The Kuban Cossack Choir is one of the oldest and largest national groups.
This is a one-of-a-kind professional team, leading its history from the 19th century. It should be noted that the second chronology of the oldest folk groups is the Russian folk choir named after Pyatnitsky, who played his first concert during the centenary of the Cossack choir.
Songs of the Kuban Cossack Choir show the level of skill recognized around the world and confirmed by the huge number of invitations to domestic and foreign tours, accompanied by a crowded room and positive reviews from the press. This is a kind of historical monument that conveys the history of the spiritual and secular culture of Yekaterinodar, which also reflects the tragic events of the Civil War. The Kuban Cossack Choir represents both the historical aspects of individuals in combination 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 art team
The year 1811 is considered to be the beginning of the creative path of the Black Sea Military Singing Choir under the guidance of Kuban spiritual enlightener Archpriest Kirill Rossinsky and Regent Grigory Grechinsky. In 1861 he was renamed the Army Kuban Singing Choir. It was from this period that the present 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 Decree of the Presidium of the Azov-Black Sea Regional Executive Committee confirmed the creation of the choir, known under its modern name.
Today, the artistic director of this choir is Viktor Garilovich Zakharchenko, who has compiled about fourteen collections of Cossack songs that have disappeared from the artistic work in the Kuban. It was the Kuban Cossack Choir and its repertoire that contributed to the creation of the anthology of Kuban song folklore. Today there is a whole institution of the same name - the State Scientific and Creative Association "Kuban Cossack Choir". This is the only cultural organization in Russia that is comprehensively and systematically engaged in the revival of popular culture.
Very often the Kuban Cossack Choir performs in Moscow, thanks to which his art was marked by rather high awards and victories at music competitions both in Russia and in foreign countries. According to foreign critics, the choir, being a representative of Russian culture, performs on an equal level, at the same high level with such groups as the Bolshoi Theater and the State Philharmonic Orchestra (St. Petersburg).