Igor Olovnikov Biography

A musical education received a class at the Belarusian State Conservatory at the Middle Special Music School, the class of Honored Artist, Professor I. while still a student of the school, became the laureate of the Republican Minsk, the interzonal Vilnius and the International named after them. Sour cream, Czechoslovakia of pianists contests. He continued his studies at the Moscow State Conservatory.

The Tchaikovo class of the piano of Professor J. Flier and the class of the organ of Professor L. Roizman, as well as in the assistant-style of the conservatory, the class of Professor M. soloist of the Belarusian State Philharmonic from the year. He is a member of many famous music festivals. At the World Art Festival in North Korea, the Golden Cup award was awarded a high award in the year.

He acts both with solo piano and organ programs, and in chamber ensembles with famous soloist-instrumentalists, as well as with symphonic and chamber orchestras. The repertoire of Igor Olovnikov is distinguished by exceptional genre-style variety. In his field of vision - music from early revival to samples of the 21st century. The most significant projects of the performer are a cycle of 6 concerts “Fantasy for keyboard instruments” Organ, harpsichord, piano; Monographic concerts from the works of I.

Bach, L. Chopin, R. Shuman, F. Liste, I. Brahms, Russian classics, Belarusian composers of the past and modernity. The original organ programs of recent years are “six centuries of choral” and “seven centuries of secular music”, where works from the XIV century were presented to the present day. By the summer anniversary of F. Chopin, the performer prepared two piano performances in which all sonatas, ballads and scherzo, as well as the barrola of the great composer, sounded.

The pianist celebrated the three hundredth anniversary of piano music with the Pages of Popular Classics, which included the most famous piano miniatures of three centuries, and the flight of the Union of Belarusian composers - by the performance of their own processing of the best pages of national classics. Often, Igor Olovnikov combines the performance in one concert of piano and organ works.

The genre of the piano concert is presented in the repertoire of the pianist by many concerts V. Mozart, all the concerts of L. Prokofiev, an E. Grieg concert, Rapsodia J. Gershwin, many other European and Belarusian concerts. With them, he acted as a community with such famous conductors as V. Dubrovsky, Yu. Efimov, G. Provitors, M. Yansons, A. Chistyakov, L.

Kremer, V. Dudarov, A. Anisimov and others. Virtuoso performing technology, bright imagery of musical thinking, strict architectonics of musical form and the mild way of intonation determine the individual pianistic style musician. His preferences are the organ music of I. Bach, the piano sonatas of L. Liste and S. At the same time, the performer attaches great importance to the compilation of the repertoire to a variety of miniatures, the most appropriate children's concerts and communication with an unprepared public.

Similar performances by the pianist often accompanies his own comments on the works, which are served in the form of a direct and fascinating conversation with the listener. Igor Olovnikov is an author of about a hundred concert transcriptions of transcriptions for the piano of organ, orchestral and vocal works of I. Bach, V. Mozart, S. Frank, K. Saint-Sansa, I.

Brahms, S. Rachmaninov, P. Tchaikovsky, D. Shostakovich, music of Belarusian composers: A. Bogatyrev, V. Olovnikov, G. Wagner, E. Glebov, S. Cortes, A. Most of the latter were made at the proposal of the authors. Due to the spectacular virtuoso qualities, bright imagery and convenience of presentation, transcriptions were widely used not only in Belarus, but also abroad.

They are constantly included in the pianists in a concert and competitive repertoire, recorded on discs, are used in pedagogical practice. Many of them were published in various collections of piano music. The author’s collection of piano transcriptions with the introductory article by Igor Olovnikov was published by the Belarusian State Academy of Music in the year.

In the year, the pianist spoke with a solo concert at the Moscow traditional festival of piano transcription. The pianist conducts great musical and educational work, annually performing with lecture cycles on professional topics both in the system of advanced training of specialists, and at various forums of musicians in many cities of Belarus and abroad. In and gg. The important side of the musician’s activity is the propaganda of the national musical heritage.

He is the first performer of many works of Belarusian authors, such as L. Wagner's piano concert, a piano concert and temptation sonata, A. Korotin and others. The editors published about 20 collections of piano music of Belarusian authors of the past and present, for example, Virtuos, Pianist, “Music of the Yelsky family”, “Music of the Oginsky family”, “Music of the Oginsky family” The piano works of J.

Tarasevich, N. Hordes, F. Miladovsky, A. Abramovich, E.Glebova and many. For more than twenty -five years, he has been engaged in pedagogical activity. From the year, he headed the department of a special piano of the Belarusian State Academy of Music. From the year - a professor in office. He conducts master classes for young pianists not only in Belarus, but also in Japan, Taiwan, France, Poland, Russia, and other countries.

Among his students are laureates and diplomats of international competitions - I. Sergey, A. Shibaeva, Yu. Shirinov, A. Sapega, V. Shatskaya, M. Klimovich and others. He repeatedly acted as the head and consultant of thesis and master's thesis of students of the Academy; In his archive-at least 50 reviews of various research work, articles and dissertations of colleagues and students written at their request.

Igor Olovnikov is a permanent chairman of the jury of international pianists in Belarus, part of the jury of competitions of other countries. For ten years he was a member of the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus to support talented youth. In the year he was awarded the title “Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus”, and the title “People's Artist of Belarus”.

In the year, for concert programs, he was awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus. Since the year, the Higher Attestation Committee has been approved in the scientific rank of professor. In the year, he was awarded the medal of Francis Skorina, in the anniversary medal of the International Union of Music figures of VMO and the breastive mark of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus “For Contribution to the Development of Culture of Belarus”, in the breastive mark of the Union of Musical Workers of the Republic of Belarus “For contribution to the development of musical art”, in the honorary sign of the Belarusian trade union of cultural workers.

He has congratulatory letters of the President of the Republic of Belarus, gratitude to the Prime Minister and Minister of Culture of the Republic of Belarus, numerous letters of international music festivals.