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Inrada is a Russian vocal ensemble «of a new generation» (Orpheus) «due to high professionalism, faultless taste and perfect diction» (Classica.FM). Founded in 2006 by Ekaterina Antonenko, the group has performed throughout Russia’s most prestigious concert venues, such as the Moscow and St. -Petersburg Philharmonic, the Mariinski Concert Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow International House of Music and the Moscow Kremlin. Intrada is considered to be «the best Moscow choir today» (Musical Life, 2018). Intrada was named Ensemble of the Year in 2019 and 2021 (Musical review).
Intrada enjoys performing early music in collaboration with world-renowned artists - The Tallis Scholars and Peter Phillips, Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini, Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre, I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth, Voces8, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Frieder Bernius, Peter Neumann, Hans-Christoph Rademann, etc. Intrada is regularly invited to perform with Moscow’s leading orchestras under renowned conductors, such as the Russian State Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Jurowski, Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev, Moscow State Chamber Orchestra under Alexey Utkin and the Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, Moscow under Alexander Rudin.
Intrada is a regular guest at the Moscow elite festival «December Nights», founded by Sviatoslav Richter at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, at the festival «Earlymusic» in St. Petersburg, at the Christmas Festival in Moscow and at the festival “Ambassadorial Gifts” at the Moscow Kremlin. In September 2015 Intrada gave a concert of Russian sacred music at the famous Schlosskapelle Dresden in the frames of «Dresdner Kunstfest 2015». Intrada appeared at the Musikfest Erzgebirge 2016 and at the Dresden Music Festival in 2017 and 2019. Following an invitation of the Deutschlandsradio Kultur the group performed at the Wartburg Castle in 2018. Intrada appeared in the first concert series of the Lausitz-Festival in 2019. In 2021 the group gave online-concerts at the Live From London - Christmas festival and Musikfest Stuttgart. In 2022 Intrada gave its debut concert at the Berlin Philharmonic.
Reviving Russian-Ukrainian Baroque music in collaboration with leading scholars Intrada gives world premiere performances of works by Vasily Titov, Vasily Gusev, Gerasim Zavadovsky etc.
Intrada premiered a number of contemporary music compositions in Russia, including the Russian premiere of F. Martin's Mass for double choir and the Moscow premiere of D. Lang's The Little Match Girl Passion, and works by Steve Reich, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, Caroline Shaw, etc. In 2014 a joint concert of The Tallis Scholars and Intrada dedicated to the memory of Sir John Tavener took place at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory featuring the second world performance of Tavener's Requiem Fragments (solo soprano - Julia Lezhneva). The group performed world premieres of works by Klaus Lang, Alexey Sysoev, Ivan Moody, etc.
Artistic director: Ekaterina Antonenko
Assistant Choirmaster: Gleb Kardasevich |
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Evgeniya Kashirskaya
Evgeniya Kissina
Tatiana Kokoreva
Oksana Kuznetsova
Natalia Pogaseeva
Daria Safroshkina |
Anna Glushneva
Ekaterina Kolomina
Maria Movenko
Olga Talysheva
Alena Timofeeva |
Serafim Chaykin
Pavel Gogadze
Dmitry Glushchenko
Mikhail Nor
Artem Volkov |
Gleb Kardasevich
Vyacheslav Kozlenko
Vladimir Krasov
Vyacheslav Maksakov
Igor Stulov
Dmitry Volkov
Ruslan Yarullin |
