Yevgeny Mikhailovich Timakin

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Yevgeny Michailowitsch Timakin ( Russian Евгений Михайлович Тимакин , born  January 23, 1916 in Rostov-on-Don , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union ; †  2004 ) was a Russian pianist , piano teacher and holder of the honorary title of Honored Teacher of the School of the RSFSR .

Timakin grew up as a half-orphan in Rostov-on-Don. He received piano lessons at home at a young age and attended a music school from the age of eight. He later studied piano at the Rostov-on-Don University of Music in the class of Vasily Wassiljewitsch Schaub and then from 1935 at the Moscow Conservatory with Konstantin Igumnow . In 1940 he graduated with honors - despite a hand injury that he sustained at a young age due to excessive strain and that had accompanied him all his life - and was drafted into the army . During World War II he served in the Moscow air defense troops, most recently as a lieutenant. After the war Timakin began teaching, first at the Music Pedagogical School and from 1952 to 1999 at the Central Music School in Moscow . He also led seminars for teachers in the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries and was Dean of the Piano Faculty of the Music Academy in Novi Sad , Yugoslavia , from 1975 to 1979 . Timakin's students include a. the winners of international piano competitions Valeri Kamischow, Michail Pletnjow , Ivo Pogorelich , Vladimir Feltsman , Jekaterina Novizkaja , Aleksander Strukow, Olga Kern and Alexander Mogilewski .

Timakin's textbooks Training as a Pianist and Training in Coordination , published in 1984 and 1989 and reissued in 2009 and 2012, are among the standard works of Russian piano lessons. The textbooks were also published in English and supplemented by video material in the 1990s on the initiative of Mikhail Pletnjow. A portrait of Timakin has been in his memory since 2016 together with the nine other "outstanding [...] musicians and teachers" in the great concert hall of the Moscow Central Music School. In 2010 the commemorative history of the Moscow Central Music School was published. A collection of articles, essays and interviews in Russian with memories and appreciation of Timakin's teaching and pedagogy.

In February 2019, the international Timakin piano competition took place at the Swiridow Children's Music School in Moscow for the first time.

Works (selection)

  • EM Тимакин: Ежедневные упражнения пианиста. Арпеджио. Sovetskij Kompozitor, Moscow 1974 (Russian). New edition in English translation: Daily Pianistic Exercises: Arpeggios , Muzyka, Moscow 2012, ISBN 978-5-061-58728-8 .
  • EM Тимакин: Воспитание пианиста. Sovetskij Kompozitor, Moscow 1984 (Russian). New edition with DVD, Muzyka, Moscow 2009, ISBN 978-5-714-01155-9 (Russian).
  • EM Тимакин: Навыки координации в развитии пианиста. Sovetskij Kompozitor, Moscow 1987 (Russian). New edition in English translation: Coordination Skills in the Development of a Pianist. A manual , Muzyka, Moscow 2012, ISBN 978-5-061-58563-5 .
  • EM Timakin, Jakša Zlatar (eds.) Essential Piano Exercises Book 1 , Spartan Press, North Petherton, Somerset 2005, ISBN 979-0-57999-764-1 (English).
  • EM Timakin, Jakša Zlatar (Ed.) Essential Piano Exercises Book 2 , Spartan Press, North Petherton, Somerset 2006, ISBN 979-0-57999-765-8 (English).
  • EM Timakin, Jakša Zlatar (eds.) Essential Piano Exercises Book 3 , Spartan Press, North Petherton, Somerset 2006, ISBN 979-0-57999-766-5 (English).

literature

  • Andrei Chitruk: 11 взглядов на фортепианное искусство в диалогах (11 views on piano art in conversation with A. Chitruk) , Chapter Е. Тимакин. Каждый ученик - это новая книга, которую мы должны изучить (J. Timakin. Every student is like a new book that we have to study) . Klassika-XXI, Moscow 2007, ISBN 978-5-89817-196-4 (Russian).
  • M. Berlianschik (Ed.): Центральная музыкальная школа в воспоминаниях. Сборник статей, эссе и интервью. (History of the Moscow Central Music School. A collection of articles, essays and interviews) . 2nd extended edition, Central Music School Moscow 2010 (Russian).

Movies

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Андрей Хитрук: Одиннадцать взглядов на фортепианное искусство. Klassika-XXI, Moscow 2007, ISBN 978-5-898-17196-4 . (Russian)
  2. ↑ Тимакин Евгений Михайлович. Central Music School Moscow , accessed on March 16, 2019 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Галерея портретов музыкантов в концертном зале «Центральной музыкальной школы». Культура.РФ, accessed on June 1, 2019 (Russian): "[...] выдающихся отечественных музыкантов-педагогов [...]."
  4. ↑ Центральная музыкальная школа в воспоминаниях. Сборник статей, эссе и интервью. Kompozitor, accessed June 10, 2019 (Russian, table of contents).
  5. ↑ I Международный конкурс молодых пианистов имени Е.М.Тимакина. Играем с Начала, December 19, 2018, accessed March 16, 2019 (Russian).
  6. ↑ Russia's Wonder Children. Icarus Films, accessed August 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Timakin, Yevgeny Mikhailovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Тимакин, Евгений Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian pianist and piano teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov-on-Don , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 2004