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Welcome to the official website of agent Vladislav Kosarev. Vladislav’s clear baritone has long won the hearts of grateful audiences, both domestic and foreign. His undeniable talent and virtuosic performance bring true pleasure to listeners. He perfectly performs compositions of various genres: romances, ballads, opera arias and popular music.

Creative achievements

Vladislav took his first steps towards music very early. He was then barely six years old. Since childhood, the guy had excellent hearing, and an irresistible attraction to creativity left him with virtually no choice in the matter of future activities.

2001 – Vladislav Kosarev successfully completed the famous Gnessinka. I wanted to quickly give vent to numerous ideas and try my skills. The first place of labor and creative activity became for him the men's choir "Peresvet".
He successfully performed solo roles, and later began to conduct. Concerts of Vladislav Kosarev are held at the highest professional level. He always uses only high-quality sound equipment, therefore, regardless of the acoustics of the hall, the audience enjoys high-quality, powerful sound.

The singer has a wide range of interests. Vladislav’s repertoire includes amazingly beautiful classical compositions, as well as win-win pop songs a wide variety of topics. It has become prestigious to order a performance by Vladislav Kosarev. The best Moscow halls submitted to him. Kosarev’s concerts drew applause at the famous Kremlin Palace of Congresses, Great Hall Conservatory, Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky and many others. He also participated in television concerts and recorded music for films.

The result of dedicated work was the First Prize of the first International Conducting Competition. Yurlova. His collection also includes numerous orders and prizes from various prestigious competitions.

These days

Having started his solo career in 2009, Vladislav successfully performs for his fans. He has a wonderful, diverse repertoire. Each concert always takes place with maximum efficiency. You should now book a performance by Vladislav Kosarev in advance, because the singer has a busy schedule. He is charming, sincere and treats his admirers with genuine tenderness. The singer’s amazing baritone is natural both when performing classical operas, operettas, musicals, and Russian folk songs. More about Vladislav Kosarev can be found on his official website.

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Vladislav sings about love, tender, touching, eternal, and this feeling resonates with the souls of the audience. Proof of this is the sold-out crowds at his concerts at the Philharmonic.

— You captivated the Petrozavodsk audience at your first concert in December. Women look at you with undisguised adoration. How difficult is it to keep the mark every time?

— I am happy to hear that my songs, which are very dear to me, resonate with women's souls. As a matter of fact, this is why I go on stage. I do not pursue any insidious goals to please the women who come to my concerts. I'm just singing!

I was once asked the question: “What is the most difficult thing in your profession?” So, the most difficult thing is to go on stage and sing better than last time.

— On stage you are incredibly charming and you probably know it. Are you deliberately charming or does it come naturally?

— When I go on stage, I feel sincere love for every person who sits in the audience. If this is not the case, then there is no point in going out and singing. I think I truly live and am truly happy only on stage when I feel unity with the audience. So, perhaps, charm arises naturally.

—Have you ever walked away to the sound of your heels?

- (laughs)There was no such thing that I was greeted with ominous silence or rotten tomatoes. One of the reasons why I came onto the scene quite late is that I am very self-critical. It took me a long time to decide to sing. Unfortunately, there are a lot of mediocre singers on stage now, I didn’t want to be one of them.

—Where does the sympathy for folk songs come from? You sing pop and military songs, but folk songs predominate...

— It does not dominate, but it occupies a very large place. Probably because I am a Russian person. I also saw a time when weddings in villages lasted for several days, they did not walk with a tape recorder - they all just sang together “Oh, it’s not evening”, “The fog is fierce”, “Loach over the water”, “Unharness your horses, boys”...

I have very strong impressions of my grandmother, who was a unique Russian woman. She survived both the occupation and the post-war devastation, raised her family, helped her children and grandchildren. My grandmother taught German at school, but all her life she ran a Russian song club at the same time. She knew huge amount Russian folk songs, including songs with pagan roots. She knew all the verses in “Khas-Bulat the Daring” and “If I Had Golden Mountains”, and there are countless of them - she knew everything! I absorbed this spirit, somehow indescribable in words, from her. The grandmother said shortly before her death: “Children, when you bury me, don’t cry, don’t. Just sing Russian songs."

— So it turns out there were singers in your family?

— There were no professionals. It’s just that everyone in the family, especially on the maternal side, sang very well. My father has an amazing lyric-dramatic tenor. When we gather at the same table, you can’t hear me - he drowns out my voice twice. My father worked at the factory all his life, going from a machine operator to a shop manager. The hands are huge! And he could become a very good singer.

Father is always watching Youtube , what recordings from concerts have appeared. Sometimes he sits and cries at concerts. This is very touching.

— Once upon a time, the legendary soloist of our Philharmonic Sirkka Rikka performed with the program “Songs of the Peoples of the World”: she sang folk songs different countries in original languages. Have you ever had an idea to make a program of this kind?

— To be honest, it didn’t arise. I don't think that at the moment Personally, I would be interested in this. It seems to me that it is possible to sing a folk song truly sincerely only if you grew up in the culture of this people and absorbed its spirit. If I had extra time, I would look more for ancient pagan Slavic songs, ancient church chants or Cossack songs...

You should be proud that you are Russian, be proud that you have great story And great culture, which we know ten percent at best.

- Is it really so little?

