White dragonfly of love by nikolay voronov. Musician Nikolai Voronov: biography, creativity and personal life

Contemporary composer Nikolay Voronov was born in 1991 in Moscow and from the age of five has been studying at the Gnessin Moscow Secondary Special Music School in piano with a talented teacher, Honored Worker of Culture Tatyana Abramovna Zelikman.

N. Voronov wrote his first composition (“Classical” etude for pianoforte) at the age of 8. Later, he began to try his hand at the pop genre, creating about 70 different compositions, accompanied by a synthesizer. In 2003, Nikolai returned to classical music again. In just two years, N. Voronov writes more than a dozen pieces for piano, several pieces for various chamber ensembles and three pieces for symphony orchestra.

In the past few years, Nikolai has been studying composition under the guidance of A.A. Prishchepa, participating in numerous competitions and creative evenings. N. Voronov is the laureate of the 1st prize of the competition "Piano miniature in Russian music" named after. A. G. Rubinstein (St. Petersburg, 2005) and laureate of the 1st prize of the competition chamber music festival "Return" (Moscow, 2007). He studies at the conservatory, performs at concerts.

It was a sinful thing to have already wanted to post "Dragonfly of Love" and some excerpt from the epic program "Let's Get Married" with the participation of Nikolai. But the mind was enough to go to the social. network and briefly get acquainted with his work. I share.

Song "Struzh" (text, there is a song, I advise you to listen)

A happy dream pierced me!

Far above the empty dew, a horse screamed.
I also wanted to scream!
I went outside and started screaming.
Awww!
Whoooo!
OOO!!!
No one heard me, although everyone saw me.
I kept screaming.
AAA!
YUUU!
YAAA!
And suddenly a thought struck me...
They don't want to understand us.
They want to understand themselves, and we think that we.
They don't pity others, they pity themselves.
They don't praise others, they praise themselves.
They don't love others, they love themselves.
If you don't love anyone, then you don't love yourself.
If you know everything about yourself, then you know everything about others!
You think - that this does not happen (that you can know everything) - then you yourself do not know.
A terrible secret was revealed to me.
And, you know, after that you don’t want to think.
I want to swim in the fog, not understanding anything,
I want to scream!
Awwwwww!!
Wow-aaaah!
AAAA!!!

Song "Fate" (text, there is a song, I advise you to listen)

May nights, foggy nights

You will pass by the shadow, you will not be seen,
You will tell what you saw, and then you will forget,
And only the lake will remember, drying up in the sun.

Wake me up, oh life!
Tell me - what else?


Wake me up, oh life!
Tell me - what else?
Dissolving in the barely audible breath of the streets,
In which my trace will dissolve.

On the green grass, obliquely to fate,
You walk diagonally, but in fact - straight,
Fuels are following you, but in reality -
It's you who follow everyone, smiling at the sun!

Wake me up, oh life!
Tell me - what else?
Dissolving in the barely audible breath of the streets,
In which my trace will dissolve.
Wake me up, oh life!
Tell me - what else?
Dissolving in the barely audible breath of the streets,
In which my trace will dissolve.

In work operas "Janis" and "USSR"

Symphonic poem "Trees" was done in just a few hours - started and finished on August 30, 2012.
Plot: musicians on the stage. They are playing different music, improvise. After a while, out of nowhere, suddenly, a man appears on the stage. He tries to ask the musicians how to get through, but gets no answer. The musicians continue to go about their business as if nothing had happened. The man tries to explain that he is late, that he needs to meet the girl, that she will not understand him if he does not meet her. The musicians don't respond. He looks for a door that leads, according to him, to the street, finds it, breaks it open and gets to the meeting place, but the girl is not there. He is confused. He asks the musicians if they have seen this girl, no one answers him. Then he approaches one of the musicians, asks who he is, and, having received no answer, begins to tell him about himself, about how he met a man who told him that "love will save our world", but he does not trust these words, because they are said too brightly. He is looking for how to achieve popularity, fame, reflects on this, says that this person he met is very kind, sincere, loves people, nature, a woman, but such people are not needed now. He says that now is just the time to achieve this popularity, and he has everything to achieve recognition. Only he has a problem - no one hears him.
He asks: "Where is my house?" - and, having received no answer, leaves the stage. The orchestra continues to improvise.

but in general he had a lot of pleasant and harmonious music. It will be necessary to rock-listen.

