Gainullin Bayanist biography

He is seven years older than me, and my parents decided that I should follow in his footsteps. He is a wonderful teacher. I am very grateful to him: he sat with me as a child, gave me additional tasks, school methods, set up, motivated me: “You will study, ride around the world, speak with the most legendary personalities! And since the brother is still a musician, and my parents were ordinary workers now retired, it was he, a person with a professional education, who gave me a musical base and this internal mood.

And I already had a goal since childhood and went to her - I won all the necessary competitions. My brother constantly said to me: "So, you must go through all the contests." We watched Chinese militants about Kung Fu masters, how they achieve the goal, how, thanks to the will of will, they achieve the result-no matter what happens, they go further!

So he said to me: “Whatever happens at the competition, you must, even if you make a mistake somewhere or hook a neighboring note somewhere, continue to continue and, like a warrior, go forward.” I tired and walked. Every day for many hours. Well, kung fu, they also do for hours there. But you, a child, still what made you work-respect for your brother?

But my brother, I repeat, tuned me constantly. And then I got into the New Names Foundation a charity organization, is engaged in the search, selection and support of young musicians, artists and poets from different countries and cultures; The first money was given to this by the famous American pianist Wen Klaibern. Now this fund is headed by the famous Russian pianist Denis Matsuev. And then they were led by Ivetta Voronov, she is also the founder of the fund.

There Denis and I met. We performed a lot where we performed together, made friends. When you communicate with the best musicians, even let them be children, you see how the best play on other instruments. But Bayan, nevertheless, really many considered and consider below than the violin, cello, piano. And I had to see the executive level of Matsuev or the famous Russian Goboist Alexei Ogrinchuk, violinists, to change his worldview in this regard and already tighten himself and his instrument to these samples.

I saw how cool they own the tools, and I wanted the same! You communicate with such talented children and they were older than me, you see how they play the drive and energetically, and you absorb all this is all. And then you are returning to the button accordion, where you are used to a completely different style, and you already show another art. And as a result, the button accordion-acordonic world looks at you, sees something new-and also begins to grow!

Especially the Chinese record our performances on the video, copy our school and now at many competitions they are already in first places. What kind of feeling was when you are already on stage, already a master? So that by clicking - this was not. I started to concert early enough. Already in the 1st grade, I played a program for the 3rd grade, in the 2nd grade-a school program, accumulated a repertoire.

And almost from the 2nd grade, I gave concerts, performed at serious venues, including in the Great Hall of the Conservatory and in the Tchaikovsky hall-not yet with solo concerts, but with numbers; He also performed in the television program "Morning Star", in the popular children's show. With the New Names Foundation, we had a lot of trips to different countries: we performed in front of the kings, the presidents - a tremendous experience for the child.

You see a new world, a new culture, and most importantly, our language, language of music is an international language, we do not need words! You can perform absolutely everywhere, i.e. do not need words, enough bow on the stage, where it is a greeting and gratitude. You play it doesn’t matter where - in Hong Kong, in America, in Japan, in Europe - and everyone will understand you; The main thing is if you play sincerely.

People feel sincerity - and believe you. And the magic of sound occurs, a miracle, the unification of peoples, cultures, friendship arises. If the performer likes, his work, it turns out such a positive exchange of energy, something special, which cannot be conveyed in words, which the translator cannot translate. You play, and they say: “Oh, divine! This record has more than 6 million views.

Either hieroglyphs, then write in Arabic. Amazing: no translation is needed! Everyone writes and admires: how can such sounds make on the button accordion! Because I play sincerely, using non -standard different techniques. My parents are simple workers and, of course, poor people. I am very grateful to them that they believed in me and bought me an expensive button accordion, which was worth at that time, like a Volga car!

Familiar people, relatives said: “What are you! Why do you need such a button accordion? My relatives said: “Buy better a car! They worked in five works to buy this expensive tool, occupied their relatives, from friends, then to pay off in a few years. Somewhere from the 2nd grade, I began to participate in competitions, and then my first earnings went: they began to give me prizes-tape recorders, some TVs; Then they began to give scholarships.Probably, this has already shown to my parents that I was really moving that I had chosen the musical path, and they made every effort to help.

I began to earn more and more, I began to ride European competitions, there are already prizes in euros. The first awards were already a lot of money for us at that time, for example, the Euro First Prize, for the Bayan competition, even very good. Complex competitions, of course, were. Yes, and then, as I said, I got to the New Names Foundation and received a personal scholarship there, and on trips we were paid per diem.

Then I became a scholarship holder of the Rostropovich Foundation Fund of Cultural and Humanitarian programs of Mstislav Rostropovich, created in G. Although the “new names” allowed the presidents and kings to speak, it was with Maestro Rostropovich that I met many serious people, probably because I was already older. They helped me with the purchase of a musical instrument - a concert instrument is very expensive.

It is unrealistic to accumulate the student on his own. At the expense of competitions, of course, I earned, saved up what I could, but there are other needs. I am also trying to expand this business, although I have a very dense schedule, many concerts, plus I write music for the movie, and it takes a lot of time to essay. But in the future, I would still like to help people: it seems to me that our mission in life is to leave a positive mark.

Each of its own path makes in a released time segment. You need to do something useful than you yourself are satisfied. By the way, I can tell the story when we flew to a charity concert with the Rostropovich Foundation in Venice. I agreed to speak for free. But back, when we flew from Venice to Moscow, I was asked to play in the business class. Right on the plane!

Well, I'm a boy, I think, once they ask Bayan put on. The stewardess holds me a microphone, and I start playing the whole plane. I take a microphone: “Thank you very much, just a composition of Astora Pyazzoll“ Libertango ”sounded for you, and now -“ Chardash ”of Monty.” And it turned out at an altitude of 10 m in 10 minutes at the then rate of 10 euros. I am to the fact that if you do something sincerely and from the heart, it is returning to you as if in a multiple size.

There was still a case. He played in the Moscow crossing on the street of the year, it was an “MK” experiment: who will work more - American violinist Joshua Bell or Russian button accordion Aidar Gainullin? On my channel, this is the second most popular video after Libertango in the Berlin Philharmonic. Neither the Kremlin, nor Tchaikovsky’s hall, nor any other concert halls, but the transition!

Maybe there would be even more views on the plane, but at that time all this was not so actively developed. Already more or less scheduled to G. especially in Europe, concerts are planned in advance and long, this is done by agents who represent me. They ask if I can such and such a number, and I enter into the calendar, into the schedule. And I gradually develop a work plan. One thing is a large hall and a solo concert, another is something smaller, the third is a corporate order.

But if this is a concert at Carnegie Hall, then you can make concessions, especially if you have never performed there. For each musician "Carnegie-Hall" is like musical Celestial Empire! Like the Berlin Philharmonic, in principle. I was ready to play in the Berlin Philharmonic for a big fee, but if only to start to speak, to appear. You can request more on corporate parties, because it is not so prestigious.

By the way, I played Putin many times. After all, Putin was also a button accordion.

I have a Bayan in the button accordion, this is Ballone Burini, an Italian bang firm, and many journalists ask: what is it for you? I jokingly say: this is Vladimir Vladimirovich, he played the button accordion as a child. I also remember when [the president of Uzbekistan Islam] Karimov was also Medvedev, they invited us to the cottage and asked us to play Rock-Popurri for Medvedev, and for Karimov I played something such Tatar, because it, in principle, looks like Uzbek, he really liked it.

He played pentatonics, she is very similar to Korean music. I see he smiled. Everything is fine.