— For some reason, all over the world it is customary to be proud of their national roots. Look, the wave of interest in Celtic music has not yet passed. And how proud the Balkans are of Bregovic and Kusturica, how proud they are of being Serbs, Croats, Macedonians! And the Russians... Forgive us, we have either a tavern, or a lubok, or something strongly reminiscent of Russian folklore, but only from afar: a woman in a kokoshnik, an accordion player jumping nearby, everything sparkles - only this has nothing to do with Russian folklore.

Thank God, now there are still folk groups who live on pennies, but no matter what they support the tradition: they go on expeditions, collect things, process them, sing, and give concerts. The program “Play, Harmony!” It’s still on Channel One. But who will watch Channel One on Sunday at half past nine in the morning? Nobody. But if you come to Germany or France, then among the huge variety of television or radio channels you will definitely find several ethnic ones, where they sound their own national melodies.

And here it seems to be alive, but we are still like Ivans, who do not remember their kinship. That's why I really love traveling around Russia and singing with Russian orchestras. folk instruments. Surprisingly, while receiving meager money, these orchestras live and are in very good professional uniform. With us, as always, everything is based on enthusiasm.

— How was it working with the Onego orchestra?

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- Amazing. The second time I felt more confident, as if I had arrived among my own people. Gennady Ivanovich Mironov is a completely unique person, a storehouse of optimism, love of life, and jokes. Stories. And at the same time, he is an amazing professional: everything that concerns the orchestra, his conducting work is impeccable. And it’s nice to work with professionals - you learn a lot from them.

-Can you get excited about a romance if the melody is not very moving, but the text is wonderful?

— You know, there has never been such a thing in my practice that I closed my ears to intonations that went against the word. I initially choose things for my repertoire that have left a mark on my soul. It happens like this: I hear a song, I walk around and suffer - I have to sing it. There is a lot of good music, but I don’t sing it - not because it’s bad, but because it’s not close to me. It’s like in life: you communicate with people close to you, but there are a huge number of nice people with whom relationships don’t work out. It’s the same with works, they are also alive.

— Is there a song in your repertoire that you could consider as your portrait?

— There will be several of them: “Beauty Queen”, “Nocturne” by Babajanyan, “What does love know about love”, “Woman in the window”, “I’ll go outside”, “Oh, it’s not evening”, “Yes, a tree is blooming in the garden” . This is the combination.

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The work of a journalist constantly brings surprises and discoveries. Alas, until recently the name of this artist meant nothing to me. It turns out that he is a regular participant in the “Romance of Romance” program on the “Culture” TV channel. Our fellow countryman, from Smolensk. Thank you, knowledgeable people They advised me to find it on the Internet and look at Kosarev’s records. I found it and advise you: “Thank you” - a song from the repertoire of Muslim Magomayev. One of the strongest and most difficult in terms of performance. I don’t hide my admiration for Kosarev. Questions about the artist’s viability disappeared by themselves, but others appeared: why do we know so little about him?
He has been living in Moscow for 18 years. Graduate Russian Academy music named after the Gnessins. In demand. Bright, pathetic and quite strict repertoire. On March 8, Vladislav Kosarev gives a solo concert in the Glinka Hall, so he spent several days in advance in Smolensk, rehearsing with the Smolensk Russian Folk Orchestra named after V.P. Dubrovsky. After one of the rehearsals we managed to talk...

About the repertoire
– There are a lot of songs in my repertoire Soviet era. It is clear that they were all written several decades ago, but they do not age! “Thank you” and “Nocturne” by Arno Babajanyan, “Old Maple” by Alexandra Pakhmutova, “Dark Night” by Nikita Bogoslovsky - these songs live in any generation, at any time, under any political system! Because there is something very real, honest, deep, sincere in them. Something that is missing in many modern songs. There are a lot of songs being written now - different ones, for any audience, but will they live at least in five years? big question! And the songs of the Soviet era are classics. If we can ever return to the same level of pop music and song culture, it will be a great happiness!
I'm currently looking for quality popular music. Which, on the one hand, would be modern and in tune beginning of XXI century, on the other hand, it would not be vulgar and primitive. Because it is impossible to sing Babajanyan and some low-grade modern “masterpiece” in the same concert. Unfortunately, there are few songs like my “Family”, “Peter and Fevronia”, and they are not used in great demand on the radio.
Any music, including popular music, can be of high quality or low quality. The question is what emotions it evokes in a sane person with good taste. What's going on with this man, with his inner world? After all, any music either inspires, creates, or destroys.
What do I like about modern songwriters? I would name the songs that Igor Matvienko writes for “Lube” - maybe not all, but nevertheless. It's interesting, deep, sincere. This is something to be proud of. Oleg Gazmanov has good songs, from Igor Krutoy.

About the great ones
– Favorite composers of the Soviet era? There are a lot of them! Babajanyan, Ptichkin, Pakhmutova, Bogoslovsky, Dunaevsky, Ostrovsky, Fradkin... It’s easier to say who you don’t like, although, probably, there are none!.. (laughs)
If we talk about my favorite performers, then this is, of course, Andrei Mironov - I admire him as an artist and as a singer. For me, he is an example of how to approach the performance of songs in principle. It doesn’t matter what kind of voice he had, it doesn’t matter what kind of hearing he has, the important thing is that when a person took on a song, he first created an image-idea, and then embodied it. This is why he is valuable. Nowadays there are a huge number of singers whom my professor called “sound blowers.” For them, the process of singing is primarily physiological. It may even be beautiful singing, but it is absolutely unspiritualized. As you understand, I like other performers. Name it? Among ours are Muslim Magomaev, Georg Ots, Yuri Gulyaev, Eduard Khil, Lyudmila Zykina, Olga Voronets, Lyudmila Gurchenko. From foreign countries - Tom Jones, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Freddie Mercury, Klaus Meine (the one from the Scorpions), Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman...

