Turetsky Choir Art Group | |
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From left to right: Oleg Blyahorchuk, Evgeny Tulinov, Vyacheslav Fresh, Konstantin Kabo, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Mikhaill Turetsky, Alex Alexandrov, Boris Goryachev, Evgeny Kulmis and Igor Zverev, performing at the Green Theater (Moscow), 2011. |
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Background information | |
Origin | Moscow, Russia |
Genres | Vocal, Crossover, A cappella |
Years active | 1989 | - present
Labels | Nikitin |
Website | http://www.arthor.ru/ |
Members | |
Mikhail Turetsky, Evgeny Tulinov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Alex Alexandrov, Evgeny Kulmis, Boris Goryachev, Oleg Blyahorchuk, Igor Zverev, Konstantin Kabo, Vyacheslav Fresh | |
Past members | |
Arthur Keish, Valentin Suhodolets |
Turetsky Choir (Russian: Хор Турецкого) (art group) is a musical collective under the direction of Mikhail Turetsky. The basis of the unique concept is a voice. The artists – all of them have got higher music education – sing live in 10 languages, with a-capella orchestra substituting musical instruments by live voices. These ten unusual and beautiful voices make a palette of natural men’s’ timbres from the rare tenor altino, a voice on the boundary between the male and female vocal range, to the lowest voice, the basso profundo.
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The Turetsky Choir made its debut in 1990 in the Philharmonic Halls of Tallinn and Kaliningrad. In its formative stages, Turetsky’s Choir was very different from what it is now. It began as a choir at the Moscow Choral Synagogue. In late 80s, Choir of Mikhail Turetsky was performing Jewish liturgical music. After a few years the collective’s ambitions became bigger than that rather narrow area. Today the band successfully combines opera, spiritual, folk and pop music from different parts of the world and from different time periods.
"Very few people were interested in that kind of music at the time, and no one at all in the post-Soviet countries… … … So when I got an opportunity, I did some research in libraries in New York and Jeruslaem and discovered this profound, diverse, and very stylish kind of music that was accessible at a basic human level… … … We understood that we had to have a broader scope and began to include secular material in our programs… … … Today, our repertoire contains music from the last four centuries – from Handel to Soviet pop hits, chanson, and the best examples of contemporary pop culture…"
"Our action is an unique possibility to address to enormous audience with call to create good, - Mikhail Turetsky considers, - after all it is not a secret that the language of the music is popular and clear for each of us, as no another. The storm of applause, sea of flowerers, enthusiastic children’s faces, fire in their eyes, all of this is indicative that purpose put by us was reached"
Soloist | Started to sing in the choir | |
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Mikhail Turetsky — tenor, National Artist of the Russian Federation, founder and the leader of the "Turetsky Choir" Art Group.
Mikhail was born in 1962, in Moscow. He got a degree in «Choir Conducting» from the Gnesins' Academy of Music. After that he had an internship as a symphonic conductor. While studying Mikhail works as a driver, a chorister, and loads trucks at one of the stores, then he conducts the Children's Chapel, the Political Song Ensemble and the choir of the Yuri Sherling theater. Since 1990 he is the organizer, conductor and art-project director (choirmaster) of the male choir of the Moscow Choral Synagogue. Now it is well known as the Choir of Mikhail Turetsky (Turetsky's Choir). "I can't even imagine myself being in another field of activity but music… It is absolutely impossible to perform complicated compositions without a conductor. While conducting the choir, I try at the same time to involve the whole auditorium into our musical dialogue. XXI century might be by right called the age of information and professionalism. When I hear a splendid harmonic sound, see a real stage direction and set design, I can then realize that we deal with a group of true professionals" Mikhail Turetsky[4]
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1989 | |
Alex Alexandrov — dramatic baritone
He is one of the Choir's youngest soloists, however, he is the group's senior. Alex is not only a soloist, he is also an assistant choreographer. Many of the dancing pieces of the concerts were staged with his help. He copies perfectly the voices of other pop stars like Toto Cutugno and Boris Moiseev. Born in, 1972 in Moscow. He graduated from the Choral Singing College named after Sveshnikov and The Gnesins' Academy of Music. "The Turetsky Choir" is all my life, if not, then a major part of it. Here I grew up, and got my personality. I can not imagine my life without the Choir. For me, Maestro, is not just a leader and the founder of the choir, but a second father… I believe in myself. I have something to aim for, and I just have a pleasure of living" Alex Alexandrov[4]
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1990 | |
Evgeny Kulmis - bass-profondo, director of the choir in the past, poet.
