Evgeniya Kashirskaya
In the choir since 2025
In 2011, Evgeniya graduated from the Gnessin College of Music with a degree in Vocal Art (the class of Natalia Popova). In 2016 she graduated from the Viktor Popov Academy of Choral Art with a degree in Vocal Art (the class of Associate Professor Tatyana Baykova).
From 2015 to 2024, she was a soloist with the Kozhevnikov State Academic Moscow Regional Choir under the direction of Nikolai Azarov. With this ensemble, she toured Europe and Japan. Since 2020, she has been working as a member of the choir and as a soloist of the Intrada vocal ensemble conducted by Ekaterina Antonenko. Since 2022, she has been performing as a member of the choir and as a soloist of the Questa Muisca conducted by Philipp Chizhevsky. From 2023 to 2024, she participated as a soloist in a Christmas tour of China with the Moldovan Broadcasting Orchestra conducted by Chief Conductor Gheorghe Mustea. Since 2024, she has participated in the St Petersburg projects of the musicAeterna Choir under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.
Since 2018, she has been a guest actress at the Teresa Durova Theatre, and since 2024, she has been a guest artist at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre.
She has collaborated with such conductors as Vladimir Spivakov, Vladimir Yurovsky, Mikhail Pletnev, Yuri Bashmet, Peter Phillips, Vincent Dumestre, Ken David Masur, Nicola Giuliani, and others. She performs music by such contemporary composers as Alexey Sysoev, Sergey Akhunov, Andreas Moustoukis, Egor Ananko, and many more.
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