About motivation
– What motivates you to sing? Essentially two factors. Yes, I love to sing. I love getting on stage and connecting with people through art. Tell them stories, live them with them. This is the first thing. As long as people come to my concerts, I will go on stage. Second, most important. There are situations when you don’t want to sing, but you have to sing. At such moments, I remember the most important thing about my profession, why I adore it. Do you know why? When I go out into the hall at the beginning of the concert, I see a huge number of different people. Each of them has their own life, their own joys and sorrows, most of them are unfamiliar with each other... And when the second part ends, I see that people have become something united and, most importantly, they have completely different eyes - joyful , happy! I don’t take this personally – this is all the great power of art! It is for this miracle that we all come to concert hall. And this is what motivates me in any situation! IN difficult moment I just remember the eyes of my viewers!..

About personal life
– I always avoid the topic of personal life – in any interview. I always answer: “I’m married to the stage.” Not because I strive to maintain some kind of mystery, to be desired by everyone - no, I don’t use such tricks. Personal life is private to be with a person, but not to become public knowledge. Personal relationships are a difficult topic, especially for an artist, so in principle I don’t discuss it. Never.

About patriotism
– In Soviet song culture there were, let’s say, very strange essays- insincere, pretentious, official... But there were also works filled with love for the native land! There is very little of this in modern songs... I can now remember the amazing song that Igor Matvienko wrote: “I’ll go out into the field with a horse at night.” Do you remember what the last lines are? “I’m in love with you, Russia, I’m in love!” What else has been written like this over the past 20 years? What songs can you remember and say: “And I’m Russian! And I’m proud of it!”
I really want us Russians to have as many reasons to be proud as possible. And so that we, Smolensk residents, do not forget that our native land- this is the birthplace of Mikhail Glinka, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Nikulin, Eduard Khil!..

About roots
– My successes are primarily the work of my parents and teachers. I studied at the 8th music school on Sokolovsky Street. At school already for many years There is a boys' choir led by Gennady Aleksandrovich Barykin. This is a selfless person, an ascetic. For several decades now, he has been gathering Smolensk boys around him, raising them, instilling in them a taste for real music...
Then there was the Smolensk Music College named after Glinka. At that time, it was, in my opinion, one of the best and strongest in the country. Look how the fates of the graduates turned out. I entered the Gnesinka, Denis Kirpanev, who is now conducting symphony orchestra, also entered the Gnesinka, Andrei Stebenkov graduated from the conducting department and entered the Moscow Conservatory. A huge number of children entered the Saratov Conservatory... The Smolensk Music College provided the strongest school that accompanies me throughout my life. And this is the merit of Lyudmila Borisovna Zaitseva, who is still working; Nina Pavlovna Popova, Tatyana Gavrilovna Romanova, Natalia Petrovna Demyanova, Nikolai Egorovich Pisarenko... Any artist, and I am no exception, is always the result of collective work, it is the result of team work in the broadest sense of the word. Starting from parents and teachers to producers and administrators.
So it all started in Smolensk. Moreover, this is not only a musical basis, but also a human one. We were not only given a craft, we were also raised as people, as individuals. They instilled in us a taste for good music and good painting - they made us cultured people.

About the concert on March 8
– We are holding a concert, striving to ensure that every woman who comes to the Philharmonic hall comes out happy. We will sing about love in a variety of genres: Russian romance, folk song, Soviet and foreign pop music of the 20th century. All evening on the Philharmonic stage only classics will be played - classics chamber music, pop classic.

About the orchestra
– I have known Maestro Stepanov for a long time, this is our fourth joint concert, and I never cease to be amazed by his energy and skill. He is a man who is passionate about his work - the orchestra, music, who works in difficult conditions (we all know how much our state employees - musicians, teachers, doctors) earn...
Every time I come to my homeland, I rejoice: the traditions laid down by Dubrovsky are not only not lost, but strengthened! They live, and the folk instruments orchestra is one of the leading ensembles of our Philharmonic and, perhaps, of Russia as a whole. I tour a lot, work with various orchestras, including Russian folk orchestras... The Smolensk Orchestra has every right to be proud of itself, its professional level, its magnificent maestro!

About the holiday
– Congratulations to all readers of your newspaper on March 8! On this day you will be told a lot of things, and I join the good and kind words. On my own behalf, I would like to wish that the wonderful men who are next to you remember that you need to be surrounded by care and pleased with gifts more than one day a year! And not two. Or at least 364!

