Kim Breitburg is a famous composer, producer, sound engineer, arranger and music performer, who has accounted for more than 600 songs. His work is characterized by a high civic position. Many would like to get to Kim Breitburg's concert, because his lyric songs often touch the hidden strings of the soul.
The groups created by Kim Aleksandrovich: “Assorted” and “Prime Minister” gained a well-deserved recognition on the pop stage, and the author’s songs “Flowers under the Snow”, “Petersburg-Leningrad”, “Moon Tune” are well known to the Russian audience. Also, Breitburg's compositions are included in collections of such Russian stars as Valery Leontyev, Nikolai Baskov, Laima Vaikule, Alla Pugacheva, Boris Moiseev,
Larisa Dolina. Kim Alexandrovich - producer of the projects “Secret of Success” and “People’s Artist”, aired on the TV channel “Russia”.
Kim Breitburg: biography
Kim Breitburg's birthplace is the charming city of Lviv. The future composer was born on February 10, 1955 in a family of stage artists: father - a musician, mother - a dancer. Parents gave the boy an unusual name in honor of the uncle who died heroically, and also under the influence of the Soviet era: in fact, it is an abbreviation that stands for “Communist Youth International”.
Kim began studying music at the age of five. At the age of six, specialists found an absolute hearing in the child , which predetermined his future fate.
The specifics of his father's profession, his passion and injustice forced his family to often change their place of residence.
In 1961, Kim fell into the class of the famous teacher N.I. Wilpert, where he studied piano. Then, for eight years until 1969, he studied in Dnepropetrovsk, and after - 4 years at the music school of the city of Nikolaev (department of music theory). In this southern Ukrainian city, 16-year-old Kim met with the guys at school and began playing rock and roll with them. The role models at that time were the foreign teams of Rolling Stones, Beatles, Doors.
Kim Breitburg: Dialogue
It was during this period that Kim became interested in rock music, tried himself in various groups (the group "Fast and the Furious", Gaudeamus, etc.), and in 1978 created a group that later took the name "Dialogue". Recognizing the musical group that worked in the direction of progressive rock, began after the rock festival in Tbilisi, held in 1980. It was there that Kim Alexandrovich was recognized as the best vocalist, and the team created by him became the laureate of the festival. Then there were tours around the country, recording vinyl disks (first illegally, then officially): “Night Rain”, “Red Rock”, “Just”. In the period from 1986 to 1992, "Dialogue" mostly toured abroad. The team traveled almost all of Europe - this is Germany, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden. In West Germany, 2 records were released. The group’s repertoire includes such compositions as Once Upon a Time, Share With Me, I Am a Person and others.
Influenced by time
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, enormous changes took place in the life of musical groups, whose concerts now took on a brightly commercial tone and were mostly based on phonograms. The period of “Gentle May” has come: the audience has changed, other songs sounded, and their content was different from the previous ones.
Then there was a return to their homeland and the understanding that the Dialogue could not exist in the vastness of its country. Indeed, in Soviet times, the group was something like PinkFloyd and staged theatrical shows with huge screens, lasers, the use of liquid slides and more. In the 90s, this already became irrelevant, and the group, which could easily be called a cult and that had great authority among the audience and musicians, gathered huge halls, sports palaces and stadiums, suddenly ceased to exist in 1992. The team members adapted to the new time as best they could, but the former team still maintains communication.
Breitburg Kim - Producer
Kim Breitburg changed his profession as a musician and began producing musical groups and performers, including the Meladze brothers. With them he recorded songs such as “Do not disturb my soul, violin” and “Limbo”.
In the 1990s, Kim Alexandrovich moved to Moscow, where he took custody of the musical groups Bravo, Bakhyt-Kompot, and the Prime Minister. Also, as a composer and mentor, he worked with Nikolai Trubach and Slava.
The work of Kim Breitburg
Composer Kim Breitburg writes music for a large number of performers, collaborates with many poets, writes lyrics himself, is a co-author (with Moscow songwriter Yevgeny Muravyov) of a musical about Leonardo da Vinci, the plot of which was based on Merezhkovsky’s book “Resurrected Gods”. The musician also directed the musical “Blue Cameo” - a modern story about Catherine’s times and Princess Tarakanova, who declared herself the rightful heir to the throne.
In 2006, Kim Alexandrovich received the honorary title "Honored Artist of the Russian Federation."
In family life, Kim is happily married to Valeria, who works at the Academy. Gnesins senior teacher of pop vocal. He has a musician of two children: a daughter, Masha, and a son, Alexei, who took an example from their father and chose a musical path.