Igor Korneluk

Singer and composer Igor Kornelyuk is known as the author and performer of popular hits of the 80-90s. Today he writes music for TV shows and films, remaining as popular and in demand as in his youth.

Igor was born on November 16, 1962 in Brest (Belarus). His parents were not musicians. Father worked on the railroad, mother worked as an engineer. His sister studied violin and piano at the music school. Love for music was passed on to children from grandmother Maria, who sang romances with a guitar.

Parents were against the musical education of their son, but on the advice of the professor of the conservatory in 1968 they sent Igor to a music school. He had a clear voice, he often sang during family holidays in the presence of guests, accompanying himself on the button accordion. Igor wrote his first song entitled “Russia, sweet Russia, slender trunks of birches…” at the age of 9.

Studying at a music school did not please him with success, the boy was not given solfeggio, but this did not prevent him from playing dances. From the age of 12, on weekends, Igor performed at the Palace of Culture with an ensemble. His musical work experience began in the 5th grade. Igor played the ionic and received 30 rubles a month for it. There he first met love Lyuba. Igor, despite his young age, truly fell in love, but the girl did not respond to his feelings.

For a vulnerable child's soul, this was a tragedy that affected health. When Igor recovered from mental trauma and illness, he had a need to express everything that overwhelmed his soul. So the girl Lyuba made him a composer. The first, still naive, songs about love appeared. He took the words for his works from Sergei Yesenin, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva and even Boris Pasternak.

Igor enters the music school after grade 8. Little time was devoted to studying, as he played in a rock band, “hung out” and returned home in the morning. At that time, he received advice from one of the teachers, which influenced his future destiny. Igor was advised to go to Leningrad, where at that time there was a strong composing school.

The decision to move was hasty; he presented his parents with a fact, announcing that he was going to Leningrad. I passed the exams, not hoping for success, so I was very surprised when the teacher approached him and congratulated him on his enrollment. This teacher was Vladlen Chistyakov, who will become his mentor and close person.

The study turned out to be difficult, but fruitful and interesting. The students studied the work of the orchestra, studied composition. During his studies at the school, Kornelyuk was entrusted with writing the musical accompaniment for the play "Trumpeter on the Square" for the Drama Theater named after Pushkin. The school was successfully completed in 1982.

By the time he entered the conservatory, Kornelyuk already had a family that needed to be supported. The scholarship was not enough, so he worked part-time where he could. During his studies, he wrote a symphony, composed romances, music for films and theatrical performances. During this period, he mastered synthesizers and computers. His thesis, which Kornelyuk defended with excellent marks, was a computer symphony.

The formation of the composer's creative biography was influenced by different music: in his youth it was "QUEEN", in the music school - jazz. As a student at the conservatory, the young man became interested in the works of the great classics of The Mighty Handful (N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, M. P. Mussorgsky, A. P. Borodin).

Aleksandr Morozov helped him become a hitmaker, who hurt Igor, accusing him of writing music incomprehensible to the common Soviet people. In response, Kornelyuk wrote several songs that became hits. Each house sounded his new songs "Darling", "Boy and girl were friends", "Rains" and many others.

Regina Lisits became its poet-co-author. Their songs are performed by Soviet pop stars, they take prizes at competitions and festivals. Already in the first year of joint creativity, Igor Kornelyuk's song "Know" helped Anna Veski become a laureate of the festival in Sopot. The singer had a whole program of songs by Kornelyuk, including: “I don't understand what's wrong with me”, “Monkey”, “Horoscope” and others. And at the TV competition "Jurmala-86" Svetlana Medyanik became the second, performing the hit of the composer "Not with me". In 1987 he was recognized as the best author and performer of songs of his own composition.

In addition to working on solo compositions, the composer works on music for performances and films, and also creates musicals. Among the works of the late 1980s are the children's opera "Tiani-Tolkai, or Aibolit from Zverinskaya Street" and the musical score for the film "Musical Games". Kornelyuk's songs replenish the repertoire of Mikhail Boyarsky, Edita Piekha, Philip Kirkorov, and the cabaret duet "Academy".