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SONGS OF THE HEART

- Vladislav, is the name of the program not accidental?
- Nothing is accidental. All my songs are addressed to my listener, no matter what age - whether he is young, mature or has entered a more mature age. In my program, each of them will find something consonant with their soul, will hear something intimate.
-Are you nervous before a performance?
- Am I worried? No. This is something different. I got used to the stage: I was on it from the age of six, and started as a student at a children's music school in my native Smolensk. The main thing is to go out to people with a warm heart, to sincerely love those for whom you sing - each and every one. I admit, I have my own little secret: before the start of the concert, I quietly watch the audience entering the hall, and mentally, with my eyes, I say hello to everyone, and then I go out into the hall to the people I already know - nice, intelligent people, and others don’t go to the Philharmonic!
- Do you know that most of your listeners are women?
- Well! I think that I embody not the worst male images on stage.

The concert program of two parts includes more than twenty numbers, designed for a wide variety of tastes - Russian romances, folk songs, Soviet and foreign pop music of the 20th century. There is an elegant romance, not without ironic coquetry, “But I still love you!”, and the daring tunes of “Along the Piterskaya” with “Peddlers”, and emotional, captivating compositions by Arno Babajanyan from the repertoire of Muslim Magomayev - one of his favorites singers Vladislav, and soulful melodies of Soviet and foreign pop music of the last century, popular among the people.

In total, Kosarev has more than seven programs for the folk orchestra, and in the artist’s general “reserve” there are over four hundred works ready for performance in his permanent “asset”. And now the audience has emotionally connected to the singer. Applauds gratefully. Chants "bravo". He claps his hands to the beat. Explodes with delight and, finally, at the singer’s request, sings along with him... Admiring spectators rush to the stage with flowers and gifts, trying to express their personal words of recognition to him.

Do you charge your listeners with your powerful energy so much that it apparently takes a long time to restore it? Do you have any rules of conduct on the day of the concert?
- Yes, sure. I try to somehow concentrate, be alone, and, of course, no fuss and unbridled fun on this day, in order to go out to people with a pure, warm heart, full of love for those for whom I will sing. Remember how in Bulat Okudzhava’s song? “I will set my heart on love.” And then, looking into the hall, communicate with them through song, interact with both the stalls and the balcony, without bypassing anyone with your attention.

I want to know everything about my idol. And Vladislav Kosarev for six years of his solo career became an idol for his listeners. I will not hide the fact that I have been one of the artist’s admirers since I became acquainted with his work and heard his unique baritone - warm, soft, full-sounding, with enveloping velvet lows and noble, pure notes of the upper register. This is not just a top-class professional, he is a very bright and sincere person - both in his creativity and in his attitude towards people.
Vladislav Kosarev has a very clean and honest biography. Music school and college in his native Smolensk, the famous Russian Gnessin Academy of Music, graduated with honors in 2001, and then - successful work as a conductor in the Moscow male chamber choir "Peresvet", a prestigious award - first prize at the First International Competition of Choral Conductors named after A. Yurlova. But it is human nature to dream. And Vladislav dreamed of solo singing and fulfilled his dream, one day turning to face the audience, and since then, for the seventh season, he has been singing and enjoying full recognition from his listeners. The artist’s solo career was crowned with two high awards - the Order of Faith. Hope. Love" and the golden order "Service to Art". I would like to know how he fuels his creativity, what leisure activities he prefers...

Vladislav admits how important unity with nature is for him, without which he cannot sing. He is ready to communicate with nature in any weather and at any time of the year. Especially close to him native nature The Smolensk region, with which his childhood and adolescence are connected. In the Moscow region, which is not far from his native place, the smell of the earth is completely different, the energy is different, and the herbs are not the same. And Vladislav is fond of collecting medicinal herbs, of which he knows many: among them - medicinal yarrow, universal St. John's wort, fragrant meadowsweet, rare for Russian places heather... All of them not only soothe and heal, but also return to carefree and happy time childhood, and this state is necessary for creativity.

