Vlad Kosarev biography. Meeting with your favorite singer: baritone Vladislav Kosarev - e.a.v
She has been living in Moscow for 18 years. Graduate of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Demanded. Bright, pathetic and rather strict repertoire. On March 8, Vladislav Kosarev gives a solo concert in the Glinka Hall, so he spent several days in advance in Smolensk, rehearsing with the Smolensk Russian Folk Orchestra named after V.P. Dubrovsky. After one of the rehearsals, we managed to talk…
About repertoire
- There are a lot of songs of the Soviet era in my repertoire. It is clear that they were all written decades ago, but they never get old! "Thank you" and "Nocturne" by Arno Babajanyan, "Old Maple" by Alexandra Pakhmutova, "Dark Night" by Nikita Bogoslovsky - these songs live in any generation, at any time, under any political system! Because they have something very real, honest, deep, sincere. Something that is missing in many modern songs. A lot of songs are being written now - different ones, for any audience, but whether they will live at least five years from now is a big question! And the songs of the Soviet era are classics. If we can ever return to the same level of pop music, song culture, it will be a great happiness!
I am now in search of quality popular music. Which, on the one hand, would be modern and consonant with the beginning of the XXI century, on the other hand, would not be vulgar and primitive. Because it is impossible to sing Babajanyan and some base modern “masterpiece” in one concert. Unfortunately, there are few songs like my "Family", "Pyotr and Fevronia", and they are not in great demand on the radio.
Any music, including popular music, can be of high quality or low quality. The question is what emotions it evokes in a sane person with good taste. What happens to this person, to his inner world? After all, any music either inspires, creates, or destroys.
What do I like about modern songwriters? I would name the songs that Igor Matvienko writes for Lube - maybe not all, but nonetheless. It's interesting, deep, sincere. This is something to be proud of. Oleg Gazmanov has good songs, Igor Krutoy.
About the great
– Favorite composers of the Soviet era? There are a lot of them! Babadzhanyan, Ptichkin, Pakhmutova, Bogoslovsky, Dunaevsky, Ostrovsky, Fradkin… It’s easier to say who you don’t like, although there probably aren’t any! .. (laughs)
If we talk about my favorite performers, then this, of course, is Andrei Mironov - I bow before him as an artist and as a singer. For me, he is an example of how to approach the performance of songs in principle. No matter what his voice was, no matter what his ear, what matters is that a person, when he took up a song, first created an image-idea, and then embodied it. This is why he is valuable. Now there are a huge number of singers, whom my professor called "sound blowers." For them, the process of singing is primarily physiological. It can even be beautiful singing, but absolutely inspirited. As you can see, I like other artists. Name? Of ours, these are Muslim Magomayev, Georg Ots, Yuri Gulyaev, Eduard Khil, Lyudmila Zykina, Olga Voronets, Lyudmila Gurchenko. From foreign - Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Klaus Meine (the one who is "Scorpions"), Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman ...
About motivation
- What motivates you to sing? Basically two factors. Yes, I love to sing. I love getting on stage and connecting with people through art. Tell them stories, live them with them. This is the first. As long as people come to my concerts, I will go on stage. Second, the most important. There are states when you do not want to sing, but you must sing. At such moments, I remember the most important thing in my profession, for which I adore it. Do you know why? When I go out into the hall at the beginning of the concert, I see a huge number of different people. Each of them has their own life, their own joys and sorrows, most of them do not know each other ... And when the second part ends, I see that people have become something united and, most importantly, they have completely different eyes - joyful, happy! I don't take it personally - it's all the great power of art! For the sake of this miracle, we all come to the concert hall. And this is what motivates me in any situation! In a difficult moment, I just remember the eyes of my viewers! ..
About personal life
- I always avoid the topic of personal life - in any interview. I always answer: "I'm married to the stage." Not because I strive to maintain some kind of mystery, to be desirable for everyone - no, I do not use such tricks. Personal life is personal, to be with a person, but not to become public. Personal relationships are not an easy topic, especially for an artist, so I generally don’t discuss it. Never.
About patriotism
- In the Soviet song culture, there were, let's say, very strange compositions - insincere, pretentious, state-owned ... But there were also works filled with love for their native land! There is very little of this in modern songs ... I can now recall the amazing song that Igor Matvienko wrote: “I will go out into the field at night with a horse.” Do you remember what the last lines are? "I'm in love with you, Russia, in love!" What else has been written like this in the last 20 years? What songs can you remember and say: “And I am Russian! And I'm proud of it!"
