Hermitage Radio: Two Years in St. Petersburg

On 22 April, 2002, the State Hermitage Museum and the Hermitage Radio held a celebration of the Hermitage Radio birthday in the museum's theater.
The Hermitage Radio was founded by ZAO Radiokompaniya Kultura. From the very beginning, the founders were set to create a musical radio station whose format would be unique both in St. Petersburg and entire Russia. Classical music would be broadcast in new arrangement, along with jazz and blues. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, as well and Bach and Mozart can be heard at 90.1 FM. No such radio had been attempted in St. Petersburg before.
Today the Hermitage Radio is a successful project both in terms of culture and commerce. The radio is developing new programs and broadcasting new music. Its principles are professionalism, quality and love and respect of the audience.
During two years of its existence, the Hermitage Radio has twice won Master Key prizes for musical mass media. In 2000 is was awarded the Best Debut Prize, in 2001, the 3rd Best Music Radio Station Prize.
The gala concert in the Hermitage Theater was a stylish performance rather than an illustration of the station's musical format. The virtuoso jazz guitar player Mark Wheatfield specially came from New York to congratulate the Hermitage Radio. His visit was sponsored by the insurance company Russky Mir.
The concert also featured the jazz piano performer Andrey Kondakov, duet of Aleksey Goribol and Tatiana Kuindzhi and the State Hermitage Orchestra.

Hermitage Director Mikhail B. Piotrovsky

Guests in the Hermitage Theater