When in the summer, on a fine day, you wander across a field, you again feel like a child who is open to the whole world and does as he wants at that moment - rejoices, cries, screams. I need this pure spontaneity, which helps me find myself again and put myself together,” Kosarev admits. - On a rainy day, it’s good to just climb into a tent and immerse yourself in reading one of your favorite writers - Turgenev, Leskov, Kuprin, Chekhov. I’m not talking about Pushkin: that goes without saying. I can’t imagine my life without communication with nature.
- I’m curious, does the profession of a conductor somehow influence your current activities? Does it help?
- I think no knowledge in life is superfluous. For example, I immediately realized what a magnificent and amazing orchestra in Novosibirsk I had to sing with! I had heard before from fellow musicians about the high professional level of the Russian Academic in your city, and now I had the honor of singing with him. This is such a joy! Sometimes it hurts me to hear some disdain for the populists: what can these button accordions and balalaikas do!.. But this is not about your orchestra, which can work with both classical and pop music, and generally afford a lot! Sometimes you can play pranks and play pranks! Chief conductor of the orchestra, maestro Vladimir Polikarpovich Gusev - People's Artist Russia, a musician with high taste and understanding, and I am not surprised that in your city they love the orchestra so much and go to it, which is very rare. And I was especially pleased to work with such a group and a conductor of such a class, to understand that we have a common goal with him: so that a person leaves the concert with a feeling of celebration in his soul. I think we succeeded together.
- Magomayev is your idol, are there any other favorite singers?
- Yes, of course, and there are many of them. Among foreigners, I love the high vocals of the Italians Titta Ruffo, Tito Gobbi, Lauri Volpi. By the way, unfortunately, I haven’t gotten around to Lauri Volpi’s magnificent book “Vocal Parallels” yet. And how many wonderful voices are there in Russian history? opera school!.. I love pop singers the Soviet period of our country, when they valued real, soulful song, which was understandable to the people and deeply loved. These are Yuri Gulyaev, Mark Bernes, Evgeny Martynov, Anna German, Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Pyotr Leshchenko, Georg Ots... There were many of them in the history of the national stage, then they worked professionally and with a genuine love for the song genre, which now, unfortunately, is not the case, as There are no composers of the same level as there were in Soviet times.
- But where did you listen to all these songs? Many of your peers prefer something completely different!
- My parents loved these songs, and they were constantly played at home. Yes, and a music school in in the right direction developed my taste, taught me to distinguish good from bad.
- I had a chance to hear several wartime songs performed by you. They all sound with such warmth, so convincingly that they cannot help but excite. How do you tune yourself into the right wave?
- And I don’t need to tune myself to the right wave. For me, the past war is part of the history of my country, which also affected my family: my grandfather fought and experienced all the sorrows of war and the hard-won happiness of victory. And when I sing the great songs “Enemies burned my home,” “Katyusha,” “We haven’t been home for a long time,” “In the dugout” and other songs from the front, I always remember my grandfather...
- Family values important to you?
- Undoubtedly. Yes, and my participation in events, dedicated to the Day family, love and fidelity are direct confirmation of this.
- Your zodiac sign is Sagittarius, and these people, as a rule, are avid travelers. Are you one of them?
- Who doesn’t like to travel?.. But over the years of my work as a conductor, I have traveled to so many countries during tours, and home country remained unknown, now I’m catching up. I travel around the country with such pleasure and curiosity, never ceasing to be amazed at its vastness, diversity and beauty!
-You are so popular that social networks There are even communities of your friends and fans on VKontakte and Facebook. Do you communicate with them?
- These groups live an independent life, independent of me and my creativity.
- Vladislav, both your profession and the environment in which you have to move give rise to difficult relationships, sometimes give unnecessary negativity, and spoil your mood. How do you maintain cheerfulness and a good attitude?
- I know how to abstract myself and disconnect from everything unpleasant, get away from the negative - otherwise I won’t have enough nerves - and tune myself to joy. My life philosophy- be happy, no matter what, and enjoy life!
- Is there politics in your life?
- Everyone in life needs to be engaged professionally – including politics. My profession is to sing, and may God grant me to do my job well!
-What is the soul for you?
- The soul is a real substance, and its place is in our heart, which is why it hurts, and worries, and is torn to pieces from grief or happiness.
- It is human nature not to stop there. In your genre, you have reached, as they say, the ceiling. Over time, your voice noticeably gains even greater strength, flight, beauty and perfection of sound; great potential is hidden in it. Have you ever thought about opera?
- Opera is my love and my secret passion. And I am working in this direction - I study with an experienced teacher, learn opera parts, and master the bel canto technique. So anything is possible. As they say, never say never. And I don’t rule out an opera career for myself in the future.
- With your thorough approach to any business, I have no doubt about success in your new field. Have you heard that we will soon see you as one of the hosts of your favorite program “Romance of Romance”?
- Well, this is a one-time project for a New Year’s program, where I will be one of the four presenters.
- Your attitude to the recent project “ Creative schools“Art Workshops” through the Foundation for Social and Cultural Initiatives, which is headed by Svetlana Medvedeva, with a trip to Plyos, Ivanovo region, where you, together with the singer Yan Osin, gave master classes to Ivanovsky students music school ?
- Well, it’s a good thing to help young people, and these are not really master classes, rather just conversations at professional themes, answers to questions, advice, consultations. All future musicians really need this, we need to cultivate such useful initiatives more widely.
- You stood up to face the audience six years ago - this is the time when your solo career began. Do you remember that first feeling on stage in a new role for you?
- Yes, I remember very well. It was a feeling of happiness, euphoria and a wonderful flight.
- What else makes you happy?
- The eyes of my audience after the concert.
- What about “stardom”? Do you feel it?
Vladislav laughs. And this laughter contains everything: the awareness of his power over the hearts of the audience, and the modesty characteristic of the singer, which does not allow him to admit it, and the completely understandable joy of life and accomplished creativity.
Margarita DANILOVA,
member of the Union of Journalists of Russia
Photo by Maya VOYCHENKO and Sergei YASYUKEVICH

On March 8, Smolensk residents are waiting for a big festive concert of Vladislav Kosarev,
a baritone of rare beauty and strength, an artist of rare stage charm.

Vladislav Kosarev does not perform in Smolensk very often, but he is our fellow countryman!..
The career of a musician is developing quite successfully, but at home, how is it
It often happens that his talent has not received due recognition. I think
It’s time for Smolensk residents not only to recognize the wonderful artist by sight, but also
be proud of his origins. After all, everyone who has heard OUR
Kosareva will agree: his performance does not leave you indifferent!
"Smolenskaya Gazeta" presents to your attention exclusive interview singer,
prepared by art critic Natalya Krasilnikova (online version).

