BANK Michael G.

Born in 1929. He graduated from the Leningrad State Conservatory named K A. Rimsky-Korsakov.

People's Artist of Russia, MG. Bank - known musician, actively performs in Russia and abroad. His creative career began in 1951 at the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, where he worked as an accompanist, and was continued at the Moscow concert organization. To date, MG. Bank with great success working with such outstanding masters of the national opera, as. Kozlovsky, A. Ted, K. Malchenko, A. Solenkova 3. Sotkilava, M. Mikhailov, L. Myasnikov, B. Rudenko, G. Kalinin, P. Leiferkus, and many others, as well as with almost all stars of the national ballet.

As concertmaster MG. Bank has participated in the more than 15 international competitions, among them - the International contest named after PI. Tchaikovsky, International Ballet Competition in Moscow, the International Singing Competition in Vercelli (Italy), International Ballet Competition in Varna (Bulgaria), Tokyo (Japan), Paris (France), Jackson (USA), etc.. At each of these competitions MG. The bank honored with special diploma "For the best accompaniment".

MG. The Bank has successfully performed in concerts with foreign artists during their tour in Russia, including such masters as Mado Robin (France), Jerome Hines and Joseph Fuchs (USA), Dudzi Hisako (Japan) etc..

In joint work on new ballets creativity MG. The Bank was highly appreciated by K. Goleizovsky IN. Winona, L. Jacobson, Alberto Alonso (Cuba), in. Varkovitskogo, L. Lavrovsky etc..

During my time at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in 1960-1963 and 1973-1978 respectively MG. The Bank participated in the ballet "Spartacus", "Forest Song," "La Bayadere", "Vanina Vanini", "Not only love", etc..

In the years 1968-1978 MG. The Bank conducted at the Moscow State Conservatory, class Accompanists art.

Solo playing MG. Bank was noted as early as 1958, when he won the All-Union Competition. In just the past few years he created and executed program of works by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Arensky, Grieg, Gershwin,. He performs as a soloist with bands, . as the State Symphony Orchestra of Russia, . Academic Orchestra MGF, . Honored team Russia Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, . orchestras Novosibirsk, . Chisinau, . Riga, . Tbilisi, . Ulyanovsk, . Tomsk, . Barnaul, etc., . which stood at the console to,
. Ivanov, G.rozhdestvensky, E. Svetlanov, IN. Dudarova, D. Kakhidze, D. Kitaenko, M. Jansons, A. Katz, A. Dmitriev, A. Zhyuraytis etc..

Significant place in the works MG. The Bank is conducting. In 1967-1968 he worked as a conductor and music director of the National Ballet of Cuba under the direction of Alicia Alonso in Havana, in the years 1977-1979, . as the principal conductor of the State Ballet Theater of the USSR, . he participated in the ballet "The Creation" A,
. Petrova, "Gayane" A. Khachaturian concert program "From the funds of the world classics," the Vietnamese ballet "Lotus". As a conductor, working on concert programs with M. Plisetskaya On. Lepeshinskaya, H. Pavlova, M. Sobirova AND. Kolpakova, E. Maximova, IN. Vasilyev, in. Vladimirov, M. Liepaja, D. Pisarev, A. Godunov etc.. These programs have been shown in cities in Siberia and the Far East, Volga, Ukraine, in Moscow and Leningrad, as well as in England, Japan, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, China, Mongolia and other countries. Total during the active stage applications MG. Bank acted in more than 60 countries.

M. G. Bank - the organizer and chief conductor of the ongoing since 1987 for several years in the cities of Sochi, . Yalta, . Ulyanovsk and Sebastopol's annual All-Union festival "Stars of the Soviet ballet, . as well as the artistic director of the festival of Prokofiev at home of the composer in Sontsevke, . now the Donetsk region of Ukraine,
. The media and the public appreciate this music festival as an outstanding event in the cultural life of the country.

In 1999, M. G. The Bank was awarded the Medal of Honor.