Music in Irkutsk Oblast

Music of Russia
Genres
Specific forms
Religious music
Traditional music
Media and performance
Music awards
Music charts
Music festivals
Music media
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem Anthem of Russia
Regional music
Local forms
  • Adygea
  • Altai
  • Astrakhan
  • Bashkortostan
  • Buryatia
  • Chechnya
  • Chukotka
  • Chuvashia
  • Dagestan
  • Evenkia
  • Ingushetia
  • Irkutsk
  • Kaliningrad
  • Kalmykia
  • Kamchatka
  • Karelia
  • Khakassia
  • Khantia-Mansia
  • Komi Republic
  • Krasnodar
  • Mari El
  • Mordovia
  • Nenetsia
  • Ossetia
  • Rostov
  • Ethnic Russian
  • Sakha
  • Sakhalin
  • Tatarstan
  • Tuva
  • Udmurtia
Related areas

The city of Irkutsk is the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, both of which produced several famous popular musicians and have a number of styles of folk music. Musicians from Irkutsk include the rock bands Bely Ostrog (aka Two Siberians (White Fort)), Printsip Neopredelyonnosti, and Chyorno-Belye Snimki . The city of Irkutsk has long been a center for musical development in Siberia.

Music institutions

The Irkutsk Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in the 1850s. The first major school of musical education was founded in 1899, followed a few years later by the opening of the Irkutsk branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society. Other music institutions include the Irkutsk Chamber Orchestra .

Musicians

The bass singer Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov was born in the village of Golumet in the Irkutsk Oblast in 1933.

Russian singer-songwriter Oleg Medvedev lives and works in Irkutsk.

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