Every journalist has heroes who become part of him
fate. When you grow into the personality of the person you are writing about so much that
The boundaries between profession and life are blurring. Singer Vladislav Kosarev for
I am one of these heroes. Why is art so captivating and captivating?
Vladislav? A voice of rare, amazing beauty? Yes, no doubt. But
there are certainly singers with more beautiful voices! Dramatic
skill? And this is true, but today singers without acting talent simply cannot
survive in the music market! I think the Kosarev phenomenon is
the inexhaustible LIGHT of the SOUL, which flows from his eyes, saturates the timbre
his voices and his whole stage presence. After the concerts Vl. Kosareva
and communication with him, the world is seen through different eyes, and you begin to understand that
There is always a way out – even from the most seemingly hopeless situations.
What a powerful charge of positive energy one must have in order to give birth
light at the end of the tunnel! Honestly, I don’t know the artist’s praise higher
this one! Vladislav Kosarev – Personality. He is smart, deep, extraordinary
companion. I am sure that the Smolensk listeners, who are rightfully proud,
that this unique artist is their fellow countryman will be interesting and useful
Kosarev's reflections on life and creativity.

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- Vladislav, you are the winner of the First international competition choral
conductors named after Alexander Yurlov. I haven't found it anywhere
detailed information about this competition. Meanwhile, this is the start of your
careers. Can you tell us more about the competition?
- The competition was held in Yekaterinburg in 2001. I was finishing
assistant internship at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music and
For a year now he has been working as a choirmaster in the Peresvet men's chamber choir. I have
there was, one might say, a fighting feeling that was not fully realized: in
In 1999, while studying in my fifth year at Gnesinka, I went to a choir competition
conductors to the city of Salavat in Bashkortostan and received a II degree diploma.
However, I wanted more. The competition named after Yurlov had a traditional
structure and took place in three rounds: the first – conducting; second – work
with choir; the third is a concert performance of the play with a choir, with whom we
worked in the second round. For me, this competition is interesting because
for the first time in the history of the competition choral conductors first places
shared by graduates of the same educational institution - RAM named after
Gnesins. The Grand Prix was awarded to Alexander Solovyov, who was then working
choirmaster in the Chamber Choir of Vladimir Minin (now he is the conductor
Bolshoi Theater), and the first prize is yours truly. Sasha and I
studied in Gnesinka with one professor - Vladimir Onufrievich Semenyuk.
At the Yurlov competition, I worked with the chamber choir “Lik” of the city of Yekaterinburg. I
conducted “Spring” by Rachmaninov, “On the Ship” by Taneyev, and in the third round
– one number from Rachmaninov’s “Liturgy”. Chairman of the jury in
Vladimir Nikolaevich Minin was in Yekaterinburg, and it was he who gave me
1st prize laureate diploma. Victory at the Yurlov competition gave me
opportunity to become a conductor of the Peresvet choir after a year of working there
choirmaster.

Be an artist
- How important is the assessment of people around you?
both your creativity and your personal qualities?
- There is a circle of people whose opinion is extremely important to me. These are my parents
teachers, close friends and some of my viewers. I value it very much
the trust of the audience who constantly go to my concerts in anticipation
something new, interesting, waiting for a miracle. But to say that I
I track information about myself on the Internet - in particular,
blog posts, comments on social networks - I can’t. I try to live
according to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, he, in my opinion, gave a universal
advice: “By the command of God, O Muse, be obedient! Without fear of offense, not
demanding a crown, accept praise and slander indifferently and do not challenge the fool!”
As for assessing my personal qualities, I again
I focus on a group of people whose opinions are very important to me. I
I am not an antisocial person and, it seems to me, I do not violate
generally accepted moral standards. I do what I think is necessary and I live like that
as I think is correct.

- By the way, about the rules! Recently in one of the TV programs I heard:
“The most terrible things on the planet happen because people
follow the rules." How do you feel about RULES?
- I fundamentally disagree with this statement! Violating certain
rules, going against their conscience, people create for themselves and those around them
a huge number of problems. I believe that the question is not whether
people follow the rules, but what they are generally guided by when doing certain
other actions. According to my observations, people commit a huge amount
unseemly, often vile, actions precisely because there is no
They DO NOT FOLLOW the rules, but live without any moral guidelines.

- What impulses do you need for creativity - besides women, of course?
- I try to find these impulses in all manifestations of life - even in
the most, at first glance, everyday ones. It could be watching a cat,
a terrible hooligan living in my house; rustle of leaves; casual glance
strangers on the street; a fragment of some phrase that I accidentally saw
over the shoulder of a man reading on the subway. Usually while walking around
on the street or on the subway, you try to take a break from work, and then
such unexpected impulses, on the contrary, make you want to immerse yourself in
creativity with renewed vigor! I try to constantly expand the spectrum
sources of your inspiration. I recently rewatched it again
film "Three Poplars on Plyushchikha". For several weeks now I have
the eyes of Oleg Efremov when his hero sits in the Volga,
leaning your elbows on the steering wheel... In this look is the Universe, it’s GENIUS!!!
Now I often remember this scene when I work on the Soviet
pop repertoire.

- In the interview you talk quite a lot about your self-criticism.
At the same time, on Radio Petersburg, answering host Natalya Zavyalova,
you literally said the following: “I’m a terrible Samoyed!” What do you think
the difference between self-criticism and self-criticism?
- It’s very simple - a self-critical person does not have to be a Samoyed:
he can see both positive and negative own
traits and outline effective ways to correct shortcomings. Samoyed
busy with eternal self-abasement, searching for qualities that he can and
not to be. At the same time, he mainly blames himself for all the troubles in the world. This
destructive to the individual. It is very difficult for Samoyeds to survive in our
reality, so I believe that with such manifestations a person
must fight. Speaking about myself, in the first years of my solo career
I was hampered by my self-criticism, but gradually I overcame it.