I really want us Russians to have as many reasons to be proud as possible. And so that we, Smolensk people, do not forget that our native land is the birthplace of Mikhail Glinka, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Nikulin, Eduard Khil! ..
About the roots
– My success is primarily the work of my parents and teachers. I studied at the 8th music school on Sokolovsky street. The school has had a boys' choir for many years, led by Gennady Aleksandrovich Barykin. This is a selfless person, an ascetic. For several decades now, he has been gathering Smolensk boys around him, educating them, instilling in them a taste for real music ...
Then there was the Smolensk Glinka Musical College. At that time it was, in my opinion, one of the best, strongest in the country. Look at how the fate of the graduates turned out. I entered the Gnesinka, Denis Kirpanev, who is now conducting a symphony orchestra, also entered the Gnesinka, Andrei Stebenkov graduated from the conducting department, and entered the Moscow Conservatory. A huge number of children entered the Saratov Conservatory… The Smolensk Musical College gave me the strongest school that accompanies me throughout my life. And this is the merit of Lyudmila Borisovna Zaitseva, who is still working; Nina Pavlovna Popova, Tatyana Gavrilovna Romanova, Natalya Petrovna Demyanova, Nikolai Yegorovich Pisarenko… Any artist, and I am no exception, is always the result of team work, it is the result of team work in the broadest sense of the word. Starting with parents and teachers and ending with the producer and administrators.
So it all started in Smolensk. And this is not only a musical base, but also a human one. We were not only given a craft, we were also brought up as people, as individuals. They instilled in us a taste for good music, for good painting - they made us cultured people.
About the concert on March 8
- We are doing a concert, striving to ensure that every woman who comes to the Philharmonic hall comes out happy. We will sing about love in a variety of genres: Russian romance, folk song, Soviet and foreign stage of the twentieth century. The whole evening on the stage of the Philharmonic will sound only classics - classics of chamber music, pop classics.
About the orchestra
– I have known maestro Stepanov for a long time, this is our fourth joint concert, and I never cease to be amazed by his energy and mastery. He is a person who burns with his work - an orchestra, music, who works in difficult conditions (we all know how much state employees get - musicians, teachers, doctors) ...
Every time I come to my homeland, I rejoice: the traditions laid down by Dubrovsky are not only not lost, but strengthened! They live, and the orchestra of folk instruments is one of the leading ensembles of our philharmonic society and, perhaps, of Russia as a whole. I tour a lot, work with various orchestras, including Russian folk ones... The Smolensk orchestra has every right to be proud of itself, its professional level, its magnificent maestro!
About the holiday
- Congratulations to all readers of your newspaper on March 8! On this day, you will be told a lot of things, and I join the good and kind words. On my own behalf, I want to wish that the wonderful men who are next to you remember that you need to be surrounded by care and delight with gifts more than one day a year! And not two. And at least - 364!
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Vladislav sings about love, tender, touching, eternal, and this feeling resonates with the souls of the public. Proof of this is sold out at his concerts at the Philharmonic.
- You conquered the Petrozavodsk audience at your first concert in December. Women look at you with undisguised adoration. How difficult is it to keep the brand every time?
- I am glad to hear that my songs, which are very dear to me, resonate in women's souls. As a matter of fact, for this I go on stage and go out. I do not pursue any insidious goals to please the women who come to my concerts. I just sing!
Somehow I was asked the question: “What is the most difficult thing in your profession?”. So, the most difficult thing is to go on stage and sing better than last time.
- On stage, you are insanely charming and you probably know about it. Are you deliberately charming or does it come naturally?
- When I go on stage, I feel sincere love for every person who sits in the hall. If this is not the case, then there is no point in going out and singing. I think I'm truly alive and truly happy only on stage, when I feel unity with the audience. So, perhaps, the charm arises by itself.
- Did you ever leave under the sound of your heels?
— (laughs)There was no such thing as seeing me off with an ominous silence or rotten tomatoes. One of the reasons why I came on stage quite late is that I am very self-critical. It took me a long time to decide to sing. Unfortunately, there are a lot of mediocre singers on the stage now, I didn't want to be one of them.
