Emelyanychev Maxim Biography

Author: Masha Nasardinova Critic has biographies that you read with funny bewilderment: if by 34 years old, a person has three sheets achievements, what will happen next?! Here Maxim Emelyanychev. With the children's nickname “Mozart”, with awards and awards, with two orchestras, where he is the main one, with dozens of orchestras around the world, which he had already managed, with the two world tour of the outstanding singer Joyce Didonato ...

Maxim went to his first foreign tour and guess where? In Latvia.

Today, June 20, he will perform here again: in the concert hall "Dzintari", in the large opera show, Didonato Eden. Born in Dzerzhinsk in the year, grew up in Nizhny Novgorod. He became a laureate of many international competitions. Since the year, he began to actively perform and sign up in Europe, America, Asia. He was awarded the International Opera Award. Dad played in an orchestra on a pipe, mom sang in the choir, and from childhood I was immersed in music - one might say, around the clock, if not at work, then at home.

In a sense, it is easier. Because very often adults should make decisions for children - who they will be in the future. Convince them. At least in disciplines such as sports and music. I was lucky in this regard, I initially loved it and wanted it: to be in music. Where did it come from? From the yard? It was the chapel of the boys [in Nizhny Novgorod]. And I must say that when I studied there in the third grade, I was taken with me to the festival in the Domsky Cathedral!

For several reasons. Firstly, no one knows where this second half. Suppose, Mozart and Schubert, they conducted their music: where is the second half of their life, if one died at 35 years old, and the second at 31 years old? How to count? Then, when you play the same work of 20, 30, 40 years and in 60, it sounds differently. And it is not a fact that in 60 you will play the early symphonies of Mozart better than at 20 ...

I began to conduct conducting 12 years old. It is interesting when I first met with my teacher professor of the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory Margarita Alexandrovna Samorukova - M. Of course, you came to me a little late, but I will try! But my teachers always realized that the conductor should have their own tool. And the conductor’s instrument is an orchestra ...

I was lucky to study from them, I was lucky that they could organize orchestras for me that I could conduct, even if they were school orchestras - but it was a practice every week! And this helped me a lot to understand how the conductor’s gesture works, how to communicate with musicians who are usually older than you, but which you should convince of your interpretation.

Not to force - but to create such an atmosphere so that you are believed and ready to play with you. This, of course, was a colossal school. And then, such a place as the Moscow Conservatory, it is special. It is no longer about what you are taught, but about what you learn yourself. Everything is open to you. You can ask you to listen to any lecture, any lesson. I had an optional ensemble, an elective on the harpsary and various historical keyboards - so, in fact, my fascination with an old execution began.

And the fact that I attended classes at the Department of Historical and Modern Contracting Art, M. Alexei Lyubimov, in many ways played a role in my transformation-now, if I conducted baroque music, then I must be conducted by the music of the Renaissance, I play various authentic instruments-cornet, block-freeat, bombard ... This Expanding the conductor's horizons. Like competence in those subjects that, at first glance, will not be directly useful to you.

But the better you understand what is interesting and necessary for the modern public, the better you play Bach for her. The better you know Bach, the better you play Mozart. It works like that, it seems to me. In any case, it is seen from the side. You even managed to work with the theodor Custezis in Perm and the “Golden Mask” for this I really wanted to work with him further, and I worked with him further, after Perm, when I had time for this.

I learned a lot from him. Or did everything go as if by itself? My position is this: of course, you need to plan something, but the case decides a lot, and you need to use the case, you need to believe in it. At least I always did that. For some reason, I did not participate in any conducting competition, but once I wanted to participate. He went into the second round of the All -Russian contest of conductors, and then violinist Riccardo Minazi called me and invited me to play.

It seems to me that we found each other for one rehearsal. My agent said that the musicians directly in the intermission began to write letters to the director of the orchestra about how they were satisfied with our cooperation. It was love at first sight, I never had this with orchestras before, and I don’t know if it will happen somewhere or not. It would be wrong to draw a line between different states and orchestras.Even when you work with different groups inside one country, the sensations are different.

So for me in terms of professional nothing changes. But on March 3, along with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, they made an anti -war statement. I am not a professional in politics, I love pure art. But I understand: what is happening now is wrong. This should not be. And therefore, the musicians and I try to make the most positive contribution to emotions. Politicians, it seems to me, cannot ...

and they must not. They do their job. Good or bad - history will show. History will judge them through years, after decades. And the audience will judge us now. Therefore, we must do our job well. Anywhere. You know, this is not that a bowl of weights ... But if not art, then what? Can you tell about her? We met in Barcelona, ​​we prepared for our previous large project “War and Peace”, chose music ...

And to build a beautiful program, verified, we need a lot of time - these are a lot of composers, there is a very large amount of music. And then, I remember, in Barcelona, ​​I came to her, and we spent several hours with manuscripts, trying to understand how it will be, what it will be, which is worse, what kind of instruments we will need, how the plays will be combined with each other, what meaning we want to invest, and so on ...

This is amazing - to communicate with it. Because vocals, especially like Joyce, are the most perfect tool. At the same time, Joyce also infects everyone with energy both at rehearsals and before the concert. Musicians often tell each other compliments? But Joyce and I like to work with each other, and we compliment each other not just because we must say them, but because we really find something special in each other's work, in each other's music.

Or accompany her on Hammerklavir? Or make studio notes? What would you choose? Joyce and I had a lot of music options, I was very happy to once speak with her with a program, completely different from what we usually do - she sang Berlioz. We played [the vocal cycle] “Winter Way” by Schubert several times. And we have big plans for the future. I don’t know whether it is a secret or not, but soon we will have a record of the opera “Didon and Aeneas”, where Joyce will play the main role.

Are the primadonna you are not jealous of each other? This must be asked. But I think not. Why be jealous of? .. Conductors should generally think about it, strive for this - so that the public is interesting not only to listen, but also to observe? At the same time, I realize that the conductor is in the spotlight on the stage. He moves. One way or another, he shows music not only to the orchestra, but also to the public.

He can make a gesture to the violins, for example, - and the audience will understand this and will carefully listen to the violins. The visual part is very important. The energy that arises between the stage and the public, it is not only auditory, it is and visual, including. For this, people go to concerts. And it’s very cool that now, after Covid, everyone is returning to the halls.

Has much cleared up to your 34 years in this matter?