Moscow Chamber Orchestra

The Moscow Chamber Orchestra is a Russian chamber orchestra, which was created in 1955 by Rudolf Barshái. The orchestra is based at the Moscow Conservatoire. History

Russian / Soviet violinist and conductor Rudolf Barshái brought together the most talented musicians in Moscow at the time, along with Dmitri Shostakovich, who called it "the greatest chamber orchestra in the world." The orchestra has its headquarters in the Moscow Conservatory and toured Europe, Asia and America in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. When Barshái left the Soviet Union for Switzerland, the direction of the orchestra went to Igor Bezrodny and later, successively in Víctor Tretiakov, Andrei Korsakov and the American Constantine Orbelian. In 1991, shortly before the demise of the Soviet Union, she participated in the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the United Nations in San Francisco as the country's ambassador.

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