Sergey Nikitin (musician)

In this name that followsEastern Slavic naming customs,thepatronymicisYakovlevichand thefamily nameisNikitin.

Sergey Nikitin
Sergey Nikitin
Background information
Birth name	Sergei Yakovlevich Nikitin
Born	(1944-03-08)8 March 1944 Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter
Instrument(s)	Seven-string guitar
Years active	1962–present
Website	sergeytatiananikitiny

Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin(Russian:Серге́й Яковлевич Никитин,born 8 March 1944) is a prominent Soviet and Russianbard,composer,andbiophysicist.He performs both solo and in a duet with his wife,Tatyana Nikitinaall over Russia, the former Soviet republics, and other countries with significant Russian-speaking diaspora. Nikitin is also known as a composer and performer of songs for children.

Biography

Sergey Nikitin graduated from thePhysicsDepartment ofMoscow State Universityin 1968. After completing postgraduate studies at the department of Biophysics at Moscow State University, he worked as a researcher in Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow (1971–1980). In 1980–1987 he was a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics inPushchinoand received a PhD in Physics in 1983.

Nikitin wrote music to his first song,En route(lyrics byIosif Utkin), in 1962. In 1963, he founded an all-malequartetin the Department of Physics at Moscow State University, together with Sergey Smirnov,Boris Geller,Aleksei Monakhov, and laterVadim Khait.

From 1968 to 1977, he appeared at numerous concerts, together with other members of hisquintet,including his wife,Tatyana Nikitina,Carmen Santacreu, Vladimir Ulin, and Nikolai Turkin. In 1987–1995, he was Musical Director at theOleg TabakovStudio-Theater in Moscow, and became a full-time singer and composer since 1995.

Sergei and his wife Tatyana are very close friends ofGrigory Luchanskyand, beginning in 2002, the three of them provided funding to improve theSmolenskSpecial School for the Blind and Visually Impaired Children (Russian:Смоленская специальная школа для слепых и слабовидящих детей) The waltz by Nikitin "Aleksandra" is similar to the famous Loca de Amor by Rodolfo Biagi.

Awards

• 1980 The movieMoscow Does Not Believe in Tearsfor which Sergey Nikitin wrote the music received an Oscar in the 'best foreign film' category.
• In 1997, Sergey Nikitin was awarded the title of theMeritorious Actorof Russia and, together with Tatiana Nikitina, became a laureate of the Tzarsko-Selsky Artistic Prize.

Works

• CDs
  • Records of 1971–1975,quintetof the Department of Physics inMoscow State University
  • 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
  • Rubber hedgehog,songs for children on verses byYunna Morits
  • Brich-Mulla(Sergey Nikitin's songs on verses byDmitry Sukharevcf.Brichmulla), 1996
  • Sentries of Love( "Часовые любви", The Nikitins singBulat Okudzhava's songs)
  • Field of miracles,1998
  • We don't choose times,1998
  • The Girl and the Plasticine,1998
  • Something is Happening to Me(Sergey Nikitin's songs to the verses ofYevgeny Yevtushenko), 1999
  • Concert,2000
  • Retro for the Two of Us(Sergey Nikitin andPyotr Todorovsky)
  • Black and White Cinema,2002
  • Winter Holiday,2002
• Soundtracks to live-action films:
  • Almost a laughable story
  • Trips in an old car
  • Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
  • Irony of Fate,–"Snowing On"onYouTubea song from the film, lyrics byBoris Pasternak,music and performance by Nikitin, English subtitles by V. Chetin
  • Old New Year
• Soundtracks to animated films:
  • A Big Secret for a Small Company(1979)
  • The Boy Was Walking, the Crow Was Flying(1981)
  • The Wolfskin(1982)
• Music for the theater
  • Mary Poppins,a collaboration withViktor Berkovsky
  • Ali Babaand 40 songs of Persian Bazaara collaboration withViktor Berkovsky,libretto byVeniamin Smekhov
  • OperaWhy are you wearing tails(based on a vaudeville byAnton ChekhovtheProposal)
  • and many others

External links

• Full list of published songs by Nikitin with digital recordings (in Russian)
• Facebook account
• VK account