Ensemble of violinists "viola. The specifics of working with an ensemble of violinists in the music school

Performance of the ensemble "Viola" in Krasnoyarsk at the ensemble competitionand orchestral music 2011

Characteristic creative activity Violin Ensemble "Viola" MBOU DOD Karatuz Children's Art School

The Viola Children's Violin Ensemble was formed on September 01, 2003. From the day of formation to the present day, this team has been led by a violin teacher Galina Igorevna Krotkova. The Violin Ensemble is a unique group of its kind that promotes high classical art near.To date, it two groups: the ensemble of the senior classes "Viola" and the ensemble lower grades"Firefly", which fruitfully function and actively develop.

Currently, 19 people are involved in the ensemble: 7 children from 13 to 15 years old - senior group; 12 children from 7 to 12 years old - junior group And preparatory group.In addition to the children, the mother of one of the participants, Kassina O.O., also plays in the Viola ensemble. Former graduates of the school continue to work in the team with joy and great enthusiasm. Three graduates of the ensemble graduated from the School of Arts, successfully studying at the Krasnoyarsk College of Arts. P.I. Ivanov-Radkevich, majoring in orchestral string instruments, violin and viola. The very first graduate of the ensemble, having successfully graduated from the Krasnoyarsk College of Arts named after P.I. Ivanov-Radkevich, is currently studying at the Krasnoyarsk Academy of Music and Theater in the viola class, in the summer of 2009, as part of an ensemble of violinists and violists, she participated in International Festival held in Japan in 2010 at a music festival held in Scotland.

Ensemble "Viola" is a bright close-knit team. Children treat each other with respect and care. Over the years of joint creativity, they have developed such qualities as communication, mutual assistance. They take their work seriously and responsibly. G.I. Krotkova leads active work on the formation of personal, social, family culture of students. Spiritual and moral conversations, class hours on various moral and ethical topics are regularly held with students. Cultural Level children grow every year, they learn to listen, understand and love classical music, develop Creative skills children, the range of interests is expanding, many children have become more active, more organized, children are very fond of playing in an ensemble, an atmosphere of friendship and mutual understanding reigns in the team, thanks to the talent and organizational skills of the teacher, children's interest in classes is constantly maintained, so they master such a complex instrument as a violin with passion and joy. The leader achieved interesting results using such a type of group technology as work in mixed age groups. The younger ones learn from the older ones, acquire practical skills, the older ones take care of the younger ones, are responsible for educating them in certain qualities, developing skills and abilities.

Thanks to the grant won in 2010, a set of violins of different sizes was purchased and now the ensemble members play good, high-quality instruments from the company “ Yamaha".

As the leader of the creative team, Galina Igorevna is very enthusiastically active, trying to develop teams in the musical, technical, artistic and aesthetic areas.The repertoire of students is built primarily on the development of the gaming apparatus, the emotional qualities of the child, his inner world. coming Full time job over updating the repertoire, interesting arrangement of works, ideological performing and artistic level.

The repertoire of the ensemble "Viola" is diverse, includes classical music by ancient composers, works large form, plays by contemporary authors, works in pop style, arrangements folk music. GI Krotkova makes arrangements of works for the violin ensemble, composes adapted editions of textbook works, composes parts for the second and third violins. A large database of phonograms written purposefully for this group has been accumulated, which allows us to significantly expand the repertoire through the use of modern technical capabilities.

In 2010, Galina Igorevna and her team took part in the implementation of the project "Music Academy on Wheels", organized with the support of the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, within the framework of which 2 concerts of the violin ensembles of the Minusinsk music school "Crescendo" were held (headed by Zhernakova O. O., conc. Kolesnikova I. S.) and the Karatuz Children's Art School "Viola" (headed by Krotkova G. I., cons. Matveeva V. A.). April 28 in with. Karatuzskoye and on May 4 in Minusinsk, these performances were held with great success among the audience. Each ensemble prepared a program of 5-7 pieces, as well as 2 pieces dedicated to the 65th anniversary Great Victory, were performed jointly by two ensembles. The collaboration has been very beneficial psychological climate in children's groups. They met and became friends with each other, inspired by the work of their peers, expanded their musical horizons. The implementation of this project received a wide positive response from the residents of the Karatuz region: an article in the newspaper “Amazed by Talent”, gratitude from the regional Council of Veterans. This event forms moral and aesthetic values ​​in a growing personality, brings up an active life position, raises the prestige of education in music school, contributes to the development of the educational process, sustainable interest in ensemble music-making, as well as vocational guidance students.

