Bard Berkovsky biography

Victor Berkovsky singer and composer. He died on July 22 in Moscow. Father Father Samuel Mikhailovich Berkovsky - an accountant, received a severe wound in the war. He died in the year. Mother Ethel Viktorovna Herz is a cardiologist, in evacuation she worked as a department head in a hospital for seriously wounded. She died in the year at the summer. Childhood, Up to 18 years old, Victor lived and studied in Zaporozhye - with a break for evacuation in Stalin now Novokuznetsk.

After graduating from high school, Berkovsky went to study in Moscow. In the year he entered the Moscow Road Institute, but after the first year he transferred to the Moscow Institute later in the name of the institute was added “and alloys”. Having received a diploma in the specialty “Metal Processing”, Victor decided not to stay in Moscow, although he was “distributed” at the Sickle and Hammer plant.

He preferred to return to Zaporozhye to the DniproSpetsstal electrometallurgical plant, believing that it would be more correct to start his career from the bottom for his career. Note that there was no question of any musical career. Berkovsky was much more attracted by the work of the metal engineer. For seven years, he worked at the factory with a roller, master, caliber, senior caliber of the rental workshop, deputy chief of the technical department.

And then he was drawn to science. In the year, he defended his thesis and remained teaching at the institute. His first experiments in the author’s song dates back to the end of the X - then he was presented with the first guitar and showed chords. However, the bard’s career always went parallel to the main activity and remained for Viktor Semenovich Hobby, although he wrote music for several famous songs.

From the years, he spent on a business trip in India, where he taught at the Faculty of Metallurgical Institute of Technology in Kharagpur near Calcutta and created the “choir of Russian professors”. Returning to Moscow, he developed the theoretical foundations of computer system management systems.

Berkovsky published more scientific works, including textbooks, several books and many scientific articles. His graduate students defended 14 candidate dissertations. A successful scientific career did not prevent Berkovsky from writing more than two hundred songs. Unlike most bards, he did not write poetry, but was a successful composer in the genre. Many noted that for his songs there was not enough guitar arrangement - the compositions would look more organically in orchestral versions.

However, there was no opportunity to sign up with the orchestra in the years. And Sergey Nikitin became a co -author without quotation marriage - together with him, Berkovsky wrote the melody “To the music of Vivaldi”. Together with Nikitin, they composed music for several theatrical and radio plays, as well as to the cinema. Several songs were written for the children's television program "An alarm clock".

At the same time, Viktor Semenovich decided to public performance of his own songs only closer to his own Letniya. Even the first performer of Grenada was the Fiztekhov Quartet under the direction of Mikhail Balashov. Only at the end of X Berkovsky began to appear episodically on stage, still avoiding solo performances. From the middle of the X, Viktor Berkovsky gave concerts and was recorded together with Dmitry Bogdanov, who also had the main work of a mathematician-programmer.

In this duet, most of Berkovsky’s albums were recorded, who began to enter the CDs in the years. Berkovsky’s craving for collective playing music at first led to the emergence of the Bard of the ensemble “NOT TRAING”. Soon, from this comic idea, a completely serious project of “Song of our century” was born, which gave successful concerts and released albums. Berkovsky and Sergey Nikitin headed the project as artistic leaders.

Viktor Semenovich is buried in the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery. Personal life was married to Margarita Dmitrievna of the year of birth. Achievements and awards candidate of technical sciences. Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation. On the house in Zaporozhye, where Berkovsky lived for a year, a memorial plaque was installed.

Do you know that ... - Berkovsky for the first time did not hit the Grushinsky festival as a participant, but as a jury member. The composition was performed by Polina Agureeva in the series "Isaev" as an adult, he went through a four-year program during this time, but the training had to be interrupted due to business trips to India.