Biography
Composer, director, musician. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (09/03/1987). People's Artist of Russia (1/15/2004). He graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Cultural and Educational School in the specialty "Leader of the Orchestra of Folk Instruments" and the Moscow State Institute of Culture (1978, specialty "Orchestra conducting") and GITIS (1993, specialty "Directing Stage"). Founder and leader of the ensemble of Russian folk wind instruments "Zhaleyka" (1975-1982), "Ensemble of folk music" (1982-2002) and the State Musical Theater of National Art (2002-2014). He wrote more than three hundred songs ("Ah, carnival ...", "Don Juan", "Here and met", "Thunderstorm", "Parrot", etc.) and music for many movies ("Angel Came To You", "Marsh Turetsky "and others), cartoons (for example, A. The Back Side of the Moon) by A. Tatarsky and theatrical performances, in particular, to the play" Forest Song "based on a play by Lesja Ukrainka, staged by Roman Kozak in Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. Director of musical performances in the State Musical Theater of National Art: the musical show "Ah, Carnival ..." (old name. "Russian frescoes of the twentieth century" and "About love in all languages"), "The Witch named Mavka", or "Forest Song" (based on the play by Lesia Ukrainka) and "Memorial Prayer, or Fiddler on the Roof" (based on the play by Grigory Gorin), "Fantasies on the Theme of the Little Prince" (music show with poems by Andrei Khokhlov), "Lie Detector for Sale" (according to the script by Vasily Sigarev), "Fly-Tsokotuha" (after the tales of Chukovsky "Fly-Tsokotuha" and "Cockroach"). In 2005, he made his debut as a film director: he shot a two-part tragicomedy "Lie Detector for sale" based on Vasily Sigarev's plays "Lie Detector for Sale" and the film "Phantom Pains". Since 2016 he lives and works in Dnipro (formerly Dnipropetrovsk), teaches at the Glier Institute of Music in Kiev.
