The official song
The Official Song of the 9th World Choir Games in Sochi will be premiered by the G.F. Ponomarenko „Chorus of the Krasnodar Territory” of the Krasnodar Philharmonic. The author of text and music, Igor Nikolaevich Shadyuk, is an Honored Worker of Culture of Kuban. Born in 1977 in Krasnodar, he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory Rimsky-Korsakov. Currently, he is Head of the Department of Professional Arts of the Ministry of Culture of Krasnodar region.