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International Youth Music Festival II. 2015
July 26 - 29, 2015, Bratislava

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Female choir of the St. Petersburg musical College named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian Federation

The Female Choir was founded in 1967. The choir consists of the students from the choir conducting department of the school, aged 14 to 22. The team is a five-time Grand Prix winner (St. Petersburg, 2005, 2013; Moscow, 2008, 2015; Tallinn, 2012), an award winner of international competitions in Latvia (1st prize, 2004), Estonia (1st prize in “Homogeneous choirs”, and 2nd prize in the “Contemporary music” nomination, 2009), Poland (1st prize, 2010), Russia (1st prize, St. Petersburg, 2011). Today the Women’s choir performs at the best concert venues in the city on the Neva giving recitals accompanied by leading symphony orchestras. Its repertoire includes music of all epochs and countries: treasures of the Renaissance and the world premieres of contemporary composers, Russian and Western European classics, romantic works and masterpieces of sacred music, popular tunes and contemporary adaptations of folk songs, soundtracks of foreign and domestic movies. The group toured France, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Sweden, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, performed in many Russian cities. The choir recorded 4 CDs: “The St. Petersburg Album” (2009), “Yuri Falik. Works for the Women’s Choir” (2011), “Dmitry Smirnov. Works for the Women’s Choir” (2012), “Easter songs and Russian folk songs” (2014), published in France.

Sergey Ekimov

Conductor / Leader

Sergey Yekimov (1974) – composer, conductor, member of the Russia Composers Union and the Union of Concert Figures of St. Petersburg, art director of the International Choral Art Festival «The Singing World», art director and conductor of the Women’s Choir at the Choir-Conducting Department of the St. Petersburg N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, professor, head of the Academic Choir at the faculty of the St. Petersburg Culture and Arts University and professor of the St. Petersburg State N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, Laureate of the St. Petersburg Government in the field of art and culture.S. Yekimov is the graduate of the St. Petersburg State N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire, where he studied choir conducting (professor F. Kozlov) and composition (professor Yu. Falik). Post- graduate education was completed by him in 2011 at the class of professor V. Uspensky.During the period of 1993-2009 S. Yekimov directed the St. Petersburg Youth Choir.Among his compositions there are choral and orchestral ones, instrumental and vocal ensembles, ecclesiastic and secular music a cappella, vocal cycles, piano and choral pieces for children, music to performances, choral arrangements of Russian folk songs, popular melodies, romances and variety music.Yakimov’s opuses and transcriptions enjoyed popularity via Russia and all over the world: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Spain, Holland, Switzerland, USA and Japan. Leading Russian choirs include by radio and TV, published in Russia and aboard.Choir music of the 20th-21st centuries was not once the topic of his master-classes. He was also the participant and chairman of the jury at different choral festivals and contests.

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