- What personality type do you think artists are at risk of star fever?
- People who were disliked in childhood and who, for various reasons,
feel like second-class citizens. Then as compensation
“star fever” arises as a way of false self-affirmation. I am this
I say based on my own observations: life gave me meetings with
real titans - Svyatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich,
Sergei Skripka and many other Creators. They are extremely simple and
natural because they don’t have to prove anything to anyone. Personality on
the stage is always visible - even if it is a student. I believe that “stardom” is
It’s a kind of disorder when you elevate yourself to the rank of an idol, an idol.

- In one of the conversations, in response to my question: “What quality do you value most in
people? you answered: “Cheerfulness.” But capable of cheerfulness
be a scoundrel. Moreover, according to my observations, scoundrels are often
very charming. How to differentiate?
- I don’t think that a scoundrel is capable of being a cheerful person! He is deprived
the gift of loving life, the world, people, he is basically incapable of being open
and sincere. How can he enjoy life if by his actions and
is he showing hatred towards her??

Minkov's masterpiece
- In the summer of 2013, “Culture” showed “Romance of Romance”, dedicated to
in memory of Mark Minkov. You performed Minkov's composition based on Evgeniy's poems
Yevtushenko “Listening to Solveig’s song.” I think this is one of the most
your significant creative victories of recent times. You can find out
the history of the appearance of Minkov's masterpiece - Yevtushenko in your repertoire?
- The editor-in-chief of “Romance of Romance” Alla Sergeevna Goncharova called me
and offered to perform this thing. She said that the song is practically not
is known, although at one time it was sung by Muslim Magomayev and Lev Leshchenko. At
When preparing new material, I never listen to recordings of other singers and
I don’t watch videos so as not to absorb other people’s intonations. I looked at the notes
“Solveig” and realized that I was sick of this composition! The song is not complicated
vocally, but emotionally and figuratively: in three minutes you need to be able to convey
turn from life to death. While working on the song, I wondered:
WHAT can pierce a person so that death loses its
horror? And I found the answer: only conviction, unshakable faith that our departure to
the other world is not the end. In the song Minkova is very clear event sequence:
the man lies and dies. Remember the very first words: “I’m lying with my eyes closed,
in a deserted room. And the pain is the bitterest, and the pain is the sweetest..."
The hero's pain is so terrible that it becomes sweet! And next to it is another
a world where there are pine trees, where the sun is, where there is life, light, love. "Solveig's Song"
Griga, in my opinion, in this case becomes the voice of an angel, a saving
thread for the hero. A man is on the verge of death: he is devastated,
exhausted, sick. And a miracle happens that pushes this darkness away from him and
brings him back to life. It seems to me that Grieg’s “Song of Solveig” itself
He cannot have such power for himself. Only Will can become this force
God, revealed through some event. In the finale (“When I die - and
after all, I will die, but I will die: that’s how it will have to be!”) I didn’t hear
hopelessness and doom. The hero matures to understand: it’s not scary
leaving this life when you know that there is another world where there is no
pain and suffering, where you will be accepted and forgiven!

Fame and luxury
- I once heard from Dmitry Dibrov that human life in modern
world is based on four pillars: success, fame, money, luxury. Which
What content do you put into each of these concepts? To what extent each
are they meaningful to you?
- Of these concepts, only one is valuable to me – LUXURY. I'm investing in it
the meaning that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry spoke about: “The only luxury is
it’s the luxury of human interaction.” MONEY is just a tool for me,
allowing you to solve various life and creative problems. Money to a person
come, as a rule, when he does his job professionally and efficiently
case. I understand that my view is somewhat idealistic, and many would
They argued with me - especially in our country! Unfortunately, we are far from
always people who do their job masterfully receive what they deserve for it
reward. This is especially noticeable, alas, in the spheres of culture, medicine and
education. SUCCESS for me is an integral part of what you do
something very necessary, important and meaningful for people. For me the concept
“success” is somewhat synonymous with the concept of “in demand.” In the end,
Only the person himself can evaluate whether he is successful or not. Both me and you
we probably know people who live in luxury houses, go to
prestigious foreign cars, relax in five-star hotels... But if such
a person gets up in the morning with the thought that he will have to go back to his unloved job,
Even if it brings in a solid income, can it be considered successful? WITH
from the point of view of society - most likely, yes. From my point of view -
definitely not. Such a person does not experience JOY that is impossible
buy for money. I am convinced that joy is born when a person
busy with what he loves and communicates with like-minded people. Recently I
I read from one psychologist: “Joy is a byproduct of the right
organized activities" I think it's brilliant! I would do the same
spoke about success. As for FAME, again, for me it is not a goal, but
consequence. When people need your creativity - with one
sides; on the other hand, the quality of your musical product will be
modern and in in the best sense commercial - then fame will come. This is in
ideal. Although I often see that fame does not always come to true
gifted and worthy people.

- Admit it honestly: you’re never annoyed that you don’t have the media exposure
which some artists less talented than you have?
- What does media have to do with it? Only one thing is important to me: most of my concerts
is sold out. And I also have a goal that I am moving towards. This is the only thing for me
matters!

