Andrey Gorbachev (balalaika)

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  Andrey Alexandrovich Gorbachev is doubtlessly the leading balalaika player in Russia and in the world at the present. He was born in 1970 (Voronezh, Russia).In 1992 he won the Grand-Prix of the greatest and most prominent competition for the folk-string instruments in the world “Kubok Severa”, which took place in Cherepovets, Vologodskaja region in Russia. One year later A.A. Gorbachov became a first price winner of the international V.V.Andreeva competition (Tver, Russia).                                                                                                                   A.A. Gorbachev is considered as one of the leading schoolmasters for balalaika. Since 1997 he has worked as a teacher for the S.V.Rachmaninov Institute of Music in Tambov. From 2000 until now he has been teaching in Russia’s Gnesinych Akademy of Music in Moskow, presumed to be the best MusicAcademy in whole Russia. In 2004 he took here over the lead of the folk-string instruments department and few years later were assigned the highly honourable title of Professor.

A number of students have been taught by A.A. Gorbachev, nine of them became winner of foremost music competitions in Russia as well as in other countries. The list of his students can be seen under www. andreygorbachev.com

 

A.A. Gorbachev is author of ten books of music, as well as writer of more than thirty articles published in professional journals in the last years.

 

A.A. Gorbachev developed and introduced the new kinds of techniques of playing balalaika, establishing therewith a new epoch for balalaika. He implemented new techniques of balalaika-playing; some of techniques were demonstrated by him for the very first time in music history, as well as presented a new and modern way of balalaika-sound. He is in a constant and close cooperation with a number of composers. The composers, as Sergey Slonimsky, Mikhail Tzayger(USA), Mikhail Bronner, Efrem Podgaytz, Kirill Volkov, Anatoly Kusyakov, Alexander Tsygankov, Evgeny Derbenko, Alexandr Rogachev and other wrote and dedicated their works for A.A. Gorbachev. A.A. Gorbachev premiered seventeen compositions for balalaika, making thereby a big contribution to the balalaika music repertoire.

 

In the last fifteen years A.A. Gorbachev has performed more than one thousand concerts in the whole world. He played as a soloist on the stages of Russia, Great Britain (here he played for the queen Elisabeth II), Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Ukraine, Poland, Turkey and Japan.

 

A.A. Gorbachev performed various concerts with the leading orchestras of Russia and other countries: the President Orchestra of Russia, Orchestra of Turkey, National Orchestra N.I. Osipov (Moskow), V.V. Andreev Orchestra (Sant-Petersburg), Symphony Orchestra of Zelena Gura in Poland, Adana Orchestra (Turkey), SWR Symphony Orchestra (Germany), Chamber Orchestra of Bavaria (Germany), Symphony Orchestras of Voroneg, Omsk, Saratov, Vologda (Russia), Orchestras of folk-instruments “Moskva”, Sankt-Petersburg, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Cherepovets, Krasnojarsk, Novokuznets, Briansk, Smolensk, Jaroslavl (Russia) and Japan.

 

As a leading balalaika player of Russia and actually of the whole world, A.A.Gorbachev is often invited to take part in various music competitions as a jury member, mostly as a head of jury. So far it has been 55 music competitions in Russia, Germany, Ukraine and Japan, where A.A.Gorbachev played his role as a jury member