Philharmonic Pictures

Who it's for

We work with people who already put on concerts

Producers and venues

You put on classical music concerts and want them to stand out. We add original visual scenography created by artists, instead of screens with generic videos. The same concert, with one more reason to buy a ticket.

Institutions and festivals

You're looking for a unique program for a season, an anniversary or a heritage venue. We create a new visual work, designed for that music and that architecture.

What we offer

From turnkey concerts to custom creations

Turnkey

Complete concert

Live music, visual scenography, technical crew and content. You give us a date and a venue, and we bring the concert.

Repertoire

One of our programs, in your concert

You choose a program from our repertoire and we adapt it to your venue, your musicians and your stage.

Custom

New creation

We develop original scenography for a piece, a space or a special occasion.

Basic format

One projector

Projection on the stage or altar area, plus lighting design on the architecture. For venues and churches that need a quick setup.

Extended format

Three projectors

Projection on the front wall and the side walls or vaults, plus lighting design. The image surrounds the audience, as at the Templo Escondido.

The cost depends on the venue, the ensemble and the equipment. Tell us about your project and we'll send you a proposal.

Techniques

Four ways to paint music

Each program uses the technique that best suits the piece. All of them adapt to the architecture of the venue.

Projection on arches and walls during an organ concert — **Mapping**Projection on walls, arches and stage, adapted to the shape of each space.

Artist drawing with a digital pen on a tablet — **Digital illustration**Images and animations drawn by artists for each piece.

Ebru painting projected on the front wall and vaults of the Templo Escondido, with musicians on stage — **Water painting (ebru)**Painting with colors on the surface of water, filmed and projected in time with the music. Templo Escondido, Buenos Aires 2026 (visualization based on technical tests).

Artist drawing with sand on a light table in front of the audience — **Sand animation**Live on stage, or combined with mapping to extend the drawings across the whole hall.

Synchronization

The image follows the orchestra, not the other way round

Many musicians worry that playing with visuals means playing to a click, at a fixed, pre-set tempo. Not in our programs: when the conductor slows down, the image slows down too; when the conductor speeds up, so does the image.

How it works. Our operator prepares each program in the studio with recordings of the piece and knows the music well. At the concert, they listen to the orchestra, follow the conductor and switch scenes live, right on the musical phrases.

The conductor leads the orchestra the way they hear the music.
Musicians don't need headphones or a metronome.
No separate rehearsal with the visuals is required: we stay in sync even without a dress rehearsal.

We want to keep what people come to a live concert for: the breathing of the orchestra and the conductor's reading of the score.

This applies to our audiovisual programs. For shows that add dance or other performers, we discuss it separately.

Grieg's Peer Gynt with orchestra, Annenkirche, St. Petersburg. Concert excerpts.

Repertoire

Ready-made programs

With scenography already created and tested with audiences. They adapt to the venue and the ensemble.

Ready in Argentina

The Four Seasons Vivaldi · water painting
Requiem Verdi · digital illustration · Buenos Aires 2025
Requiem Mozart · digital illustration
Stabat Mater Pergolesi · digital illustration
Carmina Burana Orff · digital illustration

On request

Peter and the Wolf Prokofiev · sand
The Carnival of the Animals Saint-Saëns · sand
The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Piazzolla · digital illustration

Equipment setup is required for their first production in Argentina.

Work

Selected projects

Digital scenography projected on the walls of the Hermitage Theatre — **Hermitage Theatre, St. Petersburg**Digital scenography by Daria Kotyukh for Swan Lake, Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. More than 100 performances since 2020.

Mozart's Requiem at the Annenkirche, with projection on the burnt walls — **Mozart's Requiem · Annenkirche**Projection on the walls of a church damaged by fire. More than 50 performances in two years.

Carmina Burana with choir, orchestra and red projections — **Carmina Burana**Premiered at the Annenkirche, then staged in a stadium with an LED screen around the audience. More than 30 performances.

Verdi's Requiem in a Buenos Aires church — **Verdi's Requiem · Buenos Aires 2025**With Clásica del Sur and César Tello, in three Buenos Aires churches and San Isidro Cathedral.

Sand animation projected on the stage and the walls of the hall — **Sand and mapping**Sand drawings made live spread across the whole hall.

Projects in St. Petersburg, Berlin (Kirchentag 2017, opening on the main stage), Monte Carlo (Peer Gynt with the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra), Mulhouse, Hamburg, Guebwiller and Buenos Aires.

How we work

From the first conversation to the show

ConversationVenue, date, program and audience.
ProposalTechnical visit, visual proposal and budget.
AdaptationWe fit the scenography to the architecture and the ensemble.
ShowsSetup, dress rehearsal and concerts, with our technical crew.

Founder · concept and scenography

Dmitrii Ermolin

Producer and video director, specializing in projection, video mapping and lighting for live music. He has led Philharmonic Pictures since it was founded.

Artistic direction

Daria Kotyukh

Visual artist, graduate of the Stieglitz Academy in St. Petersburg. Award winner at the Sand Malerei 2015 festival (Germany); she has exhibited at the Hermitage Museum and performed at the opening of Kirchentag 2017 by the Brandenburg Gate.

Contact

Tell us what concert you have in mind

We reply in Spanish, English or Russian. Ask for our dossier with programs, technical details and terms, or let's set up a call.

WhatsApp +54 9 11 7142-4000 Request our dossier Schedule a call

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