Victor Zinchuk is a musician, composer, conductor, classical arranger, associate professor at the Moscow Institute of Culture and Arts, professor at the San Marino International Academy of Sciences, a virtuoso guitarist who won many awards and was included in the Guinness Book of Records for a technical game.
Biography
The future virtuoso was born in the family of a retired military man in April 1958 in the capital of Russia. From early childhood, the child was found to have perfect hearing, and already at the age of 11 he mastered the guitar and became a regular at school competitions, performances and amateur concerts.
Victor realized that the guitar is his love for life and after school he entered the music school, deciding to get the education of a guitarist and conductor. He was so talented that in 1978, as a student, he received an offer to work with the famous Variety Symphony Orchestra, and a year later became a highly qualified professional.
Career
In 1980, Viktor Ivanovich Zinchuk graduated and began experimenting with music in various genres, trying to find something of his own. The talented guitarist was welcome everywhere. He managed to work with the then stars - from Yuri Antonov to Alla Pugacheva, who always helped young talents. Victor's game delighted the Soviet pop star, and she herself called him with an offer. He led musical groups, made arrangements, created his own musical compositions for orchestras.
In 1983, he received a prestigious music award in Baku, and in 1988 a documentary film about him was released on central television. After that, Zinchuk completely went into solo projects. Then his famous arrangements of the classics were born: Paganini, Bach, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov. By the way, just for the "Flight of the Bumblebee" of the last, performed by Victor on the guitar, he got into the Guinness Book of Records (20 notes per second, 2011). In the same year he wrote all the music for the documentary series of films "Polar Bridge".
Over the next few years, the virtuoso musician became very busy - he, already a cult guitarist, toured throughout Europe and the Soviet Union, won almost all competitions, received a lot of awards. But the first collection of Victor, where classical arrangements are intertwined with his author's compositions, was released only in 1994. In 1995, Zinchuk received a red diploma from the Capital University of Culture, and in 2005 he became an Honored Artist of Russia and created a video school for beginner guitar fans.
The virtuoso was influenced by his travels around the world. Ireland, with its incredible mystical nature and heroic mythology, inspired the musician to new works, and in 2010 one of his best collections “Celtic Album” is released. In the USA, a gold guitar was made specially for him, and several music companies supply him with equipment for free.
