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 [a361626] 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.