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Bator Ochirov

In the choir since 2019

CAN YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF AS ANYTHING ELSE BUT A MUSICIAN?
Music has been my life since my early childhood, and I can’t imagine living without it.
WHAT ARE YOUR LATEST MUSICAL IMPRESSIONS?
Perhaps the brightest impression as of late has been Araatan, a collaboration of musicians from Buryatia and Mongolia. They blend ethnic and electronic music to rather interesting results. Specifically for this project, they sampled national instruments — those are unique, very unorthodox sounds. Their project has recently premiered on Paris radio.
WHAT MAKES WORKING WITH MUSICAETERNA SPECIAL?
I’ve recently joined musicAeterna, and I’m still absolutely delighted. The joy of being here pushes me to develop my skills further. Working with such a troupe makes me truly happy. There’s a great vibe of friendliness and mutual support within the ensemble — and, of course, we make high-quality music for our listeners.
ASIDE FROM MUSIC, WHAT ELSE ARE YOU INTERESTED IN?
I’m always open to everything new. I’m particularly interested in different peoples’ languages and culture. I’ve been listening to a lot of ethnic music lately, which has revealed to me many nuances in how various peoples’ folk songs sound. I’m also interested in teaching and management. I love working on all sorts of projects. However, everything we do and everything we strive for is done with the listener in mind.

musicAeterna choir events

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June 10, 21:00
St. Petersburg | Dom Radio
IM ÄTHER. Concert of choral music by Andreas Moustoukis
Choral concert

Andreas Moustoukis (b. 1971)
“Liturgy of St. Leontius” for mixed choir (2021)

Im Äther for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot (2023, world premiere)

performers:
musicAeterna Choir and Orchestra Soloists

Conductor Vitaly Polonsky

MusicAeterna resident composer Andreas Moustoukis presents the result of his two-year work at Dom Radio. Together with the “Liturgy of St. Leontius”, fragments of which have been repeatedly heard in the concerts by the musicAeterna Choir, on June 6, the world premiere of his new composition – IM ÄTHER (“In Ether”) for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot will take place. This is a micropolyphonic work based on the poems by Paul Celan interspersed with quotations from world cinema.

The author explains the essence of the new work as follows: “Im Äther (στον αιθέρα) is the need to breath out in the stratosphere were the gravitation is low and all the time is becoming one and a single moment of a crystal silence. The past, the present and the future stop to exist between then and now in a violent and compensating ‘why’, they just exist timelessly in the cosmic black as if they were small red shining dots of love, the tears of eternity.”

Photo: Selena Zhigulskaya