Eduard Kharitonov
In the choir since 2024
Since he was 5 years old Eduard Kharitonov performed at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre as a soloist of the children’s studio. He graduated from the Perm Boys’ Choral Capella specializing in clarinet (2013), Perm Music College majoring in Vocal Art (the class of Honoured Cultural Worker of Russia Lyudmila Syrvacheva, 2018). In 2024 he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory majoring in Opera Singing (the class of Professor Tatyana Lymareva). He is the laureate of international competitions.
From 2018 to 2019, he worked as an artist of the musicAeterna Choir at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre. As a student he performed at the St Petersburg Conservatory Theatre the parts of Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin, Surin in The Queen of Spades and Bertrand in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, Doctor Grenvil in Verdi’s La Traviata, and Benoit and Alcindor in Puccini’s La Bohème.
Since 2022 Eduard Kharitonov has been a singer and a chapel master at the Church of Holy Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica in the Baltic Pearl residential complex. He has mastered the byzantine tradition of liturgical chant.
musicAeterna choir events
Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
Adagio for string orchestra in B-flat minor, Op. 11 (1936), arranged for choir by Sergei Anashkin
Giya Kancheli (1935–2019)
Lulling the Sun for mixed choir and percussion (2008)
Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998)
Three Sacred Hymns for a capella mixed choir (1984)
Hail Mary, Full of Grace
Lord Jesus Christ
Our Father
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)
Fragments from the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, op. 31 (1910)
Bless the Lord, O My Soul
Praise Ye the Name of the Lord in Heaven,
Our Father
Blessed Be the Name of the Lord
Katia Tchemberdji (b. 1960)
Nur zu weinen und zu singen…
Oratorio for orchestra, mixed choir and tenor solo set to the poems by Joseph Brodsky (2023). WORLD PREMIERE
I. Death alone gathers us
II. Clouds float over the grove
III. We want to be playing tag on the green
IV. But tell me, soul, what was the look of life
V. We won’t go up the hill anymore
Richard Wagner (1813–1883)
Der Ring Ohne Worte | The Ring Without Words
Symphonic suite based on the opera tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung by Lorin Maazel (1987)
I. Das Rheingold |The Rhinegold
II. Die Walküre | The Valkyrie
III. Siegfried
IV. Götterdämmerung | The Twilight of the Gods
The musicAeterna Orchestra
Conductor Teodor Currentzis