His solo career began in 1988 after leaving the Buff Theater, where he served as artistic director. Igor becomes extremely popular, participates in the "Musical Ring", where he was invited by Viktor Reznikov. He wins and becomes famous, and the composition "Ballet Ticket", with which he performed on "Song of the Year", receives a prize.

Three solo albums that appeared one after another - "Ticket to the ballet", "Wait", "I can't live like this", made the singer mega-popular. From now on, Igor Kornelyuk becomes a welcome guest at Alla Pugacheva's “Christmas Meetings”, his songs are played in the popular intellectual game “What? Where? When?". The popular "Song of the Year" festival cannot do without Kornelyuk. In 1998, the composer reminds of himself with the album "Hello, this is Kornelyuk!", After which the composer's discography is replenished only with works from films.

In the early 90s, Igor Kornelyuk tried himself as an actor, starring in the film "Kud-kud-kuda, or Provincial stories with interludes and divertissements in the finale." The plot and musical material of the comedy were used by Kornelyuk in joint concerts with Ilona Bronevitskaya.

The singer gives recitals at Luzhniki, Olimpiyskiy, Oktyabrsky concert halls and the State Central Russia. In 1998 he again participates in the Musical Ring, now with Viktor Chaika. This was his second win on a popular show. During his musical career, Kornelyuk wrote more than a hundred songs and created a music studio.

Igor Kornelyuk is a composer who writes music for films. "The City That Doesn't Exist" from the TV series "Gangster Petersburg" is one of the most popular hits. A clip was created using frames from the movie.

His music sounds in the films "The Idiot", "Taras Bulba", "If the sky is silent", "Another's war" and others. The soundtrack from The Master and Margarita was named Hell's Waltz and was also released as a separate video.

Igor Kornelyuk performs not only solo, but also in duets. He performed the song "Darling" years later with Sati Casanova. In 2014, Kornelyuk was invited to the jury of the "One to One" TV competition.

His wife Marina studied at the department of choral singing. The young people got married after two years of living together, when they were 19 years old. The marriage took place between the final exams at the school and the entrance exams to the conservatory. Along the way, the play "Trumpeter on the Square" was staged with Nikolai Fomenko in the title role. For Kornelyuk, the work on the music for the production became the premiere. The student wedding was played on the first fee. In 1983, their son Anton was born. The son did not follow in the footsteps of his parents, devoting his life to computer technology.

There are many portraits and full-length photos of Igor and Marina, who have been happily married for over 30 years. Igor writes music in his country house, and Marina organizes concerts for her talented husband.

In 2012, the artist officially announced that he was suffering from diabetes. The failure in the body was influenced by a difficult event in the composer's personal life - the death of his father, which came suddenly from a detached blood clot. The singer could not come to his senses for a long time, problems with sugar began. The illness forced the composer to reconsider his attitude to the diet. Pierre Ducan's diet, as well as noni fruit juice, helped to lose weight from 110 kg to 92 kg.

Now the Kornelyuk spouses live in a country mansion in Sestroretsk. At home, the musician has a large collection of watches and rare things. The singer does not use social networks, on Instagram his photos are posted on the fan pages.

In 2017, the singer republished the collection “Igor Kornelyuk. The best songs". In 2018, the musician pleased the residents of Petrozavodsk with a performance at the City Day.

1988 - "Ballet Ticket" 1990 - "Wait" 1993 - "I Can't Live Like This" 1994 - "My Favorite Songs" 1998 - "Hello, and this is Kornelyuk!" 2001 - "Soundtrack to the TV series" Gangster Petersburg "(OST) 2010 -" Songs from the cinema "2010 -" Taras Bulba "(OST) 2010 -" The Master and Margarita "(OST)

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