The violin ensemble "Viola" is actively working in the cultural and educational direction, which is widely known not only in our region, but also beyond its borders. The activities of the ensemble and its leader were repeatedly covered in the local, regional press and on regional television. Concerts of classical music, in which the violinists of the ensemble participate, musical drawing rooms, where children learn about the life and work of composers, have become traditional. musical instruments, there are class hours with watching videos and listening to musical masterpieces classical music, annual events - "Dedication to Violinists", "Etude Festival", solo concerts of gifted students and much more.

TO various activities and holidays, Galina Igorevna develops unusual and interesting scenarios, which brings to life together with his ensemble. As part of the school philharmonic, the teacher conducted a series of lectures-concerts on violin music for students general education schools, musical tales presented to kindergarten students.

Since 2006, G.I. Krotkova developed and implemented a socio-cultural project: a festival of children's musical art « Classical music in Tayats. This festival is held annually and is a reporting concert of the ensemble of violinists and its soloists. It is very popular among the villagers, and the hall is always filled with people who want to get in touch with classical music.

Galina Igorevna and her team actively participate in regional events held in the region: “Help go to study”, “On the paths of good”, “Thank you grandfather for the Victory”, arrange charity concerts for disabled children, veterans of war and labor, low-income segments of the population. Violin Ensemble "Viola" is a frequent and welcome guest at rural events and concerts, such as, " Christmas trees”, “Women's Day on March 8”, “Victory Day”, “June 1 - Children's Day”, “Day of the Elderly”, “Mother's Day”, and many others. Every year violinists participate in the event, dedicated to the Day In memory of Hero of Russia Ivan Kropochev. Violin students provide musical support in school and district rounds of the Student of the Year competition.

The ensemble "Viola" has undoubtedly become a kind of "visiting card" of our village. Systematic training and a responsible attitude to work allow the team to achieve high results in creativity. The guys adequately represent their creativity in various concerts, festivals and show good results in district, zonal, regional, interregional, republican competitions.

year 2009

Violin Ensemble Diploma for successful performance in the Zonal qualifying round Regional competition of ensemble and orchestral music.

Diploma to the violin ensemble "Viola" for participation in district festival"Stars of the Amylye", held as part of All-Russian festival"Salute of Victory".

A letter of thanks to the ensemble of violinists "Firefly" for participation in the regional festival "Stars of the Amylye", held as part of the All-Russian festival "Salute of Victory".

2010

Laureate Diploma II degrees Leshcheva Sofia in the open regional competition violinists and cellists Young talents 2010".

A letter of thanks from Daria Kassin for her successful performance in the open regional competition of violinists and cellists "Young Talents 2010".

A letter of thanks to Ekaterina Krotkov for her successful performance in the open regional competition of violinists and cellists "Young Talents 2010".

Laureate Diploma III degree to the violin ensemble "Viola" in the regional festival "Stars of the Amylye".

2011

Laureate Diploma II degree to the ensemble of senior violinists in the regional competition of ensemble and orchestral music "Young Talents 2011".

A letter of thanks to the ensemble of junior violinists for the successful performance in the regional competition of ensemble and orchestral music "Young Talents 2011".

Diploma for successful performance in the nomination "Ensembles string instruments» in the Krasnoyarsk Interregional Festival-Competition of Ensemble and Orchestral Music 2011.

Laureate Diploma II degree to the violin ensemble "Viola" in the republican competition of ensemble and orchestral music in 2011.

year 2012

Laureate Diploma I degrees to the violin ensemble VII

Laureate Diploma II degrees Leshcheva Sofia VII district festival "Stars of the Amyl region".

Diploma III place Kassina Daria in the regional violin competition "Young Talents 2012".

Diploma II place Leshcheva Sofia in the regional violin competition "Young Talents 2012".

A letter of thanks to Kassina Darya for her successful performance at the Krasnoyarsk Interregional Festival-Competition of Young Performers named after N.L. Tulunina - 2012.

A letter of thanks to Sofia Leshcheva for her successful performance at the Krasnoyarsk Interregional Festival-Competition of Young Performers named after N.L. Tulunina - 2012.

year 2013

Diploma to the ensemble of violinists of the Karatuzskoye Children's School of Art for successful performance in the Krasnoyarsk interregional festival-competition of ensemble and orchestral music in 2013.

