Herman Makarenko
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Herman Makarenko is a Ukrainian conductor, the Conductor and Music Director of the Kyiv Classic Orchestra
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He finished the Kiev secondary specialized music school named after M. Lysenko in 1980 with honors. In 1986 he graduated with honors from the Tchaikovsky Kiev State Conservatory with a degree in piano. Four year later, Makarenko completed a full course of studies at the same conservatory at the conductor's department. After that he took an assistant position at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and kept it until 1998. In 1999, Makarenko completed a post-graduate course at the Academy. He completed his doctoral studies there in 2005.
Makarenko was the prize winner in all-Ukrainian (republican) contests in 1980 and 1984. He was also the winner in international contests in Switzerland and Canada in 1998.
, he also served posts as the Music Director of the Little Opera of Grand New York in New York, U.S.A. from 1997-1998, a guest conductor of the National Opera Theatre of Croatia in Osiek, Croatia, from 1998-2001, etc. Since 2004, he has been the Conductor and Music Director of the Kyiv Classic Orchestra, which has performed with great success at the most prestigious concert halls in Europe, in particular, the Saint Madeleine church in Paris, the Berdjikh Smetana Hall in Prague, the Royal Gaul Club in Brussels, the Great UNESCO Hall in Paris, etc.
He is the author and Music Director of annual projects at the National Opera of Ukraine as the New Year's Strauss Concert, the Concert of Premiers, the Declaration of Love, and the Magic of Beauty, which are widely known not only in Ukraine but also overseas.
ballet release and a suite from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ballet.
Kyiv Classic Orchestra
The Kyiv Classic Orchestra is a non-governmental orchestra based in Kiev, Ukraine. Its current conductor and music director is Dr. Herman Makarenko. The orchestra is administered by The Kyiv Classic Corporation...
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Early life and education
Makarenko was born in Lviv into a family of music theater actors. His father was an operaOpera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
soloist (tenor) and his mother was a ballet
Ballet
Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
solo-actress.
He finished the Kiev secondary specialized music school named after M. Lysenko in 1980 with honors. In 1986 he graduated with honors from the Tchaikovsky Kiev State Conservatory with a degree in piano. Four year later, Makarenko completed a full course of studies at the same conservatory at the conductor's department. After that he took an assistant position at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and kept it until 1998. In 1999, Makarenko completed a post-graduate course at the Academy. He completed his doctoral studies there in 2005.
Makarenko was the prize winner in all-Ukrainian (republican) contests in 1980 and 1984. He was also the winner in international contests in Switzerland and Canada in 1998.
Career
He has worked as a conductor at the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Ukraine since 1987. While working at the Kiev OperaKiev Opera
The Kiev Opera group was formally established in the summer of 1867, and is the third oldest in Ukraine, after Odessa Opera and Lviv Opera. Today, the Kiev Opera Company performs at the National Opera House of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko in Kiev....
, he also served posts as the Music Director of the Little Opera of Grand New York in New York, U.S.A. from 1997-1998, a guest conductor of the National Opera Theatre of Croatia in Osiek, Croatia, from 1998-2001, etc. Since 2004, he has been the Conductor and Music Director of the Kyiv Classic Orchestra, which has performed with great success at the most prestigious concert halls in Europe, in particular, the Saint Madeleine church in Paris, the Berdjikh Smetana Hall in Prague, the Royal Gaul Club in Brussels, the Great UNESCO Hall in Paris, etc.
He is the author and Music Director of annual projects at the National Opera of Ukraine as the New Year's Strauss Concert, the Concert of Premiers, the Declaration of Love, and the Magic of Beauty, which are widely known not only in Ukraine but also overseas.
Academic career
Makarenko combines his active conductor's activities with the theoretical comprehension of the philosophic and aesthetic nature of music art and the phenomenon of complicated and many-sided creative work of an opera and symphony orchestra conductor. As a result of this activity, Makarenko defended his Ph.D. dissertation at the Department of Philosophy of the Kyiv Shevchenko National University in 2000 and his doctoral dissertation at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (NMAU) in 2006. NMAU Professor Herman Makarenko has written several scientific books including the "Music and Philosophy: Schopenhauer, Wagner, and Nietzsche", "The Conductor's Creative Work: the Dimensions of Aesthetics and Art History", a manual for university students entitled The Irrational Aesthetics of the 19th Century: the Musical Point”, and more than 50 scientific and methodological articles.Works
Makarenko has released 10 music CDs, which he recorded together with the Symphony Orchestra of the National Opera of Ukraine and the Kyiv Classic Orchestra. Among the latest works are The NutcrackerThe Nutcracker
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
ballet release and a suite from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake ballet.