And finally, I quote the post of Nikolai Voronov on the topic of the day (I highlighted in italics what I agree with):

“How I wish that the killings and terror in Ukraine, and in general, simply stopped once and for all. Someone is provoking similar actions- but do not respond to provocations! I can compare it with a game - someone sits down with you at the table to play, but you might not sit down with him at this table!!! To sit down means to accept the rules of the game - the rules of murder, terrorism. You yourself become a killer! You don't have to fight anyone! Actually, with no one. This is silly. And the fact that people have turned into animals is utter nonsense, I don’t even know how you can say that. With any person, even a murderer, you can always negotiate, we just don’t always know how. But you can. Do not blame the United States for provocations, do not blame us, Russians, Ukrainians for the problem - we will never know who is really to blame, because so much has already happened that no history will clarify it. Now I personally expect only one thing - that everyone who has a weapon will throw it away once and for all and, finally, will understand the price human life- First of all, your own. How I want everything to settle down!!!"

What can I say. GENIUS! We wish him a good positive muse-keeper of the hearth to find himself and create a sea of ​​​​chic works!

Again, who saw live. Tell me.

- How did you get the idea to record the very video where you sing the song "White Dragonfly of Love"?

It was not me who came up with the idea, I never promoted my work in my life, I thought it was wrong. It’s just that in Dubna my dad invited me to give a concert and my pop songs. And one of the songs was jokingly called a hit by me. Someone just told me it was going to be a hit and I repeated it. Later, the guys from Ukrainian group "Quest Pistols"With a request to perform this song, I agreed. Together we shot clip , and this song broke TV. It was played in all discos.

- Did you expect such a success?

No, and I don't think that anything special happened in my life. Yes, it is very pleasant, it brings money, happiness, but at the same time I understand that I can do much more. For example, I create classical music, although it is not yet popular.

Why do you think this video has become so successful?

I do not know that. My song is an accident, it just seems to me that I performed it well, and it was unusual.

- What is the contingent at your concerts?

There is no contingent as such. I recently gave a party in St. Petersburg, in which children from 14 to 16 years old participated, they were guests there, they really liked my songs. Once I led for 30-35-year-olds, well, that is, everyone likes it, absolutely different ages.

- How do you make a living now?

At the speeches.

- Do you see any of your competitors on Youtube or on the Internet?

I have no competitors. In general, I think that it is wrong to envy someone, on the contrary, you rather envy those who have no talent, who are too correct, if a person is more talented than you, it is, on the contrary, pleasant.

- Do you perform at corporate parties?

Yes, they just rarely call now. Ordered by different companies different people who know me and my songs.

- How has popularity changed people's attitude towards you?

I still had friends, I didn’t make friends with people who purely listen to pop music, but my acquaintances and friends are for classical, for serious work, so they thought that I was talented in the classics, and they think so.

- Fame always has back side. What is it for you?

I don't see the other side. She is good and everything is nice that you are known. Moreover, I didn’t do anything bad, I wrote songs, but I didn’t kill a cat and didn’t record it on a video that a million people watched. And so I am responsible for myself and my actions, I think about what I do.

- What is your fee?

Transferring to your money, on average I play for 8000 hryvnia per concert. It happens less at corporate parties and club performances. The largest was somewhere around 80,000 rubles.

- What are your plans for the future?

I make classical music theatrical performances, if this work is once known, I think it will not go anywhere, because I have always been taught that classical music is eternal music. And pop art, well, "Dragonfly", judge for yourself, was written in 2001, respectively, she is already 12 years old, and 12 years old is normal for a hit. The fact is that at concerts they ask her to play mainly, at one time she thundered, and without this song I would not have been known, that's for sure.

