The House of chamber and organ music (Kharkiv, Ukraine).

A creative director – a international contests prize winner, an organist Stanislaw Kalinin.
The first information about Kharkiv organs appeared in the middle of the XIX century. It is known, that the oratorias “7 words of the Saviour” and “The World creation” by I.Geidn, “Elijah” and “Atalia” by F.Mendelssohn were performed under the direction of the 1st Kharkiv University teacher of the music, composer and conductor F.Schultz in the Lutheran church and in 1854 the performance of the organist I.Pollack in the Catholic church. After the Revolution, 1917 activity of the most of church institutions was stopped and there was no organ in Kharkiv over a long period of time.
In 1984 the masters of the famous Czechoslovak company “Rieger-Kloss” created the organ for Kharkiv within the bounds of the special/specific program. The Krnov designers, who had a big order for instruments for the USSR, worked out the original “altar” model of the concert organ, depth of the organ-body (“prospectus”) was much more than its width. The Kharkiv organ has 3574 organ-pipes, 3 manuals, 48 register (47 and 1 transmission) among them there are 8 spots and 7 mixtures. The specific acoustics of the Uspenskiy Cathedral enriches the sound of the organ and produces beautiful atmosphere for the classical-music performance.

The House of Chamber and Organ music was opened on the 1st of June, 1986 in the Uspenskiy Cathedral which was just restored. People’s Artist of Russia G. Grodberg and Honoured Artist of the Ukraine V. Kochuba were the first performers of the organ music; the first regular organist was the graduate of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, O. Kinijev. T. Baginets, M. Hrygorov, V. Klymovskiy and R. Krasnovskiy also worked there. Now the regular organist – is S. Kalinin.
In the time of the existence of the organ hall there were created many organ, vocal-organ and literary programs. Among them – a series of concerts, devoted to the great composers of the various ages. The traditional spring festival organ and chamber music has been taken place from 1986. From 2002 it has been named “The Kharkiv Bachiana”. Famous musicians took part in this festival from different countries such as Austria, Italy, Germany, Poland, France, Sweden. In the organ hall performed the Moscow chamber chorus (under the direction of V. Minin), “An idea” choir, the Kaunas chorus, the Yurlov choir, the Shyrma Belarussian choir, “The Academy of the ancient music” (under the direction of T. Grindenko), the Chyurl’onis quartet, the M. Pekarskiy percussion-instruments company; the singers O. Basystyuk, O. Horbatenko, I. Zhurina, K. Lysytsian, V. Noreyko, M. Stephyuk, A. Eyzen; instrumentalists D. Bashkirov, A. Izuar, V. Krainiev, V. Pikaizen, N. Shtarkman and many others.