Kostin Konstantin Vladimirovich began to compose songs very early, from adolescence. Even then, Kostya wrote his first song, and in all his work since then includes already under a hundred works - poems, songs, etc. Konstantin Kostin began his career as a vocalist, performed songs. In Izhevsk he was noted at the competition of young performers in 1997 and 1998, and then he took part in other competitions.
Producer and composer
But today Konstantin Kostin is known not as a singer, but as a producer, sound engineer and composer. Izhevsk spectators know this musician as one of the founders and a permanent member of the jury of the festival âWe Light the Starsâ in Izhevsk. The festival has the status of international children and youth.
Composer and poet of the Udmurt Republic Kostin graduated from the Izhevsk State Technical University named after M.T. Kalashnikov in Izhevsk, but chose a career as a musician. In Izhevsk, Konstantin Kostin received the nickname "Izhevsk Shainsky" among friends and musicians. It is interesting that the real name of the performer and composer is Burakov, and Kostin is a creative pseudonym.
Songs for children
Songs written by Kostin for children are performed in many kindergartens and schools. He is the author of children's poems, tongue twisters, riddles. All of them are very popular among the younger generation. Words are easy to remember, music is cheerful and optimistic. The songs are modern and good for the choir to perform.
The most popular songs of the composer: âDandelionâ, âWhite Snowflakesâ, âHedgehogâ, âLemonade Rainâ, âGnomesâ, âSpiderâ, âThree Funny Bunniesâ, âFrecklesâ, âKindergartenâ, âI Flyâ , âREPkaâ, âA Thousand Butterfliesâ, âYellow Ostrichâ, âLadybugâ, âCarlsonâ, âWe Light the Starsâ.
Best song of 2014
In 2014, the song "Happy New Year, Izhevsk!" declared the winner after she lost only two others in the competition. It was a contest for the best New Year hit.
Seven recording CDs have been released by Konstantin Kostin over the past fifteen years. All songs are performed by children who study at the Izhevsk Dolphin studio. These are collections of songs called "Holiday of Childhood", "Voiced Voices", "Lemonade Rain", "Robot in a Disco" and others.
The recordings are very popular with listeners, and the Moscow publishing house for children decided to launch a reissue of two discs with the songs of Konstantin Kostin. The composer's children's songs are often played on Detsky Radio, in the program on Detsky Television and on the children's channel Karusel. Children's songs are constantly included in the repertoire of participants in the All-Russian pop contest, which has international status. The songwriter also worked for the television magazine Yeralash, the Our Future Foundation, which has charity goals, with the publication Musical Klondike, Maestro-PRO, the Russian House organization from Denmark and other creative organizations and composers of a children's song from different countries.
Studio "Dolphin"
Children's music pop studio "Dolphin" is also the brainchild of Kostin. He organized a children's music club studio. Kostin works as a director and teacher at her. The creatorâs idea is to create a whole country for children, which lives its own song life, stories, pop numbers. This is a children's workshop of creativity. Children, together with teachers, participate in writing songs, in the whole process of creative design, up to and including professional recording in the studio.
The studio has more than 250 children, including from dysfunctional families. Some of them became laureates and finalists of the Junior Eurovision, Voice. Children âand others. Children from the studio create a New Year performance every year. Many of their peers from Izhevsk, as well as from other areas during the Dolphin tour, come to the holiday. Such active creative activity allowed Dolphin to enter the top children's ensembles in our country.
From the encyclopedia
Kostin achieved a lot in his creative career, and in 2010 he was even included in the encyclopedia âWHO IS WHO IN RUSSIAâ. This publication, where you can read about famous and successful people, has been published in Switzerland and published since 1849, and in Russia since 2007.
Kostin writes songs for children's cartoons. His compositions can be heard in the cartoon "Kids." This is "Kindergarten" and "About Zelenka".
In one of Konstantin Kostinâs most popular songs, White Snowflakes, the simplest words are heard:
"White snowflakes ... Fall on the face ... Let their snow reconcile, let the laughter sound ..."
The song tells the story of friendship and love, parting and meeting a girl named Marina. And this is both a winter song and a song about life and love, and this is a song that children willingly perform.
And in Konstantin Kostinâs song âDandelionâ in simple words, but at the same time bright and imaginative, it tells about a simple dandelion. About the flower, which is so loved by children and adults. After all, it is possible to weave wreaths from it, but you can play and blow dandelion fluffs in the wind.
"I know, you know ... Flowers grow in the meadow ... Stylish and curly boy ... Who is it?"
Children quickly grasp the melody and joyfully perform simple life songs themselves.
Poems and Songs
On the portal "Poetry.ru", where samizdat is freely published, Kostin published a page with his poems, tongue twisters, and riddles. The works are written at different times and are in great demand among site visitors. More than two hundred reviews, in each of which the author is thanked for unpretentious, but such funny and festive songs. More than sixty thousand subscribers from the author speaks of interest in this song genre. Here you can find and read all the books of Kostinov Konstantin and his poems.