Bass-profundo is a rear natural voice that can't be just compared with an ordinary bass. It acquires very low notes, much lower than in an ordinary bass, this sound is more authentically cantorial. He was born in the region of the Southern Urals, not far away from the city of Chelyabinsk in 1966. He started his rising in the musical world as a pianist. He graduated from The Gnessins Russian Music Academy, then becoming a postgraduate as a specialist in Musicology (the Department of Music History, Theory, and Composing). Evgeny Kulmis is the author of poems, translations of selected musical compositions, executed by the choir. For example, he wrote the text to the instrument in the original compositions from the repertoire of Electric Light Orchestra - "Twilight". "This is my, this is something that I like and this is what I can do. Probably, in the choir and I shall die" - jokes the artist. "Right now I feel like in a team much more confident as a performer, than earlier. All the same by education I am a theorist, and not the singer. But now it's become my profession, my life" Evgeny Kulmis[4]
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1991 | |
Evgeny Tulinov — dramatic tenor, distinguished Artist of the Russian Federation, assistant of art-director. He is professional choir conductor, the possessor of very beautiful opera tenor voice.
Born in 1964, in Moscow. He graduated from the Music College at Moscow Conservatory and from The Gnesins' Academy of Music. As a student of several first years, Eugeny used to sing during the liturgy in the Church of Saint John the Warrior, and to conduct the choir at the Recreation Centre and work in the "Male Chamber Choir" conducted by V. M. Rybin. "Singing in an opera manner - it is the greatest pleasure for me… On the other hand, I look at singing form the actor's point of view. I imagine how i would have acted one or another character, showing all the drama... We are all creative associates, we are like some substance that exists outside of the rest of the real world. We understand each other and speak the same language" Evgeny Tulinov[4]
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1991 | |
Mikhail Kuznetsov — tenor altino, Distinguished artist of the Russian Federation. Tenor altino is very rare natural voice. He can sing both, male and female arias.
Born in 1962, in Moscow. He graduated from The Gnesins' Academy of Music. Then he sang in the Moscow Chamber Choir conducted by Vladimir Minin and in the Male choir of the publishing department of the "Moscow Patriarchy" magazine. "The choir for me is like home. Here I can feel my professional growth, I feel satisfy my personal and professional ambitions. I feel the desire to live and to work more and more… Every time that I go out on the stage, I am trying to give the audience as much love and warmth as I can give" Mikhail Kuznetsov[4]
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1992 | |
Oleg Blyahorchuk, lyric tenor, multi-instrumentalist (he plays the piano, guitar, accordion, melodica).
