On January 6, 2024, Mikael Agricola Choir of the Lutheran Church in Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, and a visiting choir from St. Petersburg—Kaja Choir of the Estonian Culture Society and the Estonian Lutheran Church of St. John, met together in the Vyborg church to sing Christmas songs from the 16th to the 19th centuries in Russian, Finnish, Estonian … [Read more...]
Congratulations for Darya Shkurlyatyeva!
In November and December 2023, Darya Shkurlyatyeva, responsible editor of the ELCIR churchwide printed publications, represented the ELCIR four times at the following conferences: November 24: Presentation: “Aspects of the Editorial Preparation of the Russian-Language Edition of Luther’s German Mass.” The 21st Congress of the Russian Union … [Read more...]
15 church musicians graduate from ELCIR Cantor Course
From August 21-27, 2023, the ELCIR Theological Institute in Koltushi, Leningrad Oblast, held the 4th and final class & exam period of the Cantor Course. Fifteen students attended class and took exams, making it the biggest class of church musicians in the Institute’s history. The course’s main topics were the musical setting of the … [Read more...]
ELCIR musicians go on their first musical expedition to Northern Deanery
From August 3-8, 2023, a group of ELCIR musicians from Vyborg, Petrozavodsk, Rzhev, and St. Petersburg, traveled to the ELCIR congregations in Kalevala and Segezha, Karelia, starting off from, and coming back to, Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia. The musical expedition was undertaken in connection with the First Summer Festival of Sacred Music … [Read more...]
Mikael Agricola Choir and other Ingrian musicians perform at biker festival in Vyborg
What do bikers and church musicians have in common? A love of travel! On July 20, 2023, the Singers’ Field in Vyborg (an outdoor venue for song and music concerts) hosted a Concert of Religious Choirs as part of the 3rd motorcycling festival “The Baltic Rally.” Ten ensembles from St. Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast went on this musical pilgrimage. … [Read more...]
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