RUSSIAN SINGER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 11

RUSSIAN SINGER

FORMERLY OF DON COSSACK CHOIR. M. Senia Chiostakoff, formerly a leading tenor in the Don Cossack Choir, who is touring the Dominion under contract to the New Zealand Broadcasting Board, will make only one public appearance iu Dunedin at a concert in the Town Hall on Thursday evening in aid/of the Mayors Relief Fund. He will be supported by M. Paul Vinogradoff, the well-known pianist, the male choir of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association, a full orchestra under M. de Rose, and wellknown local artists. The concert is being arranged by Station 4YA. . Bprn near Moscow, M. Chiostakoff in childhood was an alto soloist in one of the great churches of the city. He is ot the opinion that under the old regime the churches of Russia were responsible for much of the musical education or the masses who possessed a natural aptitude for harmonising. Not long before (he outbreak of war M. Chiostakoff left Russia to study music at the Paris Conscrvntorimn. When war broke out he served with the Russian Imperial Army, later joining the White Army, which fought against the revolutionaries during the later years of the war. After the war he resumed his studies and then joined the famous Don Cossack Choir as first solo tenor. He travelled through Europe with the choir, and visited the United States, New Zealand, South Africa, and finally Australia, where he settled in 1929, later becoming naturalised. M. Chostinkoff’s repertoire includes Russian folk songs, and German, English, Italian, and French ballade.