Anton Baranov Biography

The list of his victories in various contests of performers on the classic guitar does not tell a person to the uninitiated person, but on him you can study world geography. The same can be said about the engagements in the most prestigious halls, among which, for example, the famous Carnegie Hall in New York. The guitarists are attracting a gala concert standing up last week in the state-large concert of the S.

Hall for the now summer history of the festival by its participants along with Russian guitarists became musicians from 23 countries in Europe, North and South America, and more than 20 thousand people were attended by events. All this allows you to classify Kazan to one of the country's guitar centers. In addition, the city has an extensive network of art schools and guitar is one of the popular areas.

At the final concert on March 31, accompanied by the orchestra of the Center for Modern Music S., with the latter, we managed to meet and talk before the performance. By the way, on the eve, at one of the events of the festival, he conquered the audience with the penetrating sound of his romantic guitar. However, he delighted not only the skill of execution, but also in the way - standing, while the vast majority of colleagues plays sitting.

He went on stage in black with a guitar at the ready, it was just right to expect that Rock Ballas would now sound, but the hall heard the works of the composers of the age of the century: the Austrian Franz Schubert and the Russian Dmitry Bortnyansky. It was with this that our conversation began. Also, in the Russian tradition of the city century, it was on the seven -string to “play on the go”.

When you play standing for the public, this primarily causes its interest - as your question testifies to. But there is also a physical aspect - the artist is not only better visible, but also heard. Classic guitarists are loners. There are many of us. There are few sites. We must fight for the viewer. I, as a classic guitarist, also played sitting when I became interested in historical guitar, I began to learn to play standing.

A year and a half has gone to it. Strings from the intestines are cooler than silver? This is visually visible. And this instrument is better to play the music of the century and an earlier time ... My guitar is a copy of the instrument of the 10ths. In general, I have four tools, including this one. And they are all different. Although there are musicians who have dozens of them.

But this is clearly too much. I also use nylon imitation of residential strings. For many centuries, after all, they played on strings made from animal dried intestines. I tried to play such, but it did not go. There is a lot of troubles: problems of building, durability, constant observance of certain humidity and temperature regime. In addition, they are very expensive ... Therefore, I switched to imitation, very similar in sound and tactile sensations.

In the view of most ordinary people, it is silver that are considered the standard. And, it turns out, it is cooler than their sort of that, more associated, excuse me, with a liver sausage ...-In fact, a braid of bass strings can be made of pure silver, but the phrase “silver strings” is, rather, a common poetic metaphor, like a “golden voice” or “blue bird of luck”. And what is cooler?

It is like comparing a convertible and a jeep, everyone is good in certain conditions. The sect in a good sense of the word-is the Kazan listener something different from St. Petersburg or American? Our viewer, he is unified. The people who are trained come to the classic guitar: teachers, their students, relatives, friends who are somehow connected with this ... and this is the problem.

We are as a kind of sect, only in the good sense of the word. True, this closeness, it does not lead to anything good. The task of festivals, such as the “classic guitar in the 21st century,” is to expand the audience towards an unprepared public.

And it’s good that you understand this in the republic and support Ainura Begutov, the founder and director of the festival. Classical academic music is generally not self -sufficient - either the state helps or sponsors ... - What did you manage to see in Kazan? And what touched the strings of your soul most? But in general, I liked how the dialogue of cultures, the past and the present ...

a kind of place sounds in Kazan. I am not attractive in food. And then it coincided: both simple and tasty! It is a pity that it was not possible to visit the bazaar. There is, I think, very good advice to travelers: the atmosphere of the city is best known not in museums, but in the market. I have a second time in the city for the first time, I first came to the festival in the year.

So until new meetings! The peak of the musician’s career was victories at two, according to many musicians, the most prestigious guitar competitions: the name of the Francisco Tarreg Region in Spain and the Gaitar Foundation of America guitar association. Follow the most important and interesting in the Telegram channel of Kazan Vedomosti.