Generations of
balalaika players was born around the world, mainly concentrated in France, Germany, England, in
the Nordic countries and the United States. Here is a list of
personalities.
En France
Pétia Jacquet-Pritkoff
Петя Жакэ-Притков
He discovers and learns balalaika at the Institut St-Georges of Meudon (near Paris). He is the creator, conductors and composer-arranger of the Saint-Georges Balalaikas Orchestra in Paris.
He is balalaika teacher at the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire de Paris.
He created the Russian group "Tchaika" with whom he played as a duo with his girlfriend Macha Apreleff. Plays on a balalaika Norwood.
A nice boy
Little bird
Micha Tcherkassky Миша Черкасский
Born in Paris, studied at the Rachmaninoff Conservatoire in Paris, then with Valery Zajiguin and Alexander Danilov in Moscow. He
made the Anthology MP3 of instrumental Russian musicbalalaika and domra and the balalaika.fr website. He founded the Balalaikas Orchestra of Paris, the Baikal Quartet, the Sputnik Trio and the balalaika piano duet with Simon Gregorcic.
Teaches balalaika in
Paris, made a multimedia balalaika method, available on
balalaika.fr and plays on a balalaika Koupfer No. 12. photos | vidéos|plus d'infos Afanassiev-Trostiansky Blue lake
Chalov Valenki
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Micha Makarenko
Миша Макаренко
Born in Paris of Russian parents. Self-taught, he taught at the
Conservatoire Rachmaninoff, and teaches at the Ecole Normale de Musique
de Paris and the Russian Conservatoire Scriabin.
It forms the
balalaika-piano duet "Anne and Micha Makarenko" since 1981 and a set of
students "Skazki". Wrote a method of balalaika and the duo recorded two
CDs. Plays on a balalaika Norwood.
Nicolas Kedroff
Николай Кедров
He comes from the Russian emigration.Gets the 2nd prices International Contest Tcherepovetz Russia 1992.
Nourished by diverse influences (jazz, cabaret, Russian) studied at the
Rachmaninoff conservatory in Paris and at the School of Music in Moscow
Gnesin's class Cheglovitov.
Plays in duet with guitar, has
created a group of balalaika and has performed with the Orchestre
Ossipov. Plays on a balalaika Nalimov (1904). Dargomyjsky Melancolical waltz
Tsigankov Tustep
En Angleterre
Bibs Ekkel
Balalaika player, Polish origin, living in London. Has performed on
the prestigious scenes in the world, USA, Russia, to the court of
England.
He is known for his cabaret numbers where he plays passing his balalaika in his back, beetwin his legs.
Born in Ukraine, Oleg Guitline studied with Valery Zajiguin at the
Gnesin Institute in Moscow, winner of the "All Russias" contest. He went in Germany in 1998 where he formed a trio oriented jazz music and
Piazzola music. He plays on a balalaika Grebenikov. vidéos Chalov In the forest
Piazzola Oblivion
Le Jeu au Plectre
The balalaika, as classified by Vassili Andreev at the end of the 19th century is played with the fingers, however certain musicians developed a technique of playing with a plectrum (made out of hard plastic or tortoiseshell). Here is a selection of the most well known musicians playing in this way.
Petro Ivanovitch (1947)
Пэтро Иванович
Born in a gypsy family of ex-Yugoslavia, now the Serbia, Petro Ivanovitch was born in Zemun close to Belgrade. He learned a traditional instrument Yougoslave the tambouritsa (4 strings) before adapting its play to the balalaika which he tunes differently (G,E,A). It arrived to France at the end of the sixties and continued a career of musician and singer with his group the Tziganes Ivanovitch with whom it played on many Parisian scenes Olympia, Bobino... He recorded several LP whose considered as references in the world of the gypsy music.
Conductor and arranger of the Rasputin balalaikas Orchestra, russian cabaret
on the Champs Elysées in Paris. He counted in the ranks of his band Petya Jacquet-Pritkoff, Macha Aprelieff, Nicolas Kedroff,
Micha Tcherkassky ...
Kamarinskaia
Polianka
Ter Abramoff
Тэр Абрамов
Soloist very personal style with excessive vibrato, has played on the
largest Internationnal stages including an exceptional concert at the
White House before JF Kennedy.
Drunkenness in troika
Red sarafan
Michaïl Ignatieff (1910-1991)
Михаил Игнатев
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Born in St. Petersburg, he lived in Germany from 1918 and made his
debut as soloist in 1927. It was until his death a prominent soloist of
the instrument. It owes its fame not only concerts he gave in public
but also to concerts on radio and television.
As a
composer, he created the character lyrical songs accompanied with the
piano. His method for classical balalaika ( "Schule für das
Spiel-künstlerische Balalaika") is a reference to the German balalaika players. Under his leadership other composers have
created works for balalaika and piano.
On the model of his Nalimoff balalaika, the balalaika maker W.J. Vogt achieved about twenty efficient instruments.
Ignatieff - Russian Serenade
Ignatieff - Romance
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Marc de Loutchek (1939-2008)
Born in Paris, of Russian origin, Marc de Loutchek was a musician,
arranger, composer, conductor. Besides the balalaika his favorite
instrument, he played the piano and guitar.
He began his career
as a musician in the Russian cabarets in Paris at side of the gypsy
singers: Valia and Aliocha Dimitrievitch in Novy, Grand Séverine and
Regineskaia. His qualities as a musician lead him early to be a
conductor. He was the conductor of the famous Ivan Rebroff for several years.
Thereafter he created the Balalaikarestaurant who was one of the
famous Russian restaurants in Paris, François Mitterrand
and Serge Gainsbourg was there regularly.
He has recorded many
albums of Russian and Gypsy songs (including Balalaika Vol 1 to
6) playing traditional Russian melodies with the balalaika or the guitar.
Sensitive (composer and performer Marc de Loutchek)
The Pedlars "Korobuchka" (Arrangement and performer Marc de Loutchek)
Je suis enthousiasmé par le contenu de votre encyclopédie, comme d'ailleurs par tout le site "balalaika.fr". Par contre, je m'étonne de ne pas trouver la mention d'un interprète très réputé en Allemagne, Michail Ignatieff (1910 - 1991). Il a aussi composé des morceaux pour la balalaika, et il a encouragé egalement d'autres compositeurs Ãlargir le rɃpertoire pour cet instrument. Par ailleurs, Ƀ son initiative, des luthiers ont constuit des balalaikas d'une haute performance.
Pas de doute, le jeu balalaika atteint des sommets impressionnants bien démontré sur votre site. Je viens de faire le tour de beaucoup de vidéos avec un vif plaisir. Il y a quelques années j'ai participé comme guitariste plusieurs spectacles de musique russe en chansons flokloriques, dont un duo lalalaika-guitare qui m'a laissà un souvenir de communion entre musiciens-instruments plein de bonheur. J'aurais voulu retrouver cet Ƀchange en parcourant votre site, hɃlas, la guitare est trop peu prɃsente, Ƀ peine audible. Je n'ai pas trouvé un site rusee guitare intéressant, présenté come le vôtre, merci d'avance si vous pouvez m'indiquer un chemin de recherche.
Vous trouverez dans l'Anthologie Balalaika MP3 un duo célèbre Mikhail Rojkov la balalaika et Gueorguy Miniaiev à la Guitare. Ils ont réalisé plusieurs disques.
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