Vitaliy Zhdanov
In the choir since 2019
Vitaliy Zhdanov is a Candidate of Art History as well as an active choir conductor, singer, vocals teacher, and author of solfège textbooks for intensive studies of notation and sight-reading.
Vitaliy Zhdanov graduated with honours from the Schnittke music college and Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (department of choir conducting). In 2014, he completed his postgraduate studies at Moscow State Conservatory (department of history and theory).
He has extensive experience in working with choirs and vocal ensembles of varying professional levels: from youth troupes (the “Lastochki” choir, the senior choir of music classes at school №6 in Zhukovskiy, a choir ensemble course with students of the instrument department at “Vdokhnovenie” children’s art school) to
professional, semi-professional and amateur ensembles (the MSPU amateur choir, the Higher School of Economics choir, the student choir of the adults’ department at the Prokofiev music school) as well as church vocal ensembles (the school of sacred music of Martyr Tatiana’s Cathedral at MSU, the kliros of the Holy Trinity women’s monastery in Abkhazia).
Ensembles directed by Vitaliy Zhdanov have become laureates of numerous Russian and international competitions.
musicAeterna choir events
Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor ‘Babi Yar’ op. 113
Paul Dessau
Guernica – Piano piece after Picasso
Karl Amadeus Hartmann
Piano Sonata ‘27. April 1945’
Dmitry Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 8 in C minor op. 110 – ‘In memory of the victims of fascism and the war’
Alfred Schnittke
Requiem for solo voices, choir and chamber ensemble
Bela Bartok (1881 – 1945)
Bluebeard´s Castle
Opera in one act, op. 11 Sz. 48 (1918)
Carl Orff (1895 – 1982)
De temporum fine comoedia
The Play of the End of Times — Vigilia (Original version1973)
Performance by Romeo Castellucci and Teodor Currentzis
Bela Bartok (1881 – 1945)
Bluebeard´s Castle
Opera in one act, op. 11 Sz. 48 (1918)
Carl Orff (1895 – 1982)
De temporum fine comoedia
The Play of the End of Times — Vigilia (Original version1973)
Performance by Romeo Castellucci and Teodor Currentzis
Bela Bartok (1881 – 1945)
Bluebeard´s Castle
Opera in one act, op. 11 Sz. 48 (1918)
Carl Orff (1895 – 1982)
De temporum fine comoedia
The Play of the End of Times — Vigilia (Original version1973)
Performance by Romeo Castellucci and Teodor Currentzis