name

Dmitry Kalinin

gender

male

birth year

1978

country of origin

Russia

citizenship

Russian Federation

country of residence

Russia

town/city

Moscow

e-mail address

mobile

+7 (903) 200-0825

other contact details

ICQ Number: 293-565-730

type of work

I am looking for both temporary and permanent work

 

I am prepared to work in a different town/city in the country where I live

 

I am prepared to work outside of the country where I currently live

my native language

Russian

other languages

English

I am

conductor, composer, arranger, musician-instrumentalist, teacher-instrumentalist

instrument(s) which I play

balalaika

instrument(s) which I teach

balalaika

genre category or categories
in which I work

classical music, jazz, avante guarde, blues, rock, country, latin, folk, other or mixed genres

my musical education

Dmitry Kalinin began to play at 7. He has graduated from the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music with honour degree in 2003, where he works now under the guidance of Professor V. Boldyrev. After that he has graduated the post-graduate study from the Gnesins Russian Academy in 2005.
In 1997 Dmitry Kalinin becomes the soloist of the Academic Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments of the Russian State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company (Chief-conductor - N. Nekrasov).
Since 2001 Dmitry Kalinin works together with the winner of the international competitions, pianist F. Subbotin (since 2002 - ensemble "Russian Duet").

detailed description of my work, discography, participation in competitions etc

Dmitry Kalinin has won at the most prestigious Russian and International competitions and gained enthusiastic responses from his audience, he is one of the most well known professional balalaika performers in Russia.
Now he is a soloist of the Academic Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments of the Russian State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company, and accompanied by this glorified collective he has recorded for Russian radio and TV channel "Culture" a number of compositions of various genres and forms. He recorded 4 arrangments of russian folk songs by A. Shalov, musuc by A. Danilov, N. Budashkin and consert for balalaika with orchestra by A. Marchakovsky for Russian National music fond.
Dmitry often performes as a soloist with Ossipov's Balalaika Orchestra (conductor - N.Kalinin, now - V. Ponkin), the folk orchestra "Moscow" (conductor - I. Gromov), V.Petrov`s orchestra of Gnesins academy and other orchestras. He worked with such conductors as V. Fedoseev, S. Skripka, P. Sorokin, V. Ryabtsev etc.
Mr. Kalinin has performed at the best concert halls in Russia and abroad, including the Bolshoi Theatre, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Concert Hall "Russia"and the Hall of Columns at the House of Unions in Moscow; Merano Concert Hall, Santory-Hall (Tokyo) and "Minato mirai" (Yokohama) and many others.
His balalaika sounds in many movies, such as: "The Siberian barber" (by N. Mikhalkov),"The Tender Age" (by S. Solovyev), "New Bremen Musicians" (by G. Gladkov) ,"Under the Polar Star" (by M. Voronkov), "The Heated Saturday" (by A. Mitta), "Again It Is Necessary To Live" (by V. Panin), "Collective Farm" (by M. Voronkov), " Impudent " (by A. Surikova) ets.
Nowadays, mr. Kalinin closely works with contemperary composers, such as Valery Biktashev, Svetlana Novikova-Borodina, Andrey Semenov, Sergey Levin, Aleksey Sokolov, Aleksandr Milovidov ets. Majority of their works are dedicated to him. Also Dmitry Kalinin composes music himself. Hi has music for balalaika, domra, piano and ensamble of russian folk instruments. "The Russian Duet" is always open for new contacts both with composers and with musicians-performers.
Dmitry Kalinin took part in projects of Russian bards T.Shaov, Gr. Gladkov and I.Rosa, he made recordings for radio-performances, theatrical performances and TV programs. Also Dmitry gives masters-classes and solo conserts in different regions of Russia and abroad: Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Turcey etc.
In november 2004 in Moscow were publicated 2 music editions of original music for a balalaika and piano "By Dmitry Kalinin and Phillip Subbotin repertoir" where have been published Dmitry`s own compsitions, and music works devoted to him.
His recent works: record of music to E.Artemyev's rock-opera "Raskolnicov" and music to an opera "Balda" by D.Shostakovich for Deutsche Grammophon.

upcoming performances

20 september, 2005. Record for Russian National music fond with Academic Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments of the Russian State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company the arrangment of russian folk song "Troika" by N. Budashkin.

information about me can also be found on this web page (pages)

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Track # 01 ---> listen
Track description: Dmitry Kalinin, ???Poem-memoirs???. D.Kalinin, balalaika; F. Subbotin, piano. MP3, 1589 Kb.

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Track # 02 ---> listen
Track description: Valery Biktashev, Concert for balalaika with orchestra. (To Dmitry Kalinin) D.Kalinin, balalaika. Academie Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments of Russian National State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company, A.Shlyachkov, Conductor. S. Makhan, sound engineer. MP3, 1476 Kb.

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Track # 03 ---> listen
Track description: Sergey Levin. Concert for balalaika with orchestra.
D.Kalinin, Balalaika. Academie Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments of Russian National State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company. A. Shlyachkov, conductor. S. Makhan, sound engineer. MP3, 1086 Kb.

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Track # 04 ---> listen
Track description: Alexander Marchakovsky. Concert for balalaika with orchestra (fragment). D.Kalinin, balalaika. Symphony Zhukovsky orchestra, Conductor - S.Skripka. S. Makhan, sound engineer. MP3, 1026 Kb.

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Track # 05 ---> listen
Track description: Alexander Shalov, ???Midges in the forest???. D.Kalinin, balalaika. Academie Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments of Russian National State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company. N. Nekrasov, conductor. MP3, 1050 Kb.