Evgeny Makarov

(13.07.1950 – 19.02.2024)

Born in Kolomna, Moscow region.\nParents: mother Karmazinskaya (married name Makarova) Lyudmila Sergeevna, father Evgeny Kuzmich Makarov (a front-line veteran). Grandmother: Maria Vasilyevna Yuryeva (her father was a village priest who was convicted and later rehabilitated); they were hiding from persecution.\nEvgeny lived with his grandmother in Gorky. In 1957 he entered the Gorky Boys’ Choir Chapel.

Graduate of:\nthe Gorky Boys’ Choir Chapel (1965),\nthe Balakirev Nizhny Novgorod Music College, choral conducting department, class of O. S. Larionova, with distinction (1965–1969);\nthe Glinka Gorky State Conservatory (Academy), choral conducting class of Professor, Honoured Art Worker of Russia E. N. Garkunov (1969–1974);

He worked as a singer in the Ministry of Internal Affairs ensemble under A. G. Shestakov and L. K. Sivukhin.

From 1975 he was a singing teacher at school No. 40 in Gorky.\nFrom 1979 he was head of the choir of the “Pobeda” House of Culture.\nFrom 1980 he was a choir teacher at Children’s Music School No. 1.\nFrom 1984 he worked as a teacher of choral subjects, choirmaster and head of the youth choir of the Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) Boys’ Choir Chapel.\nFor many years he was deputy director of the Chapel, and later of the Lev Konstantinovich Sivukhin Nizhny Novgorod Choir School.\n\nHe collaborated with the “Nizhny Novgorod” chamber choir under L. K. Sivukhin and sang in the male ensemble “Blagovest” under L. G. Pankratov at the Nizhny Novgorod Annunciation Monastery for Men.

The youth choir under conductor Evgeny Makarov repeatedly became a laureate of all-Russian and international competitions in Russia and abroad.

Graduates of E. E. Makarov’s choral conducting class at the L. K. Sivukhin Nizhny Novgorod Choir School:

• 1985: Shustov Oleg Vladimirovich, Osminin Valery Borisovich, Zakharov Vladislav Yuryevich;\n– 1986: Gorlo Alexei Alexandrovich, Minikhanov Yuri Damirovich;\n– 1987: Ryzhov Stanislav Valeryevich;\n– 1988: Lebedev Andrei Alexandrovich, Moiseev Vladislav Yuryevich, Gushchin Alexei Valeryevich, Ponyukhov Sergei Alexandrovich;\n– 1989: Egorenkov Sergei Valeryevich;\n– 1993: Kozlov Mikhail Alexandrovich;\n– 1997: Rodionov Andrei Alexandrovich;\n– 2004: Eliseev Vasily Vladimirovich, Efremov Mikhail Vadimovich;\n– 2005: Vinogradov Sergei Alexeevich;\n– 2007: Guryev Sergei Vyacheslavovich, Ermakov Denis Andreevich;\n– 2010: Semyonov Mikhail Alexeevich;\n– 2014: Guryanov Dmitry Yuryevich;\n– 2015: Kondakov Ioann Stanislavovich;\n– 2017: Lukoyanov Dmitry Sergeevich;

Evgeny Makarov is buried at the Novo-Pokrovskoye Cemetery in Nizhny Novgorod.