Sergey ILYIN is a Russian guitarist, composer, president of St-Petersburg's guitar society.

He was born in 1961 in St-Petersburg. He began to play guitar when he was 12 years old, but his study of classical guitar dated back only when he was a student of Aviation Instrument-making Academy. He graduated from this Academy as radio engineer. But music become most important in his life. So Sergey attended the University of Music Art. Vladimir Krylow and Valentin Popov were his teachers of classic guitar. Having got music education Sergey became a professional musician.

He performed concerts as classic guitarist and also has concerts as author and singer. He make records on the Radio and TV broadcasting. He make recordings of LPs and CDs like soloist and in ensembles with singers and actors. He is a participant of different music festivals, jury member of many music and guitar competitions.

From 1989 he has become the President of guitar society of St-Petersburg, one of the most active guitar organisations in Russia. This society organises seminars, competitions, master-classes, philharmonic concerts of the best Russian and foreign guitarists.

Sergey also held the cycle of radio program "History of classic guitar" at the St-Petersburg's "Radio-Classic"(more than 100 programs), lead a TV-circle of guitar accompaniment. Now lead a radio cycle “Atlantes keeps the sky” about history of Petersburg’s bards songs. Starting from the beginning of the 90-th years he co-operates with different musical editions as an author, editor and arrangement-maker.

The first experiments of composer's work were referred to the time of learning in University of Music Art. After the first period of mastering "classical" composers' techniques, he studied the problem of modes system for a long time. He was working about creating his own new system of music modes. Lately he uses this system in his compositions. This system is so called "non octave modes". Also he use his own computer program (algorithmic generation of modes selections) in the process of compiling of music material. The last time he comes back to more traditional stile in composition.

The most part of his compositions is the music for guitar, for guitar with ensemble, two concerts for guitar with orchestra (“Tribute to Petersburg” and “Island of Dreams”(suite)) and a great number of guitar arrangements. Also had a several transcriptions for guitar with orchestra from a classical musical repertoire. His music widely performed and published in Russia and another countries.

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emerged with recitals or like soloist with orchestra in Petersburg, Moscow, Minsk, Kiev, Nijniy Nowgorod, Kishinev, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Tambow, Kazan, Saratow, Krasnodar, Appatity and many another cities of Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Austria etc.

Took part in Festivals of classical guitar in Petersburg (repeated laureate), Moscow (laureate), emerged as a soloist and conducted seminars on festivals in Minsk, Chelyabinsk, Donetsk, Poltava, Ekaterinburg, Moscow, Homel and others, was a member a jury of contests of classical guitar and in others genres (Chelyabinsk, Petersburg).

Contributed like a guitarist, arrangemnt-maker and (or) performer with many composers - Vladislav Uspensky, Vladimir Tsytovich, Vadim Rywkin, Vladimir Gurkow and others. Amongst record - solo and with ancemble on Radio, TV, albums - "Russian Romance" with Agnia Grunberg, "Melodeclamations" with Igor Dmitriew and Leonid Eremin, "Pensive Clarinet" with Sergey Tint, David Goloshekin and others, "Shades Past" with Natalya Krasnoyarskaya, “Shade, Shade” with Boris Ponomarenko, “The Meeting Nevskiy with Neva” with Teodor Galperin, “Silver Light” with Swetlana Wetrowa etc., solo albums - "Villansico" and "In an Hour Will be an Autumn" and other.

Big organisational work in Petersburg - tours of Russian and foreign performers, annual town contest, concert cycles in the small and Philharmonic halls, masterclasses, meeting, concerto dedicated 80th birthday by John Duarte etc. The First in Petersburg begin conduct lectures-concertos on histories of classical guitar.

At a last time - constant leading concerto’s of Petersburg club of guitarists. Emerges with lectures on problems of instrument, strategy of play and teaching, histories of music. Professor of St-Petersburg University of Culture.

The most interesting publishing works (as an author, arrangement-maker, compiler or editor): "Sing Bards", "14 Songs by Victor Tsoi" ("Music"), "Guitar an Encore" ("Fallow Deer"), "Sherbur’s Umbrellas" by M .Legrane, "Fun" by J. S. Bach, "Petersburgs Offort" and "Visionary" by Youry Smirnov ("Composer"), "Petersburg Chord" ("Fallow Deer") and others. Author of materials for the journal "Guitarist" and newspaper articles. Member of professional Alliance of Writers With-Petersburg.

At last time actively contributes to the genre poetical melodeclamation with Igor Dmitriev, in the genre literary-musical show - with Leonid Mozgovoi.