vl, *1950 UA
Musician of Classical
A.k.a. Анатолий Тихонович Гринденко
Anatoly Grindenko (b. 1950, Kharkov, Ukraine) is a Russian viola da gamba performer, an expert on early music and znamenny chant singing tradition, director and regent of The Russian Patriarchate Choir (previously known as православный хор «Древнерусский распев», or Old Russian Cantus). Anatoly played on violin since he was four. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, he started touring in USSR and abroad with his sister Tatiana Grindenko and Alexei Lubimov. Vladimir Martynov introduced Anatoly to the world of medieval music, and he got seriously interested in the Netherlandish School, particularly composers like Johannes Ockeghem, Guillaume Dufay, Antoine Brumel, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Grindenko became one of the first Russian viola da gamba players to give solo concerts, and he has been performing with Gidon Kremer, Alexander Rudin, Andres Mustonen, Nazar Kozhukhar, Andrew Lawrence-King, and many other artists and ensembles. At some point in his career, Grindenko decided to take a sharp turn and pursue a spiritual path. He went to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius monastery to become a monk, but he wasn't accepted. After spending three years there, Anatoly established a choir with local seminarians and composed a liturgy based on traditional Znamenny chant. Eventually, he decided to create a more permanent choir in Moscow, which happened in 1985. "Old Russian Cantus" participated in many international festivals since then, performed in the UK, France, Spain, and Japan. The choir received an order of Russian-Palestinian Society in 1991. In 1998, Andrey Grindenko published a book called Divine Harmony, co-authored with a restorer A.N. Ovchinnikov and dedicated to Russian icons and liturgical singing.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Christmas And Easter Singing 16th-17th Centuries / Рождество, Великий Пост, Пасха 16-17 вв. | The Russian Patriarchate Choir, Anatoly Grindenko | 2017 | Album |
Classical And Folk Music 17th-20th Centuries / Партесная и народная музыка 17-20 вв. | The Russian Patriarchate Choir, Anatoly Grindenko | 2017 | Album |
Divine Theatre - Religious Opera In The Russian Church | Anatoly Grindenko - The Russian Patriarchate Choir | 2001 | Compil. |
Divine Liturgy Of St John Chrysostom | The Russian Patriarchate Choir, Anatoly Grindenko | 2000 | Album |
Suprasl - Supraśl - Orhodox Mosaic | The Russian Patriarchate Choir, Anatoly Grindenko | 1999 | Album |
Divine Harmony - The Music And Icons Of Early Russia | The Russian Patriarchate Choir, Anatoly Grindenko | 1998 | Compil. |
Russian Easter Liturgy (The Easter Canon Of St John Damascene - 17th Century) | The Russian Patriarchate Choir directed by Anatoly Grindenko | 1995 | Album |
Chant Mystique Orthodoxe | The Russian Patriarchate Choir, Anatoly Grindenko | 1993 | Album |
Early Russian Polyphony | Anatoly Grindenko, Male Choir | 1990 | Album |
English Consort Music Of 17th Century | Игорь Богуславский, Владимир Рора, Марк Вайнрот, Anatoly Grindenko | 1983 | Album |