Questa Musica Ensemble

Questa Musica Ensemble was founded in 2008 to bring together talented young singers and instrumentalists. As early as the following year, Questa Musica appeared in Venice and made its debut at the Moscow International House of Music. In 2001, the ensemble appeared at the Chamber Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. Today, Questa Musica's choir and orchestra feature leading Moscow musicians, many of whom are involved in education along with concert performance. Questa Musica's projects have been nominated for the Golden Mask Theatre award on several occasions. <<cut>>

The ensemble's repertoire encompasses Russian and international classical music, Renaissance and Baroque works, and contemporary music. The ensemble was involved in Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas staged by Alisher Khasanov, Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale (choreographer and director: Oleg Glushkov), Handel’s Messiah, Mozart's symphonies and Requiem performed on historical instruments, as well as Stravinsky’s Les Noces with Mark Pekarsky Percussion Ensemble. Other highlights include premieres of the opera Francis by Sergey Nevsky at the Bolshoi New Stage, and of Passion According to Nicodemus by Alexander Manotskov (conducted by Philipp Chizhevsky), performing Sergey Nevsky's opera Autland under Titus Engel with the Dutch ensemble Vocaallab, and participation in the first Russian edition of Night of Music project (2013). 

In 2015, Questa Musica was invited by Boris Yukhananov, Artistic Director and Stage Director of Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, to participate in the production of Drillalians opera series that included world premieres of several works by Russian composers Dmitry Kurlyandsky, Boris Filanovsky, Alexey Syumak, Sergei Nevsky, Alexey Sysoev, and Viadimir Rannev. The next co-production with the Electrotheatre was Galileo. Opera for violin and scientist (music by Sergey Nevsky, Kuzma Bodrov, Dmitry Kurlyandsky, Kirill Chernegin, Pavel Karmanov, idea and soloist: Elena Revich). In 2016, the ensemble was a guest of the Linz Baroque Festival (Austria), while in 2017, its soloists were involved in the production of Octavia. Trepanation, opera by Dmitry Kurlyandsky, world premiered at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. 

Major milestones on Questa Musica's path include Sinfonia for 8 voices and orchestra by Berio performed at the 5th Qara Qarayev Contemporary Music Festival (2013) and at the 5th Another Space Actual Music Festival (Moscow, 2016), as well as the stage production of Handel's Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre (2018). In 2019, joined by London Baroque Brass soloist ensemble, Questa Musica presented a programme of British music at the December Nights of Sviatoslav Richter festival.