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Julia Saifulmulyukova

In the choir since 2018

DO YOU LISTEN TO MUSIC AT HOME?
Of course. This includes both popular music (Rammstein, Die Antwoord, Morphine, Nirvana) and academic works by Arvo Pärt, Richard Wagner or, say, Michael Nyman.
COULD YOU NAME A COUPLE OF YOUR FAVOURITE MUSICAL PIECES?
My favourite ones certainly belong to the realm of classical music. I would name Berg’s “Wozzeck” opera and Mozart’s Requiem.
PLEASE DESCRIBE YOUR TYPICAL DAY BEFORE A CONCERT.
On the day of the performance, it is crucial to sleep well and, of course, to warm up. Before the very start of the concert, I always make a point to address God. It feels like I surrender myself to fate and get ready for whatever comes next.
DOES SOMETHING ABOUT YOU CHANGE WHEN YOU GO UP ON STAGE?
Definitely! I seemingly forget about anything else in life. If it is beyond the stage, it is no longer significant; my mind disengages from any problems or everyday chores.

musicAeterna choir events

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June 10, 21:00
St. Petersburg | Dom Radio
IM ÄTHER. Concert of choral music by Andreas Moustoukis
Choral concert

Andreas Moustoukis (b. 1971)
“Liturgy of St. Leontius” for mixed choir (2021)

Im Äther for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot (2023, world premiere)

performers:
musicAeterna Choir and Orchestra Soloists

Conductor Vitaly Polonsky

MusicAeterna resident composer Andreas Moustoukis presents the result of his two-year work at Dom Radio. Together with the “Liturgy of St. Leontius”, fragments of which have been repeatedly heard in the concerts by the musicAeterna Choir, on June 6, the world premiere of his new composition – IM ÄTHER (“In Ether”) for mixed choir, 4 double basses, electronics, percussion and the ondes Martenot will take place. This is a micropolyphonic work based on the poems by Paul Celan interspersed with quotations from world cinema.

The author explains the essence of the new work as follows: “Im Äther (στον αιθέρα) is the need to breath out in the stratosphere were the gravitation is low and all the time is becoming one and a single moment of a crystal silence. The past, the present and the future stop to exist between then and now in a violent and compensating ‘why’, they just exist timelessly in the cosmic black as if they were small red shining dots of love, the tears of eternity.”

Photo: Selena Zhigulskaya