Elchik, Valery Anatolyevich

Father, Anatoly Petrovich Elchik (b.1935), a long-distance sailor. Mother, Eleanor Konstantinovna Elchik (b.1937), majoring in the maintenance of marine transport. Valery spent his early childhood in a communal apartment in the provincial Zhdanov. Already in the early years, he stayed for a long time near a radio point in an apartment or near a portable turntable. During these hours, he forgot about everything in the world, even about boyish games. In his opinion, he was already in its infancy as a musician. His mother did not immediately, but unmistakably discern the future musician in him, and in the summer of 1968 led him to audition in the best music school in the city.

School of Music and College

He begins his studies at school as a guitarist, plays the double bass in the House of Pioneers. Then he transferred to the national branch in the balalaika class and in 3 years he graduated from a music school. Then 4 years of the Zhdanov School of Music (balalaika class of Yu. G. Kornienko) and the first concerts with the school’s music orchestra. The local newspaper Priazovsky Rabochiy writes an article about him in which he is mentioned as a student with high expectations. Tips to enter the Donetsk Conservatory, graduate from it, and then stay at the school. But Valery decides to go to Moscow . Prior to his admission to the Gnesins State Musical Pedagogical Institute (today it is the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music ) he spent the whole year listening to the teacher Pavel Ivanovich Necheporenko, who still considers him one of his best pupils.

Institute

• 1979-1984 - student of the GMPI named after Gnesins.
• 1983-1984 - teacher of the balalaika class at the Oktyabrskaya Revolution College of Music
• 1984-1986 - compulsory service in the ranks of the armed forces, in the Moscow Region Division of Internal Troops named after F.E Dzerzhinsky.
• 1986 - soloist of the Rosconcert.
• Laureate of the III All-Russian competition of folk instrument performers (Tula, 1986, 2nd prize).
• 1986-1988 assistant trainee GMPI them. Gnesins.
• 1988 lecturer in the class of balalaika, ensemble and pedpractic at the Department of Folk Instruments GMPI im. Gnesins.
• 1988 - soloist of the Moscow Concert Philharmonic Organization. In 1988 in Moscow he meets his future wife. In 1988, daughter Anastasia was born, in 1995 - daughter Veronica.

From 1988-2004, teaching, during which he prepared several future talented teachers and performers. In 1992, he makes stock recordings on All-Russian Radio with a total duration of more than 1 hour. He is actively touring the cities of Siberia, Primorye, the Urals, Central Russia, as well as in Ukraine and Belarus. Foreign tours in more than 15 countries of the world, including Italy, Holland and Germany.

In the late 90s and early 2000s, he began to create musical scores for a duet and a trio of balalaika with piano arranged for it, as well as transcriptions and transcriptions for balalaika and piano. Along with this, it samples.

• Plays by Valery Elchik (1992)
• Plays by Valery Elchik, Live (1994)
• Russian fantasy (1997)

• Sounding Accompaniment, Disc 1,2,3 (2004)
• Concert Repertoires (2004-2006)
• Concert for Balalaika and Orchestra, Disc 1.2 (2007)

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• Elchik Valery Anatolyevich