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
Giacinto Scelsi (1905–1988)
Requiem aeternam from the cycle Tre canti sacri for eight soloists (1958)
Three Latin Prayers for voice (1972)
Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946)
Pater Noster, mixed choir version (1991)
John Tavener (1944–2013)
The Lamb for mixed choir (1921)
David Lang (b. 1957)
I lie for female choir (2001)
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)
Da pacem Domine for mixed choir (2004)
Luigi Nono (1924)
Djamila Boupacha from the symphonic cycle Canti di vita e d’amore (1962)
Alexey Sioumak (b. 1976)
M’amour for mixed choir (2016)
Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
O sacrum convivium for mixed choir (1937)
John Cage (1912–1992)
Four for mixed choir (2016)
Performers – musicAeterna Choir,
Conductor – Olga Vlasova