Viktor Zinchuk is a musician, composer, conductor, arranger of classics, associate professor of the Moscow Institute of Culture and Arts, professor at the International Academy of Sciences of San Marino, a virtuoso guitarist, marked by many awards and included in the Guinness Book of Records for his technical playing.
Biography
The future virtuoso was born into the family of a retired military man in April 1958 in the capital of Russia. From early childhood, the child was found to have perfect hearing, and already at the age of 11 he mastered the guitar and became a regular at school competitions, performances and amateur concerts.
Victor realized that the guitar is his love for life and after school he entered the music school, deciding to get the education of a guitarist and conductor. He was so talented that in 1978, while still a student, he received an offer to work with the famous Variety Symphony Orchestra, and a year later he became a professional of the highest qualifications.
Career
In 1980, Viktor Ivanovich Zinchuk finished his studies and began experimenting with music in various genres, trying to find something of his own. The talented guitarist was welcome everywhere. He managed to work with the then stars - from Yuri Antonov to Alla Pugacheva, who always helped young talents. Viktor's play admired the Soviet pop star, and she herself called him with a proposal. He directed musical groups, made arrangements, created his own musical compositions for orchestras.
In 1983 he received a prestigious music award in Baku, and in 1988 a documentary film about him was released on central television. After that, Zinchuk completely went into solo projects. Then his famous arrangements of the classics were born: Paganini, Bach, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov. By the way, just for the last “Flight of the Bumblebee”, performed by Victor on the guitar, he got into the Guinness Book of Records (20 notes per second, 2011). In the same year he wrote all the music for the documentary series "Polar Bridge".
The next few years became very eventful for the virtuoso musician - he, already a cult guitarist, toured all over Europe and the Soviet Union, won almost all competitions, and received a lot of awards. But the first collection of Victor, where classical arrangements are intertwined with his author's compositions, was released only in 1994. In 1995, Zinchuk received a red diploma from the Moscow University of Culture, and in 2005 he became an Honored Artist of Russia and created a video school for novice guitar fans.
The virtuoso's creativity was influenced by his travels around the world. Ireland, with its incredible mystical nature and heroic mythology, inspired the musician to new works, and in 2010 one of his best collections, The Celtic Album, was released. In the United States, a gold guitar was specially made for him, and several music companies supply him with equipment for free.
Personal life
Victor does not like to let strangers into his private life, and therefore little is known about her. The first family that Zinchuk created when he was still very young did not last long - until the death of his 2-year-old son. The boy drowned, and the couple after that could not continue the relationship. The second marriage turned out to be happier for the virtuoso. He loves his wife and has raised a son who is receiving a law degree.
Zinchuk is one of the members of the Starko football team. Of course, this is not a professional sport, just the leisure of musicians and artists, but the injuries there are quite real - after a ligament rupture, the musician underwent surgery and learned to walk again.