SAMPO TV story about the concert of Baritons of the 21st century 05.26.14 Petrozavodsk. Karelia.

– Vladislav, when did you realize that you wanted to make music?
“I always wanted this, I just didn’t think it would become my profession.” I have a very musical family; my parents worked at a factory all their lives, but when they came home, my mother would start humming something. Thank God, she is alive, and, despite her serious age, her voice has retained its beauty and brightness. And grandma is in village club led a Russian song circle.

June 19, 2015 | I sing what I believe in

- In one of your interviews, you said that since childhood you grew up listening to the works of Soviet baritones, whom your mother listened to, and Western ones, whom your father listened to. Were your parents somehow connected with the artistic environment?

My parents worked at the factory all their lives, but they loved music very much. And everyone in my family sang and sings. When we all get together, Dad’s powerful voice drowns everyone out. He has a gorgeous dramatic tenor.

June 19, 2015 | I sing what I believe in

- In Orel you are performing a military program.

The topic of war is special, and this is very responsible. As a child, I sang the songs “Victory Day”, “In the Dugout”, “In the Sunny Meadow” with my grandfather Georgy Andreevich Labuzov.

June 27, 2014 |

- Judging by your appearance, you also had aristocrats in your family.
- We all came out of the people.
- Are there no Cossack ancestors listed?
- I wish there were! Recently I became interested in the history of the Cossacks. Trotsky wrote: “Cossacks are the only class of the Russian people capable of self-realization. That is why they must be destroyed." I remember the phrase attributed to Napoleon: “Give me two hundred Cossacks, and I will conquer the whole world.”

June 27, 2014 | Today we need to sing better than yesterday

- How do you feel about Cossack songs?
- I am a Russian person in spirit. Love for folk songs passed on from my grandmother. In our Smolensk region, she led a Russian song club. She gathered not old women, but young girls, dressed them up in Russian costumes and learned with them spring chants, ritual songs, including Cossack songs. Compared to the Russians, they are completely different. Drawing, drill... They have intonation, rhythm... The spirit itself Cossack song it just knocks you down. Slowly I began to include them in my repertoire. I experiment, do stylization, achieve a modern sound, but without pop... Unfortunately, people who feel the spirit of the song are engaged in folk culture not to show off your kokoshnik or playfully twirl your skirt, not so much. In Moscow, for example, every year an interesting festival “Ethnosphere” is held, which attracts jazz, rock musicians, and modern folk singers. In my opinion, this is a very interesting and promising project.

March 5, 2014 | Meet baritone Vladislav Kosarev!

January 7, 2014 | Singing means flying!

Life is like a song

To be honest, I don’t remember the first time I started singing. But I definitely remember that I was born... and everyone around me was already singing! My grandmother sang all her life, led a Russian song club at the village school, heard many war songs from my grandfather, my mother adored the work of Magomayev, Ots, Khil, Gulyaev... At the age of 6, he first appeared on the stage of a village club, where the whole family organized big concert, sang lines from “Cruiser Aurora” and... experienced an incomparable feeling of happiness, flight... it’s hard to explain! And immediately after this “incident” my mother took me to music school. There was a wonderful boys' choir led by Gennady Barykin! In this choir we performed many songs from Alexandra Pakhmutova’s cycle “Gagarin’s Constellation”. Many years have passed and I sang the same songs in Saratov in 2011 at festive concert dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight! Alexandra Nikolaevna herself was sitting at the piano, and Nikolai Dobronravov was standing in the wings... This is how interesting life is.

November 6, 2013 | I want to find my composer

– Do you dedicate your concerts to anyone? For example, songs of the war years?

All my concerts are dedicated to my audience! As for military songs... My solo activity began with them. I first heard many of them from my grandfather. He was one of the very significant people in my life, a person from whom I learned a lot...

When I’m preparing for a concert where I sing war songs, it’s very important for me to remember my grandfather, his stories about the war, his intonations... Watching a movie about the war is one thing, but communicating with a person who was there and knows the value of every word in a war song , is completely different.

February 22, 2013 | You just have to be honest. On stage and in life

- Did you ever have a moment when you fully felt like a real singer?
- Yes, I remember it very well. I was six years old, and our entire large family was organizing a concert in a village club. I went on stage for the first time, sang and... it seemed to me that wings grew behind my back!
I also remember very well my first solo concert, which took place in May 2009 at the Moscow cultural center "Harmony". Together with the accordion player, I performed songs of the war years for war veterans. For me, Victory Day is a holy holiday. My grandfather went to the front as a very young boy, and after the end of the war he fought with Bandera in Western Ukraine for a year and a half. I first heard almost all the military songs that I perform now in my concerts from him, and... not just heard. My soul is imprinted with the feelings and emotions of a man who went through all the hell of the Great Patriotic War. Four years ago, at my concert, there were people in the hall who, like my grandfather, knew about the war firsthand. And when I saw that they believed me, I realized that I had the right to go on stage.

March 13, 2012 | What does Love know about Love?

- So it turns out that there were singers in your family?
- There were no professionals. It’s just that everyone in the family, especially on the maternal side, sang very well. My father has an amazing lyric-dramatic tenor. When we gather at the same table, you can’t hear me - he drowns out my voice twice. My father worked at the factory all his life, he went from a machine operator to a shop manager. The hands are huge! And he could become a very good singer.