Alexander Dmitriev was
born in St. Petersburg Russia, September 19, 1951.
His musical talent was evident very early: at the age of 7 he began
to study the bayan - first at the school of music, then later at
the Mussorgskij - Institute for Music. After this, Alexander Dmitriev
became a student at the National St. Petersburg Rimskij-Korsakov
Conservatory. At the time the 19 year old Dmitriev had already won
the "All-Russian Contest" for musicians playing folk instruments
(1969 in Ivanovo).
In 1972 Alexander Dmitriev won 1st prize at the International Competition
"Days of the Accordion" in Klingenthal, Germany. The foreign
press highly praised his musical talents, saying (November 1972
- Journal "Music Accord" - England): "... a young
artist who'll doubtlessly be well known in future; a musician who
is to follow the examples of a great number of Soviet virtuosi."
(England).
In 1972 in Berlin,
Dmitriev was featured on an LP record of Klingenthal Competition
winners.
In 1974 he graduated
at the National St. Petersburg Rimskij-Korsakov Conservatory then
continued completing his training as an Assistant Stargur in 1977.
For more than 20
years, he has been the professor of St. Petersburg Conservatoire
and the "Soloist - St Petersburg Philharmonie Concert".
Twenty years ago, he wrote the treatise "The Positional Fingering
for Accordion" which showed his new and progressive technical
ideas. Using these teaching principles, his students V. Fedorov,
S. Chirkov, M. Shagaev, E. Orlova, D. Astashin, A. Kuznetsov, A.
Yurov became winners of several international solo accordion competitions
during recent years.
Since the beginning
of his performance career, Dmitriev has made more than 2000 solo
concerts, recorded 8 LP records (one in DDR) and recently recorded
5 CD's. He has toured to the USA, Canada and many countries in Europe.
In 1990 Dmitriev gave concerts in 25 Japanese cities together with
the State Academician Orchestra of Folk-Instruments. Many arrangements
by Dmitriev have been published by the "Soviet Composer"
and "Music". His transcription of the Cavatina Figaro
- Rossini, became very popular and was published in 12 European
countries.
Alexander Dmitriev
was chosen to premiere works by Russian composers Tunik and Pushkarenko
and are featured on CD No. 0005 titled "Fanfare".
Since 1986 Dmitriev
has hosted a program on St. Petersburg Radio, which features famous
accordionists, information about them and some of their music. He
is a regular participant at the most important accordion festivals
and seminars and is often a member of the jury at international
competitions. He has been invited to give master-classes in Germany,
Finland, France, Denmark, Belgium, Poland and other countries.
Since 1986 Dmitriev
is one of the organizers and artistic directors of the international
festival "Music for Bayan and Accordion", which is held
in St. Petersburg each year at the end of October.
Recently, he has
also been performing duet concerts with his son Vitalij - a first
prize winner of international contests in Bulgaria, France, Italy
(twice), Germany , Sweden - as well as trios together with his wife
Elena.
In 1992, Alexander
Dmitriev was awarded the title - Honoured Artist of Russia and is
widely recognised as being a one of the elite in the world of bayanist
artistry.
Contact Information:
Bogatyrskij pr., 4, fl. 112
St Petersburg 197348
RUSSIA.
Phone/Fax: +7
812 3946937
Email: admitriev@inbox.ru
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