The artistic director of the Orenburg chamber chorus, professor Olga Stanislavovna Serebriyskaya the other day has returned from Yekaterinburg where she has been invited as the judge to the V All-Russian competition of choral music "The Ekaterinburg spring".
2000 people from 6 regions of the country have participated in a competition: The Perm, Chelyabinsk, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Tomsk regions and Udmurtia from 11 cities: Yekaterinburg, Dry Ravine, Aramil, Nizhny Tagil, Irbit, Lesnoy, Izhevsk, Perm, Nizhnevartovsk, Tomsk, Miass.
Performance of participants estimated professional jury as a part of which leading experts in area of choral art, Honored workers of culture and arts of the Russian Federation worked:
1. Zavadsky Vladimir Borisovich (Yekaterinburg) is professor of the Ural State Conservatory (Academy) of M.P. Mussorgsky, the dean and the head of the department of choral conducting of UGK of M.P. Mussorgsky, the head of educational chorus of conductor's and choral faculty of UGK of M.P. Mussorgsky, the Honored artist of the Russian Federation.
2. Basok Maxim Andreevich (Yekaterinburg) is the candidate of art criticism, professor of the Ural State Conservatory (Academy) of M.P. Mussorgsky, the member of Interregional public organization "Union of Composers of Sverdlovsk Region", the Winner of the International competitions, the Honored worker of arts of the Russian Federation.
3. Serebriyskaya Olga Stanislavovna (Orenburg) is professor of the Orenburg State Institute of Arts of a name L. and M. Rostropovichey, Honorary member of Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and arts, artistic director and conductor of the Orenburg municipal chamber chorus, Winner of the International competitions, Honoured worker of culture of the Russian Federation, Honored worker of arts of the Russian Federation.
4. Ekimov Sergey Viktorovich (. St. Petersburg) – the associate professor, the head of the department of the Academic chorus of faculty of arts of the St. Petersburg State institute of culture, the artistic director of Concert chorus of institute of culture and Female chorus of the St. Petersburg musical school of N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, the member of the Union of composers of Russia and the Union of concert figures of St. Petersburg, the artistic director of the International festival of choral art "The singing world" (St. Petersburg), the owner of an award of the Government of St. Petersburg in the field of culture and art, the winner of the International competitions.
5. Struve Lyubov Semenovna (Moscow) is the president of Federation of children's and youth choruses of Russia, the head of chorus of boys "Pioneering" of the Nursery it is musical - choral school "Pioneriya" of G. A. Struva, the Winner of the International competitions.