Sergey Kuryokhin
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Born | Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin June 16, 1954 Murmansk, Soviet Union |
Died | July 9, 1996 Saint Petersburg, Russia | (aged 42)
Occupation(s) | Pianist, composer, actor, music producer, experimental artist |
Spouse | Anastasia Kuryokhina (m. 1981) |
Children | 3 |
Sergey Anatolyevich Kuryokhin (
Biography
Early life
Sergey Kuryokhin was born in Murmansk into a military family. He began piano lessons at the age of 4. His school years were spent in Evpatoria, Crimea. His family moved to Leningrad in 1971 following his high-school graduation. He was admitted to the Mussorgsky Music School at the Leningrad Conservatory, but was expelled soon after for chronic absenteeism.[3]
Career
Kuryokhin began his performing career as a piano and keyboard player with a school band in
By the end of his life, he had emerged as an avant-garde film composer, performance artist, and film actor. Outside Russia, he is primarily known as a jazz and experimental musician, through his works released since 1981 on UK's
In 1986, Kuryokhin and others from the St. Petersburg musical scene were featured in the PBS documentary "Comrades III: All That Jazz".[5] Scenes featuring Kuryokhin from this documentary were featured in Adam Curtis' 2022 documentary "TraumaZone".
His work in film includes starring in and composing music for Two Captains 2 , a comedic pseudo-documentary about World War I, composing the soundtrack to the neo-noir Russian horror film Mister Designer, and playing the lead role in Dude - Water Winner.
Kuryokhin shot to fame after creating one of the first popular
During the 1990s, Kuryokhin was a board member of the St. Petersburg City Council for Culture and Tourism. In 1995 Kuryokhin joined the National Bolshevik Party.[8][9]
In 1996, Kuryokhin founded the record label
Death
He died of a rare heart condition, cardiac sarcoma, aged 42 in 1996.
Personal life
Kuryokhin was married twice. His first marriage in 1972, which bore him a daughter, lasted only several years. In 1982, he met Anastasia ("Nastia"), a student at the Faculty of Geography of Leningrad State University. In 1984 they had a daughter, Elizaveta, and in 1994, their son Fyodor.[10]
Elizaveta Kuryokhina died in 1998, at the age of 14 after an overdose of sleeping pills.[11] She is laid to rest near her father in Komarovo Cemetery, St. Petersburg.[12]
Legacy
The Saint Petersburg Annual International Music Festival SKIF (Sergey Kuriokhin International Festival) is named after him. Kuryokhin festivals annually take place in Berlin, Amsterdam, and New York.[citation needed]
In 2004, the Sergey Kuryokhin Foundation and the Kuryokhin Center were founded. The foundation collects information about Kuryokhin and the Center organises events in the spirit of the artist. Both are located in the same building, an old cinema in Saint Petersburg. In 2009, the Sergey Kuryokhin Foundation and the Kuryokhin Center established the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award.[13]
Discography
- The Ways of Freedom (Leo Records, 1981)
- Tragedy in Rock (1988)
- Mr. Designer (1989)
- Popular Science (1989) with Henry Kaiser
- Album for Children (1991)
- Opera for the Rich (1991)
- Some combinations of fingers and passion (1991)
- Sparrow Oratorium/Four Seasons (1994)
- Friends Afar (Sound Wave Records, 1996) with Kenny Millions
- Dear John Cage (Long Arm Records, 1996) with Kenny Millions
- 2 For Tea (Long Arms Records, 1998) with David Moss[14]
Other works
- Music for the stage production of the Chekhov's Chaika (aka The Seagull) (1994)
- Music for the Russian TV series Anna Karenina (2007)
Also wrote Title Music for entire BBC TV series Comrades 1985 one episode of which featured him and other Leningrad Musicians and his Orchestra Popular mechanics
- Mister Designer (1988)
- Buster's Bedroom (1990)
- Leading role as Pavel Gorelikov in Dude - Water Winner (1991)
Kuryokhin is also featured in the music video for Joanna Stingray's "Feeling", as well as in the music video for "Metamorphoses" by Russian band Strannye Igry.
See also
- Kenny Millions and Otomo Yoshihidededicated to the memory of Sergey.
References
- ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
- ^ "Sergey Kuryokhin – passed 20 years ago away – podcast online". radiopanik.org. 2 August 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2017.
- ^ "КУРЕХИН Сергей Анатольевич (1954–1996)". funeral-spb.narod.ru. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-843-53256-9.
- ^ "Comrades III: All that Jazz". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
- ISBN 978-0-857-05202-5.
- All Media Network. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ISBN 978-1-620-97180-2.
- ^ Жвания, Дмитрий (July 9, 2012). "Сергей Курёхин: "Национал-большевизм — это свежий ветер и подвижничество"" [Sergey Kuryokhin: “National Bolshevism is a fresh wind and an ascetism”]. Sensus Novus (in Russian). Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2017.
- ^ "Сергей Курехин – биография". Узнай Всё (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ "КУРЕХИН Сергей Анатольевич (1954–1996)". funeral-spb.narod.ru. Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ Власова, Александра. "Два брака, роман с Гузеевой, смерть от саркомы в 42. «Трагедия в стиле рок» Сергея Курехина". STARHIT (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-11-11.
- ^ "Sergey Kuryokhin Award". www.kuryokhin.net. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
- ^ Sergey Kuryokhin & David Moss – 2 For Tea, retrieved 2022-10-19
Further reading
- ISBN 978-5-88353-567-2.
- ISBN 1561592374.
External links
- (in English) Biography
- Full discography at Russian Association of Independent Genres
- Official website of the Kuryokhin Centre for Modern Art
- Sergey Kuryokhin at IMDb
- "Kuryokhin", documentary film (director Vladimir Nepevny)
- Excerpt on Sergey Kuryokhin's Popular Mechanics from BBC documentary Comrades: All that Jazz
- Sergey Kuryokhin at Find a Grave