Kuban Cossack Choir: the history of formation

Kuban Cossack Choir refers to the oldest and largest national teams. This is a unique professional team, leading its history from the XIX century. It should be noted that the second in the chronology of the oldest folk groups is the Vernadskiy folk choir. Pyatnitsky, who played his first concert in the century of the Cossack choir.

Songs of the Kuban Cossack Choir show the level of mastery recognized all over the world and confirmed by the huge number of invitations to domestic and foreign tours, accompanied by a crowded hall and positive feedback from the press. This is a kind of historical monument that conveys the history of the spiritual and secular culture of Ekaterinodar, which also displays its tragic events of the Civil War. The Kuban Cossack Choir presents both the historical aspects of individuals, combined with the daily musical and singing culture of the Kuban, and the dramatic side of the Cossacks as a whole, which can be accepted as an integral part of Russian history.

History of the creation of the artistic collective

1811 is considered to be the beginning of the creative path of the Black Sea Song Choir under the guidance of the Kuban spiritual enlightener Archpriest Cyril Rossinsky and Regent Gregory Grechinsky. In 1861, it was renamed the Voiskovo Kuban Singing Choir. It was from this period that the current Kuban Cossack choir began not only to take part in divine services in the church, but also to give secular concerts, performing along with spiritual and folk songs, as well as classical works. From 1921 to 1935 his work was suspended. And only in 1936 the corresponding Resolution of the Presidium of the Azov-Black Sea Executive Committee confirmed the creation of a choir known under the modern name.

Today, the artistic director of this choir is Viktor Garilovich Zakharchenko, who compiled an order of fourteen collections of songs from the Cossacks who disappeared from the artistic work in the Kuban. It was the Kuban Cossack Choir and its repertoire that contributed to the creation of an anthology of the Kuban song folklore. Today there is an entire institution under the same name - the State Scientific and Creative Union "Kuban Cossack Choir". This is the only organization in the sphere of culture in Russia, which is comprehensively and systematically engaged in the revival of folk culture.

Very often the Kuban Cossack Choir performs in Moscow, thanks to which his art was marked by quite high awards and victories at musical competitions both in Russia itself and in foreign countries. According to foreign critics, the choir, being a representative of Russian culture, acts equally on an equally high level with such collectives as the Bolshoi Theater and the State Philharmonic Orchestra (St. Petersburg).