Peter Dranga

Peter Dranga (Russian: Пётр Ю́рьевич Дра́нга, born 8 March 1984) is a Russian accordionist.

Following in his father's footsteps (who brought the accordion to classical music performances), Peter Dranga introduced the accordion to the Russian stage. As the first person to do this, Dranga created a new genre which revived this forgotten instrument. After his first performance, this new pop style developed rapidly. Now he has many fans and imitators. Due to his contributions, accordion presentations have become an entertaining spectacular as he manages to dance with this heavy instrument on parquet and even on ice.

Life and career

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Peter Dranga

Dranga was born in 1984 in a family of musicians. His father, Yuri Petrovich Dranga – is a professor at Gnessin Academy of Music Art in Russia; his mother- Elena Kirillovna. Under the influence of his father, Dranga began to play accordion. In 1990 he was accepted in Richter music school.

In 1996, Dranga won VI Moscow Open Competition of accordionists and in October the same year he won the International Competition of accordionists in Castelfidardo, Italy.

In 1997, Dranga participated in 13th International Music Festival in St. Petersburg. In 1998, he performed at the International Music Festival in Beijing, China, and won the International Competition of accordionists in Asturias, Spain. In 1999 he was named Laureate at the VII Moscow Open Music Competition and began his concert career organised by Russian Cultural Foundation. He graduated from high school and enrolled in Gnesin Academy of Music.

He won the “New Names” -Russian competition of musicians in 2000.

He continues to work for the Cultural Foundation, and begins to work as a designer of submarine landscapes. Besides, Peter forms a vocal-instrumental band “Torre”. And all his spare time he devotes to the music production and development.

In November 2001 - organizes another band.

In December 2001 - continues to work on producing the instrumental music for the accordion at the studio. There is a conflict between the members of the band and, as a result, the band breaks up.

In June 2002 - goes to work in the North Caucasus, and when he returns, he creates his own studio and organizes a vocal-instrumental band "Overdrive".

Since 2002 he writes music for the films, such as "Christmas Fairy-tale" 2008 - director E. Bedarev (kinopunkt.ru/films/film/4403/); "Hentai" - director A.Legchilova (2010 www.vokrug.tv/product/show/Devichnik/);"You bastard movie" - director D.Filjukov (2005 ru.wikipedia.org/wiki);"Above the city" - director J.Mazurova (2010 ); "When fern blossoms" - director E.Bedarev (2008).

Since 2003 he travels to conflict places such as Chechnya as a supporter of peace in the World.

Between 2003 and 2006 Dranga wrote music for the modern dance for 8 double-basses.

In September of the same year he begins working in the metropolitan clubs, he held his first tour in Italy «I love D n B», graduates from the School of Music specializing in solo artist (accordion) and orchestra conductor; admitted to Gnesin Academy of Music.

In November 2004, begins his solo performances on TV.

In 2006 starts to perform in the big own concert tours across the Russia and has also played as an actor in such theatrical and movie productions as "Little cigarette" directed by E.Mironov, "Soundtrack Passion" - N.Lebedev; Peter appears in several TV shows such as "Сomedy club", "Teffi" Awards, "Golden eagle" Awards, "Fashionable verdict", "Let them talk", "Good Morning, Russia", "Saturday night", "Urmalina" and others; He was published in media magazines such as "TV Park", "Arguments and Facts", "Cosmopolitan", "Riders Digest", "Komsomolskaya true", "OK", "Hello", "Express", "Evening Moscow", "Live Journal", "Woman's Magazine",and online media as woman.ru, blondie.ru, aif.ru, mkset.ru; performs and is a guest of such radio stations as "Majak - FM", "Russian radio", "Russian news FM", "Moskva-FM", PITER-FM", "KALUGA", "UKR-FM", "Last-FM", "LOVE Radio", "First popular Radio", "Humour- FM" and others.

In 2007 he masters in skating and participates in a show "Stars on Ice” www.ruclip.com/video/IsuVNwXY4Vc/грищук-дранга.html

Participates in concerts such as "Day of Police", "Celebrate of national friendship", "Day of children", "Day of people safety", in concerts dedicated to Christmas and others.

Since 2007 he does a lot of charity work, including investment in education for children in virtue of which he was awarded, helps in event organisation and raises funds for children suffering from leukaemia. He also works for many charity funds involved in the maintenance of children's lives.

In 2008 Dranga presented his first album 23 and performed in Vienna, France, and Spain.

In November 2009 he produces and releases a new concert Perspective in the concert hall "Russia". Creates his own production company and is engaged in the creation of instrumental music, podcasts and music for television shows and for advertising, as well as collaborates with such people as Pakhmutova, Novikov, and Paganini.

The release of his first album, named 23, was at the same time and it includes 12 tracks (10 of which he composed). According to a report in “Newsmusic” after the release of his album.

In 2011 Dranga released the album Perespective and started a Russian tour.

External links

• Official website (Russian)
• (Russian) Piotr Dranga in Argumenty i Fakty
• Concert in Samara
• Peter Dranga took part in the project named Dancing on ice, where he took the third place with Oksana Grishuk
• Russian Tango
• Gnesein music academy