Vasily Nikitin
Vasily Nikitin
1993–2001: choirmaster of the Chapel, teacher at the L. K. Sivukhin Nizhny Novgorod Choir School;\n2001 to present: founder and artistic director of the Creative Academy “ViPN”;
2011–2016: “Interregional Centre of Russian Choral Art”, director of concert programmes;
2017 to present: expert on cultural matters of the Public Committee “On Labour Resources” at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Nizhny Novgorod Region;
2022 to present: co-founder of the All-Russian public movement “Cultural Front of Russia” and co-chair of its regional branch in the Nizhny Novgorod Region;
2023: assistant to Nikolai Petrovich Burlyaev, deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Lecturer at in-service training courses for music teachers at the Nizhny Novgorod Institute for Education Development;\nleader of seminars for music directors of the Nizhny Novgorod region;\nconsultant to the Commission on Culture, Education, Sport and Religion and assistant to a deputy of the Nizhny Novgorod City Duma;
Author of the project, artistic director and conductor of the combined choir of the “Christmas Choral Cathedral” and the “Easter Choral Cathedral” in 2006–2007;\nsound engineer of the Nizhny Novgorod Puppet Theatre productions “Autumn Story” and “The Wizard of Oz”;\nstage director of creative evenings of V. Isaichev and of the international festival “Crystal Key” in 2019, 2020 and 2022;
Author of the project “We Sing”: CDs of songs for children by Nizhny Novgorod composers;\nan authored collection (songs, short tunes, vocal warm-ups) and a cycle of concerts;\nstage director of musical-literary compositions: “Minin”, “About the Oarsman and the Gusli Player”, “About Olya and Kolya”, “A Treatise on Love” and others;
Author and artistic director of the Diocesan Review-Competition and co-author of the music of “We Are Orthodox Nizhny Novgorodians”;\nof the Easter Bishop’s Matinee (Puppet Theatre, 2006);\nco-organiser of the All-Russian Procession of the Cross “Memory of Grateful Descendants” for the 400th anniversary of the end of the Time of Troubles (Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, 2012);\nhead of the boys’ and youth choir of the Monastery of St Alexis (Yaroslavl region, 2013);
Author of radio programmes on Radio Russia: the series “Singing Droplets” and “Voices of the 21st Century”, the Easter Choral Cathedral and others;
Publisher of collections: N. Chudakova’s “Music Sounds Again”, P. Zykova’s “Song Watercolours” and others.
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