The State Chamber Choir of the Republic of Belarus was founded in October, 1988.

The collective comprises of 30 professional musicians who have got vocal choral education in high music establishments in Belarus and Russia. It has gained good reputation very quickly and in present time is the leading professional choir in Belarus.

The Honoured Artist of the Republic of Belarus Igor Matyukhov, who had graduated from Leningrad Conservatory, had been conducting the choir for 12 years.

Since October, 2000, Natalia Mikhailova has been the head of the collective. She began her musical education in Krasnodar (Russia) and later continued it at Belarusian State Conservatory (class of A.P. Zelenkova).

The main creative trend of the Choir is rebirth and popularization of the pearls of Belarusian and Russian old sacred music . West European classics, works by young Belarusian composers.

During the whole period of its existence the repertoire of the Choir  has included Belamsian Church singins of XIV-XIX cc., sacred music pieces by Belarusian composers of XIX –XX cc., motets by I.S. Bach, works by A.Lotty, G.Shultz, A.Vivaldy, masses by F.Shubert, W.A. Mozart,odes by Purcell, as well as “Johannespassion” by I.S. Bach “Stabat Mater” by D.Rossini, “Messiah” by G. Haendel, chouroses by J.Brams, J.Mendelson, E.Grieg and many other West European composers.

During the mentioned period the Choir perfomed the following programmes:

Russian sacred and secular music from the works by M.Glinka, A. Dargomyzhsky, S.Taneev, S. Rakhmaninov, V. Titov, A. Gretchianinov, V. Kalinnikov, A. Arkhangelsky, P. Tchaikovsky, Ts.Kiui, P. Tchesnokov; works by Soviet composers R. Shchedrin, S.Slonimsky, Y.Falik; programmes of “premiere” works by modern Belarusian composers S.Cortez, V.Kopytsko, A.Bondarenko, S. Beltiuko, O.Khodosko and others.

 The Choir perfomed these programmes on the major stages of Minsk , Moscow, St. Petersburg, tallin, Vilnius, kiev, Tiumen, Sotchi,as well as international music and choral festivals in Poland (Hajanowka"90 and 98, Bydgoszs"94), I Norway (Stord"95, Kristiansand"92), in Slovakia (Bratislava"95)

The State Chamber Choir of the Republic of Belarus was the first foreign ensemble to take part in the Days of Church Music in Germany (Munich, 1991).

In 1992 the Austrian firm “Music” recorded 2 CDs of Belarusian and Russian sacred music. The programme of Russian sacred music was recorded with the psrticipation of the Slovakian singer S.Kortchak.

In 1992 the Choir took part in the International Church Music Festival in Kristiansand, Norway. The newspaper “Fedrelandswennen” wrote: “…the Church Music Festival in Kristiansand produced a great impression owing to the State Chamber Choir of the Republic of Belarus”.

The tours through the cities of Germany (Nuernberg, Rottenberg, Eriangen, Munich) in 1991 and 1993 with charity performances for the benefit of the children suffered from the Tchernobyl catastrophe, became the event of a great importance for the collective.

In 1995 the choir gave a series of concerts in Sweden.

Since 1999 the Choir takes part in the fire International Festival of Russian Sacred Music in Vilnius.

It is difficult to find the cities of Belarus where the State Chamber Choir has never given its concerts. The performances of this collective have always got high appraisals both of the critics and the music circles.

The State Chamber Choir of Belarus possesses a great creative potential. It is the process of constant perfection, unwearying search and new revelations, what the Choir has ahead of it.