Kikt brief biography

The heritage of the musician Kict Valery Grigoryevich is a famous composer, honored artist, teacher, musical and social figure. He is the author of works of a wide variety of styles and genres. In the extensive catalog of his work - 11 ballets, such as Danko, Dubrovsky, Poleshsky Sorceress, etc. The musician also wrote many cantatas, symphonies, choral and orchestral works, oratorio, instrumental concerts, carols, generosity and freckles, works for the Arph, organ, Russian folk instruments, children's and children Youth music.

Valery Kict was born children and youth in a rather difficult time, almost at the very beginning of the war, on October 22. His childhood passed in the small Ukrainian village of Vladimirovka, Volnovakh district, Donetsk region, where he lived with his parents. Already at the very early age, my mother noticed a beautiful voice and excellent musical abilities. At 10, she decided to send Valery to study at the Moscow Church School.

His head at that time was Alexander Vasilievich Sveshnikov. The boy was quite weakly owned by a musical diploma, but this did not prevent him from successfully passing the introduction. Since that time, the future composer began to learn classical music and singing with such excellent specialists as Minin V.N. Sveshnikov and A. Jurlov, performing musical works of different styles and eras, the young Horist received an invaluable experience, which, according to him, was very useful to him in the future work.

Incredibly struck the boy excursion to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, which the choir visited in the year during a tour in Kyiv. The trace in his soul was left by the magnificent architecture of temples and churches. Valery Kikta considers the most significant and important event in his life a meeting with Ivan Kozlovsky, who sometimes performed winds with the chorus of boys.

This acquaintance grew into the friendship of musicians, lasting until the death of the Great Tenor. Valery has been visiting Ivan Semenovich repeatedly. For the rest of his life, he remembered the unique icons and sketches of Vasnetsov to the frescoes of the Kyiv Vladimir Cathedral, which adorned the Kozlovsky house. The creative biography of the year Valery Kikta received a diploma of the Moscow Church School.

In the year, he graduated from an internship in graduate school at the conservatory. From V. Kikta, he worked in the publishing house "Soviet Composer" as the chief music editor. In the year, the musician joined the public organization "Union of Composers of Russia." In received a prize at the III All -Union Test of the Creativity of Young Composers. In the year, one of the most famous musical works by Valery Grigoryevich Kikta is written - the concert symphony “Frescoes of Sofia Kyiv”, dedicated to the summer of Kyiv.

In the year, he became the laureate of the international composer contest "Bratislava". In the year he won a prize at the "International Festival of Children's Song" in Helsinki. C - membership in the board of the "Union of Composers of Moscow" and the editorial board of the magazine "Soviet Ballet". The year was awarded the title "Honored Artist of the Russian Federation." Since the year, teaching at the Moscow Conservatory.

In the year, an honorary award of the Moscow City Hall was received. In the year, a performance in Switzerland at the World Arph Congress. Awarding the Prize of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation named after In the year he headed the board of the Russian Arph Society. From the year he served as secretary of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation.

In the year he headed the department of instrumentation of the Moscow State Conservatory. From the year he teaches at the Russian Academy of Music. In the year, gratitude to the mayor of Moscow. A special place in the panorama of the composer's works is occupied by works of spiritual subjects. Psalms Valery Kikta are a special genre group that reveals the spiritual and historical theme.

Such choirs as “repented by the psalm of St. Dmitry Rostov” and “Psalm of Getman Ivan Mazepa” are perfectly demonstrated in them, Ukrainian and Russian features are traced in them, and stylistics is distinguished by special folk simplicity. In different years, the composer was written by music to such films and cartoons: G - “Golden Carriage”.