Dmytro Ihorovych Akimov (born 9 January 1962, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian symphony composer, poet, writer, sociologist and marketing expert, journalist, and singer. Honoured Artist of Ukraine (1999). The head of the Golden Fortune ARTIS, a talented scientist and artist, Dmytro Akimov is always at the forefront of the artistic field.
Biography
1986 - Graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Journalism, and later received a law degree from the Institute of International Relations of the same university. For more than 30 years of creative, production, and scientific activity, he has been continuing his education and self-improvement, receiving higher military education in various universities, then in conducting and choral art, later in painting and decorative art, defending his dissertations and receiving a doctorate in sociology (later a candidate of sociological sciences, then a doctor of sociological sciences).
1986-1987 - Worked at the Kyiv Regional Radio.
1987 - early 2000s - on Ukrainian television - author and host of the programmes "Channel D", "Telefan", "Golden Fortune". The collaboration between the poet Dmytro Akimov and composers Oleksandr Zlotnyk, Volodymyr Bystriakov, Kostiantyn Osaulenko, Hennadii Tatarchenko and other Ukrainian composers began in the 80s of the twentieth century.
In 1990, Dmytro Akimov wrote the lyrics to the third album by Ukrainian singer Rusya, "Give me a gift, mum", which in the same year took first place in the Best Album nomination in the National Chart.
As a music video maker, Dmitry Akimov has created dozens of music videos for such Ukrainian pop singers as Pavlo Zibrov, Taisiya Povaliy, Iryna Bilyk, Vitaliy Bilonozhko, Alla Kudlay, Rusya, etc. For example, Dmytro Akimov as a poet and director and Konstantin Osaulenko as a composer and arranger created an audio album for Rusya called "Give me a gift, mum", for which Dmytro Akimov shot several video clips. One of the collaborators' joint projects was the creation of the Evening School youth group. This project was later developed and transformed into the Evening Pop School and a number of individual performers on the Ukrainian stage.
As a pop singer, Dmitriy Akimov became known to fans of pop songs thanks to the singles "I'll Come Back to You" and "My Paper Airplane". These songs were accompanied by music videos that topped the charts in the 1980s and 1990s. For some time, Dmytro Akimov taught at the Karpenko-Kary Institute of Theatre and Cinema Arts in Kyiv. Dmytro Akimov wrote many songs for the Ukrainian stage in collaboration with composers Yuriy Maliborskyi and Oleh Pekarovskyi, and guitarist Mykhailo Alekseiev.
In the 1990s, Dmytro Akimov was for some time the most active music video maker in Ukraine, working with dozens of Ukrainian and foreign artists, and increasingly recording his own songs: the albums Paper Airplane (1992), Nezabudka (1993), Stranger with a White Rose (1994), Red Guelder (1996), and Golden Bullet (1997, Lazer Records).
From the late 1990s to the present day, Dmytro Akimov has been actively collaborating with many Ukrainian academic orchestral and choral ensembles.
In collaboration with the Great Honoured Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Radio Company of Ukraine, Dmytro Akimov recorded such works as 3 violin concertos, a two-act ballet Roksolana, 6 symphonic nocturnes, other symphonic works in various genres, and several CD audio albums.
With the Great Honoured Academic Mixed Choir of the National Radio Company of Ukraine, composer Dmytro Akimov recorded a large programme of 16 works.
With the Honoured Academic Exemplary Orchestra of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, composer D.I. Akimov recorded more than two dozen of his works and released a CD album.
With the Honoured Academic Variety and Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, composer Dmytro Akimov recorded more than two dozen of his works, and repeatedly participated in the orchestra's touring programmes and video filming.
The works of the Honoured Artist of Ukraine composer Dmytro Akimov are performed by many other orchestral and choral ensembles in Ukraine and other countries.
A separate direction in the work of composer Dmitry Akimov is the modern lounge style. It is in this direction that Dmytro Akimov reveals himself simultaneously as a composer, musician, cameraman, screenwriter, director, editor, and creates a series of dramatically complex video clips in which he closely interconnects the author's understanding of video and sound.
Since 1993, he has been the head of the International Open Rating of Popularity and Quality "Golden Fortune", which later received the final name "International Academy of Rating Technologies and Sociology "Golden Fortune" in accordance with the name of the international scientific public organisation that conducts rating research. The Presidium of the Golden Fortune Rating has at various times included presidents of national and royal academies of sciences of 30 countries. Since then, scientific and rating activities have been carried out in many countries around the world. Scientific and artistic works of D.I. Akimov were published in different countries. For about 20 years, the Presidium of the International Academy of Rating Technologies and Sociology has been headed by the world-renowned scientist Boris Paton. Doctor of Sociology Dmitry Igorevich Akimov is the head of the General Directorate of the International Academy "Golden Fortune".
