Alexander
Spivak is a Violinist, conductor, teacher of music, the
author of the numerous arrangements and transpositions
for the orchestra and violin. He is the author of the
works (the articles, books, publications) in the field of
performance mastery and violin methodology. He is also
the author of the dissertation on Sergey Prokofyev's
creativity. His music education he got in Moscow: he left
the Central Specialized Music School in Moscow (MCSMS),
then was graduated from Moscow State Conservatoire named
after P.I.Tchaikovsky and post-graduated from Moscow
State Conservatoire as a performer and as a theorist. His
masters were Yury Yankelevich, Felix Andriyevsky, Andrey
Korsakov, Leonid Kogan. The theory of violin perfomance
he studied under the direction of Vladimir Grigoryev -
one of the most prominent musicologist of the country.
Last years Alexander Spivak lives and works in Donetsk,
where he leads active work as a player, teacher and music
enlightener. Alexander Spivak organized two orchestras:
the chamber orchestra "Rhapsody" and the
symphony orchestra "Galilee", with which he
arranges concerts in Donetsk and other Ukrainian cities.
He collaborated with the most active cultural workers of
the Donbass region, such as Vadim Pisarev. He
participated in the international music festivals in
Donetsk. One of Alexander Spivak's pupils represented
Ukraine on the XI International competition named after
Peter Tchaikovsky in Moscow. Alexander Spivak was noted
by the region administration diplomas for the individual
contribution on aesthetic education of the youth and on
the Donbass cultural development His permanent creative
partner and companion in the ansemble is Marina
Vinogradskaya, pianist, MCSMS and Moscow
Music-pedagogical Institute named by Gnesiny (Russian
Music Academy) graduate - the grade of A diploma.
The orchestra was
organized in 1994 by Alexander Spivak from among the most
gifted students of the music college and conservatoire in
Donetsk. For 6 years of work the great repertoire was
stored, involving the musical compositions of different
composers. But the preference is given to Antonio Vivaldi
and I.S.Bach, whose compositions prevail and are an
original visiting card of the orchestra. For 6 years of
its work the orchestra played about 70 performances in
the long and short concerts, accomplishing a season every
year by the central concert, which summarizes the
progress in its work successive
stage.
It is Alexander Spivak's
new project, accomplished m 1999. The young musicians
(Donetsk conservatoire students either), interested in
their creative aspiration realization, form the
orchestra. The orchestra is a classic troupe of the
symphony orchestra. It perfoms under the direction of
Alexander Spivak who is simultaneously a conductor and a
soloist. In its first programs the symphony orchestra
"Galilaia" and Alexander Spivak played the
virtuous compositions for violin of Pablo Sarasate and
Moris Ravel.