How has popularity changed your life?

I continue to travel by public transport, in terms of lifestyle, my popularity has changed me into better side because I quit smoking when I got on stage.

17-year-old Muscovite Nikolai Voronov is a true child prodigy who was never called that at home to protect him from psychological trauma. The boy, born in the family of a psychologist and accompanist, from the age of three showed extraordinary abilities in mathematics and music. At the age of five, he began studying to be a pianist at the Gnesins' Moscow Secondary Special School for Specially Gifted Children. Perfect Pitch and unique musical memory, identified in Nikolai, led to the fact that, in parallel with general program with him began to engage in composition. At the age of ten, Kolya Voronov composed the song “White Dragonfly of Love” on a simple synthesizer, which six years later was destined to become internet hit and bring fame to the author. And now a first-year student of the composer department of the Moscow Conservatory, a pop career began to spin - he was invited with performances to corporate parties, the New Year's light of the 2x2 channel, to the Solyanka and Caviar clubs. On the young musician offers of cooperation from representatives of show business, requests for television filming and interviews rained down. Fans, having found out the address of the Voronovs, began to gather at his entrance. What is called a serious hype has risen.

The current situation worries Kolya Voronov's parents a lot, who fear that excessive public attention will prevent their son from completing his education and thereby ruin his talent. OPENSPACE.RU decided to find out what Kolya Voronov himself had in mind.

Location: cafe on Izmailovsky Boulevard. Characters: correspondent OPENSPACE.RU Denis Boyarinov, Nikolai Voronov and his director Alexander. Voronov studies the menu, then makes an order: meat in a frying pan, two bottles of mineral water.

- You bite your nails.

Yes (laughs embarrassedly). Can't get rid of the habit.

- It's some kind feature for pianists. Horowitz also bit his nails in his youth.

For pianists, this is such a disaster. By the way, Horowitz - yes. And Stravinsky didn't bite.

- Can we start the interview?

And how.

Wonderful. Your mother and piano teacher told me in detail about your, so to speak, development as a classical musician, pianist. But here is the moment when you became interested in pop music, they, according to their confession, did not notice.

In fact, my mother probably noticed, but did not tell. I got into pop music at the age of ten. Turn on the TV and listen to songs. Any - listened to the White Eagle group, Viktor Tsoi ( laughs)… What else is there? Decl! ( Recites.) "And who are you? Who are you? Who are you? And who are you? Who are you? Who are you?" Really good songs. Choi is amazing...

And so, I say that it was all in principle interesting to me. But I took up pop music when my dad bought a synthesizer at the Savelovsky market Casio CTK 571. This synthesizer has become my attribute.

- Do you still play the same synthesizer?

Yes! And I don't want to change it!

- And it works well - the keys do not sink?

Works well. On the contrary, the keys sometimes want to pull out. With root! ( Laughs.) No, I'm afraid, I'm afraid to buy a new one. ( Conversational tone.) Do you know why I'm afraid?

- Why?

Because the new one won't have the Dragonfly rhythm. No - if new, then only Casio, only Casio. Moreover, it is interesting that on the new synthesizer it will be possible to make a remix for "Dragonfly". Actually, I'm glad you've heard Dragonfly. It's incredible! It is amazing! Why all of a sudden such an attraction to the song? Suddenly! Here there was no this song, here it appeared - and suddenly this. And now everyone says that Nikolai Voronov is my idol. ( Laughs.)

- What are you listening to now?

Now it's classical music. She has something to say to me energetically.

- What period?

Modern. Not even modern late XIX- the beginning of the XX century.

- Modernists?

Still not quite modernists, but already ... Early avant-garde - Debussy, Scriabin, Mahler, Ravel is already less. All this is post-Chopin. Rachmaninoff is included, of course. Naturally, dodecaphonists, the New Viennese school - Berg, Schoenberg, Webern.