- Where does the sympathy for the folk song come from? You sing pop, military songs, but folk prevails ...
— Does not dominate, but occupies a very large place. Probably because I am Russian. I still found a time when weddings in the villages walked for several days, they didn’t walk to the tape recorder - they just sang all together “Oh, it’s not evening”, “The fog is fierce”, “Vyun over the water”, “Unharness, lads, horses” ...
Very strong impressions from my grandmother, who was a unique Russian woman. She survived both the occupation and the post-war devastation, raised her family, helped her children and grandchildren. Grandmother taught German at school, but all her life she led a Russian song circle in parallel. She knew a huge number of Russian folk songs, including songs with pagan roots. She knew all the verses in “Khas-Bulat the daring” and “If only I had mountains of gold”, and there are countless of them - she knew everything! This spirit, some indescribable words, I absorbed from her. Grandmother said shortly before her death: “Children, when you bury me, don’t cry, don’t. Just sing Russian songs.”
- So it turns out that there were singers in your family?
There were no professional ones. It's just that everyone in the family, especially on the maternal side, sang very well. My father has an amazing lyric-dramatic tenor voice. When we gather at the same table, you can’t hear me - he overlaps my voice twice. My father worked all his life at the plant, went from a machine operator to a shop manager. Hands are huge! And he could be a very good singer.
Father is always watching Youtube , what recordings from the concerts appeared. At concerts sometimes sits and cries. It's very touching.
– Once upon a time, the legendary soloist of our Philharmonic Sirkka Rikka performed with the program “Songs of the Peoples of the World”: she sang folk songs from different countries in the original languages. Have you ever had an idea to make a program of this kind?
“Honestly, it didn’t. I don't think it would be interesting for me at the moment. It seems to me that it is possible to sing a truly sincere folk song only if you grew up in the culture of this people, absorbed its spirit. If I had extra time, I would look more for ancient pagan Slavic songs, ancient church chants or Cossack songs ...
We must be proud that you are Russian, be proud that you have a great history and a great culture, which we know ten percent at best.
- Is it really so little?
- For some reason, it is customary all over the world to be proud of their national roots. Look, the wave of interest in Celtic music has not yet passed. And how proud the Balkans are of Bregovic and Kusturica, how proud they are of being Serbs, Croats, Macedonians! And the Russians… Excuse me, we have either a tavern, or a lubok, or something that strongly resembles Russian folklore, but only from afar: a woman in a kokoshnik, an accordion player jumps nearby, everything sparkles - only this has nothing to do with Russian folklore.
Thank God, there are still folklore groups that live on a penny, but despite everything they support the tradition: they go on expeditions, collect something, process it, sing, give concerts. Transfer "Play, accordion!" on "Channel One" is still going on. But who will watch Channel One on Sunday at half past eight in the morning? Nobody. But if you come to Germany or France, then among the huge variety of television or radio channels you will definitely find several ethnic ones, where your native national melodies sound.
And it seems to live with us, but we are still like Ivans, not remembering our relationship. Therefore, I really like to travel around Russia and sing with orchestras of Russian folk instruments. Surprisingly, receiving meager money, these orchestras live and are in very good professional shape. With us, as always, everything rests on enthusiasm.
— How did you work with the Onego Orchestra?
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- Amazing. The second time I already felt more confident, already as if I had come to my own. Gennady Ivanovich Mironov is a completely unique person, a storehouse of optimism, love of life, and jokes. stories. And at the same time, he is an amazing professional: he does everything that concerns the orchestra, his work as a conductor, without reproach. And it's nice to work with professionals - you learn a lot from them.
-Can you catch fire with a romance if the melody is not very touching, but the text is wonderful?
— You know, there was no such thing in my practice that I closed my ears to intonations that go against the word. I initially choose for my repertoire things that left a mark on my soul. It happens like this: I hear a song, I go and suffer - I have to sing it. There is a lot of good music, but I do not sing it - not because it is bad, but because it is not close to me. As in life: you communicate with people close to you, but there are a huge number of nice people with whom relationships do not add up. So it is with works, they are also alive.
- Is there a song in your repertoire that you could consider your portrait?
- There will be several of them: "The Queen of Beauty", "Nocturne" by Babajanyan, "What Love Knows About Love", "The Woman in the Window", "I'll Go Out", "Oh, it's not evening", "Yes, the tree is blooming in the garden." Here is such a combination.
