{"id":428,"date":"2021-04-27T13:25:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/?page_id=428"},"modified":"2021-04-27T13:26:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:26:49","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anatoly Izotov (born June, 4th 1983, Saint-Petersburg) is a prominent russian classical guitar player, a prizewinner of 18 international competition, an artistic director of \u00abGuitar Magic\u00bb International festival and competition in Saint-Petersburg. He is the leader of the fiirst russian professional guitar orchestra and a teacher whose masterclasses are higly demanded in Russia. He played piano from an early age and when he was 13 he started playing classical guitar.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000 Anatoly graduated from musical school and continued his studies with Alexey Khorev, one of the best teachers in Russia. At the same time he learned harmony and composition at Saint-Petersburg Composers Union. In 2005 Anatoly went to Belgium to continue his studies at Bruxelles Royal Conservatoire with greek guitarist Antigoni Goni.<\/p>\n<p>During his studies he became a prizewinner of 18 international competitions among which are<br \/>\nthe following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Prize &#8212; &#171;Guitar Virtuosos&#187;, Russia<\/li>\n<li>Grand-Prix &#8212; \u201cIvana Ballu\u201d, Slovakia<\/li>\n<li>1 Prize &#8212; &#171;Dniprovsky Sudzir\u2019a&#187;, Ukraine<\/li>\n<li>1 Prize &#8212; &#171;Ville d&#8217;Antony&#187;, France<\/li>\n<li>1 Prize and special prize &#8212; John Duarte competition, Austria<\/li>\n<li>2 Prize &#8212; \u00abAndres Segovia\u00bb, Spain<\/li>\n<li>2 Prize &#8212; Koblenz Guitar competition, Germany<\/li>\n<li>2 Prize &#8212; \u201cForum Guitar Wien\u201d, Austria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anatoly\u2019s musical development was significantly influenced by various musical genres, especially jazz and eastern folk . Since the years of music school he began to use improvisation which still plays an important role in his creative activities.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 Anatoliy got an award from the government of Saint-Petersburg \u00abFor high achievements in the field of arts and culture\u00bb<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anatoly Izotov (born June, 4th 1983, Saint-Petersburg) is a prominent russian classical guitar player, a prizewinner of 18 international competition, an artistic director of \u00abGuitar Magic\u00bb International festival and competition in Saint-Petersburg. He is the leader of the fiirst russian professional guitar orchestra and a teacher whose masterclasses are higly demanded in Russia. He played<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/biography\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Biography<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatolyizotov.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}