Veretennikov, Ivan Ivanovich

Born on March 19, 1944 in the village of Afanasevka, Alekseevsky district, Voronezh (now Belgorod ) region ^[2] . He graduated from the Pavlovsk Pedagogical College of the Voronezh Region, the Voronezh College of Music, Moscow State University of Culture .

He worked as a singing teacher, led the choir groups of the Alekseevsky District House of Culture, the Kustovsky rural House of Culture of the Yakovlevsky District, the Belgorod Mica Factory and the children's folklore group in the village of Afanasyevka.

In 2002, I.I. Veretennikov was admitted to the Union of Composers of Russia .

A significant place in his activity is occupied by pedagogical work. In the years 1974-1998, Ivan Ivanovich worked at the Belgorod College of Music, made a significant contribution to the opening of the department of the folk choir; Since 1998 - lecturer at the Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture .

Currently, I.I. Veretennikov is an assistant professor at the Belgorod State Institute of Arts and Culture and a senior researcher at the Belgorod State Center for Folk Art .

I. I. Veretennikov was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (1997), the commemorative medal "Patriot of Russia" of the historical and cultural center under the government of the Russian Federation (1987), the commemorative medal "Encyclopedia" The best people of Russia " , a badge of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation “Excellent student of cultural patronage of the village” (1987), Honorary diplomas of the Komsomol Central Committee, Medal “For Merit to the Belgorod Land” II degree ^[3] , the Council of War Veterans.

Since 1964, Ivan Ivanovich has been recording samples of the traditional folk art of the region - more than a thousand songs have been recorded, more than 300 - published in collections of different regions.

In 1968, Ivan Veretennikov organized in Belgorod a folklore ensemble of students from vocational education systems, which he supervised until 1980. The ensemble repeatedly became a laureate and diploma winner of international and All-Russian festivals of folk art, the World Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin (1973). The collective has visited concert tours in many countries of Europe and Algeria; He was a participant in the final concert of the winners of the All-Union Festival of Folk Art (1978) in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses.

In 1973, I. Veretennikov opened a department of Russian folk singing at the Belgorod College of Music (now the Institute of Arts and Culture). Together with his folklore groups, Ivan Ivanovich took part in many scientific and practical conferences of the regional and All-Russian level in the cities of Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow, in the scientific symposium in the city of Shmalkalden (Germany), is a laureate of the II All-Union festival of folk art in the RSFSR (1986), was a participant in the I International Festival of Folklore in Moscow (1987).

He is the author of the books “Musical Traditions of the Belgorod Territory”, “Belgorod Karagods”, “Mechanisms of Traditional Culture”, “Problems of Regional Culture”, “Folk Traditions of the Graivoronsky District”, study guides “Arranging and Processing a Folk Song for a Choir”, “Processing of Folk Songs and tunes for button accordion "," Processing of folk songs for a duet "and collections of songs" Folk song at school "," Musical springs "," Folk songs in processing for an academic choir "," Remember, brothers-grayivorontsy ".

The collection “Folk Songs of the Belgorod Region in Processing for Solo Singing” was awarded a diploma of the State Russian House of Folk Art.

The book "South Russian Karagods" and a video for it serve as a training tool for the institutes of culture and the arts.

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• Belykh V.I. To the glory of Russian dance (from the history of the development of Russian dance in the Belgorod region) . - Belgorod: CPI "Polyterra", 2013. - 185 p.
• Karacharov I.N. Veretennikov Ivan Ivanovich // Belgorod Encyclopedia / Ch. Editor V.V. Ovchinnikov. - Belgorod: Regional Printing House, 1998. - S. 78–79 . - ISBN 5-86295-001-X . Archived on October 23, 2014.

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