- I know you compose symphonic works and myself.

Yes, I do, of course. On the computer, I have three programs. I write in them, programs are immediately voiced. This is very important: you compose and immediately hear what you compose.

- How would you describe the style of your symphonic works?

I have different ones. It's probably the return of a classic. Modern harmonies… No, that's how it should be said: I'm trying to show modern harmonies classic style. And in general - a combination. Even "Dragonfly" is a combination. Mix of pop-rock and disco.

- Do you give titles to your symphonic compositions?

- "Opus". Opuses under numbers. I can't get the names. I give numbers to songs. Song 68 is playing now.

- So you wrote 68 songs in total?

- And why do you play the same ten pieces at concerts?

- 15. Because they are the most hit. And so far I have only learned them.

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26 year old Russian composer Nikolai Voronov, who became famous at the end of the 2000s thanks to a hit « White Dragonfly of love» , now leads a rather strange video blog on YouTube: in the videos, he sits in front of the camera in a half-naked form and utters little meaningful monologues. In social networks, they are worried about the mental health of a man.

Social media users suggest that a certain person is to blame for Voronov's behavior. mental disorder caused by the calm after the fame. “This is an example of how show business cripples people,” wrote the Russian Shuffle Telegram channel.

Nikolai Voronov was born in May 1991. According to his mother, he began to study music at the age of three. From the age of five he learned to play the piano at the Gnessin Moscow Secondary Special Music School. Voronov became a star at the age of 17 thanks to YouTube and the song "White Dragonfly of Love", which he wrote at the age of 10. With her, he performed at corporate parties, TV shows and clubs.

Voronov's popularity quickly waned. Last year, the young man gave an interview to StarHit, in which he said that he had left the stage because "he began to play the piano more seriously in order to become a professional who would not have any failures at all." At the same time, he stated that he hated the conservatory, where he studied for five years, because there they “taught him nothing” and did not see him as a composer. Ravens also admitted that he was not worried about past glory.

Popularity is not always acquired through participation in diverse competitions and castings. Sometimes a chance meeting with the right people and even clumsily made home video. Nikolai Voronov is exactly the man who managed to become famous thanks to a private video posted furtively on the popular Youtube site. About his history, biography and creative success we will tell in this article.

General information from life

Nikolai was born in May 1991 in Moscow. His father was Alexander Yaroslavovich Voronov, a well-known lecturer in the Department of Sociology and humanities International University of Nature, Society and Man "Dubna". Since childhood, Nikolasha, as his mother called him, loved to listen to music. He could sit for hours eyes closed and enjoy your favorite tune.

Getting a musical education

From the age of five, the Voronovs decided to send the boy to music school named after the Gnesins, where he could learn to play the piano. Nikolai Voronov loved to learn something new, so he gladly gave himself up to the hands of teachers. Here the musician studied for 12 years.

However, due to excessive zeal, the young man became too irritable, which eventually led to a nervous breakdown. Therefore, the parents and he himself decided to leave the music school and take a break in training for a while. For the same reason, Nikolai was forced to refuse to participate in a prestigious competition held in 2000 in Holland.

In 2008, he entered the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where the young man was trained under the strict guidance of Ledenev. It was thanks to perseverance and incredible hearing that student Voronov managed to write the first poem for male choir with orchestra, then six new pieces for violin and orchestra, and after that come up with parts for cello, violin, string orchestra, viola and celesta.

Passion for Russian "pop"

Along with classical music, Voronov Nikolai Alexandrovich became interested in domestic "pop music". According to him, interest in this musical style originated with him from the moment when he was presented with the first synthesizer. It was this tool that helped to compose young talent the following songs:

• "I'm waiting for you".
• "People who immediately."
• "White Dragonfly of love".

Wherein last topic about the dragonfly became a real hit. Later, Nikolai came up with other songs, many of which became popular. Among them you can find such works as:

• "Casino".
• "Fruit Delicateness"
• "Run."
• "Barricade".
• "Country".
• "Chub, kamon" and others.

