ESSe-Quintett

The tool group "ESSe-QUINTET" is created on the basis of the chair of folk instruments of the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts in 2007 (professor Kramarja Ю.А's class). The participant of the group, students of the II SPbGUKI course (Anna Shatilova - a domra small (a domra a viola), Mikhail Krylov - an accordion of the Kravtsov system, Ksenia Kvochko - an accordion of the Kravtsov system, Nefedov Darya and Ganshin Anton - the balalaika double bass (with 2010), (Darja Schwarz - the balalaika bass 2007-2010), Kirill Evsejew the student SPbGK named Rimski-Korsakow - has united the balalaika), not only the common study in the past (SPb Lyceum des Committees for Culture and the Musical Educational Institution named MPMussorgski), In August 2008 the group goes on the tour through Northern Germany for the first time, then the first disc «ESSe-QUINTETT» Gastpspiel 2008, Lilienthal-Sankt-Peterburg is registered. In November 2008 the group takes part in the international competition for the first time and immediately becomes the winner of the 1st prize (the 1st international competition of executors on folk instruments "Prikamie-2008" in Perm). Then there were also the first responses about group, as well as the collective, possessing True Petersburg culture of sound, and at the same time brightly memorized game. In 2009 the group took part in international competitions three times and three times won the 1st prizes and two Grand Prix: