Mentors (Creative Team) – Children's Choir of TV and Radio of St.-Petersburg

		Igor GRIBKOV. Artistic Director. Chief Choirmaster. In 1985 he graduated with honors from the Glinka Choral School, in 1990, also with honors, graduated from the Conservatory (class of Professor E.P. Kudryavtseva). Since 1988 – choirmaster, and since 2013 – Artistic Director and Chief Choirmaster of the Children’s Choir of Television and Radio of St. Petersburg. Versatile educated conductor and arranger. Laureate and member of the jury of All-Russian and International competitions. Author of major transcriptions of classical and contemporary resources for choir and instrumental arrangements for orchestras of various compositions. Responsible choirmaster of the Children’s Choir in productions of the Mariinsky Theatre. Chief choirmaster of the combined children’s choir of St. Petersburg in the project “Preliminary draw ceremony for the 2018 FIFA World Cup”. Musical director and author of arrangements for choir and piano in Vyacheslav Butusov’s project “Awakened Joy”. Choirmaster of the opening ceremony of the St. Petersburg Cultural Forum 2016. Chief choirmaster of the Opening Ceremony of the Confederations Cup. Musical director of citywide ceremonial events. Laureate of the “Theater of the Masses” award – for the musical direction of the “Nabat of the Revolution” project for the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. Awarded with the medal “For Achievements in the Field of Culture”. She was awarded the medal of the Holy Primate Apostle Peter and letters of the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga.
		Valentina KOROLEVA. Choirmaister. From 1989 to 1993 Studied at the Leningrad Musical College Rimsky-Korsakov with a degree in choral conducting (class of A.P. Loginov) and a degree in teaching methods of solfeggio (class of O.V. Belova). In 1998 Graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after. ON THE. Rimsky-Korsakov with a degree in choral conducting (class of Prof. T.I. Khitrova). Since 2000 – a teacher of choral disciplines at the music school No. 11 of the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg. Since 2015 – the head of the children’s choir of the St. Petersburg Metropolis. Since 2018, she has been a lecturer at the Department of Choral Conducting at St. Petersburg Herzen University. Laureate of Russian and International competitions.
		Andrey BONDARENKO. Choirmaster. Concertmaster. Solfeggio teacher. In 2019, he completed a course in Music Theory (diploma with honors). Since 2019, he has been studying at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory Rimsky-Korsakov majoring in choral conducting (class of Professor A.A. Maksimov). Responsible accompanist of the project “Awakened Joy” of the Honored Artist of Russia Vyacheslav Butusov. Musical editor of the concert “Echo of Victory” by the People’s Artist of Russia Dmitry Pevtsov. Musical editor of a number of ceremonial events in St. Petersburg since 2022. Highly qualified pianist, arranger.
		Darya KRIVONOS Acting skills and stage speech. Project curator. In 1998 she graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts (now RGISI) with a degree in stage acting. Since 1998 – actress of the St. Petersburg theater “Buff”. In 2000-2001 – actress “Russian show” (Japan). 2012-2016 – Acting teacher at the School of Igor Gorbachyov Russian Drama in the direction of “actor of musical theater”. Stage director and regular participant in the concert programs of the People’s Artist of Russia Viktor Krivonos. Actress of an enterprise in productions of drama and musical theaters in St. Petersburg. Currently, he successfully combines acting with teaching in theater studios and universities in St. Petersburg.

		Stanislav GRIBKOV (1937-2020). Artistic director (1988-2013). Professor, Honored Worker of Arts of Russia.
		Juriy SLAVNITSKIY (1926-2000). Artistic director of the Children’s choir of the Leningrad Radio and Television (1955-1988), founder of the Choir. Professor, Honored Worker of Arts of Russia.