Was born in 1966 in the city of Minsk in Belarus. He studied at Minsk musical college. At the third year in college Oleg had his own vocal and instrumental group, in which he was the leader, vocalist and keyboardist at the same time. After college, he entered the Minsk State Conservatoire specialty "choral conducting". He worked in the choir of radio and television, where the main conductor was a pupil AV Sveshnikova People's Artist of the USSR VV Rovdo, then as a soloist of the concert orchestra of the republic of Belarus under the leadership of Mikhail Finberg. "What I think now about his life and work? I think a way should have been. I am happy to be in demand as a musician. Not all of my classmates and friends so lucky. The Choir is everything to me now - it is my work, and it is my way of living, and it is my way of earning my living altogether" Oleg Blyahorchuk[4]
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1996 | |
Igor Zverev — bass
Born in 1968, in Moscow Region. He graduated from The Department of Choral Conducting of the Moscow Academy of Arts and Culture. He worked as a professional singer to the Academic Song and Dance Company of the Internal Troops, of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation, then he switched to the Polyansky's State Academic Symphonic Capella. "I understood, that working with this group could give me, as an artist, a great opportunity for self-fulfilment and professional growth… Now I can feel the energy of my own voice, I am more confident, it's like feeling your new self" Igor Zverev[4]
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2003 | |
Boris Goryachev — liryc baritone
Born in Moscow, in 1971. He graduated from Moscow Conservatory. He worked in the Men's chamber choir "Akathist" under the management AV Malyutin. The team performed Russian spiritual music, which at that time was interesting and new, in 1995 moved to work to the choir "Peresvet" and at the same time engaged own project - quartet, who performed the spiritual and Russian folk music. In 2003 Boris for the first time met with the art group "Turetsky Choir". "When you live a long time in such a rapid pace, you get used to it. It is impossible to imagine my life without concerts and trips. Do you know what is happiness for a musician? When the scene feel confident in yourself, when you have a certain niche, when you see the grateful eyes of the audience, when you know, that still does not fully reveal his voice capacity and realize that all is still ahead..." Boris Goryachev[4]
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2003 | |
Konstantin Kabo — baritone tenor
Born in 1974, in Moscow. He graduated from Sveshnikov Musical College and The Russian University of Theatre Arts (GITIS). He sang in musicals "Nord-Ost", "12 chairs", "Romeo and Juliet", "Mama Mia". Simultaneously, he wrote the music, in particular, to the program "The Circus on Ice". "I am pleased and happy. In the Choir I have found my "I". Work in the group gives me a huge charge of energy, which I gladly share as with the public, as well as with people close to me" Konstantin Kabo[4]
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2007 | |
Vyacheslav Fresh — counter-tenor, this is one of the rarest tone, highest pitch of all male voices, which is equal to female contralto or mezzo-soprano.
Born in 1982, in Moscow. He graduated from of the department of Music and Fine Arts of J. Gutenberg Universuty in Mainz (Germany). "I was not a professional singer, and, I can even say I was just a guy who had a good voice. There were millions of guys just like me… I recorded several songs from the repertoire of “Queen,” added some Classical compositions and mailed all this to the Choir's office. Several months later I was invited for a live audition to Moscow. That was like a miracle to me… For me, meeting and working with the Choir was one of the greatest fortunes in life. For me, as a young musician, it is an honor share the stage with the professionals, to absorb their experience, their stage skills, their vocal skills, their acting skills. I will try to match the level of the group and to grow as a professional" Vyacheslav Fresh[4]
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2009 |
Disk Name |
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High Holidays (Jewish religious songs)
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Bravissimo
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Jewish Songs
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Star Duets (ru:Звёздные дуэты)
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Une vie d’amour (ru:Такая великая любовь)
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When the Men Sing (ru:Когда поют мужчины) (Concert in Haifa, DVD, 2004) (see the next DVD)- concert without Gloria Gaynor and Emma Chapplin. |
When the Men Sing (Concert in Moscow, DVD, 2004)
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Born to Sing (ru:Рожденные петь)
1st Part
2-nd Part
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Great Music (2 CD + DVD) (ru:Великая музыка)
Great Music DVD
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Moscow - Jerusalem (ru:Москва-Иерусалим) (2 CD + DVD)
Moscow - Jerusalem CD1
Moscow - Jerusalem CD2
Moscow - Jerusalem DVD
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Music of all times (ru:Музыка всех времен) (CD + 2 DVD)
CD: Music of all time
DVD 1: Music of all times and peoples (The Kremlin - 2006, Live)
DVD2:Hallelujah to Love (ru:Аллилуйя любви) / Kremlin Live DVD - 2008
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