Yakov Kazyansky

Yakov Kazyansky was born on 30 August 1948 in Kuybyshev, USSR (today Samara, Russia), but grew up in Yaroslavl, where his family settled when he was 8 months old.{{cite web | url=http://www.sevkray.ru/news/7/50832/ | title=Антиреалист Казьянский и его религия }} He graduated from the L. V. Sobinov Yaroslavl Music School in 1967 with a degree in musical theory, and further gained a degree in musicology from the Gnessin Moscow State Musical-Pedagogical Institute in 1972.{{cite web | url=https://yarwiki.ru/article/2040/kazyanskij-yakov-lazarevich | title=КАЗЬЯНСКИЙ Яков Лазаревич }}

He taught musical theory at his alma mater in Yaroslavl from 1972 to 1985, when he moved to the position of director of the musical section of the Yaroslavl Theatre for Young Spectators, working as a compositor at the same time.{{cite web | url=https://yarwiki.ru/article/2040/kazyanskij-yakov-lazarevich | title=КАЗЬЯНСКИЙ Яков Лазаревич }} In 1987 he adapted Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar for the Soviet stage, with the first performance of the musical in the USSR taking place in Rybinsk in December 1989, followed by performances at the Young Spectators' Theatre in Yaroslavl.{{cite web | url=https://www.rybinsknote.ru/2019/12/30/v-yaroslavle-otmetili-30-letie-rossijskoj-premery-rok-opery-iisus-xristos-superzvezda/ | title=В Ярославле отметили 30-летие российской премьеры рок-оперы "Иисус Христос — суперзвезда" | date=30 December 2019 }}{{cite news | url=https://www.yar.kp.ru/daily/26324/3206150/ | title=В России рок-оперу «Иисус Христос Суперзвезда» впервые увидели в Рыбинске | newspaper=Yar.kp.ru - | date=24 December 2014 | last1=Зайцева | first1=Елена }}{{cite web | url=https://life.ru/p/916157 | title=Как "Иисуса Христа — суперзвезду" ставили в Рыбинске в 1989 году | date=14 October 2016 }}{{cite web | url=https://yarwiki.ru/article/2040/kazyanskij-yakov-lazarevich | title=КАЗЬЯНСКИЙ Яков Лазаревич }} From 2000 he also held the position of musical director at the Yaroslavl Puppet Theatre.{{cite web | url=https://yarwiki.ru/article/2040/kazyanskij-yakov-lazarevich | title=КАЗЬЯНСКИЙ Яков Лазаревич }}

Works with his music have been staged in several cities in Russia. On top of these stage activities he has also adapted Jewish traditional songs and, as a jazz pianist, he has performed at several festivals.{{cite web | url=https://yarwiki.ru/article/2040/kazyanskij-yakov-lazarevich | title=КАЗЬЯНСКИЙ Яков Лазаревич }} In 2021 he performed at the 10th edition of the Prostokvashino Rally, a Russian-language festival in the USA.{{cite web | url=https://prostokvashinonc.com/guests10/ | title=Гости слёта 10 | date=2 January 2023 }}

Kazyansky has two daughters, who live in the United States with their husbands. In a 2007 interview Kazyansky stated that he nevertheless preferred to remain in Russia.{{citation|url=http://www.unost-yar.ru/index.php?page=text&text=07-35-149s|periodical=Yunost|issue=35|last=Kostishina|first=Elizabeta|date=5 September 2007|access-date=17 March 2008|title=Яков Казьянский: "Не надо делать из искусства официантку"}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

• F. G. Volkov prize, for the music for the spectacle "Evening of Russian vaudevilles" (1994){{cite web | url=https://yarwiki.ru/article/2040/kazyanskij-yakov-lazarevich | title=КАЗЬЯНСКИЙ Яков Лазаревич }}
• Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation (1994){{cite web | url=https://yarwiki.ru/article/2040/kazyanskij-yakov-lazarevich | title=КАЗЬЯНСКИЙ Яков Лазаревич }}
• L. B. Sobinov prize, for his opera (based on a work by Samuil Marshak) "The Cat's House" (1995){{cite web | url=https://yarwiki.ru/article/2040/kazyanskij-yakov-lazarevich | title=КАЗЬЯНСКИЙ Яков Лазаревич }}

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• [http://www.kazyansky.com/Yakov%20Kazyansky%20-%20Ballade.mp3 Ballad] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225153/http://www.kazyansky.com/Yakov%20Kazyansky%20-%20Ballade.mp3 |date=27 September 2007 }} from the television movie New Year’s Adventures
• [http://kazyansky.com/Y.Kazyansky%20-%20Monkey.mp3 Composition Monkey] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225131/http://kazyansky.com/Y.Kazyansky%20-%20Monkey.mp3 |date=27 September 2007 }} from the television movie New Year’s Adventures
• [http://kazyansky.com/Yakov%20Kazyansky%20-%20Dedicated%20to%20Billy%20Tailor.mp3 Dedicated to Billy Taylor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927225224/http://kazyansky.com/Yakov%20Kazyansky%20-%20Dedicated%20to%20Billy%20Tailor.mp3 |date=27 September 2007 }} jazz composition by Ya.Kazyansky (piano part – Ya.Kazyansky)

• [http://www.kazyansky.com The official web-site of Yakov Kazyansky]

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