Igor Manko

Igor Manko () (born June 11 1963, Krasnodar, is a Soviet and Russian choirmaster.
Biography
Igor Manko was born June 11, 1963 in Krasnodar. He spent his childhood in the Severskaya village.
From 7 years, started making music in the class piano. After finishing music school in the Severskaya, in 1979 - 1983-s he was studied in Krasnodar College of Music, which he graduated in the class "choral conducting". After serving in the army in 1985 in a Moscow Conservatory (class choral conducting), from which he graduated in 1990 at the professor Ermakova Lyudmila Vladimirovna. Concert activity began at age 12. With the children's choir participated in concerts and festivals, including regional TV. While studying at the College and Conservatory Igor Manko has participated in concerts and touring choir of students, including those at the festival Carl Orff in Leipzig in 1988 year. In 1989, 1990 and 1991 he trained at the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart as well as the conductor of a symphony orchestra, performing at the festival «Europäisches Musikfest Stuttgart».
Creativity
In 1991-1993 he worked in the Great Russian State Television and Radio Choir. Since 1993 he has been working as a choir director and actor in the theater Novaya Opera. During his artistic career, Igor Manko has worked with many distinguished conductors, singers and musicians, such as Yevgeny Kolobov, Evgeny Svetlanov, Dmitry Khvorostovsky, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Nikolay Baskov. During the work on the musical «Tomorrowland» collaborated with composer Andrew J. White, producer Charles Stevens, artists Andrey Egorov, Alexander Pyatkova and others. He also took part in performances with ballet numbers in the "Polovtsian dance" and "Carmina Burana" with the Gediminas Taranda and in the play "O Mozart, Mozart!“ Vladimir Vasiliev. In the theater, Novaya Opera Theatre from 1993, he took part in all the productions of the theater. As the choir worked on operas: "Dido and Aeneas" by Purcell, "The Magic Flute" by Mozart, “La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi, "Lohengrin" by Wagner, etc. In 2010, he worked as choirmaster at the project Dmitry Malikov "Simfomaniya", which for 45 days, artists have traveled all over France. Igor Manko performed in such famous venues as the Carnegie Hall, Every Fisher Hall, Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, Big and Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Moscow House of Music, and many others.
Public activities
Member of the Working Group on Culture Moscow City Duma, board member of the international non-governmental organization promoting the conservation Russian Another lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation]</ref>, an active leader of the trade union of workers of theaters in Moscow.
Discography
Audio CD:
# - Cantata for choir and orchestra "St. John of Damascus", op. 1 (also known as "A Russian Requiem"), Sergei Taneyev
# - Opera Eugene Onegin, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
# - Requiem, Giuseppe Verdi
# - Choir of the Moscow theater Novaya Opera
Video DVD:
# - Opera , Pyotr Tchaikovsky
# - Opera Rigoletto, Giuseppe Verdi
# - «Bravissimo!»
Recognition and Awards
* 1998 - the opera Eugene Onegin, in which creation Igor Manko participated as a choir master and actor, won the National Theatre Festival Award "Golden Mask»

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