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Instrumental ensemble "Cottage" - musical group from St. Petersburg founded in 1992 under the direction of
Mikhail Likhachov, the teacher of Children's musical school of a name V. V. Andreyev.
Mikhail Likhachov is known composer, poet, button accordion player, active creative man, whose artistic ideas
decorate cultural life of St. Petersburg.
The idea of creation of ensemble has appeared as a result of numerous attempts to combine accordion with
other musical instruments. Mikhail often performed in concerts with the musicians of St. Petersburg and with the
musical school colleagues, thus in practice studying specificity of a combination accordion with other
instruments - violin, flute, oboe, guitar, trumpet, piano etc. The performances held on various city concert
stages, thus on public the creative ideas and plans of the performers were checked. By 1992 there was a constant
instrumental structure of ensemble: violin, clarinet, button accordion, bass-guitar, drums. The ensemble has
united in the structure of the creative artists - musicians of concert, theatrical and military orchestras, teachers of
musical educational institutions of St. Petersburg. Since 1996 the ensemble performs in folllowing constant
structure: Elena Malzeva (violin), Dmitry Fiodorov (clarinet), Mikhail Likhachov (button accordion), Anton
Siniukov (bass-guitar), Viktor Nikolayev (drums).
The repertoire of ensemble consists of music of various times, genres and styles. The original sounding of
ensemble is in combination of various instruments, in creation of a bright impression and mood. Each instrument
represents different functions: theme, second voice, counterpoint, pedal - as it is accepted in orchestral music.
Therefore sounding of ensemble can be compared with orchestral. In 1995 ensemble "Cottage" became the
Winner of city-competition devoted to 100-years anniversary of Leonid Utyosov. The success to ensemble was
brought by two compositions: the concert piece "Music Hall" by Isaak Dunayevsky and "Pavlovsk in the
Evening" by Mikhail Likhachov. These pieces are deserved became the visiting card of ensemble.
The ensemble "Cottage" often performs in ancient interiors of St. Petersburg palaces and also in palaces and
parks of Pavlovsk, Pushkin (Tsarskoye selo), Peterhof, where is brightly showing salon sounding of the group.
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