Gennady Lukinykh - Surf Rumba

Born 1965, Perm, RSFSR. Russian composer, arranger, pianist, vocalist, and journalist. Laureate of International (1996, 2006), All-Russian (1993, 2005) competitions and the Perm Prize composer A.P. Nemtin (2002), full member of the Russian Authors’ Society (1997), director and artist of the creative association ‘Perm Lira’. In 1984, Lukinykh graduated from the conductor-choral department of the Perm Music School. In 1991, he graduated from the conducting and choral faculty of the Ural State Conservatoire in Yekaterinburg. In 1991, he was one of the founders of the male vocal ensemble ‘Cantus Quartet’ (1991-2003), in which he won the All-Russian (Nizhny Novgorod, 1993) and International (Rychnov nad Knezhnou, Czech Republic, 1996) competitions. Since 1996, he has been the artistic director of the Cantus Quartet of the Perm Regional Philharmonic. In 2000, together with Victoria Lukins (soprano), he organized the ‘Romantic Duet’ festival and in 2004, he founded the creative association ‘Perm Ly