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Igor Krutoy
Игорь Крутой
Birth at
29 July 1954
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Composer Igor Krutoy was born on June 29, 1954 in Gaivoron (Kirovograd region). His father worked at the plant as a freight forwarder, and his mother was a laboratory assistant at the sanitary epidemic station. As a child, he independently learned to play the Bayana, performed together with the school ensemble. After studying at the music school, Igor Krutoi entered the theoretical faculty of the Kirovograd Music School, which he graduated with honors in 1974. He failed to enter the Kiev Conservatory
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Composer Igor Krutoy was born on June 29, 1954 in Gaivoron (Kirovograd region). His father worked at the plant as a freight forwarder, and his mother was a laboratory assistant at the sanitary epidemic station. As a child, he independently learned to play the Bayana, performed together with the school ensemble. After studying at the music school, Igor Krutoi entered the theoretical faculty of the Kirovograd Music School, which he graduated with honors in 1974. He failed to enter the Kiev Conservatory - he fell down on the exam in the history of the CPSU. He taught music for a year at a rural school. In 1979, Krutoi graduated from the conductor and choral department of the Nikolaev Music and Pedagogical Institute. Simultaneously with his studies, he worked in a restaurant; then the composer met Alexander Serov, for whom he soon began to write songs. In 1986 and 1987 Serov won international competitions with Igor Krutoy's songs "Inspiration" and "Fate is in spite". In 1988, Igor Krutoy became a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize. The songs of the famous Russian composer are performed by Alla Pugacheva, Irina Allegrova, Igor Nikolaev, Valery Leontiev, Laima Vaikule, Alexander Buinov, Alexey Glyzin. Tours of these and other Russian "stars" in the solo program of Igor Krutoy were successfully held not only in Russia, but also in the United States, in the prestigious halls of the Taj Mahal (Atlantic City), Radio City and Music Hall (New York). He also composed music for cinema ("Souvenir for the Prosecutor", "Hostages of the Devil", "The Thirst for Passion"), recorded an album of instrumental piano music "Without Words". In addition to composing, Igor Krutoy is known as a producer, he is the artistic director of the company "ARS".
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