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SEMIKOZOV ANATOLIY, mandolin-player, Ukraine

SEMIKOZOV ANATOLIY, mandolin-player, Ukraine

Prizewinner of the international competition (mandolin).

Was born in 1955.

First came on a concert stage as a domra-player at the age of 8.

Got higher musical education at S.S.Prokofiev Donetsk State Musical-Pedagogical University (professor V. Ivko's class).

From 1982 to 1990: the concertmaster and the soloist of the folk music instrumental ensemble  «Uzory» in Nikolayaev Region Philharmonic Society.

From 1990: the soloist and the musician of the State National Orchestra with Folk Musical Instruments (Kiev). At the same time he co-operates with Children and Youth Musical Theatre: performs mandolin parties in repertoire performances. From 1995 he acted both as a performer and a professor at Musical Department of Kiev State University of Culture.

From 1997 he began working on his own giving concerts in Germany with different performer teams. He came out on the Bavarian radio. Several programs on “Deutche Welle” were devoted to him.

In 2001 he was invited as a “Special Guest” to the instrumental ensemble «Chantal» (Germany) to take part in concerts and CDs recording.

In February 2003 the concert with participation of A. Semikozov with the Ensemble of Soloists in National Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine headed by Vladimir Sirenko took place.

From the review to the concert in “Nota” magazine:

“Anatoliy Semikozov is a very famous giving concerts mandolin-players from Kiev – visited us with amazing ‘exotic’ program that constitutes life itself for a musician. We must have heard for the first time the original Concertos for the mandolin with the camera orchestra by Vivaldi. It impressed us greatly, I must say: the stringed instrument played by plucking having overcome its nature was almost like singing. However, this is the matter of masterly skill: affectionate feeling of baroque epoch style, sharp phrase construction, fine timbre, especially in “quiet” fragments. The audience was anonymous in its feeling of excitement and purity.”

(Natalie Onilat NOTA, #1/2003)

Nowadays Anatoliy SEMIKOZOV is one of the most prominent mandolin-players of Ukraine. His repertoire enlists more than 150 items. Two directions are represented in it, as follows:

  Classical - pieces of Renaissance, suits and sonatas of Baroque, sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Hummer, works by Russian and contemporary Ukrainian authors.

  Entertainment - including original mandolin works and arrangements.

 

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