Sergey Nikitin (musician)

Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin ( _ru. Сергей Яковлевич Никитин, born March 8 1944) is a prominent Russian bard, composer, and biophysicist. He usually performs together with his wife, Tatyana Nikitina, and tours Russia, the former Soviet republics, and other countries with significant populations of Russian-speaking immigrants.

The couple is especially known for being one of the very few Russian composers and singers of songs for children.

Biography

*1962-1968- Graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University
*1962 - Authored his first song, "Hit the road" (В дорогу).
*1963-1968 - Made a member of a male quartet: Nikitin, Sergei Smirnov, Boris Geller, Aleksei Monakhov, and later Vadim Khait
*1968-1971 - Postgraduate study in Biophysics at Moscow State University.
*1968-1977 - Member of a Quintet: Sergey and Tatiana Nikitin, Carmen Santacreu, Vladimir Ulin, and Nikolai Turkin
*1971-1980 - Researcher at "Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry" in Moscow
*1980-1987 - Researcher at the Institute for Biophysics Puschino; Ph.D in Physics (1983).
*1987-1995 - Chief Musician of the Oleg Tabakov Theater
*since 1995 - Full time singer and composer

Works

*CDs
** 'To the Music of Vivaldi" ("Под музыку Вивальди"), 1994
** "Sergei Nikitin" (selected songs), 1994
** "A Big Secret for a Small Company" ("Большой секрет для маленькой компании"), 1995
** "Yesterday the Crocodile smiled", 1995
** "Brich-Mulla" ("Брич-Мулла" , Sergey Nikitin's songs on verses of Dmitry Sukharev cf. Brichmulla), 1996
** "Sentries of Love" ("Часовые любви", Nikitins sings Bulat Okudzhava's songs)
** "We don't choose times", 1998
** "The Girl and the plasticine", 1998
** "Something is happenning to me" (Sergey Nikitin's songs to the verses of Yevgeny Yevtushenko), 1999
** "Retro for the Two of Us" (Sergey Nikitin, Pyotr Todorvsky)
** "Black and White Cinema", 2002
** "Winter Holiday", 2002and many others
*Soundtracks to live-action films:
**"Almost a laughable story"
**"Trips in an old car"
**"Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears"
**"Irony of Fate"
**"Old New Year"
*Soundtracks to animated films:
**" [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=4688 A Big Secret for a Small Company] " (1979)
**" [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=5150 The Boy Was Walking, the Crow Was Flying] " (1981)
**" [http://animator.ru/db/?ver=eng&p=show_film&fid=5406 The Wolfskin] " (1982)
*Music for the theater
**For production of Veniamin Smekhov's "Ali Baba and 40 songs of Persian Bazaar"
**For production Nord-Ost
**Opera "Violin of Rotchshild" (story by Anton Chekhov)
**and many others

External links

* [http://russia-in-us.com/Music/Artists/Nikitin/ Songs of Nikitins] in English