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Choir"Anna"
is a youth choir, founded in 1991 at Holy Trinity Cathedral, the main church of Shchyolkovo
(Moscow region). The main activity is participation in Ortodox liturgies. Besides
servicing in the church, the choir takes active part in the cultural life of region,
including concerts in hospitals, schools, military units etc. Collective consists of
16 persons. The choir repertoir is Russian spirital music, folk songs,
peices in English and German languages. The choir is directed by Anna A.
Medvedeva - a graduate of the Ippolitov-Ivanov Moscow State Pedagogical Institute.
- Since 1993 the choir has regularly been visiting Germany
with concerts arranging and dealing with international choir exhange,
receiving foreign choirs. It was in Germany that the choir got it's
name "Anna" by the name of it's director.
- In 1996 the choir was marked with diploma on the 1-st international
festival of children's art creativity "Principal church of
my city".
- In April 1999 the chorus became the winner of "Orthodox Russia"
competition at the region festival of vocal-choral art "Sonorous
voices".
- In November 1999 the chorus won the 3-rd place on Moscow region
festival of spirital music in Krasnogorsk (Moscow region).
- In May 2000 the collective was marked with diploma of the international
choral festival "Days of slavonic writing and cultures".
- In September 2000 the choir became the first one which was invited
to participate in the popular Russian program of the central TV
- "Morning Star".
- In July 2001 the choir was invited to represent it's region on
the Moscow World Choral Youth Congress where it was marked with
diploma.
- On 18 October 2001 the choir recordings (from the
CD "Russian spiritual music") and the interview to
the director were being broadcast on the Christian
church-public radio channel (orthodox radio "Sofia")
in the program of Vladinir Kovaldzhi
"On a kliros".
- The choir has made several recordings.
The last one - in January 2005.
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In June 2004, the choir took
part in the International Festival of Orthodox Music "THEOTOKOS
- IT IS TRULY MEET" in
Bulgaria
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In June 2005 the choir took part
at the second time in the International festival of Orthodox mucis
"The OTOKOS - IT IS TRULY MEET, Bulgaria, where the choirmaster
and the choir was awarded with two diplomas - for popularisation
of orthodox music and for high perfomance level.
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On 19 July 2005 the choir was awarded with medal
of Patriarchy Aleksiy II.
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In June 2006 "Anna" choir took
part at the III International festival of Orthodox mucis
"The OTOKOS - IT IS TRULY MEET, Bulgaria again. The choir
was the only Russian church choir who took part in all three festivals
2004-2006. The choir was awarded with diploma "For popularisation
of orthodox music" by Slivenskiy metropolitan Ioanikiy.
- On the 90-th anniversary of the Holy Trinity Cathedral - 03 December
2006 - "Anna" church choir was awarded with memorable
medal.
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