The musician David Goloshchekin perfectly owns several musical instruments. For over half a century he has been playing jazz. Being a popular performer and public figure, David Semenovich does not like to talk about himself. Therefore, the details of his personal life are known to few journalists.
From the biography of David Semenovich Goloshchekin
The future famous jazz artist was born in the capital of the USSR on June 10, 1944. Six months later, the family moved to the surviving blockade of Leningrad - the city on the Neva was native to his father David. Semyon Goloshchekin worked at Lenfilm, he had many friends among the creative intelligentsia. David’s mother used to study at a ballet school, but her injury did not allow her to go into this profession.
Since childhood, David fell in love with music. He often performed songs from the movies. Somehow in the process, Goloshchekin’s father met Pavel Serebryakov, who at that time was the rector of the Leningrad Conservatory. He recommended that the boy be enrolled in a music school. During the listening, David was to play the melody and rhythmic composition on the piano. The boy coped with the task brilliantly - it turned out that he had absolute pitch.
So David was in the violin class, where he began to receive a musical education. He was taken to the zero class. The boy had to learn complex and tedious scales for hours. It took several years for Goloshchekin to love the violin, with which so much torment was associated.
Later, David began to master the piano. It was then that lessons at a music school began to bring him pleasure. And to master the viola was already quite easy for him. Goloshchekin graduated from the College of Music in 1961.
Jazz in the life of David Goloshchekin
At the age of 12, David became interested in pop music. The teenager’s favorite pastime was listening to his father’s radio. In search of music programs, Goloshchekin met in absentia with many of the best performers of the era. Around the same time, David became interested in jazz. He listened to the most advanced music: compositions by Jacket, Webster, Hawkins. David met several fans of jazz music, and from the age of 16 he performed many compositions at dances.
Soon Goloshchekin’s parents divorced. Mother left for Moscow, father arranged his life. The young man decided to live independently.
In 1961, pianist Yuri Vyakhirev invited Goloshchekin to join the jazz group he created, but for this, David had to master the double bass. Catching up to joint pain, David mastered a new tool in a matter of days. David did not play in the Vyakhirev team for long, but it was here that he gained invaluable experience.
It was impossible to earn on the performance of jazz in those years in the country. For this reason, for several years Goloshchekin had to combine his favorite occupations with work in official music groups.