Photo by Larisa Suraeva
Vladislav Kosarev - singer, baritone, laureate of various competitions, guest soloist of the ensemble named after L. Zykina "Russia". The artist performs romances, classics, Soviet and folk songs, folklore. This is very difficult in the conditions of the dominance of pop and chanson.
Biography
Vladislav Kosarev was born in the city of Smolensk. When he was six years old, his mother took him to a music school, where he sang in a boys' choir. Then Vladislav graduated from the Glinka Music College in his native city. At that time it was one of the best in the country. Many outstanding people are graduates of this particular educational institution. The music school provided a strong base for continuing education and talent development. Vladislav was advised by his conducting teacher, Lyudmila Borisovna Zaitseva, to go to Moscow and continue his studies at the Gnessin Academy.
creative path
Vladislav Kosarev began to study music at the age of 6. Baritone dreamed of becoming a singer since childhood. In 2001, the artist graduated from the choral conducting class. Vladislav began his career in a team called "Peresvet". This is a male choir. First he worked in it as a soloist, and then as a conductor.
V. Kosarev is the winner of the Yurlov International Competition. It is held among the conductors.
The artist began his solo career in 2009. At one of the concerts of the Peresvet choir, when Vladislav was still working in this team, Alla Goncharova (chief editor of the Romance of Romance program) came to him backstage. It was she who advised V. Kosarev to start a solo career.
The artist still does not stop practicing vocals with teachers in order to improve his skills.
Vladislav believes that his parents made a great contribution to his development as a vocalist. Mom and dad worked at the factory, but were endowed with abilities. It was they who instilled in the artist a taste and taught him to love only good music.
Repertoire
Vladislav Kosarev has a rather extensive repertoire. He sings Russian folk and Soviet songs, romances, arias from operas and operettas, as well as from musicals, as he considers them beautiful and high-quality music, which is so lacking on the stage today. Although these works were written many decades ago, they will never grow old, they are destined for eternal life. They are honest, sincere and real. And what sounds today every day from TV screens are songs that everyone will forget in a couple of years. Today Vladislav is in search. He is looking for quality songs written in the 21st century. But there are very few of them, unfortunately. And to sing romances in one concert, works by A. Babadzhanyan and A. Pakhmutova, along with base pop music, is, in his opinion, blasphemy.
Personal life and musical preferences
Vladislav Kosarev is very fond of the classics and music of the Soviet era. His favorite composers of the 20th century are A. Babadzhanyan, I. Dunaevsky, A. Pakhmutova, E. Ptichkin and many others. The performers who are revered by the singer are Yuri Gulyaev, Muslim Magomaev, Lyudmila Zykina, Andrea Bocelli, Tom Jones, Georg Ots, Eduard Khil, Freddie Mercury, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and so on. Vladislav's favorite artist is V. Kosarev reveres him for the fact that he performed each song like a small performance. Although he did not have special vocal abilities, he demonstrated an exemplary approach to the performing arts.
Vladislav Kosarev does not advertise his personal life and avoids this topic in all interviews. As the artist himself says, he does this not in order to create an aura of mystery around him. The singer simply believes that personal life should not be in the public domain.
Professional artist and singer (baritone) Vladislav Kosarev has a clear and soulful voice. The performer's repertoire is very diverse: romances, opera, foreign stage, Russian folk songs. In his songs lives the love that is in the heart of any Russian person when he thinks about his mother, about his grandfather - a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, or about his beloved. However, neither the wife of Vladislav Kosarev, nor his personal life is ever put on display by the artist.
About the personal life of Vladislav Kosarev
In one of his interviews, Vladislav Kosarev honestly admitted that he was trying to avoid issues related to his personal life. “This sensitive topic has been and will be difficult for any artist, so I don’t discuss it,” he says. - The personal life of Vladislav Kosarev should always remain personal, and this is important for any person, and not just for an artist; therefore, one cannot make my personal relationships public, discussing them throughout the country.
The life of an artist, according to the deep conviction of Vladislav Kosarev, should always be dedicated to the people. He had to travel half the country, speaking in various cities and villages. This requires tremendous dedication, so singers and musicians who devote their lives to creativity, most often when asked about their personal lives, with their inherent sense of humor, answer that they are married on stage. And this is not bravado, but rather the inner state of the soul of the artist.
