Valentine Beetle Biography

Valentin Zhuk: “My good habit is to engage in the violin every day” Valentin Zhuk: “My good habit is to engage in a violin every day” On November 14, the Gnesinsky school was visited by a violinist, conductor, people's artist of Russia, professor of Amsterdam Conservatory Valentin Isaakovich Zhuk. The musician held master classes for young Gnesinists and students of the Moscow Conservatory, and also gave a small interview.

Details - in the material of Polina Polyanskaya. Valentin Zhuk is the son of the famous violinist Isaac Abramovich Zhuk. In addition to his father, his teachers were A. Yampolsky, L. The concert activity of Valentina Isaakovich began in the school years. Since then, thousands of concerts have been played, the titles of the Laureate of the World Youth and Students Festival in Warsaw, the P.

Valentin Zhuk has been won the title of laureate of the World Festival of Youth and working abroad. The musician acts as a soloist, chamber artist, conductor, and concerts annually in Moscow and other cities of Russia. He regularly conducts master classes in the USA and European countries, has records on CDs more Valentin Isaakovich, I read an interview that you gave 7 years ago for the publication “musical instruments”.

What has happened since then in your creative life?

I live and work in the same country - in Holland. There we have a chamber orchestra with which we work a lot. Now I will come, it will be in a row of 17 or 18 concerts in all small and large Dutch cities. I come to Russia on average twice a year. In the summer he was in Nizhny Novgorod, at a wonderful festival. It is free, the audience is simply storming the Philharmonic Hall.

For the past few years, I have been playing and conducting and conducting in Nizhny Novgorod every year. It so happened that we have already mastered the entire well -known repertoire, which can be performed without a conductor, so I was asked to speak with the seventh concert of Mozart, which no one ever plays. Recently, we presented the public in Omsk a concert for three violins of Johann Sebastian Bach, quite difficult and rarely executed.

Soon I have a very interesting concert in Nizhny Novgorod - I am waiting for him with excitement. You had many fateful meetings with musicians, creative people. Which of their words you especially remember? I just started working in the state-building, we rehearsed the “Scherazada” of Rimsky-Korsakov. As you know, there are huge violin solo - this is the basis of the whole play. We were led by the great conductor - Nathan Grigorievich Rakhlin.

Before the rehearsal, he called me and said: “Baby, ...”, - and he called everyone “baby”, “... I want to state you my understanding of the violin solo in“ Sheherazade ”.” Since then, I have forever remembered what he said, and then once again two hundred played this work, remembering the advice he had given. What good habits do you have? My only good habit is to study on the violin every day.

An hour a day I do absolutely always, no matter what happens in my life. Tell friends:.