For the active participation of the team in the life of the village and the district, a great contribution to the development of culture, active participation in the preparation and implementation of joint cultural projects, high-quality training of laureates and diplomats of regional, regional and interregional competitions, the team and leader were awarded diplomas and letters of thanks.

Director of MBOU DOD

Karatuz Children's Art SchoolT.P. Somov

Many years ago, the director of the music school Abram Anisimovich Gershkov gathered around him a group of violinists. Through the efforts of six enthusiasts, the ensemble was born. The ideological organizer and inspirer was Abram Anisimovich - a man of amazing fate and surprisingly kind soul, whose name went down in the history of the city. He was then 60 years old, but the energies of the musician-organizer could be envied by the young!

An honorary citizen of the city of Birobidzhan led the team from the first days of its creation for 30 years Semyon Naumovich Groysman , whose intelligence, human kindness, combined with the highest exactingness, determined long years face of the ensemble, its repertoire. This energetic man was not stopped by the inexperience of the participants, nor the skepticism of outsiders. He was able to understand and love his violinists, was not afraid of difficulties, and success came. Semyon Naumovich created such working conditions in the team that all the participants, studying in the ensemble, received sincere emotional satisfaction, communication and, most importantly, an increase in the level of playing the violin. Semyon Groysman focused on the performance classical works for a professional sound. But, in fact, professionals who graduated from secondary and higher educational establishments, there were few in the ensemble.

« Why did we decide to play together?- Semyon Naumovich said in one of his conversations with journalists. - The fact is that many of us grew up in Birobidzhan, went to music school together. But childhood passed, we grew up, chose professions to our liking. And suddenly it turned out that we retained our passion for the violin. First one, then the other took it out of secluded place touched the strings with a bow. Anxiety arose in my heart. One day we met and decided to try to play together. There were six of us. After work, on weekends they gathered, recalled the lessons of the music school, rehearsed. And they got carried away ... Sometimes I myself am amazed at the enthusiasm of my comrades. After work, not sparing the weekend, they come to rehearsals. And one has only to touch the strings - they disappear, their personal worries, life's difficulties go somewhere. Musicians are born, knights of the violin, knights of the beautiful muse... And when you see their inspired faces, you hear soft, quiet voices, you want to live! I want to be productive!»

Who are they, the former first members of the ensemble? This Felix Abramovich Gershkov, Semyon Iosifovich Weinberg, Emmira Iosifovna Knyazhevskaya, Evgeny Borisovich Volkomirsky, Lev Mierovich Finkel.

They rehearsed for several months, and February 23, 1964 performed for the first time at a gala evening in honor of the anniversary Soviet army. This date is considered the official birthday of the Birobidzhan violin ensemble.

First big success came to the members of the ensemble in 1967. For successful performance at the city, regional, regional and zonal reviews amateur performances, the ensemble was awarded the title of Laureate of the All-Union Review and was awarded a medal for the performance of the works "Poem" by Phoebech and "Dance" by Jenkinson.

Years of fruitful work have passed. The ensemble grew, achieved new successes. The performing style, character was determined. The team demonstrates high professionalism, sensitive mutual understanding, good ensemble technique. In 1973 in musical accompaniment ensemble of violinists (arrangement of national melodies, creation of potpourri) was successfully staged by the folk Jewish theater based on the play by Sholom Aleichem "Stempenu". And for a number of years the ensemble took an active part in the work on musical arrangement new theatrical performances, worked closely with the staff of the folk choir. In 1976 for creative achievements The Ministry of Culture of the RSFSR awarded the ensemble title "People's amateur group" .

The real success came to the ensemble in 1977. In 1976-1977. took place I All-Union Festival of Amateur Folk Art where the ensemble was awarded the title of Laureate. In the summer of 1977, the ensemble was invited to Moscow to participate in demonstration performances Laureates of the All-Union Festival. For two weeks, while in Moscow, the ensemble performed in front of the workers of factories and factories. Firma "Melody" recorded the ensemble on a disc . The result of the Moscow trip was participation in a concert in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Since then, the ensemble has become the winner of various competitions many times.

