Volodymyr Petrovych Serebriakov (born 21 January 1942 - died 19 December 2020, Sumy) was a Ukrainian musician, composer, conductor, and teacher.
Volodymyr Serebriakov was born in 1942 in the Cherkasy region. Due to the German-Soviet war, he lost his father, who died at the front. Since childhood, he wanted to play various musical instruments. At the age of seven, he got a guitar. From the second grade, he attended a music school in the district centre of Kamianka, where he played the accordion. To do this, he had to walk 12 kilometres from the village, so he studied for only three months. He also visited the Palace of Pioneers. He created a brass band at the village school. In the 7th grade, he studied full-time at the Kamianske Music School, where he played wind instruments.
After the 9th grade, he entered the Zhytomyr Music School, but his grandfather insisted that he finish the 10th grade at school. Only then did he enter the Ternopil Music College. After graduating, he worked at the Ternopil Taras Shevchenko Drama Theatre. He was preparing to enter the Lviv Philharmonic. However, during the tour of his theatre in Siberian cities, he stayed in Novosibirsk, where he entered the conservatory.
In March 1967, he moved to Sumy. He began working as an orchestra conductor at the Sumy Theatre of Drama and Comedy named after M. S. Shchepkin. The composer wrote music for nearly two dozen theatre performances, as well as five children's plays.
In January 1981, he joined the Sumy State Regional Philharmonic. Here he held the positions of director and artistic director of the institution. At the same time, he was engaged in creative work. In 1983, he created a chamber symphony orchestra at the Philharmonic. It consisted of 18 musicians. The first grossing concert took place on Cosmonautics Day on 12 April 1984.
After retirement, Vladimir Serebryakov began working as the chief conductor of the Renaissance Chamber Orchestra of Early and Contemporary Music in 2003. He also began to combine his creative work with teaching. He taught conducting and instrumentation at the D. Bortnyansky Sumy School of Culture and Arts. For more than a decade, he also led the school's symphony orchestra, which was founded in April 2009. The small symphony orchestra consisted of 53 musicians.
He died on 19 December 2020 at the age of 79.
Creative work
Volodymyr Serebriakov is the author of music for theatre performances: "Keep My Secret", "Birds Flying to the Storm", "Ninth Symphony", "Talentless", "Bohdan Khmelnytsky", "Gypsy Aza", "Raised Virgin Land", "Gregory and Paraskeva", "And Trains Fly by", "Forgetting Herostat, Calling an Empty Apartment, Hlib Kosmachiv, Blue Deer, The Sin of Repentance, Meeting at Midnight, Who Laughs Will Not Be Spared, At the First Gully, and The First Squadron. He is also the author of music for children's performances of The Bremen Musicians, The Gingerbread House, Sinbad the Sailor, Will There Be a New Year?
Concert programmes by the Renaissance Chamber Orchestra (chief conductor - Vladimir Serebryakov):
Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eternal Dawns (classical composers);
Pyotr Tchaikovsky "Children's Album" (programme for children);
Johann Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Wolfgang Mozart;
"Hail Mary", "Nightingale Land";
Johann Strauss (a programme of the composer's works).
Chief Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra at the reporting concerts of Sumy region in Kyiv.
Awards and titles
Order of Merit, III class (2009);
Honoured Worker of Culture of Ukraine (2004).
Family.
Wife: Yevheniia Klymivna Serebriakova (b. 1941), People's Artist of Ukraine;
daughter Victoria Magis.
