The Moscow State Academic Chamber Choir was founded in 1972 by conductor Professor Vladimir Minin.
The choir has performed concerts in Russia and abroad. Soloists Irina Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Maria Gulegina, Zurab Sotkilava, Evgeny Nesterenko, Alexander Vedernikov, Paata Burchuladze and others performed with the choir.
During the years of Soviet power the choir revived spiritual works by Russian composers - S. Rachmaninov, P. Tchaikovsky, S. Taneyev, P. Chesnokov, A. Grechaninov, A. Kastalsky.
Since 1996 the choir has performed at the Bregenz Festival (Austria) with opera productions ("The Masquerade Ball" and "Troubadour" by G. Verdi, "La Bohème" by G. Puccini, "The Golden Cockerel" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Adventures of the Naughty Fox" by L. Janáček, "West Side Story" by L. Bernstein, "Masquerade" by K. Nielsen, "The Royal Palace" by K. Weill). At the Zurich Opera House the choir performed M. Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina and A. Rubinstein's Demon. In 2010 the Moscow State Academic Chamber Choir took part in the Cultural Programme of the Vancouver Olympic Games and in the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics.
The choir has recorded about 40 music discs, including discs recorded on Deutsche Grammophon.
The Kultura TV channel made two films about the choir - "Russian Sanctuaries" and "Russian Orthodox Music".
Soloists of the choir: Evgenia Sorokina - Honoured Worker of Culture of Moscow (soprano). Yevgeniya Sorokina (soprano), Yulia Zolotaryova (soprano), Margarita Petukhova (soprano), Veronika Pogrebnaya-Lyalikova (soprano), Tatiana Zemlyanaya (soprano); Svetlana Nikolaeva (mezzo-soprano), Tatiana Metlina (mezzo-soprano), Tatiana Nikityuk (mezzo-soprano); Oleg Kulikov (tenor), Evgeny Ivanov-Danilov (tenor), Yuri Belyaev (tenor); Sergey Krylov (baritone), Semyon Musatov (baritone), Ioann Grishchenko (baritone); Daniil Chesnokov (bass), Ivan Scherbatykh (bass).
In 2019, the choir was led by conductor Timofey Golberg, who had been with the group since 2016. Under the direction of Timofey Golberg, the choir performed Alfred Schnittke's Requiem twice in November 2019 - in the Rachmaninoff Hall of the Conservatoire and in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in Moscow. The same year Golberg conducted Dmitri Shostkakovitch's choral work 10 Poems on the Words of Revolutionary Poets at the Russian National Orchestra Festival at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. For the First Festival named after Hvorostovsky in Krasnoyarsk. For the First Hvorostovsky Festival in Krasnoyarsk, Timofei Golberg prepared Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem with the choir, which was performed at the opening ceremony under the direction of conductor Vladimir Lande (Russia-USA).
T. Golberg's musical interests include contemporary choral music by Western and Russian composers. Under his direct supervision, works by Ugis Praulins (Latvia), Eric Vitakra (USA), Eriks Ešenvalds (USA-Latvia), Carl Jenkins and John Tavener (both UK), and Ilya Demutsky (Russia) have been prepared and included in the choir's repertoire.
