Evgeniy Pavlovich Krylatov

Born on February 23, 1934 in the city of Lysva, Perm region. The family later moved to Perm. He inherited his love of music from his father, a factory worker. From the age of six he studied at a music school, later graduated from the Perm Music College in the piano class and the school of working youth. In 1953 he came to Moscow, where he entered the Conservatory at the composition department. He studied with the famous composer, Professor Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki. Since the mid-sixties he began more

Born on February 23, 1934 in the city of Lysva, Perm region. The family later moved to Perm. He inherited his love of music from his father, a factory worker. From the age of six he studied at a music school, later graduated from the Perm Music College in the piano class and the school of working youth. In 1953 he came to Moscow, where he entered the Conservatory at the composition department. He studied with the famous composer, Professor Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki. Since the mid-sixties he began working in cinema. His music is heard in many feature, animated, television and documentaries. Among them are "The Property of the Republic" (1971, dir. Vladimir Bychkov), "Does not hurt the head at the woodpecker" (1974, dir. Dinara Asanova), "The Key without the right of transfer" (1977, dir. Dinara Asanova), "And this is all about him" (1977, dir. Igor Shatrov), The Adventures of Electronics (1979, dir. Konstantin Bromberg), The Magicians (1982, dir. Konstantin Bromberg), The Guest from the Future (1984, dir. Pavel Arsenov) and many others. The most important role in the work of Krylatov is played by songs that often became the main musical themes of films and subsequently gained wide popularity as independent works. So it was with the song of the bear Umki from the cartoon “Umka”, the songs “Forest Deer” from the movie “Oh, this Nastya!”, “Winged swing” from “Adventures of Electronics”, “Beautiful far” from “Guests from the future”, “Three white horses” from “Wizards”. In different years, the composer worked with poets Yuri Entin, Leonid Derbenev, Bella Akhmadulina, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Ilya Reznik, Igor Shaferan, Mikhail Plyatskovsky. He was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1982) and the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1987), the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989). Among other works by Yevgeny Krylatov are works for the choir, symphony and pop orchestras, ballets, music for theatrical performances.