Sergey Seleznev Biography

Soon after birth, Sergei was baptized in the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. His first acquaintance with music was Russian folk songs that he sang from early childhood. Little Seryozha had a good memory, he easily remembered melodies, songs, fairy tales. From Sergey’s memoirs: “The first thing I remember was my mother when she held me in her arms was about 2.5 years old ...

View from the window, the trunks of bird cherry ... rest, her tenderness ... Her voice, folk, city songs, ditties - my first acquaintance with music ...” And Sergey’s mother, Tatyana Nikitovna recalls: “He began to sing from five years old. He sang in the kindergarten, on the street, on a bench, at school. With great pleasure he received applause. And he sang at home: - Leave, mom, business, sit down, I will sing for you.

" Thanks to his elder brother Victor and the fact that Sergei loved to communicate with the elders, he went to school from the age of six. When Sergey graduated from the third grade, the Seleznev family moved to the city of his class teacher, became the Chudinovsky Rimma Petrovna. Sergey was even to all subjects of the school curriculum, but he was fond of literature, painting and history.

In the eighth grade, he took the 3rd place in the athletics all -around and the 1st place in boxing. The mother of Seryozha still keeps all the awards for achievements in the family archive. At the age of twelve, Sergei learned to play the guitar, and with his school friend, Yasha Zhabin began to perform as part of the school ensemble “Rhythms of Youth” and in the Vikhorevsky House of Culture “Zheleznodorozhnik”, participating in all festivals.

A note about Sergey in the East - Siberian Way newspaper inspired him: “I felt that I had a gift that would lead me to certain creative heights, travel, defeats and victories ...” In the ninth grade he received a reward for creative successes and active participation in the XIII district show of children'semical amateur performances. After graduation at the family council, they decided: since the guy has data, which means that we must learn how to seriously study.

Of course, in Moscow. So, having passed the final exams, Sergey goes to Moscow to enter the music school at the Moscow Conservatory. The selection was very strict, but he withstood it and became a student of the best music school in Russia. Having passed three rounds to verify vocal data, he was determined to the teacher Viktor Viktorovich Goryachkin.

Here is what Sergei recalls about his student: “... I especially remember that I received my student ticket to the Holy of Saints near the royal of P. Tchaikovsky in his house in Klin. From Viktor Viktorovich, I inherited organization, accuracy, the classically generally accepted manner of singing, I had an upper register with him - my upper “before” was the subject of his admiration, he influenced my taste ...

”Its organizational abilities were also revealed here. At the school, he was elected chairman of the student council. He was so captured by the educational process that he did not notice which people affect the development of his talent. Students easily gave lectures and played such famous music in the world as pianist Richter, actress Gogoleva, singer Nesterenko. Sergei, as a leader of students, organized various excursions - to Yasnaya Polyana, Vladimir, Suzdal and other cities.

Four years flew by unnoticed. In the year, Sergei graduated from the music school and applied for admission to the most prestigious musical educational institution - the Moscow State Conservatory. Only 14 applicants were accepted. After three rounds of listening, Sergey entered the four of the best and was enrolled in the conservatory. In the conservatory, Sergei attracted attention to the beauty and timbre of his tenor.

Professors and teachers were unanimous in the fact that world recognition was waiting. In the conservatory, Sergey attended the school of acting. In the fifth year of study, he was sent to San Petersburg as an intern in the Kirov opera. There he learned that the great Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi gives a master class at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. It was then that his fate noted.

The great maestro was fascinated by Sergey’s singing: “The voice is beautiful, the voice is large, you will sing around the world” and invited him to continue his studies at his Verdi Academy. Sergey was the only Russian in the Academy and therefore his Italian language is significantly stronger, since it was only necessary to speak with the master and all others in Italian.

He made his hands such movements that resembled the movements of the clouds .... He polished several opera parties with him ... He was pleased with his performances in concerts ... On New Year's holidays, the teacher released Sergey and he met a new year, a year-old, mysterious, mysterious-mystical Venice, after which he visited Taormin, Katania, Naples, Florence and ancient Rome, diligently studying the cultural heritage of Italy ...

from May to January to January ... Concerted in Siberia and Moscow. Since February, he lived and worked in the USA. In the fall of the year he performed in Germany. In the city of San Francisco lived from year to year and from for a year-in New York about performances-see the resume. After a series of concerts in Russia, he settled in Irkutsk in the year.He believes that the best biography of the singer and especially the poet is his work.

Sergey Seleznev, tenor.