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Dom Radio is an architectural landmark of the early 20th century in the centre of Saint Petersburg originally built for the Russian Noble Assembly. In 1918, after the Russian Revolution, the nationalized building was converted into the Palace of Proletarian Culture; since 1933, the editorial office of Leningrad Radio was located here.

In December 2019, after musicAeterna moved to Saint Petersburg, it became the creative residence of the orchestra and choir. Upon the initiative of Teodor Currentzis, the interdisciplinary cultural and educational centre Dom Radio was created here. It has become a venue for creative and educational programmes, and experimental and research projects covering various fields of contemporary art.

The key areas for development of Dom Radio include:

Chamber concerts. MusicAeterna soloists and guest performers give chamber concerts in Dom Radio. The playbill mostly consists of rarely performed works of various eras and styles, ranging from ancient music to premieres of the latest compositions and improvisational performances.

Recording studio. The musicAeterna orchestra and choir, as well as famous academic musicians and young sound designers make records at Dom Radio, which is famous for its unique acoustics.

Creative residences. Dom Radio is developing a programme of creative residencies for composers, choreographers, artists, and directors. At Dom Radio residents get opportunities for their artistic search and creation of new works, and also take part in the educational programme of the centre. The first composer-in-residence of Dom Radio was Alexey Retinsky. Since April 2021, Andreas Moustoukis has become Dom Radio resident, and since October 2022 — Alexey Sioumak. In September 2021 the first theatrical residency of choreographer Claudia Castellucci took place. At Dom Radio residents get opportunities for their creative search and creation of new works, and also take part in the educational programme of the centre.

Educational projects. Dom Radio regularly hosts thematic lecture cycles devoted to various aspects of culture, philosophy, and art.

Art gallery. In the summer of 2021 Dom Radio launched its exhibition activities. The first projects in the field of visual art were the “Summer Exhibition”, which presented the works of Russian and international stars of contemporary art, and a temporary exhibition of a series of works by American video artist Bill Viola.

Cinema club. Dom Radio Cinema club introduces the audience to rare films and iconic works of video art. Its programme includes premiere screenings and demonstrations of rare archival videos.

 

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Upcoming residency events

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The Experimental Sound Laboratory at Dom Radio presents a three-day intensive “Methods of working with modular synthesizers” by Fyodor Vetkalov. The master class participants will get acquainted with the brief history of the modular synthesizer, learn how to use modules for writing compositions ranging from improvisation to linear work, learn how to work with recorded compositions and use digital plug-ins for sound processing. At the end of the three-day intensive, the workshop leader will create a multi-channel sound work using recordings made by the participants.

The master class of the Experimental Sound Laboratory will suit both beginners who want to immerse themselves in modular synthesis, and more experienced users who are interested in expanding the practice of working with electronic musical instruments or finding like-minded people for collaboration. Neither experience with modules nor a personal synthesizer is required. Each participant can individually acquire practical skills of modular synthesis using the example of Fyodor Vetkalov’s system.

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Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 – 1759)
Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op.6, No. 5, HWV 323 (1739)
Ouverture. Larghetto
Allegro
Presto
Largo
Allegro
Menuet. Un poco larghetto

soloists:
Dmitry Borodin, viola
Artemy Savchenko, viola

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Concerto for Four Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201 (1740–1750)
Largo e staccato
Allegro
Adagio
Vivace

soloists:
Elena Rais, viola
Elena Ivanova, viola
Olga Artyugina, viola
Aisylu Saifullina, viola

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051 (before 1721)
Allegro
Adagio ma non tanto
Allegro

performers:
Evgeny Shchegolev, viola
Irina Sopova / Dinara Muratova, viola
Alexander Prozorov, cello solo
Demian Gorodnichin, Maria Magieva – viol
Pavel Styopin, double bass
Ekaterina Byazrova, harpsichord

Erbarme dich, mein Gott (“Have Mercy, my God”), alto aria (Peter’s lament) from the St Matthew Passion, No. 47 (39), BWV 244 (1727–1729, second edition 1736)

soloists:
Anastasia Yerofeyeva, mezzo-soprano
Vladislav Pesin, violin

Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and basso continuo in D minor, BWV 1043 (ca. 1730)
Vivace
Largo, ma non tanto
Allegro

Soloists:
Vladislav Pesin, viola
Ilya Gaisin, viola

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Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 – 1759)
Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op.6, No. 5, HWV 323 (1739)
Ouverture. Larghetto
Allegro
Presto
Largo
Allegro
Menuet. Un poco larghetto

soloists:
Dmitry Borodin, viola
Artemy Savchenko, viola

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Concerto for Four Violins in G Major, TWV 40:201 (1740–1750)
Largo e staccato
Allegro
Adagio
Vivace

soloists:
Elena Rais, viola
Elena Ivanova, viola
Olga Artyugina, viola
Aisylu Saifullina, viola

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051 (before 1721)
Allegro
Adagio ma non tanto
Allegro

performers:
Evgeny Shchegolev, viola
Irina Sopova / Dinara Muratova, viola
Alexander Prozorov, cello solo
Demian Gorodnichin, Maria Magieva – viol
Pavel Styopin, double bass
Ekaterina Byazrova, harpsichord

