(KZN.RU,
April 27, Mikhail Chentsov). The grand opening of the Igor Krutoy Academy of
Popular Music, located at the street Kamaleev, 28/9, was held in Kazan today.
Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of the Tatarstan’s capital, and the maestro himself
became the main guests of the ceremony. The management of the Academy conducted
a tour special for them to educational classes and halls, where about 100 young
talents are already being brought up.
The Igor
Krutoy Academy of Popular Music is only the second branch of a similar Academy
in Moscow, which operates from 2015 (the first one is opened in Yaroslavl).
Training in the Kazan branch takes place in such areas as vocal, modern
choreography, acting skills, the school of television, blogging, and much more.
All the teachers of the Kazan Academy work on the Moscow system and teaching
methods, among which, for example, Mariya Semenova, an Honored Artist of the
RT. In addition, such significant annual events as the contest “Children's New
Wave”, the festival “Christmas Song of the Year”, qualifying rounds of the
“Junior Eurovision”, the “Children's Song of the Year”, and many others are
held under the auspices of the Academy.
Ilsur
Metshin and Igor Krutoy looked into the music and choreographic hall where they
classes were held, and also talked with the teaching staff. The People's Artist
of the Russian Federation gladly taught talented Kazan children some simple
lessons and shared with the teachers some of the secrets of his work. In
communication with the children, the maestro noted that he very much wants each
of the students of the Academy to get to the children's “New Wave” and
Eurovision. I. Krutoy congratulated the teachers and the children with the
beginning of the school's work, noting that the most important thing in
creative activity is the concern. “If each of you will burn with desire, if the
teachers will try to make you feel artistic or musically self-confident, then
we have not gathered in vain. And the leadership of the city in the person of
Ilsur Metshin will help. What happens in Kazan is impossible to imagine in any
other city. Here is some special attitude towards the Motherland, patriotism,
and people”, he said.
I. Metshin
warmly thanked I. Krutoy, noting that the friendship between Kazan and the
maestro accounts years and a lot of remarkably realized projects but this
project is a special one. I. Krutoy acted as producer of the opening and
closing ceremonies of the Universiade in Kazan, and also took part in the
development of the scenario for the show “Pilgrim” during the FINA in 2015. “I
believe that our children will conquer the best scenes of the world with their
strong beautiful voices and glorify Kazan and Tatarstan, and soon even Russia.
I believe in you, I love you very much and I am proud that there are such
wonderful children in our city”, said the Mayor.
At the end
of the opening ceremony, Elena Gorodetskaya, the director of the Kazan branch
of the Academy, offered the guests of honor not to cut the ribbon as it is in
tradition, but, on the contrary, to tie it as a sign of a lasting friendship
that is born between two schools: the academies of Moscow and Kazan. After the
symbolic ritual, I. Krutoy, along with the young Kazan citizens and their
teachers performed one of the most famous and beautiful his songs “Guardian
Angel”.
Rustem
Gafarov, the head of the Sovetsky district’s administration, Azat Abzalov, the
head of the Department of Culture, and others also took part in the event.