Igor Ivanovich Manko

Igor Manko

Igor Manko and Dmitri Chworostowski in the opera " Rigoletto " in the theater " New Opera (Moscow) "

Igor Ivanovich Manko ( Russian Игорь Иванович Манько ; born June 11, 1963 in Krasnodar ) is a Soviet and Russian choir director.

Life

He spent his childhood in the Severskaya village . At the age of 7 he started making music in a piano class in a music school. At the age of 12 he began to perform with the children's choir. He performed with the children's choir in concerts and festivals, and also on regional TV. After graduating from Severskaya Music School, he attended a music college in Krasnodar from 1979 to 1983 , where he completed the choral conducting class. After his military service in the army, he went to the Moscow State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 1985 . There he enrolled in the subject of choral conducting with Lyudmila Vladimirovna Yermakova. During his studies at the Conservatory, Igor Manko performed in concerts with the student choir. Among them was the Carl Orff Festival in Leipzig in 1988. In 1989, 1990 and 1991 he was at the International Bach Academy Stuttgart and was trained by the director of a symphony orchestra at the European Music Festival Stuttgart .

From 1991 to 1993 he worked for the Russian state television and radio station Choir. Since 1993 he has worked as a choir director and actor in the Moscow New Opera . During his artistic career Igor Manko has worked with many well-known conductors, singers and musicians such as Evgeni Kolobow , Evgeni Svetlanov , Dmitri Chworostowski and Gennady Roshdestvensky . At the opera Tomorrowland he worked with composer Andrew J. White , producer Charles Stevens, actors Andrei Jegorow and Alexander Pyatkov .

He also took part in performances with ballet numbers such as the Polowetz dances and Carmina Burana with Gediminas Taranda and in the play O Mozart, Mozart by Vladimir Vasiliev . In 1993 he was involved in all productions of the theater at the Moscow New Opera. As choir director worked on the opera Dido and Aeneas , The Magic Flute , La Traviata , Lohengrin . In 2010 he worked as a choirmaster in the project Simfomaniya of Dmitri Malikow , the whole of France traveled for 45 days.

Igor Manko has performed in places such as Carnegie Hall , Avery Fisher Hall , Palais des Festivals et des Congrès , the Moscow Conservatory and the Moscow House of Music.

Manko has been married to Yulia Vitalievna Dolgorukova since 1991 .

Public activities

He is a member of the Moscow City Duma Working Group on Culture . He is a board member of the international non-governmental organization promoting the preservation of Russian culture. He is an active leader of the Moscow Theater Workers' Union .

Discography

Audio CD:

1. - Cantata for choir and orchestra "St. John of Damascus", Op. 1 (also known as "A Russian Requiem"), Sergei Taneyev
2. - Opera Eugene Onegin , Pyotr Tchaikovsky
3. - Requiem , Giuseppe Verdi
4. - Choir of the Moscow Novaya Opera Theater

Video DVD:

1. - Opera Eugene Onegin (Opera) , Pyotr Tchaikovsky
2. - Opera Rigoletto , Giuseppe Verdi
3. - «Bravissimo!»

Recognition and awards

In 1998 the opera Eugene Onegin , in which Igor Manko took part as choir director and actor, won the Russian " Solotaja Maska " prize at the National Theater Festival.

Web links

• Symphonic mania
• Kommersant.ru Communism and Capitalism in the "Land of the Future"
• "Harmonic Hooliganism" Literary Gazette, April 19, 2006 Leo Safonkin
• Goes successor. All in white. "Lohengrin" by Richard Wagner in the "Nowaja Opera"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Moscow Conservatory. History - Students 1985-2014
2. ↑ Interview "Capital Plus"
3. ↑ Moscow received its own musical - Tomorrowland
4. ↑ In the "Novaya Opera" set "The Magic Flute"
5. ↑ "La Traviata"
6. ↑ Lohengrin changing occupation
7. ↑ "The First Tour in America (May 25, 1994)"
8. ^ "Round Table" in the Moscow City Duma
9. ↑ Another lawsuit before the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
10. ↑ Eugene Onegin