Orchestra Conductor: Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Borisovich Nikolayev.
The Military Orchestra of the Military Medical Academy is a highly professional, creative team of military musicians with an unlimited repertoire. The orchestra performs both applied military music and early, classical, modern, and dance music. The orchestra participates in many holidays of the administrations of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, days of military glory, and ceremonial events of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: the May 9 parade dedicated to Victory in the Great Patriotic War; the January 27 parade dedicated to the complete lifting of the siege of Leningrad; City Day, Russian Railways Day, Airborne Troops Day, Alexander Nevsky Day, Heroes of Russia Day, and the opening of monuments and memorials dedicated to great personalities and major events of our country.
The orchestra’s musicians have repeatedly participated in the filming of historical films and military-historical reconstructions.
The orchestra is a regular participant and prize-winner of the International Festival of Military Brass Bands, held on the founding day of the city of St. Petersburg, and a participant and winner of the All-Russian Military Brass Band Competitions. In 2019, the S. M. Kirov Military Medical Academy Orchestra was recognized as the best orchestra among orchestras of military educational institutions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation at the All-Russian Competition of Military Bands of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, achieving the 1st degree of laureate. Orchestra soloist Konstantin Andreev (alto saxophone) was named the best soloist of the Russian Armed Forces.
The Military Medical Academy Orchestra collaborates with musical educational institutions, including conservatories and music schools in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, and Saratov.
Students of these musical institutions have repeatedly performed with the orchestra as soloists and performers of various instruments.
The military conductor and the orchestra’s musicians are always open to new creative contacts and artistic projects.