Sergey Nikitin (musician)
Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin (Russian: Серге́й Яковлевич Никитин, born 8 March 1944) is a prominent Soviet and Russian bard, composer, and biophysicist. He performs both solo and in a duet with his wife, Tatyana Nikitina all over Russia, the former Soviet republics, and other countries with significant Russian-speaking diaspora. Sergey Nikitin is also known as a composer and performer of songs for children.
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Birth name | Sergei Yakovlevich Nikitin |
Born | Moscow, Soviet Union | 8 March 1944
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
Instruments | Seven-string guitar |
Years active | 1962–present |
Associated acts | Tatyana Nikitina, Yuri Vizbor, Viktor Berkovsky, Dmitry Sukharev |
Website | sergeytatiananikitiny |
Biography
Sergey Nikitin graduated from the Physics Department of Moscow State University in 1968. After completing postgraduate studies at the department of Biophysics at Moscow State University, he worked as a researcher in Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow (1971-1980). In 1980-1987 he was a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics in Pushchino and received a Ph.D. in Physics in 1983.
Nikitin wrote music to his first song, En route (lyrics by Iosif Utkin), in 1962. In 1963, he founded an all-male quartet in the Department of Physics at Moscow State University, together with Sergey Smirnov, Boris Geller, Aleksei Monakhov, and later Vadim Khait.[1]
From 1968-77, he appeared at numerous concerts, together with other members of his quintet, including his wife, Tatyana Nikitina, Carmen Santacreu, Vladimir Ulin, and Nikolai Turkin. In 1987-1995, he was Musical Director at the Oleg Tabakov Studio-Theater in Moscow, and became a full-time singer and composer since 1995.
Family
Nikitin has an adult son, Alexander.
Awards
- 1980 The movie Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears for which Sergey Nikitin wrote the music received an Oscar in the 'best foreign film' category.
- In 1997, Sergey Nikitin was awarded the title of the Meritorious Actor of Russia and, together with Tatiana Nikitina, became a laureate of the Tzarsko-Selsky Artistic Prize.
Works
- CDs
- Records of 1971-1975, quintet of the Department of Physics in Moscow State University
- To the Music of Vivaldi ("Под музыку Вивальди"), 1994
- Sergei Nikitin (selected songs), 1994
- A Big Secret for a Small Company ("Большой секрет для маленькой компании"), 1995
- Yesterday the Crocodile smiled, 1995
- Rubber hedgehog, songs for children on verses by Yunna Morits
- Brich-Mulla (Sergey Nikitin's songs on verses by Dmitry Sukharev cf. Brichmulla), 1996
- Sentries of Love ("Часовые любви", The Nikitins sing Bulat Okudzhava's songs)
- Field of miracles, 1998
- We don't choose times, 1998
- The Girl and the Plasticine, 1998
- Something is Happening to Me (Sergey Nikitin's songs to the verses of Yevgeny Yevtushenko), 1999
- Concert, 2000
- Retro for the Two of Us (Sergey Nikitin and Pyotr Todorovsky)
- Black and White Cinema, 2002
- Winter Holiday, 2002
- Soundtracks to live-action films:
- Almost a laughable story
- Trips in an old car
- Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears
- Irony of Fate, - "Snowing On" on YouTube a song from the film, lyrics by Boris Pasternak, music and performance by Nikitin, English subtitles by V. Chetin
- Old New Year
- Soundtracks to animated films:
- A Big Secret for a Small Company (1979)
- The Boy Was Walking, the Crow Was Flying (1981)
- The Wolfskin (1982)
- Music for the theater
- Mary Poppins, a collaboration with Viktor Berkovsky
- Ali Baba and 40 songs of Persian Bazaar a collaboration with Viktor Berkovsky, libretto by Veniamin Smekhov
- Opera Why are you wearing tails (based on a vaudeville by Anton Chekhov the Proposal)
- and many others
References
- "Квартет МГУ на сцене ДК "Академия". Слева направо: С. Никитин, В. Хайт, С. Смирнов". soran1957.ru. 1967. Retrieved 2017-05-09.