Victoria Vaksman
In the choir since 2018
Presently, working with Teodor Currentzis is definitely the brightest part of my life. I first met him 7 or 8 years ago and instantly realized what a unique and otherworldly phenomenon he was. Yet as much as I admired his creative output, I could not even imagine that the audience only got to see the tip of the iceberg that his actual work comprised. You can only realize its true scale once you become directly involved in it. All his projects are a chance for each of us to discover something we have yet to acknowledge about ourselves. This happens every single time — can you believe that? While speaking to the whole troupe, he manages to communicate with each member on a personal level. This is my impression, at least: I am but a drop in the ocean, yet Maestro is speaking to me. And we cannot imagine it any other way. We grow due to this dialogue in which both parties trust each other unconditionally. This is amazing!
musicAeterna choir events
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