Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble

The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble (Russian: Ансамбль Дмитрия Покровского, romanized: Ansambl Dmitriya Pokrovskogo)[1] was founded by Dmitri Pokrovsky (1944–1996) together with his wife and lifelong partner, Tamara Smyslova, in Moscow in 1973 as an experimental singing group under folk Commission of the URSS Сomposers Union.The appearance of this team completely changed in modern society the understanding and view of folklore.

Professional musicians belonging to the city culture had to master a large number very dissimilar styles of Russian village music.

The Pokrovsky Ensemble became the first professional group which began to study the Russian folk music from authentic village musicians in numerous folklore expeditions.

Participants in the Pokrovsky Ensemble recorded, learned and then performed in very different traditions, styles and manners of folk singing, playing and dancing, trying to penetrate to the rules of its existence, understand the laws of its development.

[10] The Pokrovsky Ensemble has toured throughout the former USSR and Russia, the United States, Germany, Austria, England, Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Japan, Italy, Belgium etc.