Alexandra Makarova, Author at The IFCM Magazine

Alexandra Makarova

Alexandra Makarova was born in Leningrad in 1986. In 2010 she graduated from the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire as a choral conductor (in Boris Abalyan’s class) and in 2015 she completed her postgraduate studies at the conservatoire. She was a prize winner at the International Jāzeps Vītols Conducing Competition in Riga (2009, 4th prize and the Latvian Radio Chorus Special Prize) and the International Boris Tevlin Choral Conducting Competition in Moscow (2014, 1st prize). Since 2008 she has directed the Festino chamber chorus (St, Petersburg). In 2013 she founded the Chamber Chorus of the Polytechnic University. Alexandra Makarova has also conducted the Student Chorus and Chamber Chorus of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, the Chamber Chorus of the Moscow Conservatoire, the Student Chorus of the Latvian Academy of Music and the Latvian Radio Chorus.

An International Choral Project in St. Petersburg: Boris Abalyan’s workshop

By: Alexandra Makarova

On: January 15, 2017

In: Choral World News

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Alexandra Makarova, choral conductor

At the end of August 2016 in St. Petersburg, the Second International Workshop in choral conducting took place under the leadership of Honoured Artist of Russia and Professor of …Read More →

Dmitry Smirnov, a Modern Composer from St Petersburg

By: Alexandra Makarova

On: October 21, 2014

In: Composers' Corner

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By Alexandra Makarova, choral conductor

The choral concerts of Dmitry Smirnov serve as a key to his unique style. His most notable genre is that of a cappella choir. In this article we will use his choral concerts t…Read More →