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Russian choir

VOSKRESENIJE are the Russian choir from St Petersburg.

The vocal ensemble Resurrection - Voskresenije in Russian - was founded by Jurij Maruk in 1993 and consists of seven to ten professional female and male vocalists.

The repertoire of the ensemble includes Russian Sacred Music as well as folk music.

Guest performances in Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Austria, the UK, France and Italy have met with great success and the choir has recorded several CDs of their repertoire, which include some specially composed arrangements of Burns songs by John McIntosh.

Hear them perform at St John’s Church, on Saturday, 3 November, at 7pm.

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