Kurekhin is personal biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. In the photo: Sergey Kurekhin, he released several dozen records, played with Anatoly Vapirov, Boris Grebenshchikov in the register of foreign agents of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, collaborated with Vladimir Chekasin, John Zorn, Sergey Letov, gave concerts, composed music for the films “Mr. Signer”, “Three Sisters”, and starred in eight paintings.

Childhood and youth the future ingenious musician was born on June 16 in Murmansk.

His mother Zinaida Leontyevna taught mathematics, father Anatoly Ivanovich was a naval sailor, captain of the second rank. They moved to their family to the capital, where Seryozha began to study the playing on the piano, amazing teachers with his musical abilities. Sergey Kurekhin in childhood and youth then moved again, exchanging their communal apartment for housing in Yevpatoria.

The head of the family began to work in a sanatorium for adolescents. The XX Party Centure is now Tavrida, and my mother was retrained in the designer of floral arrangements. They sent their son to school with an in -depth study of the German language now the gymnasium. Selvinsky and to the music school, where he again pleased teachers with a brilliant performance of various works of Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, surprised by non -standard thinking, ingenuity and logic.

He, a schoolboy, was recognized as an unspoken leader in VIA of a local cultural house. In his school years, Sergey Kurekhin received a certificate at the young man and moved to the Northern capital with his relatives. There he entered the Muzucchiga to them. Mussorgsky, but soon turned out to be expelled for repeated absenteeism. After that, he was not a student at the Institute of Culture.

Krupskaya, worked as a concertmaster. Sergey began his creative path as a rock pianist, performing the cover versions of the compositions Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Deep Purple and other popular Western groups. He worked in the Rock College "Post", "Gulf Stream", in the Arkhangelsk Philharmonic, was an organist, an accompanist. Sergei Kurekhin in his youth then, listening to the Voice of America radio station, he became interested in the jazz improvisations of the saxophonist John Coltrane, pianist McCoy Timer, other recognized masters of jazz.

He met with the theoretician and propagandist of the avant -garde jazz Efim Barban and with a professional jazz musician Anatoly Vapirov, joined his quartet, participated in the country's largest jazz festivals. At the beginning, Kurekhin began to cooperate with the head of the orchestras and ensembles Vladimir Chekasin, with the poet and musician Boris Grebenshchikov. The bright and exquisite solo Kurekhin remained in the tracks of the Aquarium, as well as other famous groups of the Leningrad rock Kino, Alice.

With Chekasin, he worked out his grandiose ideas of concerts-performances that had absolutely no aesthetic barriers. In the same period, he managed to publish abroad the record of his jazz compositions “Ways of Freedom”, which received excellent reviews. Boris Grebenshchikov and Sergey Kurekhin was the culmination of the musician’s creative path, his phenomenal project “Popular Mechanics” “Pop Mechanics” was.

All participants reached their number of three hundred people with pleasure included sparkling actions invented by the author, bore the same shocking and interval names as their outfits, for example, “Suvorov’s transition through Kutuzov”. Sergei Kurekhin and the Pop Mechanics group in the unique show “Pop Mechanics” participated recognized Soviet and world stars. So, Eduard Hil allowed himself to be taken to the stage wrapped in foil as a mummy, and sang “It was recently, it was a long time”, while he was promoted from her, and the British actress Vanessa Redgrave gave herself face down in a basin with water, which symbolized the death of the spiritual, and crawled along the stage on all fours.

The musical team toured the Russian Federation, Europe, Britain, the USA, Japan, where the audience with a sense of horror and admiration looked at its unique performances - a mixture of the circus, avant -garde and the theater of the absurd. Eduard Khil and Pop Mechanics into an indefatigable artistic provocateur embodied the “pop-mechanical” principle into the non-musical television project “Lenin-Grib”.

In it, in the form of an interview with journalist Sergei Sholokhov, which he took from Kurekhin, with an important look, links to the work of scientists and tasting facts, the absurd statement was presented as the truth that Vladimir Ilyich was actually a mushroom. The discography of the musician was incredibly huge and diverse - it totaled more than fifty disks. His solo piano recordings, improvisational performances with musician Sergey Letov, with the American composer of the avant-garde, saxophonist John Zorn, a unique project with the German DJ Westbam, etc., Sergei Kurekhin and Sergey Letov showed the genius of the virtuoso-pianist and his work to write music to write music to write music.

films. In particular, the created musical accompaniment of the mystical St. Petersburg history “Mr. Defector” repeatedly strengthened its exciting and mysterious component.He himself starred in a number of beautiful films-“House under the starry sky”, “Loch-the winner of the water”, “A complex of insanity”, “Two captain-2”. Sergei Kurekhin on stage and in everything that Kurekhin did, according to critics, he was primarily an artist-played, demonstrated creativity on the verge of madness, enjoying the shocking surprise and beauty of musical, cinematic, television, theatrical and even political plans entering the National Bolshevik Party of Russia.

The talented Sergey Kurekhin in him was at the peak of the disclosure of creative potential-he became the co-founder of the Libra Libra, intending to engage in the publication of genuine musical folklore, planned to create opera trilogy in partnership with Sergey Solovyov for the Bolshoi Theater: “Anna Karenina”, “Seagull”, “Dr. Zhivago”, and prepared his “Pop Merekhanika”.

Japan and in the London concert hall Royal Festival Hall. But he did not have time to make the plan. Sergey Kurookhin in the program "Pick Hour" Sergey Kurekhin's personal life "Brilliant musician and brilliant mind" was frantic popular with women. The first time he married in the year when he was 18 years old. After 2 years, the young wife Tatyana gave him daughter Julia, but a few years later their family broke up.

Sergey Kurekhin and Larisa Guzeeva, but he met the main love of his life in a visit to Grebenshchikov, getting to know Nastya, a summer professor’s daughter, a student of the LSU Geographical Faculty, who had just parted with the first husband Nikita, a candidate of mathematical sciences, born with Sergey in one day and year. Then they intersected in the legendary cafe "Saigon", in companies of common friends, and soon got married.

Sergei and his wife Nastya and daughter Lisa in their daughter Elizabeth committed suicide to her and son Fedor. Sergey Kurekhin and his daughter Elizabeth according to the wife, they always treated each other very carefully. For all the years of life together, none of them ever gave a reason for jealousy. Death in May Sergey was hospitalized due to pain in the heart.

He was diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease - sarcoma of the heart, although a year before he underwent a complete oncological examination, which did not show any pathologies. According to medical forecasts, every day he could become the last for him, but he lasted two months. In recent years, Sergey Kurekhin was operated on in June and after that they warned Nastya that there was no chance of recovering her husband.

He first decided to celebrate his birthday and asked his wife to baptize his son and baptize himself. The guests gave mainly his favorite red roses, and Nastya, having fulfilled his request, came with a silver cross around his neck. The grave of Sergey Kurekhin two weeks later, on July 9, the musician died. With the fund and the center. Kurekhin is awarded a prize of his named after the achievements in a wide range of actual art, “for impudence and courage, luxury of plan and skill of embodiment” as the media wrote.

Sergei Kurekhin made a significant contribution to the history of musical art to commemorate the sad anniversary, the flight from the day of the death of the composer, the concert “20 years without captain” was held at the Moscow Conservatory, and the British company LEO Records issued the Sergey Kuryokhin the Spirit Live disc “the spirit of Sergey Kurekhin is alive”. Sergey Kurekhin: The latest news and articles.