BAYAN AND ACCORDION DEPARTMENT

MIKHAIL VOLCHKOV

Position: Teacher of the Bayan and Accordion Department
Education: Belarusian State Academy of Music (2020, accordion class of N.I.Sevryukov), Master’s degree at the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts (2022, scientific supervisor – V.V.Starikova).
Courses taught: Special instrument (bayan).


Born on August 28, 1996 in Mogilev (Republic of Belarus).
Since February 2023, he has been teaching at the Bayan and Accordion Department (part-time).

Laureate of international and republican competitions in the field of performing arts, including: “Vogtland Music Days in Klingenthal” (2011), “World Cup of Bayan and Accordion” (2018, in the ensemble category), “CIS Cup” (2018, 2019), “Cup of the North” (2021), “EURASIA – III” (2019), “XII Delphic Games of the CIS” (2017), “Australian International Bayan and Accordion Championship” (2020) and many others (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Germany, Slovakia, etc.), as well as competitions of students’ research works.

Participant of the XXVIII International Festival “Bayan and Bayan Players” (2016, Moscow (Russia) and the International Project of Masters of Instrumental Music “LIRA-FEST” (2023, Belarus). Laureate of the International Music Award of the Eurasian Economic Union “BELBRAND AWARD” (2020). Recipient of the Gratitude of the President of the Republic of Belarus (2020).

Laureate and winner of the Grand Prize (2011, 2017, 2019), scholarship holder (2009, 2012) and winner of the incentive award (2007, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2020) of the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for Support of the Talented Youth. Scholarship holder of the Special Fund of the President of the Republic of Belarus for Social Support of Gifted Students (2019).

Author of articles in peer-reviewed scientific publications, collections and journals, electronic publications of local and remote access, materials of scientific conferences, abstracts of reports (over 15).

Author of a number of reports at republican and international research and practice conferences in Belarus and Russia (over 15).
Master’s thesis: Bayan and accordion performance in Belarus in the field of show business (Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts, Minsk, 2022).

He conducts active creative work at various concert venues in the country, including within the walls of the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society, solo, with chamber and symphony orchestras under the direction of V.Bortnovsky, and organizes original projects. His concert repertoire includes works of different styles and eras, original music written for the bayan, original compositions, pop-jazz transcriptions and arrangements, and transcriptions of piano opuses.

For active and fruitful performing activities and achieved successes, he was awarded the Gratitude of the Rector of the Belarusian State Academy of Music (2019, 2020).
In 2018, he completed an internship at the Conservatory of Music “Giuseppe Tartini” (Trieste, Italy; accordion class of K.Royats).
The musician’s creative achievements are covered in the print and electronic media of Belarus, and are also reflected in various national television and radio programs.

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