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Victoria Rudakova

In the choir since 2018

Graduated from the Conducting and Choral Faculty of the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory (the class of Eduard Fertelmeister). She teached the classes of Conducting and Reading Choral Scores at the Nizhny Novgorod Regional College of Culture. She has been the musicAeterna choir artist since 2018.

WHAT MAKES MUSICAETERNA DIFFERENT FROM OTHER ENSEMBLES?
The first thing that struck me when I came to work here is how friendly everyone was to each other. Another important thing is, of course, the highest grade of each member’s professionalism. Even at rehearsals, nobody is just “going through the motions”: it is a truly creative process for everyone involved.
WHAT INSPIRES YOU TO CREATE?
Music itself does, I guess. I’m fond of old music. That’s where our roots are at. Old music feels perfect to me, and it inspires me more than modern pieces. If I were to choose, I’d prefer to live in the 17th and 18th century, in the Baroque age or maybe a little later. That’s when truly beautiful music was created and performed.
WHAT DOES MUSIC MEAN TO YOU?
It’s my life. Even when things aren’t going my way, I never lose the desire to work on music — on the contrary, it becomes even stronger. To me, music is the sanctuary where I can get away from any life problems. Music is also my hobby. I think I’m truly lucky that my job revolves around doing my favourite thing in life.
ASIDE FROM MUSIC, WHAT ELSE APPEALS TO YOU?
Poetry does. I love poetry of the Silver Age. I also enjoy doing yoga: it helps me to get my thoughts in order and to view the world form a different angle. And I love dancing — when I was a child, my dream was to be a ballerina.
IF YOU COULD CHANGE ONE THING IN THE WORLD, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
I would remove all killings from the world, and I would turn everyone vegetarian. There’s too much cruelty in the world that surrounds us. Killing an animal is no less cruel than killing a human. Every living being deserves the right to live.

musicAeterna choir events

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November 11, 20:00
St. Petersburg | Nevsky, 62
The musicAeterna Choir and Timofey Golberg
Choral concert

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

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December 9, 20:00
St. Petersburg | Great Hall of the Philharmonic
Teodor Currentzis and musicAeterna. Tchemberdji, Wagner
Symphony concert

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