Yury Chernavsky
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Yury (George) Chernavsky (
Education
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While living in Russia, obtained professional musical education in the First Music College in
Professional career
Work in the USSR
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From 1969 to 1983, Chernavsky was fully involved in concert activities.
In 1969–1973, Yury performed in jazz orchestras of Boris Rensky,
Since 1976, a new era of Chernavsky's creativity had begun when he entered the mainstream in music. He worked as a
In the 1980s, Chernavsky wrote music and worked as a composer and producer. He worked with many Russian stars including
In 1981, he created a rock group, later named Dinamik, including Yury Kitaev, Sergei Ryzhov, Vladimir Kuzmin, and Yury Chernavsky. In that group, Chernavsky was a music director, played on keyboard and saxophone, and realized as an arranger a lot of his own new musical ideas that were reflected in two first group albums, Dinamik I and Dinamik II.
From 1983, he worked as a musical leader in the group Vesyolye Rebyata where he recorded the album Banana Islands, which became popular in the Soviet Union. This audio album as well as Automatic Kit, later purchased by the EMI Europe publishing company, represented the first international level of Russian rock music.
In 1986, Yury was acting as a
The Russian superstar Alla Pugacheva worked closely with Chernavsky, and in 1984, together with the vocal group ABBA, performed his songs "Through the Eyes of a Child" and "Superman" that were presented by the Swedish TV star Jacob Dahlin). These songs for the first time ranked highest in West European charts.
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Opening at the Luzhniki Stadium.
Moscow, 1986
International festivals
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Chernavsky was the musical director and composer for the following major international forums:
- Ice Ballet, final show at the World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow, 1985
- Goodwill Games organized by Ted Turner and Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow, 1986
- Soviet-Indian Festival held for a period of two years, 1987–1988, in more than 30 cities in India and Soviet Union
Work in Germany
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"How's that" Studio, Berlin.
Gold single "Love Song"
Since 1990, Chernavsky had been working in Berlin, Germany, where he has established in 1993 a record company
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Yury Chernavsky.
Track Studios, Hollywood
Work in Hollywood
In the 1994, Chernavsky moved to work in Hollywood, where he established a company, LA 3D Motion, with his older son Damon. Damon worked with intense computer graphics technology, CGI, in video movie industry. Chernavsky was a producer for his son who later, on his 18th birthday, received recognition on the
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As an Executive Producer, Chernavsky was a contributor
In the present time
Chernavsky works on major projects in the US and Europe to developing Russian performers, advancing new ideas on the world market, and selecting young European professional artists (e.g., a Fox group / Pikosso Records "Hollywood Dreams V. 2"[4]) and famous martial arts fighters to present their skills at international entertainment levels.
He also teaches master classes on vocals and
Footnotes
- ^ See the video.
- ^ See credits for Yury Chernavsky Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Damon Elliott Has His Hands Full.
- ^ Hollywood Dreams, Vol. 2.
References
- Kushnir, A. (2003) Chernavsky, Yuri: Banana Islands. In: 100 Soviet Rock Tape Album 1977—1991: 15 Years of Underground Recording, Moscow, Agraf & Craft+. ISBN 978-5-7784-0251-5(In Russian).
- March 17. Yuri Alexandrovich Chernavsky (For the 60th Birth Anniversary) Archived October 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. In: Tambov Dates 2007, Tambov, Proletarsky svetoch. (In Russian).
- Soldatenkov, N. (1990) Chernavsky, Yuri. In: Rock Music in the USSR: A Trial of a Popular Encyclopedia, compiled by A.K. Troitsky, Moscow, Kniga, pp. 365–366. (In Russian).
- Troitsky, A. (1991) Rock in the Soviet Union: 1960s, 1970, 1980s…. Moscow, Iskusstvo, pp. 105–106. (In Russian).
- Troitsky, A. (1988) Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia. Faber & Faber, 160 p. ISBN 978-0-571-12997-3
- Troitsky, A. Russian pop’s mad perfectionist. The Moscow Times, March 5, 1994. Retrieved April 27, 2007.
- Who is Who in Soviet Rock: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Domestic Rock Music, compiled by A. Alexeyev, A. Burlaka and A. Sidorov, Moscow, Ostankino, 1991. ISBN 978-5-86018-001-7(In Russian).
External links
- Yury Chernavsky on the site MySpace
- Yury Chernavsky in the database Russian Animation in Letters and Figures.
- Yuri Chernavsky at IMDb