The Russian Choir

Vladimir Morozov is originally from Ukraine, and has a long musical background. He studied choral music conducting in Ukraine. He worked as a musician in many places in Ukraine and Russia, and later as a singer in the Cathedral’s Choir of Moscow Patriarchate in Buenos Aires in Argentina. He formed the Russian Choir in Glasgow in November 2004, and has been instrumental in gathering and teaching the Russian Choral music.

In April 2004 (on Good Friday) he conducted in St Charles Borromeo, Kelvinside, in Glasgow, for a BBC broadcast of the TV programme “Songs of Praise”. In May and September 2004 Vladimir sang a solo part in concerts with the RSNO Chorus in Oban and Kilbarchan West Church. He assisted the RSNO Chorus as a speech coach in its preparation of sacred songs by M. Glinka, S. Rachmaninov and P. Tchaikovsky, and also “Stepan Razin” (D. Shostakovich), Iolanta (P. Tchaikovsky), and Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution (S. Prokofiev), and performed the part of “the voice of Lenin” in the same work . This stirring music was performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in its final performance under its principal conductor of the time, Alexander Lazarev.

In the summer of 2005, Vladimir helped NYCOS (the National Youth Choir of Scotland) as a speech coach for the Russian text in Rachmaninov’s “Vespers”, conducted by Christopher Bell.

More recently Vladimir assisted the RSNO Chorus again as a speech coach in the presentation of Prokofiev’s cantata Alexander Nevsky with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in early 2007.