Serge Polyanichko is a Russianconductor, horn player and TV presenter, artistic Director and chief conductor of the unique in the world of :ru:Российский роговой оркестр|the Horn Orchestra of Russia, revived and enriched huge reservoir of Russian culture of the 18th and 19th centuries - :ru:Роговой оркестр|Horn orchestras, which can be safely attributed to Russian national creativity along with well-known Russian Matryoshka doll. The son of the honored artist of Russia, conductor Maestro :ru:Поляничко, Александр Маркович|Alexander Polyanichko.
Life and career
Serge Polyanichko was born in September 12, 1974 in Russia. Serge Polyanichko began his training at :ru:Средняя специальная музыкальная школа Санкт-Петербургской консерватории имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова|the St. Petersburg State Conservatory's School for Gifted Children, Polyanichko studied the French horn and operatic-symphonic conducting at the conservatory. After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, he continued his training at the St. Petersburg State Theatrical Institute and the St. Petersburg School of TV, receiving degrees from both. For several years, he worked as a television show host, while continuing to perform and furthering his training as a conductor. After returning to music full-time, he won an international competition fot French Horn, and participated in a number of conducting master classes taught by Jorma Panula, :ru:Поляничко, Александр Маркович|Alexander Polyanichko, Jan Latham Koenig and :ru:Понькин, Владимир Александрович|Vladimir Ponykin. He also returned to the Conservatory for advanced coursework in conducting with professor :ru:Чернушенко, Владислав Александрович|Vladislav Chernushenko.
Highlights
As a musician, Serge Polyanichko has collaborated with many orchestras: the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Radio and TV orchestra, the Orchestra of the Academic Chapel of St. Petersburg, the Orchestra of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation, and the Russian National Orchestra. He has worked as guest concertmeister of the French Horn sections of the symphonic orchestras: Heinola Simphonietta in Finland, Nordicsymphony in Estonia, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Santiago in Chile.
Tours and premieres
Serge Polyanichko performs with several chamber ensembles, in addition to his many solo concert performances. He has toured extensively, in Finland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Israel, Great Britain, Chile, China, and United States. Serge Polyanichko has taken part in productions at the Opera de Monte Carlo and the Welsh National Opera as a conductor-assistant. In 2006 organized and headed a small symphonic orchestra "Nevsky". The same year he organized and became Head Director of the ":ru:Российский роговой оркестр|Horn Orchestra of Russia". In 2007 he established the "Centre of Horn Music". Serge Polyanichko always supports the new modern music and loves to do it at the first opportunity. He participated repeatedly in the scoring works by contemporary composers, in particular, St. Petersburg composers of the "Association of Russian Tradition" he became the first performer of many works of Mikhail Zhuravlev, Vladimir Anisimoff, and others.
Recordings
At the moment widely known these records in the performance of the conductor Serge Polyanichko:
