Valenty, Andrey Nikolaevich

Early years and studies

Andrey Valentiy was born on June 30, 1973 in the village of Zhovtnevoye (now Pokrovskoye ) in the Mensky district of the Chernihiv region , Ukraine . In childhood, he spent all his free time at the airport, where his father worked. ^[1] Dreamed of becoming a pilot. However, it so happened that a brass band was created in the local House of Culture, and Andrei signed up for it. After some time, the orchestra broke up, but Andrei was so fond of music and his instrument that he began to go to a music school in a neighboring city. And then he entered the Chernihiv College of Music named after L. N. Revutsky in the class of pipe. Upon graduation in 1992, Andrei entered the M. P. Drahomanov Kiev Pedagogical Institute (now the M. P. Drahomanov National Pedagogical University ) at the faculty of “Music and Artistic Culture”. To enter the conservatory, a good tool was needed, and the family did not have such an opportunity at that time. ^[1] At the institute, Andrei became interested in vocals, although he did not even suspect that he had a voice at the school. This was facilitated to no less extent by his teachers - Vladimir Turets and teacher of the Kiev State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky (now the National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P.I. Tchaikovsky ) Lyubov Kryzhanovskaya. He began to sing in the choir of the institute. In 1993-96 He was a soloist of the boys' choir of the Kiev Special Music Boarding School for Gifted Children at the Kiev Conservatory , with a team of which he performed in France , Germany , Belgium , Spain , Holland , and Hungary . After graduating from the institute in 1996, Andrei was admitted to the N. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg in the vocal class (class of People's Artist of Russia, Professor G. Seleznev ). In 2001, he graduated from the conservatory and in 2003 graduate school at the conservatory.

Career and Touring

While still a second year student at the conservatory, Andrei begins his performing career with performances in the performances of the State Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory , where he performed the following parts in five years: Bertrand, King Rene ( "Iolanta" by P. Tchaikovsky ), Gremin ( " Eugene Onegin ”by P. Tchaikovsky ), Don Basilio ( “ The Barber of Seville ”by J. Rossini ), Sobakin ( “ The Tsar’s Bride ”by N. Rimsky-Korsakov ), Old Gypsy ( “ Aleko ” S. Rachmaninov ), Mephistopheles ( “ Faust ” Ш . Gounod ). In 2001, he participated in master classes by Vladimir Atlantov .

In 2002, as part of the "Trio of Basses" with Boris Shtokolov and Evgeny Nesterenko, he performed at the Moscow International House of Music with a program of Russian romance.

With the National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments. N.P. Osipova recorded a solo disc "Popular romances and songs."

Since 2005, after Mussorgsky’s debut in L. Desyatnikov ’s opera “ Children of Rosenthal ”, he has been a guest soloist at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia . The soloist’s repertoire includes about 20 parts of the bass repertoire. He performed under the direction of conductors A. Vedernikov , Yu. Temirkanov , V. Fedoseyev , M. Rostropovich , V. Chernushenko , Yu. Bashmet , M. Pletnev and others.

He performed solo concerts in the halls of the Moscow and St. Petersburg Philharmonic , the Kremlin Palace , the State Central Concert Hall "Russia" , the Small Hall named after A.K. Glazunov St. Petersburg Conservatory .

Since 2009 - leading soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus .

In 2014, he gave a recital at the Moscow International House of Music .

In 2014, he participated in the Open Air project in the production of the opera Prince Igor on Cathedral Square in Astrakhan .

Since 2015, participates in the production and premieres of "Khovanshchina" at the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko .

He toured in France , Germany , Great Britain , Belgium , and the Netherlands . In Italy, he performed at the La Scala theater with “Eugene Onegin” and the oratorio “Jesus Navin” by M. Mussorgsky in 2009. He participated in the festival in Finland ( Boris Godunov and Rosenthal ’s Children ) in 2007 and Slovenia ( Boris Godunov ) in 2007. In 2018, he took part in the SummerScape Summer Arts Festival at Bard College in New York State (Prince Gudal in A. Rubinshtein's “Demon” ). ^[2]

Zachariah, High Priest ( Nabucco by J. Verdi )

Gremin ( "Eugene Onegin" by P. Tchaikovsky )

Don Basilio ( The Barber of Seville by J. Rossini )

Sobakin ( The Tsar’s Bride by N. Rimsky-Korsakov )

Collen ( Bohemia by J. Puccini )

King Rene ( "Iolanta" by P. Tchaikovsky )

Frost ( The Snow Maiden by N. Rimsky-Korsakov )

Dosifei, Ivan Khovansky ( Khovanshchina by M. Mussorgsky )

Ramfis (" Aida " by J. Verdi )

Konchak, Galitsky ( “Prince Igor” by A. Borodin )

Timur ( Turandot by J. Puccini )

Banco ( Macbeth, J. Verdi )

Zarastro (The Magic Flute by V. A. Mozart )

Mephistopheles ( “Faust” S. Gounod )

Old gypsy ( Aleko S. Rachmaninov )

Surin ( The Queen of Spades by P. Tchaikovsky )

Varyazhsky guest ( "Sadko" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov )

Boris Godunov, Pimen, Bailiff ( “Boris Godunov” by M. Mussorgsky )

Mendoza ( “Duenya” by S. Prokofiev )

Don Bartolo (“ The Wedding of Figaro ” by V. A. Mozart )

Salieri ( Mozart and Salieri by N. Rimsky-Korsakov )

Miller ( The Mermaid by A. Dargomyzhsky )

Mussorgsky, The Second Companion of Rosenthal (“ Children of Rosenthal ” by L. Desyatnikov )

Ball Manager, General Beliard, Captain Ramballe ( War and Peace by S. Prokofiev )

Guslyar ( "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia" by N. Rimsky-Korsakov )

Prince Goodall ( "Demon" by A. Rubinstein )

Solo parts in the Requiem of G. Foret , in the Requiem of V.A. Mozart , in the Magnificat of I.S. Bach , in the Ninth Symphony of L. van Beethoven .

He recorded a solo disc "Popular romances and songs" with the participation of the National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments. N.P. Osipova , conductor Nikolai Kalinin . In 2000, he participated in the recording of the Ninth Symphony of L. van Beethoven with the choir and orchestra of the University of Birmingham ( Great Britain ), conductor Robert Mickley.

Singer website

Page on the website of the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus

Page on the website of the Belarusian State Philharmonic

Page on the site of the Chuvash Opera and Ballet Theater

Page on the website of the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko

Page on the site of the Samara Opera and Ballet Theater