Mr Akimov was a participant in the liquidation of the consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, where he was on business trips, working as an editor of the State TV and Radio of the Ukrainian SSR, creating radio programmes for the Chernobyl NPP employees directly at the Chernobyl NPP, and transmitting radio materials for news broadcasts of the State TV and Radio of Ukraine. During this period, he worked directly at the Chornobyl NPP, in the cities of Prypiat, Chornobyl, and the village of Chornobyl power engineers, Zelenyi Mys. Since the end of 1986, he has been undergoing a complex course of treatment in the radiation pathology department of a Kyiv hospital. He has the status of a category 1 participant in the liquidation of the Chornobyl accident.
For more than 20 years, Dmytro Akimov and MARTIS Zolota Fortuna have been closely cooperating with the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine (until 2014, the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine), and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. He received the rank of lieutenant in 1985 at the Kyiv State University, and since then he has been involved in the army, undergoing retraining, educational and supervisory work in the security ministries and agencies of Ukraine. To this day, Dmytro Akimov conducts sociological and socio-psychological research for the security forces, and has been working with music bands of the security ministries and agencies since the 1990s. The repertoire of military music groups includes several dozen works by D.I. Akimov written for brass bands, choirs, and pop groups. Dozens of military and patriotic compositions by D.I. Akimov have been released on discs, filmed, performed in concert programmes, and published in specialised editions.
During the time of the newly independent Ukraine, D.I. Akimov, together with Ukrainian military peacekeepers, was in many hot spots of the planet, including during the war in Yugoslavia, then in Iraq, Liberia, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire. Reserve Colonel D.I. Akimov held many outreach events for Ukrainian, Polish, American soldiers-peacekeepers of the UN and NATO, and was with them in the places of the most difficult combat missions. He conducted closed scientific sociological research for the National Security and Defence Council in the places of service of Ukrainian peacekeepers[source?]
From the first months of the Ukrainian crisis of 2014, Dmytro Akimov was in the areas of combat operations and armed confrontations in the east and south of Ukraine, where he performed duties on behalf of the Minister of Defence of Ukraine, the Commander of the National Guard of Ukraine, and the Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. Alongside his official duties, Dmytro Akimov presented the MARTIS Golden Fortune public decoration to servicemen in the combat zone upon the recommendation of commanders and senior officials of the security ministries and agencies.
In the spring and summer of 2014, he was with the Ukrainian military in Mariupol, Shchastia, Donetsk airport, the area of Ilovaisk events, etc. During the battles for Ilovaisk in August 2014, Colonel Akimov volunteered to join one of the rifle battalions of the National Guard of Ukraine, continuing to serve as an advisor to the NGU commander. In the course of his duties, he was in the conflict zones in Debaltseve, Popasna, Krymske, Mariupol, etc. He has received combat awards[source?] At his own expense, he published two collections of poetry by Ukrainian National Guardsmen and border guards, The National Guard of My Homeland and The Border of My Motherland. Not forgetting his first profession as a television editor and director, Colonel Dmytro Akimov created many patriotic video clips for the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine during the war, and conducted sociological research. As a combatant, Dmytro Akimov pays great attention to the visual arts, paints oil paintings on military and patriotic themes, organises exhibitions of fine art by Ukrainian servicemen, and as a poet and composer has written several dozen songs in Ukrainian and English about UN peacekeepers and the war in Donbas, and has published several books with his own songs and poetry.
These days, he composes orchestral and choral works for orchestras and academic ensembles (including military ones). He has a doctorate in sociology and writes scientific articles in the field of social marketing and cultural studies. In 2014-2017, he was deployed to the ATO zone, where, in addition to performing his military duties, he conducted sociological research, filmed documentaries, social videos and video clips about the events in the ATO zone. D.I. Akimov has received state, ministerial, departmental, church, and public awards from Ukraine and other countries.
Discography
"Paper Airplane" (1992)
"Nezabudka" (1993)
"A Stranger with a White Rose" (1994)
"Red Viburnum" (1996)
"The Golden Bullet (1997)
"Royal Symphonic Magic" (2005)
"Royal Symphonic Magic II" (2007)
"Royal Symphonic Magic III" (2009)
"Orchestral and vocal works" (2012)