One of latest works written by the musician is "Newspapers write". In total, the artist has created over 90 of his own songs, many of which he performs himself and allows other musicians and artists to do so.

Tour

Feeling the strength talented performer, at the end of 2008, Nikolai Voronov decided to go on his first tour of the country. In organizing concerts, the musician was assisted by various personal managers. However, he decided to refuse their services after about 2-3 years from the moment the first tour began.

Voronov Nikolay (musician): entertaining facts from life

During the start creative career and studying at the university, Nikolai met wonderful people, composed music, poetry and drew inspiration from the works of famous classics. Unusual, less often funny, but more often memorable situations often occurred in his life. For example, the most memorable event for him was the first appearance on the stage. It happened, according to him, in the middle of 2008 during a small concert in Dubna, organized by representatives of the Solyanka club. At that moment, the composer and performer made a splash.

According to preliminary measures, at that time over 1,500 spectators gathered in the hall, who came to listen to the music performed by Voronov. Later the same musical number Nikolai Voronov himself (songs written by the composer can be found in this article) posted on YouTube. Surprisingly, this video scored great amount views and positive comments.

The second moment of fame of the musician was new year concert 2008-2009, broadcast by the 2x2 TV channel. Thanks to the popularity gained on YouTube, the composer and performer Voronov was noticed even by the famous musical critic Artemy Troitsky. According to certain information, it was he who initiated the departure of Nikolai with the hit "White Dragonfly of Love" performed by the group Quest Pistols for Eurovision 2009.

And although they, indeed, managed to submit such an application, the commission did not approve this initiative. The refusal of the persons responsible for the competition was due to a violation of the rules. The fact is that the song has already become a hit. It was broadcast on radio and television, which was strictly not allowed until the start of the competition.

Musician awards and prizes

In the summer of 2009, Nikolai Voronov was awarded an honorary prize called " steppe wolf". In addition, Nikolai has repeatedly become the laureate of various prizes and awards.

What is the musician doing today?

On the this moment Nikolai Voronov offers his services as a presenter at corporate parties, performs at concerts, composes new compositions and is engaged in creativity. So, for all the time, Nikolai wrote:

• two quartets;
• one trio;
• about ten duets;
• one quintet;
• one sextet;
• five poems;
• about twenty-five electronic symphonies;
• more than a dozen musical works created especially for the orchestra;
• more than ten compositions for piano, etc.

He also runs his own website. He also has official page"In contact with". AT free time the young man enjoys cycling, picking mushrooms and attending the conservatory. About how he acted in television shows and programs by Nikolai Voronov (“Comedy Club” and others), we will tell further.

Participation in the Comedy Club

Sometimes Nikolai is invited to various talk shows and programs of various kinds. For example, once he became the guest of honor of the popular Russian show comedy club. During live broadcast the musician entered into a funny dialogue with the hosts of the program, spoke briefly about his work and even sang a few lines from his hits: “Barricade” and “Dragonfly of Love”. By the way, it was on this program that the performer announced that the song about the dragonfly is almost 15 years old. It turned out that he wrote it at the age of eleven.

Nicholas's personal life

If the musician talks about his creative successes very willingly, then he prefers to remain silent about his personal life or quickly changes the subject. From his words it becomes clear that he has not yet thought about a serious relationship. However, he boldly says that he likes blondes with "appetizing, plump forms."

Musician's hobbies

Like any normal person, Nicholas has his own interests and taste preferences. For example, he likes any bright and interesting music including the classic. The main thing is that it fascinates the listener and produces a certain effect. “It should lift the mood, make you want to cry or laugh,” says the composer.

Nikolay hardly watches TV, but he likes to read a lot. Among the favorite writers and poets of the musician are the following Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Yesenin, Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva, Brodsky and others.

So, we have considered creative life musician and his biography. Nikolai Voronov is a popular performer today with a unique ear and sense of tact.