Sergey Nikitin

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Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin (Russian: Сергей Яковлевич Никитин, born March 8, 1944) is a prominent Russian bard, composer, and biophysicist. He usually performs together with his wife, Tatyana Nikitina, and tours Russia, the former Soviet republics, and other countries with significant populations of Russian-speaking immigrants.

The couple is especially known for being one of the very few Russian composers and singers of songs for children.

[edit] Biography

• 1962-1968- Graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University
• 1962 - Authored his first song, Hit the road (В дорогу).
• 1963-1968 - Made a member of a male quartet: Nikitin, Sergei Smirnov, Boris Geller, Aleksei Monakhov, and later Vadim Khait
• 1968-1971 - Postgraduate study in Biophysics at Moscow State University.
• 1968-1977 - Member of a Quintet: Sergey and Tatiana Nikitin, Carmen Santacreu, Vladimir Ulin, and Nikolai Turkin
• 1971-1980 - Researcher at Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow
• 1980-1987 - Researcher at the Institute for Biophysics Puschino; Ph.D in Physics (1983).
• 1987-1995 - Chief Musician of the Oleg Tabakov Theater
• since 1995 - Full time singer and composer

[edit] Works

• CDs
  • '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
  • Breech-Mullah ("Брич-Мулла" , Sergey Nikitin's songs on verses of Dmitry Sukharev), 1996
  • Sentries of Love ("Часовые любви", Nikitins sings Bulat Okudzhava's songs)
  • We don't choose times, 1998
  • The Girl and the plasticine, 1998
  • Something is happenning to me (Sergey Nikitin's songs to the verses of Yevgeny Yevtushenko), 1999
  • Retro for the Two of Us (Sergey Nikitin, Pyotr Todorvsky)
  • Black and White Cinema, 2002
  • Winter Holiday, 2002

and many others

• Soundtracks to live-action films:
  • Almost a laughable story
  • Trips in an old car
  • Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
  • Irony of Fate
  • 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
  • For production of Veniamin Smekhov's Ali Baba and 40 songs of Persian Bazaar
  • For production Nord-Ost
  • Opera Violin of Rotchshild (story by Anton Chekhov)
  • and many others

[edit] External links

• Songs of Nikitins in English