Aidar Gainullin, whose accordion sounded under the arches of the Wigmar Hall in London, within the walls of Gavaux in the capital of France, the Great Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic and other prestigious scenes, is one of the most interesting contemporary musicians. Today we’ll talk about him in more detail.
Biography: The Beginning
Aidar Akremetdinovich Gainullin was born in Moscow in 1981. Every summer, the future musician went to his grandmother in a
Tatar village near Ulyanovsk. He began to play the button accordion at the age of eight at a music school. Already then, the outstanding abilities of Aydar showed up. At the age of eleven, he was made a scholarship holder of the New Names Foundation, and two years later - the Russian Cultural Foundation. Aidar Gainullin received his first musical education at Moscow College at the Institute. A. G. Schnittke at the rate of the teacher A. I. Lednev. Then the young man continued his studies at the Gnesins Russian Academy of Music and the Higher School of Music in Berlin. At
the Gnesins Academy, Friedrich Lips, one of the prominent accordionists in the history of Russian music, became the musician’s teacher.
Awards
Aidar Gainullin has repeatedly been the winner and winner of prestigious Russian and international festivals. He won his first victory in 1992 at the V Moscow
Open Competition. Following her, during the 1990s, he took first places at competitions of the Russian level, held in Moscow, Ryazan, Belgorod. In the 2000s, the accordion player's victories at European competitions began - in Germany, Spain, Italy, Finland, Great Britain. In 2003, as a result of his active creative work, the name of Aidar was included in the Golden Book of Talents of Russia.
As an instrumental musician, Aidar Gaynullin performed with concerts in many countries of the CIS and Europe, Asia, as well as the United States. His schedule is now very busy. During June 2016, Aidar Gainullin managed to perform in the halls of several German cities, St. Petersburg, the Kremlin, and the Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theater. In July, he took part in the chamber music festival in the Karelian city of Kostomuksha.
Duets
The musician is distinguished by wide creative connections and a willingness to participate in joint projects, often very unexpected. The accordion player performs a lot together with the pianist Denis Matsuev. In March 2016, they performed on the stage of several cities in the Orenburg region, where they received a warm welcome from the audience. He recently performed as a jazzman on the stage of the Kremlin Palace. Interestingly, the idea of Denis Matsuev does not involve rehearsals. The pianist says that no one knows about the content of their concert program. As an actor, Aidar Gainullin participated in the production of the play “Genesis No. 2” by Ivan Vyrypaev. The Bayan player worked with a singer of Tatar origin Zulia Kamalova, who lives in Australia.
Cinema
Aidar Gaynullin, whose biography is not limited to concert performances, also writes music for films. He took part in the preparation of the films “Euphoria” (the first compositional experience of Aydar), “Siberia. Monamur ", the movie" Oxygen ", as well as four episodes of the series" Revelation ". For written music Aydar was awarded the Prize "White Elephant", "Nika" and the prize of the festival "Kinotavr". Without forgetting his roots, Aydar wrote music for an audiobook, where contemporary Russian artists of Tatar origin read Russian people's tales in Russian. In 2010, Aydar organized his own ensemble “Euphoria”. It included musicians playing the piano, violin, guitar, double bass. Among the works of the creative team is the Tango of Love program. It includes works by Latin American musicians and composers from the United States. Our hero is known all over the world. He is a button player, vocalist, composer.