A creative stimulus for musicians is tours, the routes of which are very diverse: Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Siberia, the People's Republic of China, Khabarovsk Territory, Amur region, Primorye. In the hearts of the artists, unforgettable meetings with fellow countrymen, iridescent receptions from the inhabitants of the entire Far East remained.

Once upon a time, in 1981, a clarinetist was invited to the ensemble Mikhail Chervits . The introduction of clarinet sounds gave individual works brightness, brilliance of intonation, musical expressiveness. After the departure of S. Groysman to Israel, he not only led the ensemble, but also created wonderful arrangements of diverse musical works for the ensemble. Some of the brightest are "Klezmore Melodies", "Merry Tailor". The ensemble's repertoire became more diverse in terms of timbre, and in the 1980s it was replenished with Jewish music. The first work was "Fantasy on Jewish Themes" by Semyon Nepomniachtchi. At that time he was the artistic director of the Philharmonic. He specially wrote this work for the group, which is still performed by violinists. Since that moment, Jewish melodies have become the basis of the repertoire.

Violin Ensemble only for a year younger than the Palace culture.

On the third floor of the Palace, on one of the doors, there is a modest sign "Violin Ensemble". This is the holy of holies of the collective - the place of its weekly gatherings, rehearsals.

Numerous testimonies of the success and popularity of amateur artists are laid out and hung on the shelves of the closet, on the walls: diplomas, certificates of honor, welcome addresses. There are so many of these diplomas that if they are awarded to graduates, perhaps they will be enough to graduate from another university. Here is the diploma of the laureate of the All-Union amateur art show dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic war. Diploma of the Presidium of the Council of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions for a great contribution to the development of culture and in connection with the 30th anniversary of the ensemble. Welcome address from the musical military band of the military unit 47062. Another interesting document: The Bolshoi Theater of the USSR awards the team folk ensemble violinists of the Palace of Culture of the city of Birobidzhan for active participation in propaganda domestic classics. And more, and more... And in the corner of the study, empty music stands are crowding, as if to say that they have just freed themselves from music and are resting.

Under the stand in the pyramid, like machine guns in a soldier's barracks - violins. Maybe this comparison is not very successful, but for the members of the ensemble, the violin is also a weapon with which they fight for the awakening of goodness and light in human souls.

Over the years, the composition of the ensemble has changed, new faces have come. Over the years, the ensemble grew, replenished with students of S. Groisman - this is a whole dynasty: S. Karbusheva, E. Volkomirsky, P. Shapov, S. Neznamova, N. Shalaeva, O. Semyonov .

Unfortunately, not all members of the ensemble are together today. Someone left the country, someone failed in health ...

Semyon Groysman, Semyon Weinberg, Leonid Korsunsky, Natalya Shalaeva, Oleg Semyonov, Victoria Fedotova, Larisa Shuster, Felix Gershkov, Evgeny Volkomirsky, Lev Finkel, Mikhail Chervits- went to Israel.

This is exactly what happens as a rule: who leaves to study, who leaves these places altogether ... And in order to just pick up and leave the ensemble - they will not remember this here. But regular (twice a week) rehearsals, concerts, trips take a lot of time, require a lot of spiritual strength. And give no return in material terms. What is it that attracts the members of the ensemble?

After the family, this is the most precious thing, the violinists unanimously say. They are connected by communication with friends, excitement and awe before each concert. This is a great friendly team of like-minded people. who, together in joy and sorrow, unanimously celebrates birthdays, others important events in the life of the members of the ensemble. Soloists changed, leaders changed, but the traditions of serving the muse remained.

In today's ensemble, the people of the most different professions, and all of them are united by one thing - love for music, love for the violin.

And, of course, most of the ensemble are women who are impossible not to admire. All of them, as if by choice, are beautiful and smart, kind, gentle, devoted to the ensemble. Becoming mothers, literally in a month or two, despite all the difficulties, they returned to the team.

Some artists have been playing in the ensemble since its foundation. This Emmira Iosifovna Knyazhevskaya , who came to the ensemble as a 19-year-old girl.

Emma got into the ensemble thanks to Semyon Groysman, who brought his young colleague to the team. And now, for 46 years, Emmira has been a constant participant in all concerts. Together with the ensemble, she traveled all over the Far East, visited Moscow.

Music gives her strength, joy, the meaning of life. Hundreds of concerts, thousands of rehearsals, and in all of them Emira Iosifovna is an indispensable participant.

