State Hermitage Orchestra

On February 14, 1994 St. Petersburg Camerata orchestra was given by unique status as the State Hermitage Orchestra. The State Hermitage Orchestra (formerly St. Petersburg Camerata) is a Russian chamber orchestra based in St. Petersburg. Created in 1989 by the Lithuanian conductor Saulius Sondeckis as the St. Petersburg Camerata Orchestra. The basis of the orchestra was formed by students of the Leningrad Conservatory, where Sondeckis was a visiting professor. In 1990, at the suggestion of Boris Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage, the orchestra came under the patronage of the Hermitage for some time, then worked as a partner group of the recording company Sony Classical, and finally, in 1994, was again invited to become a partner of the Hermitage and received its current name. Since 1997, the orchestra has become the base team of the Hermitage Academy of Music, a large-scale program of projects that includes, in particular, concerts in the historic interiors of the Theater Of The Hermitage St. Petersburg and other premises of the Hermitage.