Female choir of academic choir chair of arts department of Saint Petersburg State University of Culture and the Arts (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
The objectives of the collective are professional training and education of future conductors and choirmasters. The basis of the educational and concert repertoire consists of the best pieces of Russian and Western European classical music, sacred and folk music, as well as works by contemporary composers. The female choir with great success performs in the best concert halls of Saint Petersburg: philharmonic named after D. Shostakovich, Academic capella named after M. Glinka, Big Concert Hall "Oktyabr'skiy" etc.
Conductor
Elena Zhukova
Senior lecturer in academic choir chair of the Arts department of St. Petersburg State University of Culture and the Arts (SPbGUKI further), the artistic director of female choir of SPbGUKI. Elena Zhukova is also the artistic director of female choir «Quellen» and mixed choir «Credo». Elena collaborates with the St. Petersburg composers (Yakov Dubravin, P. Loginov, V. Pleshak, S. Pleshak, S. Ekimov, E. Petrov, E. Rushanskiy, A. Dumchenko, A. Rostovskaya, E. Turkina), is constantly looking for the new and interesting repertoire, acts as a jury member at choir competitions.