Another student of S. Groysman - Peter Shapov, who has been playing first violins for 35 years. He worked as a software engineer, now he is retired, but he cannot imagine life without playing in an ensemble.

45 years in the ensemble Svetlana Neznamova - one of the first students and assistants of Semyon Groysman. At one time, S. Groysman passed the baton for training violinists for the ensemble to Svetlana, his talented student, who more than justified the hopes of her teacher, and now Svetlana Nikolaevna has a worthy dynasty of students. This Victoria Fedotova, Larisa Shuster, Evgeny Rybinok, Svetlana Sanzharova, Irina Kovalchuk, Daniil Martynenko, Ekaterina Knyazeva, Elena Moskvina, Victoria Patsyuk.

For all the time that the ensemble has been operating, Svetlana Nikolaevna is only the third "head" of violinists. She is the soul of the team, its heart.

It is customary in the ensemble to celebrate birthdays and holidays together, and the beloved leader is always the ringleader, the organizer, who does not ignore anyone, prepares a memorable gift for everyone.

Svetlana Nikolaevna calls her team a family. There are indeed many family ties in the ensemble. Several creative dynasties can also be traced.

The names of the creator and inspirer of the team Abram Gershkov and his son Felix have already been mentioned. Now they are not in the ensemble, but the spirit of talented musicians is present in the team. And the representative in the ensemble of this glorious and talented family - Felix's daughter and Abram's granddaughter - Svetlana Kuleshova (teacher of the children's music school), who since 1984 has been working as an accompanist for violinists. Her piano part is always a solid and solid foundation on which the musical building of almost every number grows.

Another dynasty Svetlana Ilyinichna Karbusheva , mother of two sons - Ilya and Vyacheslav Karbushevy, about whom we can say with confidence that they grew up in a team. For 45 years, the violin has been a permanent friend of Svetlana Ilyinichna, director of the Palace of Culture.

Ilya and Vyacheslav Karbushevy - young musicians, replacement of Mikhail Chervits - his talented students. Now Vyacheslav is the chief arranger of the works that are played today by violinists, and, of course, a great musician - a clarinetist, without whom not a single concert of the ensemble takes place.

Ilya also used to play the violin in the ensemble, he is one of the best students of Svetlana Neznamova. Now he plays the saxophone, but the feeling of affection for the ensemble lives on in him, and as a saxophonist soloist, he often takes part in violin concerts.

Student of Svetlana Neznamova - Kovalchuk Irina joined the ensemble in 1978. Fun, enthusiasm, humor are her constant companions.

The son of Irina Kovalchuk, and also a student of Svetlana Nikolaevna, he early childhood came with my mother to rehearsals. Then he began to learn to play the violin. And now - a full member of the ensemble.

Another one of the students of Svetlana Nikolaevna - Svetlana Sanzharova , the mother of two charming children, who comes with them to the rehearsal of the ensemble. Her older girl also learns the violin from the head of the ensemble. We can say that Svetlana Nikolaevna is the “grandmother” of her students.

Most kind words deserve the vocalists who have been performing together with the violin ensemble for many years:

Galina Usoltseva, Nina Gumennik, Vyacheslav Tetyuev .

Each of them has his own repertoire, which is enough for a big solo concert.

Behind last years new violinists appeared in the collective.

very young and very promising musicians, students of Svetlana Nikolaevna: Ekaterina Knyazeva, Elena Moskvina, Victoria Patsyuk .

Three years ago I joined the team Natalia Filonova . musical soul, kind, sensitive, sympathetic person.

Violin Ensemble always in search of his performing style, his repertoire. Over the years of its work, the ensemble has accumulated a huge baggage of musical works, which is constantly replenished and updated - more than 150 arrangements. And the principle of selection remains unchanged: domestic and foreign classics, Jewish melodies and songs.

Such a "bouquet" in the masterful performance of amateur musicians and soloists has an unfailing effect on any audience. Classical music is addressed to that pure and light that is deeply stored in every person, no matter how his life breaks. In the performance of the ensemble, classical works by A. Vivaldi, A. Dvorak, I. Kvanz, G. Handel, compositions contemporary composers J. Lennon, E. Dog, V. Basner, V. Zubkov, and, of course, Jewish folk music.

Jewish motifs give the ensemble individuality and national flavor. This is the brand of the team.

