Ovchinnikov Biography

Biography on May 29 - February 4 Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Ovchinnikov, composer and conductor, People's Artist of Russia, a member of the European Academy of Cinema and Television, a full member of the National Academy of Cinematic Arts and Sciences, a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, a member of the Union of Composers of Russia, a repeated chairman and member of the jury of all -Russian and international competitions of symphony conductors, chamber and symphonic orchestras, violin, altists, cellists, pianists.

Vyacheslav Alexandrovich was born on May 29, Voronezh stands on the hills and is divided by the river of the same name. Near Voronezh and in the city itself wonderful forests and parks. Oaks and mixed forests alternate with conifers. Unique pine forests, as well as the convenient geographical position of the city of Voronezh, probably led Peter the Great to the idea of ​​the construction of the first Russian fleet here.

The city gave Russia and the world of outstanding people in various fields of activity. Poets - Alexei Koltsov and I. Pyatnitsky, Cosmonauts Feoktistov and Filipchenko, Academician Basov. Many famous military leaders and statesmen came out of Voronezh.

During the war, the family first moved to Siberia, then to the Far East, where the father was transferred to serve. Immediately after the expulsion of the Nazi troops, despite the absence of almost all, in hunger and cold, the Voronezhs commit their feat of restoration of the city. There were four children in the family - three girls and one boy and, despite the difficulties of the post -war years, all the children studied music.

At the same time, he begins to compose and fulfill his works publicly. In parallel, the piano also seizes, so that at the demonstrative concerts of the school he appears in a few roles. The successes of V. Ovchinnikov turned out to be so impressive that he takes five years in five years, graduates with honors and leaves at the insistence of V. Bronin and D. Ostrakh to continue his studies in Moscow.

Here in September, he enters the music school at the Moscow Conservatory. He improves his skill as a pianist and ends in the city of Bogatyrev, and in the class of Professor L. Ginsburg he learns to conduct. In the year, training at the conservatory ends and continues in graduate school in the class of Professor T. Khrennikov, as Professor Bogatyrev died in a year.

As befits at this age, V. In the years of study, he creates works that immediately brought him wide fame with us and abroad: symphonies, symphonic suits, overtures, poems, as well as symphonic miniatures. He is the winner in all those All -Union and All -Russian competitions in which he takes part. In the year, winning one of these competitions, he receives the right to open the International Youth and Students in Moscow in the BZK with his symphonic poem Festival with his symphonic poem.

Chamber works for violin and piano often sound at international competitions of performers, and at III - eat the competition to them. Tchaikovsky in Moscow, the sonata of V. Ovchinnikov for violin and piano is an obligatory work. Provitors and others. After the premiere of the I, the Symphony in the city of Gauk, Ovchinnikov firmly takes the place of one of the most engaged composers of his time.

The best theaters, film studios and directors, a company of gramophone records are addressed with offers. Dovzhenko, and also works abroad. Dovzhenko, “First Teacher”, “Noble Nest” by Andrei Konchalovsky. In Ovchinnikov, a large gold medal for music for films. He performs BSE of music recording in these films himself. In these years, he works a lot as a professional cinema conductor, radio, television and grampers.

However, he publicly debuts as a conductor in the year in Rakhmaninov, where he wasprooted by the works of S. Rachmaninov and his “elegia” in memory of the great musician, who has since become one of the most beloved works of the Moscow public. Since then, V. Concerts have been flowing in the best halls of the country, with the best orchestras and with permanent households.

Viardot, Art. Tchaikovsky, S. Rachmaninov, M. Glinka, M. Mussorgsky, Dvorzhak, Smetana, I. Haydn, V. Mozart, L. Beethoven, I. Bach, R. Brahms, K. Debussy, Ramo, M. Romo, T. Maler, F. Liszt, F. Mendelsson, G. Berlioz, M. Biza, E. Grieg, J. Sibelius, R. Straus and I. Ovchinnikov conducts active public work. He is a member of the Soviet Committee for the Protection of the World, where his activities were noted in the city of committees to celebrate the days of poets: F.

Tyutchev, Alexei Koltsov and I. Ovchinnikov takes part in the jury of many all -Russian and all -Union contests of symphonic conductors, as well as performers in the specialty of piano, violin, alt, symphonic orchestras and other sheepskin He took part in the jury of several international competitions in various specialties: and the international competition of conductors named after Tuscanini in the city of Italy; B International Competition of conductor named after Vaclav Talliha in Prague of Czechoslovakia; In the International Competition to them.

Tchaikovsky in the cityMoscow in the specialty violin, piano, vocals; G International Competition of Composers named after Petrassier in the city of Belgrade Yugoslavia; F International Pianists competition named after Rubinstein in Israel; He took part in international music festivals: Tokyo Summer Tokyo, where 4 days of the festival and Prague Spring were dedicated to him.

Prague, Czechoslovakia. Ovchinnikov refers to the type of musicians, whose performances and works are waiting as a big event. And, I must say, he never deceives expectations. This is how the foreign press of the performance of V. Power, vitality, and spirituality evaluate - this will I want to note especially. Bondarchuk, magazine "Youth". Ovchinnikov is the creator of works in almost all genres of music.

Khachaturian and D. Shostakovich considered V. in one of his letters addressed to V. Ovchinnikov, D. Shostakovich predicts him a great future. With all this, the composer himself believes that he is only at the beginning, and therefore does not even numb his works.