Vladislav Kosarev's wife, his parents
With great warmth and love, the singer talks about his family. The wife of Vladislav Kosarev is not a myth, but if the singer himself does not want to talk about this topic, then the fans of his talent, paying tribute to their idol, should understand the artist. Everyone in the friendly Kosarev family sings. Parents played a big role in the creative fate of the singer. Both Vladislav's mother and father worked at the factory, but they themselves sang beautifully, often performed on the stage of their native cultural center and taught their son to sing.
“To be honest, I don’t remember how and when I started singing, but there were always songs around me. My beloved grandmother sang, she is a wonderful teacher, she led amateur performances for a long time. I happened to learn military songs from my grandfather, and my mother loved to listen to the songs of such wonderful singers as Muslim Magomayev, Georg Ots and Eduard Khil, ”recalls Kosarev.
“We often sang on holidays. Once, when I was six, during a concert I sang the famous "Cruiser Aurora", while experiencing a deep sense of delight that did not escape my mother's attention. Soon she sent me to a music school, where I learned to play the piano and sang in the choir.”
The repertoire of the children's choir included many songs by the wonderful composer Alexandra Pakhmutova from her famous musical cycle Gagarin's Constellation. Now, after many years, Vladislav Kosarev often performs the same, his favorite songs. So, for example, it was in Saratov, in 2011, when the singer received an invitation to perform at a gala concert in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the first space flight of Yuri Gagarin.
Creative biography of the singer and artist
Vladislav's musical studies began at the age of six, every day, for several hours. In 2001, Kosarev received an academic education and began performing in the Peresvet team. This is a famous choir, where the future singer grew up for eight long years, not only as a performer, but also as a choral conductor. Starting from 2009, Vladislav Kosarev starts his solo career.
Now he is a pop singer. He is applauded by the audience of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Grand Hall of the Conservatory, etc. He performs all over the country. Vladislav writes songs for films, he is a welcome guest of television shows and holiday concerts on TV.
The artist selects his concert program very carefully, rehearsing for a long time. The extraordinary charm and talent of the performer help him find his way to the heart of the viewer. For his work, Vladislav Kosarev was awarded the First Prize and the title of Laureate at the First Yurlov International Conducting Competition, was awarded the Golden Order of Service to Art and the Order of Faith, Hope, Love.
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Welcome to the official website of agent Vladislav Kosarev. Vladislav's pure baritone has long won the hearts of a grateful public, both domestic and foreign. His undeniable talent and virtuoso performance bring real pleasure to the listeners. He perfectly performs compositions of various genres: romances, ballads, opera arias and popular music.
Creative achievements
Vladislav took his first steps towards music very early. He was then barely six years old. From childhood, the guy showed a wonderful ear, and an irresistible attraction to creativity left practically no choice in the matter of future activities.
2001 - Vladislav Kosarev successfully graduated from the famous Gnessin. I wanted to give vent to numerous ideas as soon as possible, to try my skills. The first place of labor and creative activity was for him the male choir "Peresvet".
He successfully performed solo parts, and later also began to conduct. Vladislav Kosarev's concerts are held at the highest professional level. He always uses only high-quality sound equipment, therefore, regardless of the acoustics of the hall, the audience enjoys high-quality powerful sound.
The singer has a wide range of interests. Surprisingly beautiful classical compositions appear in Vladislav's repertoire, as well as win-win pop songs of a wide variety of subjects. It has become prestigious to order a performance by Vladislav Kosarev. The best Moscow halls submitted to him. Kosarev's concerts were ripped off by applause in the famous Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the Great Hall of the Conservatory, the Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky and many others. He also participated in television concerts, recorded music for films.
The result of selfless activity was the First Prize of the first International Competition of Conductors named after. Yurlov. Also in his collection are numerous orders and prizes of various prestigious competitions.
Nowadays
Having started his solo career in 2009, Vladislav successfully performs for his fans. He has a wonderfully diverse repertoire. Each concert always takes place with maximum impact. You should now order a performance by Vladislav Kosarev in advance, because the singer has a busy schedule. He is charming, sincere and treats his admirers with genuine tenderness. The amazing baritone of the singer is organic both in the performance of classical operas, operettas, musicals, and Russian folk songs. More about Vladislav Kosarev can be found on his official website.