In 2009, the ensemble celebrated its next anniversary - 45 years. Amazing longevity, right? Not every professional team is the owner of such a biography. This is not just a date, not just an anniversary, this is the whole life of a very complex being who knew both ups and downs. which in its spiritual world inspiration, creativity, flights of fancy of composers, musicians, singers, unites the lives and destinies of people. People on stage, people in the audience.

Skillful propagandist musical culture, serving his art faithfully, with inspiration and disinterestedly.

And although there is no violin class at the music school, the group of violinists is constantly replenished with new musicians. Everyone who wants to play is accepted here. Of course, for this you need to have certain skills. Only three people have professional education, the rest, in the majority, at one time graduated from the Birobidzhan music school.

The knightly service to the violin of Birobidzhan lovers has been tested by time, tested by great devotion to art. And now we can say that the folk ensemble of violinists has reached its creative maturity.

The ensemble of violinists is a truly amateur, original and rare group. It is rightfully considered the hallmark of our city.

The team is now a fusion of experience and youth. The oldest violinist is over 60 years old, the youngest is not even 19. Older generation musicians carefully pass on their knowledge to the young. They don't need energy! You can talk a lot about each of the members of the team, they are all interesting and enthusiastic people. And everyone cannot imagine their life without each other.

Today there are 12 people in the team: 10 violinists and 2 accompanists - piano and clarinet.

These are those who form the basis of the folk ensemble of violinists, who, after their main work, go to rehearsals in the evening at the Palace of Culture, prepare concert program, performs in the city, goes on tour, carries the beauty that we call art.

Music at all times united people of all kinds - this is its strength!

If music sounds in your soul, regardless of age, if of all sounds the sounds of the violin disturb you, excite you the most, then you are a friend of the folk ensemble of violinists of the city Palace of Culture in Birobidzhan.

Artists will take the stage strictly and solemnly,

in dark suits and floor-length dresses.

The instruments will splash with goldfish, flying up to the chins,

the strings will tremble under the almost invisible bows, and the lovely sound of the violin will flow ...

And the music will play. The violin will cry, the clarinet will gently echo it ...

Music! Do you hear? The music flows. And you stand frozen and not breathing.

In you, all the best feelings are awakened, your soul is filled with delight.

You listen and listen to these sounds, and the music is getting more beautiful and louder ...

Obediently move the bows of the hands - our ensemble of violinists is playing!

Works from the repertoire of the Violin Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theater.

The idea of ​​creating this illustrious ensemble belonged to the concertmaster of the orchestra Bolshoi Theater Yuli Markovich Reentovich, who led the ensemble from 1956 until his death in 1982. The Violin Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theater was created at the end of 1955, and its first public performance took place on February 25, 1956, and this date is considered his birthday.

“The first steps of the violin ensemble,” Dmitri Shostakovich wrote prophetically at the time, “convince us that the future of this ensemble is excellent, and it will take a prominent place in the construction of Soviet musical culture.”

Reentovich was not a great composer. Nor was he a great violinist, laureate of international and all sorts of competitions.

His name is not even in the all-knowing Wikipedia!
And there is not a single video recording of the performances of the once famous Violin Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theater, the founder and permanent leader of which he was.
There are only a few scanty lines of biography, and stories about his team in an article dedicated to the violinist of the ensemble and his follower Marta Kushnirskaya

These few lines fit the biography of this most talented master:
Julius Markovich Reentovich, violinist.

Born November 12, 1914 in Tambov. Father - violinist and teacher Mark Naumovich Reentovich, a student of Leopold Auer.
In 1931 he graduated from the Tambov Musical Institute in the violin class of Professor M.N. Reentovich.
In 1931-1935 he improved in Moscow with Abram Ilyich Yampolsky.
Since 1931 - artist, since 1952 - concertmaster of the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra.
From 1956 - artistic director the Violin Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theater organized by him.
From 1976 - National artist RSFSR. Not even the USSR.
And that's it.
But inside these short biographical lines - a whole life.

Phoebech "Poem"

But what a mark this man left on earth, if even 30 years after his death he is remembered with gratitude and admiration, they are looking for records of the performances of his team - and, as it turned out, many are looking for! And until they lose their pulse, they rejoice when they still find it.
And then they download them to themselves and listen, listen, listen...

