Vladimir Chromchenko

Vladimir Anatolyevich Chromtschenko ( Russian Владимир Анатольевич Хромченко , Ukrainian Володимир Анатолійович Хромченко Volodymyr Anatolijowytsch Chromtschenko , English transliteration Vladimir Anatolyievich Khromchenko * 16th September 1949 in Simferopol , Crimea ) is an organist and organ builder in Yalta on the Crimean peninsula.

Life

Vladimir Chromchenko studied first at the music academy (училище) in Simferopol and then at the State Conservatory in Tallinn organ, where his teacher Hugo Lepnurm was. Then he was a music teacher at the music school “A. Spendiarow ”in Yalta. In 1981 Chromchenko built an organ with three manuals and 27 registers for this, the  first ever by a Soviet organ builder. He had read the knowledge about it.

In the 1990s, Chromchenko and others founded the “Livadia” organ center in the dilapidated building of the former power station of the nearby Tsar's palace . An organ building workshop as well as concert and event rooms were built there. Chromchenko built two small organs for Moscow and Yalta and completed one for the organ center in 1998. With 64 sounding voices and four manuals, this was the largest in Ukraine and one of the largest in the successor states of the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Chromchenko gave many organ concerts in Livadia and from 2004 to 2009 organized the "Fest Livadia" as a large organ festival with concerts and master classes.

The asteroid (5955) Khromchenko was named after him. In 1999 he received the State Prize ( госпремія ) of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. His daughter Julia Chromchenko is a pianist and singer and often accompanied him to concerts in the Livadia.

List of works

All new organs built up to 2018 are listed.

year	place	building	image	Manuals	register	Remarks
1981	Yalta	Music school "A. Spendiarow "		III / P	27	first organ by a Soviet organ builder
1995	Moscow	Bach Music Society		I / P	4th
1996	Yalta	Armenian Church		I / P	6th
1998	Yalta	Organ Center "Livadia"		IV / P	77	with 5 further non-sounding registers; originally IV / P, 65 (+4), extended by him in 2014

literature

• Сергей Калиберда: Органы: от Киевской Рчси до Украины [organs from Kievan Rus to Ukraine] . Москва, Санкт-Петербург, Львов 2016. P. 510-515 with dispositions and photos

Web links

• Crimean organs in Ukraine, with dispositions (Ukrainian)
• About the Organ Center Livadia Ливадия (German)
• Vladimir Chromchenko Biographical Details (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Organs in Ukraine ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Ukrainian)