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MAKSIM KUZIN
P/Fax: (+380 44) 450-1777
Cell: (+380 50) 156-5529
Web-site: http://www.jamesarts.com/kuzin
E-mail: maksim_kuzin@yahoo.com

MUSIC DIRECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006-Current   2006 Krivoy Rog Music Theatre, Krivoy Rog, Ukraine
Music Director

 
2004-Current   Ricochet Ensemble of New Music of the National Composer's Union
Conductor
 
June — December 2006   BBC Live TV-Show Dancing with Stars, Kiev, Ukraine
Conductor of Live studio orchestra
 
2002 - 2005   The Youth Musical Theatre "MAXIMA"
Author, Director and Principal Conductor

Winner-project of grants from the International George Soros Foundation and Kiev Local State Administration
 
2004-2005   Kiev State Operetta Theatre
Staff Conductor

 
2001-2003   Kiev State Operetta Theatre
Staff Conductor

 
1983-1994   Boys choir of the Lysenko Kiev Specialized Music School
Choral singer – soloist
(basso-baritone, alto, discant)
Choir toured France, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Norway, Poland, Hungary.
 
ORCHESTRAL CONDUCTING EXPERIENCE
Conducted the following orchestras:
  • National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine
  • National RadiSymphony Orchestra of Ukraine
  • Vladivostok Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladivostok, Russia
  • Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra
  • Eastman School of Music Symphony Orchestra, USA
  • Indiana University School of Music, USA
  • Crimean Philharmonic Orchestra, Crimea, Ukraine
  • Dnepropetrovsk Philharmonic Orchestra, Ukraine
  • Lugansk Philharmonic Orchestra, Ukraine
  • Ensemble of soloists of the National symphony orchestra of Ukraine
  • RovnPhilharmonic Chamber Orchestra and other
Conducted at the following music theatres:
  • Dnepropetrovsk State Opera Theatre, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
  • Kiev State Operetta Theatre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Krivoy Rog Music Theatre, Krivoy Rog, Ukraine
  • Youth Musical Theatre MAXIMA, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Opera Theatre "Molodaya Opera" of the National Musical Academy of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
Conducted the following operas:
  • Evgeny Onegin, Tchaikovsky
  • Il Campanello, Donizetti – Music Direction
  • Mavra, Stravinsky. – Music Direction
  • Renard, Stravinsky. – Music Direction
  • Natalka-Poltavka, Lysenko N.
Conducted the following operettas:
  • Die Fledermaus, Strauss.
  • The Merry Widow, Lehar
  • La Belle Helene, Offenbach
  • Das Veilchen vom Montmartre (Paris in Spring), Kalman I.
  • Monsieur Choufleuri restera chez lui le ..., Offenbach – Music Direction
Conductor of contemporary music festivals:
  • Music-Fest, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Youth Art Forum, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Musical Premiers of the Season, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Two Days & Two Nights, Odessa, Ukraine
  • Kontrasty, Lvov, Ukraine
FESTIVALS
May-June 2004   Hot Springs Music Festival, Arkansas, USA
2004 Assistant Conductor

 
LECTURES
May-June 2004   Harvard, Ukrainian Research Institute
Title:
"Opera: Why Do You Love or Hate It So?"
 
HONORS AND AWARDS

2005 EMERGING ARTIST - Symphony Magazine, American Symphony Orchestra League

Laureate of Best Music Direction prize of Sicheslavna-2008 Theatrical Festival, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine for music direction of Donizetti's opera Il Campanello in Krivoy Rog Music Theatre.

 
EDUCATION
2006 – current   Instrumental Conducting
Tchaikovsky National Musical Academy of Ukraine

Postgraduate, 3-year program
(Professor Allin Vlasenko)
 
1999 – 2003   Instrumental Conducting
Tchaikovsky National Musical Academy of Ukraine

Graduate, 4-year program - (diploma with honors)
(Professor Roman Kofman)
 
1994-1999   Choral Conducting (Professor Evgeniy Savchuk)
Tchaikovsky National Musical Academy of Ukraine
Graduate, 5-year program - diploma with honors
 
1983-1994   Lysenko Kiev Specialized Musical School
Choral Conducting and Singing

11-year program - diploma with honors
 
LANGUAGES SKILLS
Native: Ukrainian
Other: fluent Russian and English
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