Oleg Kinyaev (Organist)
Oleg Kinyaev graduated from the Mikhail Glinka Choral School of the St
Petersburg State Academic Capella and the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov
Conservatoire as a pianist (classes of Professor Dmitry Svetozarov and Senior
Lecturer Larisa Vaghina) and organist (class of Professor Nina Oksetian). In
1986, following his victory at the All-Union Competition, he was invited to take
the post of Principal Organist at the Kharkov Regional Philharmonic,
subsequently working as an organist and concert master at the St Petersburg
State Academic Capella. As an organist he toured throughout Russia and abroad.
As a soloist he appeared with the London Symphony Orchestra, the
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg) and the Symphony
Orchestra of the Warsaw Philharmonic. On numerous occasions he appeared at
international organ festivals in Herford (Germany), Warsaw Autumn (Poland) and
the BBC Proms (Great Britain). From 2001-2006 he was Artistic Director of the
Kharkov Bachiana international organ festival.
He was actively involved in the installation of the organ at the Concert Hall
of the Mariinsky Theatre which was manufactured by French company Daniel Kern,
concluding agreements with the manufacturer regarding the instrument’s
disposition. From 2008 he was the Concert Hall’s Organ Master and Principal
Organist, regularly performing concerts there.
The organist collaborated with such outstanding musicians as Sofia
Gubaidulina, Sergei Slonimsky, Rodion Shchedrin, Boris Tishchenko, Valery
Gergiev, Mariss Jansons and Vladislav Chernushenko to name but a few. Oleg
Kinyaev composed several works for organ in addition to producing arrangements
for organ of works by Tchaikovsky, Barber and Hovhaness.
Oleg Kinyaev recorded five CDs. He taught organ at the St Petersburg State
University and at the Glinka Choral School. In the 2013–2014 season he founded
and was Artistic Director of the I International Organ Festival at the Concert
Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre which marked five years since the installation of
the organ. He also worked on the festival programme for the 2014-2015
season.
He died at the young age of fifty in July 2014.
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