The choir was founded in 1955 by the well-known musician and teacher professor Yuri Slavnitsky. The choir performs both on radio and television, which is its primary work, and gives a lot of concerts. In St. Petersburg the choir performs with solo concerts in the best concert halls of the city, such as the Philharmonic, the Academic Capella Hall, the Smolny cathedral, "Oktiabrsky" Major Concert Hall and others.
   The Children's Choir always takes parts in musical festivals taking place in St. Petersburg, such as the annual Children's Musical Festival, "Easter Festival" and "The Musical Spring of St.Petersburg".
   The Choir collaborates with symphonic orchestras of St. Petersburg as well as with the Russian Folk Orchestra named after V. Andreyev. In the course of these years the young singers have performed with such famous conductors as Evgeny Mravinsky, Arvid and Maris Jansons, Alexander Dmitriev, Valery Gergiev, Ravil Martynov, Stanislav Gorkovenko, Andrei Anikhanov. They have performed the opera "Salambo" by M.Mousorgsky, the cantata "Carmina Burana" by Karl Orff, the 8th symphony be G. Mahler, and "The War Requiem" by B. Britten with the Orchestras of the Philharmonic Society. The scenes from "Faust" by R. Strauss and the cantata "Ave Christe" by the Norwegian composer K. Nystedt were performed in Russia for the first time as well as the Mass in D minor by the German Composer P. Cornelius.
   The young singers continuously take part in the operas "Boris Godunov" by M. Musorgsky and "The Queen of Spades" by P. Tchaikovsky, as well as in the "Nutcracker" ballet by P. Tchaikovsky in the Opera and Ballet Theatre named after M. Musorgsky.
   In its long history the Choir has toured a lot in the cities of the former U.S.S.R. In recent years the audiences in Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Greece, Finland, Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the U.S.A., and Japan have had the opportunity to listen to the Choir.
   The Choir is the winner of more than 10 various international musical competitions and festivals. In recent time the choir has been awarded first prizes at the international competitions in Darmstadt (Germany), Montreux (Switzerland) and Cantonigros (Spain) (1999).
   The formation of the Choir's repertoire has always developed in three main directions: Classical music by Western-European and Russian composers, Russian folklore and songs of the peoples of the world, and the works of contemporary composers, especially of those from St. Petersburg. Many works by our fellow citizens have been performed for the first time by the Children's Choir. Folk music is usually performed in interesting and original arrangements. Those can include both strictly choral vocal arrangements and the ones with folk instruments.
   In recent years the Choir has released several CDs of classics and folk songs.
   The Choir consists of three groups: junior, middle and senior, according to the age of the singers. There are about 300 girls and boys in the choir. The concert group consists of about a hundred children, aging from 11 to 19.
   Stanislav Fedorovich Gribkov is the present-day Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of St. Petersburg TV and Radio Company's Children's Choir.

   The Choir's photo album

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