ARIELLE Vocal Ensemble is a new generation of a collective, which was created
on the initiative of the graduate of the Moscow Conservatory Elmira Dadasheva in 2014
year.
The ensemble brings together graduates of the best music schools in Russia. In
the vocal manner of the team, the European lightness and
graphicality of the voice-leading are organically combined with the original Russian richness of the timbre.
ARIELLE successfully performs at the leading philharmonic venues in Russia and
is a participant in prestigious music festivals, among them: Moscow
Easter Festival under the direction of V.A. Gergiev (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025),
All-Russian Festival of Sacred Music "Summer of the Lord" (Suzdal, 2020),
"Moscow Spring a cappella" (2017, 2018, 2024), B.G. Tevlin International Autumn Choir Festival
(2022), International Lenten Festival
(2022), International Festival "Spreading New Music Around the World" (2023),
The International Festival "Muted Voices" (2024), the Great Summer Music Festival "Sirius" (Sochi, 2024), and others.
The ensemble has also made a name for itself in the field of musical theatre. With its participation, the opera "Alluki" by the composer E. Nizamov was performed as part of the Golden Mask Festival (2020), the V Festival of Musical Theatres of Russia "Seeing Music" (2020). The ensemble was the resident choir of the New Opera World Opera and Symphony Laboratory (2021-2024). As part of the Montecci vs Opera ARIELLE team, it was nominated twice for the
National Theater Award "Onegin" (2019, 2021), since 2023 participates in
the repertory play "Aida" by the MAMT. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko.
ARIELLE has performed world and European opera premieres, including L.K.
Smith's "Facing South" (2021), A. Podzorov's "The Princess and the Swineherd" (2022), A.
Nebykova's "Zhdana" (2024), E.M. Beech's "Cabildo" (2024), as well as premieres of choral works by
composers Y. Abdokova, A. Podzorova, E. Nizamov, A. Nebykova, A. Viskova, and others.
One of the important pages in the ensemble's biography is the revival
of Gabriel Popov's Symphony No. 4, forgotten for 74 years, written for an a cappella choir and
four soloists, which had its world premiere in 2023 at
the Mariinsky Concert Hall with the support of Maestro Valery Gergiev.
The ensemble collaborates with leading orchestras, including the
Moscow Virtuosi State Chamber Orchestra, the Tchaikovsky State Academic Grand
Symphony Orchestra, and the Moscow State
Symphony Orchestra, Moscow State Academic Symphony
Orchestra, Russian National Youth Orchestra, Moscow Chamber
Orchestra Musica Viva, Moscow Chamber Orchestra of the Pavel Slobodkin Center,
The Moscow Symphony Orchestra "Russian Philharmonic" and others.
In 2024, the ARIELLE ensemble reached the finals of the television project "Come on, All together
in Chorus" on the Rossiya 1 TV channel and became the silver medalist. In the same year
, the fruitful collaboration of the ensemble with composer Alexei began.
Rybnikov.
In 2025, a licensed CD of the ARIELLE Vocal Ensemble at
the Melodiya company with Symphony No. 4 by Gabriel Popov was released.
