Yuriy Ivanets - balalaika player, teacher, conductor

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Yury Ivanets

Yuriy Ivanets (1961) is a musician, a conductor and a teacher. He plays a traditional Russian musical instrument – balalaika. Being a researcher of Russian folk instruments history, he has written the works "The history of balalaika from Andreev to Vasilenko" and "Balalaika from ancient times to nowadays". Yuriy got his musical education in Novosibirsk's State Conservatory, the balalaika department under supervision of A.Klyuev and the conductor department under the supervision of V.Prasolov and B.Rivkin. Yuriy had his concerts not on only in cities of Russia but in Kazakhstan, Latviya, Estonia, Romaniya, Italy. He works as a teacher at Musical school #10 in Novosibirsk. His is a musical leader and organizer of children's ensemble "Sibirian balalaikas". The concert program comprises Russian and Western classical works, popular folk melodies, original work for balalaika. The musician invites to cooperate concert organizations and interested persons. Contact Yury Ivanets