Participating choirs came from the ELCIR churches in Koltushi (directed by Maria Skipper), Caritas Choir from St. Mary’s Lutheran (directed by Ludmila Shmidrina), Toksovo (directed by Yana Trombinskaya), Gatchina (directed by Margarita Ruotsi), St. John’s (Jaani kirik) Estonian Church and St. Petersburg Estonian Culture Society (directed by Anton Chernyayev, conducted by Anastasia Chernyayeva), Pushkin St. Petersburg (directed by Matvei Nazarov), and the German community of St. Anne’s Lutheran Church St. Petersburg (directed by Anna Tveritinova). Vladimir Yanyonok from Vyborg performed on a bass sopilka fife.