Andrey and Natalia Stepanenko

Natalia Stepanenko is an actress, director, and artistic director of the Moroshka Chamber Puppet Theater. Natalia combines different forms of art — she puts on theatrical performances together with the orchestra or adds artists to the production, for example, in ebru (drawings on water).

Andrey Stepanenko is the artistic director of the Kaliningrad Regional Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments, composer, conductor.

Andrey is interested in going on not only within the framework of the traditional folk orchestra but also to expand the boundaries of this genre. He wants to make it more understandable and relevant to the modern audience.

Andrey also popularizes the bandoneon — a musical instrument of the family of hand harmonica. There are very few musicians in the world who have devoted their lives to this rare instrument.

Andrey about the orchestra: «I would like to get a band that would be the face of the region and a stronghold of Russian culture in the Kaliningrad region.»