Rachmaninov "Vocalise"

Professor T. Dokshitzer:

“Yuliy Markovich did not notice the little things, took care of everyone, was responsible for everyone and did everything for everyone. He did not seem to be hindered by the difficulties and inconveniences of touring life. He overcame the organizational troubles that sometimes arose before the concert, calmly, quietly, extinguished his irritable reaction and turned a smile and encouraging words to people. His enormous human charm in life and on the stage with equal force acted on those around him and on the audience.

Schubert "Ave Maria"

David Oistrakh wrote about this ensemble in the following way:

“Of course, all its participants and, first of all, the head of the ensemble, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Yuli Reentovich, talented musician with exceptional artistic taste, are high class violinists for whom there seem to be no technical or sonic difficulties. Only with such a rare unity of music and performing technique could such an amazing and such a wonderful ensemble have arisen.

Shostakovich. Romance from the movie "Gadfly".

The ensemble was really amazing and wonderful.
It was the first and only classical professional ensemble in the Union of 17 violinists who played accompanied by a piano, without a conductor and without notes - they played their parts by heart, nevertheless all the violins sounded in sync. And from this divine music, so piercingly penetratingly performed by his ensemble, one wants to cry - but not because it is bad, but because some kind of catharsis occurs, and the soul begins to sound in unison with these harmoniously and lightly singing violins

Rimsky-Korsakov "Flight of the Bumblebee".

There were no works specially written for the violin ensemble, and there was no corresponding repertoire - and best composers Soviet Union created arrangements of classical works specifically for this group, and also wrote music specifically for it. Among them are such names as G. Rozhdestvensky, G. Zaborov, L. Feigin, A. Gurfinkel, R. Shchedrin, A. Khachaturian, E. Svetlanov, M. Chulaki.

glitch. Melody from the Opera "Orpheus and Eurydice"

During its existence, he gave more than two thousand concerts, performed in many cities and almost all the republics of the Soviet Union, in the virgin lands of Kazakhstan, Altai, and Siberia.
Listeners from twenty countries of the world also had the opportunity to hear this extraordinary ensemble.

Bach. "Ave Maria" G. Oleynichenko sings.

Firm "Melody" has released more than 100 records with his recordings. And the happy owners of these rarities are now looking for ways to digitize them.

The team often performed on radio and television, dubbed films, accompanied the performances of many outstanding artists of our country.

Tariverdiev. "Do not disappear".

It was not an ensemble "for the musical elite" - they performed at plants and factories, collective farms and state farms, military units and student clubs. Artists did not take into account the inconvenience, and when there was no real scene, played on an impromptu.

The team gave a lot and charity concerts especially at the start of your business.

Dvorak. "Melody"

From stories about the band's performances

In the suburbs of Novosibirsk, I had to play in one of the workers' clubs in an unheated room.
The actors came out in tailcoats and dresses, their fingers were freezing.
In the front rows of the hall were grandmothers in white kerchiefs, in the last row - men with bottles: noise, din ...
Reentovich ordered to play "Ave Maria" by Schubert.
At some point, sobs were heard from the front rows. When the last sounds of music ceased, they saw in last row men with still unopened bottles in their hands, they seemed to be speechless.
A few seconds of complete silence, and an explosion of applause with shouts of “Great! Let's!"
“That's what makes life worth living,” summed up Reentovich.

And in London, the performance took place in one of the best concert halls.
It was full, but the musicians were surprised by the presence of the police.
Before the artists had time to take their places on the stage and raise their violins, young guys rose from the first three rows with banners in their hands: “Get out to your Russia ...” The police did not interfere.
“Stand with your violins raised,” Reentovich ordered.
And so they stood for 15 minutes, while the public itself dealt with the "rebels". In the end most managed to be escorted out of the hall, and the rest rolled up the banners and sat down to listen.
The concert was a great success, and it was noticed that it was these first rows who applauded especially zealously.

Chopin. "Sadness".

The press of different countries also pleasantly struck with unanimity.

Characteristic was the publication in the Dutch newspaper De Telegraf:
The Violin Ensemble of the Bolshoi Theater is a team of a new musical form, which does not exist anywhere in the world... It should be noted that the arrangements of the entire performed program were flawless, and the brilliant performance by seventeen violins resembled one violin. This concert, without a doubt, was a real event for the West.
Alas, nothing lasts forever under the moon.
In 1982, Reentovich dies, two years before his seventieth birthday.
The ensemble, having lost its authoritative leader, began to disintegrate, and in 1984 it ceased to exist.

Text from various sources.