Igor Gorban
In the choir since 2025
Igor Gorban graduated from Krasnodar Rimsky-Korsakov Music College (the class of Honoured Artist of Kuban Ivan Shulzhevsky, 2016) and the Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (the workshop of Honoured Artist of Russia Georgy Isaakyan, the class of Professor Nikolai Vasiliev, 2021).
He is the laureate of All-Russian and international competitions. He is a nominee of the Onegin National Opera Award (2022), a nominee of the Kuban Theatre Festival Award in the category Best Debut (2023) for the role of the Fool in Boris Godunov by the Krasnodar L. Gatov Creative Association ‘Premiere’. He is also a nominee of the Triumph Award of the Public Chamber of the Krasnodar Territory (2024).
From 2022 to 2024, he worked as a soloist at the Krasnodar Musical Theatre. He toured the cities of Italy, the Ukraine, and Armenia.
In 2024, he was on tour with Boris Godunov cast at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia performing the part of the Fool.
Since 2025, he has been an artist of the musicAeterna choir.
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