From January14 to 22, the Moscow Performing Arts Center will host the 13th edition of the Christmas Festival of Sacred Music which is held with the blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Rus' and supported by the Moscow Department of Culture. The festival, timed to the Christmas Festivities, has been taking place annually since 2011 under the artistic direction of Vladimir Spivakov and the Metropolis of Budapest-Hungary Hilarion. It is one of the top projects of the Center, which brings to its audiences masterworks of Christian musical culture of various epochs, best performers and choral ensembles. The highest point of each festival edition is invariably its final night with Vladimir Spivakov.
Рождественский фестиваль духовной музыки
The NPR Will Perform at the Christmas Festival
On January 11-23, 2022, The Moscow Performing Arts Center will be hosting the 12th edition of the Christmas Festival of Sacred Music. It has been given the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia with a support of the Moscow City Department of Culture. The Festival, tied to the Christmas festivities, has taken place every year since 2011 under the artistic direction by Vladimir Spivakov, a UNESCO Artist for Peace, member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, and Hilarion, the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, Head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate.
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The Elijah Oratorio at the 11th Edition of the Christmas Festival of Sacred Music
January 20, 2021 | Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow Performing Arts Center
XI Christmas Festival of Sacred Music
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Soloists: Еvgenia Vasilchuk, soprano
Evgenia Asanova, mezzo-soprano
David Posulikhin, tenor
Igor Podoplelov, bass
Academic Grand Choir “Masters of Choral Singing”
(Artistic Director and Principal Conductor – Lev Kontorovich)
Conductor — Аrsenty Tkachenko
Mendelssohn. Oratorio “Elijah” (based on books of the Old Testament)
Vladimir Spivakov Will Close the Jubilee Edition of the Christmas Festival with Mozart’s Mass
January 26, 2020 | Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow Performing Arts Center
Soloists: Nadezhda Gulitskaya, soprano
Evgenia Asanova, mezzo-soprano
Alexey Nekludov, tenor
Daniil Chesnokov, bass
Academic Grand Choir “Masters of Choral Singing”
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Mozart. Great Mass in C minor, KV 427
(Русский) Телерепортажи: закрытие IX Рождественского фестиваля духовной музыки
Vladimir Spivakov Will Close the Christmas Festival with the Moscow Premiere of Requiem by Karl Jenkins
27 January, 2019 | Svetlanov Hall of the MIPAC
IX Moscow Christmas Festival of Sacred Music
Festival Closing Concert
Academic Grand Choir «Masters of Choral Singing»
(Lev Kontorovich, artistic director)
Soloists: Anna Aglatova, soprano
Ilona Nokelainen, harp
Egor Parfenyuk, treble
Sergei Zhuravel, flute
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Jenkins. Requiem for soloists, choir and orchestra
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Vladimir Spivakov dedicates the closing concert of the Christmas Festival to Leonard Bernstein
January 24, 2018 | Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow Performing Arts Center
VIII Christmas Festival of Sacred Music
Concert to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein
Academic Grand Choir "Masters of Choral Singing"
Artistic Director – Lev Kontorovich
Conductor – Vladimir Spivakov
Kancheli, Mozart, Barber, Bernstein