Ekaterina Shikunova
In the choir since 2026
Ekaterina Shikunova was born in Leningrad into a family of musicians. She graduated from the Secondary Special Music School of the St Petersburg State Conservatory in 2004 and the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in 2009.
From 2010 to 2024, she worked as a soloist of the Rozhdestvo ensemble under the direction of Honoured Artist of Russia Olga Stupneva (the ensemble of the Petersburg-Concert company). She collaborated with the St Petersburg State Classical Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Honoured Artist of Russia Alexander Kantorov and the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra under the direction of People’s Artist of Russia Sergei Stadler.
As a soloist, she has performed in works of the cantata and oratorio genre, opera performances, and chamber vocal programmes.
musicAeterna choir events
The musicAeterna Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Teodor Currentzis, present in Moscow an updated concert version of the programme “Hændel. The Dedication Ceremony to George Frideric Handel”. It combines fragments from English oratorios and Italian operas by Handel. An anthology of theatrical music by one of the greatest composers of the Baroque era is performed on historical instruments and in the Baroque style. The concert’s full dramaturgy adheres to the principles of the ancient extravaganza, characterized by its illusory, multifaceted nature, a constant play of scales, and focused attention to voice and space.
The soloists for this large-scale project — performed in Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Perm, Thessaloniki, Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona — are young and promising singers participating in the first enrollment of the Anton Rubinstein Academy.
Performers:
artists of the Anton Rubinstein Academy
choir and orchestra musicAeterna
Music Director and Conductor Teodor Currentzis
Choirmaster Vitaly Polonsky
Assistant Conductor Evgeny Vorobyov