Galina Khomchik

Galina Khomchik
Background information
Birth name Galina Viktorovna Khomchik
Born May 30, 1960
Origin Moscow, USSR
Soviet Union/Russia
Genres Bard
Occupation(s) Musician, singer, TV presenter
Instruments Guitar, piano
Labels Moskovskiye Okna, Muzprom
Associated acts Songs of Our Century
Website www.homchik.ru

Galina Khomchik (Гали′на Хо′мчик, May 30, 1960 in Moscow, USSR) is a Russian singer, acoustic guitarist and pianist, a prominent figure of the country's modern folk/bard movement. Khomchik, the three Soviet bard festivals' laureate (Moscow, 1983, The 1st National, Saratov, 1986 and V. Grushin's, Samara, 1987) and a XX Workers' Festival's golden medal winner (1984, East Berlin),[1] is a popular radio and TV presenter, author of the I'll Sing To You and Let's Fill With Music... popular series, who's filmed 8-part TV film on the history of the bard movement in the USSR.[1] Khomchik is known also as director and producer of many musical videos, including those of a colleague, pop bard Oleg Mityaev.[2] Both on her own and as a member of an all-star project Songs of Our Century she toured Europe, Australia, Israel and USA[3]

Galina Khomchik (with a hundred songs to her repertoire, notably, Okudzhava, Vizbor, Nikitin, Kim, and Novella Matveeva urban folk classics' interpretations) released ten solo albums and features in numerous Russian modern/urban folk music compilations.[2] She is one of just two (another being Yelena Kamburova) non-writing artists who are featured in the Most Famous Bards of Russia encyclopedia (all others being songwriters).[4][5]

Novye Izvestia described Khomchik as "the star of a Russian bard music".[6] She's been praized by Yuly Kim,[7] Sergey Nikitin[8] and Olga Okudzhava;[9] singer and poet Alexander Gorodnitsky called her "a missionary of music poetry", "unequalled in this genre".[10]

Discography

References

  1. 1 2 "Galina Khomchik". www.peterout.ru. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
  2. 1 2 "Galina Khomchik biography". www.homchik.ru. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
  3. ↑ G. Khomchik: In USA and Canada we couldn't get enough of sing-alongs.... www.ozon.ru. 2000.
  4. ↑ Galina Khomchik @ ArtVisit. - www.aptvisit.ru.
  5. ↑ C. Истомин, Д. Денисенко. Самые знаменитые барды России. ISBN 5-94538-067-9
  6. ↑ Yevgenya Shmelyova. Бард Галина Хомчик: «Слеты авторской песни проходят и в Пенсильвании». Izvestya, 2006
  7. ↑ "Yuly Kim on Galina Khomchic". Homchik.ru. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  8. ↑ "Sergey Nikitin. CD footnotes". Homchik.ru. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  9. ↑ "Olga Okudzhava on Galina Khomchik". Homchik.ru. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  10. ↑ "Alexandr Gorodnitsky. A Missionary of Music Poetry". Homchik.ru. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  11. ↑ "Po-zhenski o vechnom - Galina Khomchik". Amazon.co.uk. 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  12. ↑ "Ne pokidaj menya, vesna! - Galina Khomchik". Amazon.co.uk. 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  13. ↑ "Unexpected Alliance - Galina Khomchik and Sergey Voytenko / Neozhidanny al'yans - Galina Khomchik i Sergey Voytenko (Import)". Amazon.com. 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  14. ↑ "Galina Khomchik - Moi genial'nye uchitelya: Pesni vypusknikov MGU". Amazon.co.uk. 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  15. ↑ "Galina Khomchik - Dvukhgolosie (Import)". Amazon.co.uk. 2009-09-09. Retrieved 2011-07-26.
  16. ↑ "Galina Khomchik discography". www.homchik.ru. Retrieved 2011-01-01.

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