Sergey Nikitin (musician)

Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin (Russian: Сергей Яковлевич Никитин, born March 8, 1944) is a prominent Soviet and Russian bard, composer, and biophysicist. He performs solo and as a duet together with his wife, Tatyana Nikitina in Russia, the former Soviet republics, and other countries with significant populations of Russian-speaking immigrants.

Sergey Nikitin was one of the first bards in Russia in the sixties who began putting other poets' lyrics to music, while attempting to translate the melody already ripe in the verse into musical phrases. His method is akin to the Intonational Opera by Mussorgsky in which musical lines originate from the natural speech intonation.

Sergey Nikitin is also known as a composer and performer of songs for children.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards 3 Personal 4 Works 5 References 6 External links

Biography

• 1962-1968- Graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University, Acoustics Division
• 1962 - Wrote music to his first song, En route (В дороге), lyrics by Iosif Utkin.
• 1963-1968 - Founded an all-male quartet of the Department of Physics, Moscow State University: Sergey Nikitin, Sergey Smirnov, Boris Geller, Aleksei Monakhov, and later Vadim Khait Архив Сибирского Отделения Российской Академии Наук
• 1968-1971 - Postgraduate study in Biophysics at Moscow State University.
• 1968-1977 - Founding Member of the Sergey Nikitin Quintet: Sergey and Tatiana Nikitin, Carmen Santacreu, Vladimir Ulin, and Nikolai Turkin
• 1971-1980 - Researcher at Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow
• 1980-1987 - Researcher at the Institute for Biophysics Puschino; Ph.D in Physics (1983).
• 1987-1995 - Musical Director at the Oleg Tabakov Studio-Theater in Moscow
• since 1995 - Full time singer and composer

Awards

• 1980 The movie Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears for which Sergey Nikitin wrote the music received an Oscar in the 'best foreign film' category.

• In 1997, Sergey Nikitin was awarded the title of the Meritorious Actor of Russia and, together with Tatiana Nikitina, became a laureate of the Tzarsko-Selsky Artistic Prize.

Personal

Born on March 8, 1944, Nikitin has two older sisters, and one adult son, Alexander, who sometimes performs in concerts with Sergey and Tatiana.

Works

• CDs
  • 'To the Music of Vivaldi ("Под музыку Вивальди"), 1994
  • Sergei Nikitin (selected songs), 1994
  • A Big Secret for a Small Company ("Большой секрет для маленькой компании"), 1995
  • Yesterday the Crocodile smiled, 1995
  • Brich-Mulla ("Брич-Мулла" , Sergey Nikitin's songs on verses of Dmitry Sukharev cf. Brichmulla), 1996
  • Sentries of Love ("Часовые любви", The Nikitins sing Bulat Okudzhava's songs)
  • We don't choose times, 1998
  • The Girl and the Plasticine, 1998
  • Something is Happenning to Me (Sergey Nikitin's songs to the verses of Yevgeny Yevtushenko), 1999
  • Retro for the Two of Us (Sergey Nikitin, Pyotr Todorvsky)
  • Black and White Cinema, 2002
  • Winter Holiday, 2002

and many others

• Soundtracks to live-action films:
  • Almost a laughable story
  • Trips in an old car
  • Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
  • Irony of Fate
  • Old New Year
• Soundtracks to animated films:
  • A Big Secret for a Small Company (1979)
  • The Boy Was Walking, the Crow Was Flying (1981)
  • The Wolfskin (1982)
• Music for the theater
  • Mary Poppins, a collaboration with Viktor Berkovsky
  • Ali Baba and 40 songs of Persian Bazaar a collaboration with Viktor Berkovsky, libretto by Veniamin Smekhov
  • Opera Why are you wearing tails (based on a vaudeville by Anton Chekhov the Proposal)
  • and many others

References

External links

• Sergey Nikitin's official site in Russian

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