Kogan, Timur Iosifovich

Born in Baku , in the family of an oil engineer. He entered the Baku Conservatory and graduated from the composer department at age 22, then became the conductor of the Opera House in Tallinn . He was the musical director of the ballet of Leonid Yakobson .

In 1975 , he composed the music for the ballet Cowboy . Kogan’s opera “ Susanna and the Elders” was staged by the Novosibirsk Opera House , and the opera “ Flint ” has been on the stage of the Opera Studio of the St. Petersburg Conservatory for 25 years.

The ballet “ Pinocchio ” by Boris Eifman and “ Waterloo Bridge ” by the artists of the Kirov Theater ballet were staged to music by Kogan.

The author of musicals , in particular, The Enchanted Tailor, music for films ( Galatea with E. Maksimova and others), and arrangements of Jewish folk songs . He is the author of music for ballet performances , ballet films , romances , operas , songs based on poems by Silver Age poets.

Filmography

• 1977 - " Galatea " - a film ballet by A. A. Belinsky
• 1979 - Old Tango - ballet film
• 1984 - “ Another's wife and husband under the bed ”
• 1987 - " First meeting, last meeting "
• 1992 - Gaggio
• 1992 - The Last Tarantella
• 1993 - " Blue Dancers " - ballet film - screenwriter
• 1994 - “The Life and Adventures of Four Friends ” - 2nd Film
• 1995 - Shirley-Myrli - composer, conductor

• Kogan T. Ballet Composition
• Kogan T. Russian vocals crisis

• Timur Kogan on the Internet Movie Database
• Timur Kogan on the website of the St. Petersburg State Chapel