo-soprano
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ in C Minor
for soprano, alto, mixed choir and orchestra (1888–1894)
Allegro maestoso
Andante moderato
In ruhig fließender Bewegung | With quietly flowing movement
Urlicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht | Primal Light. Very solemn, but simple
Im Tempo des Scherzos | In the tempo of the scherzo
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest soloists
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Soloists:
Sofya Tsygankova, soprano
Yulia Vakula, mezzo-soprano
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’ in C Minor
for soprano, alto, mixed choir and orchestra (1888–1894)
Allegro maestoso
Andante moderato
In ruhig fließender Bewegung | With quietly flowing movement
Urlicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht | Primal Light. Very solemn, but simple
Im Tempo des Scherzos | In the tempo of the scherzo
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir
Guest soloists
Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Soloists:
Sofya Tsygankova, soprano
Yulia Vakula, mezzo-soprano