Erbarme dich, mein Gott (“Have Mercy, my God”), alto aria (Peter’s lament) from the St Matthew Passion, No. 47 (39), BWV 244 (1727–1729, second edition 1736)

soloists:
Anastasia Yerofeyeva, mezzo-soprano
Vladislav Pesin, violin

Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and basso continuo in D minor, BWV 1043 (ca. 1730)
Vivace
Largo, ma non tanto
Allegro

Soloists:
Vladislav Pesin, viola
Ilya Gaisin, viola

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Swiss experimental cinema
“Lydia” and “Stella da Falla” by Reto Andrea Savoldelli
Curator: Yana Nokhrina and Peter Rempel

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Mysticism, poetry, and philosophy are three paths that give access to experiencing the impossible. The cycle of lectures “Experiencing the Impossible” examines these paths not so much in their striving to clarify and explain the world, but on the contrary – in their pursuit of the origins of all knowledge, the pre-linguistic foundations of speech and thinking, to the nature of reality.

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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

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Mysticism, poetry, and philosophy are three paths that give access to experiencing the impossible. The cycle of lectures “Experiencing the Impossible” examines these paths not so much in their striving to clarify and explain the world, but on the contrary – in their pursuit of the origins of all knowledge, the pre-linguistic foundations of speech and thinking, to the nature of reality.

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«Bikapo of the Heavenly Forest» is a concert-mystery involving sound kinetic sculptures, structures and objects by Herman Vinogradov. Bikapo is a number of unique sound structures and metal objects acting on the principle of free vibration, as well as a total sound installation built using them. In the space of this installation action is unfolding that combines sound, light, and natural elements — earth, fire, and water. As the installation author said, Bikapo is a consciousness, the bearer of which he was himself, the way to freedom of creative expression through a ritual addressed to the primordiality, «primordial human essence».

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The book “Antonin Artaud and the death of the Post-drama Theater”
Guest Anatoly Ryasov
Sound design by Vyacheslav Gaivoronsky

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New German Cinema
“Das Land hinter dem Regenbogen” by Herwig Kipping
Curator: Peter Rempel

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The final lecture from the cycle of meetings The Teachings of the Church Fathers with the patrologist Vadim Lurie.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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musicAeterna Folk is a project performing Russian traditional music, which is contributed to by professional researchers and performers of Russian folklore from all over the country. The members of the project are engaged in studying the intangible heritage and traditions of Russian culture, deciphering rare songs, they master the art of performing virtuoso song traditions, such as the traditions of the Molokans of the Kochubeyev community and the Nekrasov Cossacks, the village of Shardonem’ of the Pinezhsky district of the Arkhangelsk region, the village of Zavgorodneye of the Bakaleysky district and the village of Foshchevato of the Belgorod region.

musicAeterna folk members:
Elizaveta Danshina
Yaroslav Paradovsky
Evgeny Romanov
Kirill Krylov
Sofya Ivanushkina
Antonina Sergeeva
Daria Kirpichnikova
Vera Bazilevsky

Music Director: Elizaveta Danshina
Producer: Katerina Rostovtseva

Photo: Katerina Rostovtseva

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Mysticism, poetry, and philosophy are three paths that give access to experiencing the impossible. The cycle of lectures “Experiencing the Impossible” examines these paths not so much in their striving to clarify and explain the world, but on the contrary – in their pursuit of the origins of all knowledge, the pre-linguistic foundations of speech and thinking, to the nature of reality.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Mysticism, poetry, and philosophy are three paths that give access to experiencing the impossible. The cycle of lectures “Experiencing the Impossible” examines these paths not so much in their striving to clarify and explain the world, but on the contrary – in their pursuit of the origins of all knowledge, the pre-linguistic foundations of speech and thinking, to the nature of reality.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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Dom Radio is a historical venue at the intersection of Italianskaya and Malaya Sadovaya Streets. Throughout its more than a hundred-year history, the walls of Dom Radio have seen the balls of the Noble Assembly, the work of a Japanese hospital, been filled with the voices of Olga Bergholz and Dmitri Shostakovich, have successively become a stronghold of the new Soviet culture and a hub for advanced media technologies.

Today, Dom Radio is a symbolic landmark where voices continue to sound, where music is being born. It is a building that cherishes the memory of the past, and whose heart is beating in the rhythm of modernity together with musicAeterna projects under the artistic direction of Teodor Currentzis.

We invite you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Dom Radio, explore its history and become its part by visiting our mediated tours. Mediated tours provide an opportunity to interact with the environment and actively study it with the assistancee from expert guides who know almost everything about the venue.

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  • With an annual membership or a one-time donation, the Friends can support the orchestra in general, residencies, specific projects of musicAeterna, have access to international concerts and be invited to unforgettable events.
  • The Partners of musicAeterna help to create a financial security for the ensembles, enjoy with their guests unforgettable concerts and events, and benefit from an wide-ranging international branding.

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