The 5th Mother of God Choral Festival “We Sing to the Diligent Intercessor” will take place in the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of Godtranslated

With the blessing of Metropolitan Evgeniy of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, on November 7, 2026, the 5th Mother of God Choral Festival “We Sing to the Diligent Intercessor” will take place in the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in the city of Yekaterinburg. The choral forum is dedicated to the celebration of the day of memory of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the Day of National Unity.

– We invite you to take part in the Divine Liturgy and festival dedicated to the Mother of God. Let’s pray together and then console ourselves with choral singing at the concert,” the rector of the church, Priest Alexy Rusin, invited believers to the meeting.

Among the participants of the V Theotokos Festival are amateur, children's and professional groups of the Yekaterinburg Metropolitanate and the Ural capital: the Ural Amateur Choir, the Bishop's Children's Singing Chapel "Oktoich", the cathedral choir of the Nizhny Tagil diocese "Nicea" from Nizhny Tagil, the vocal ensemble "Pearls", the choir "Znamenny", the spiritual ensemble L52, ensemble of sacred music "Romania" from Novouralsk.

The variety of creative interests of the groups will be represented by wonderful examples of partes and znamenny singing. At the concert, viewers will get acquainted with choral arrangements of famous songs by A. Zatsepin, M. Blanter, Yu.…