Irina Dorofeeva was born on Kupalle - July 6, 1977 in Mogilev. Irina began her professional musical career at the age of 12, becoming a soloist of the Mogilev vocal and instrumental ensemble "Rainbow" under the direction of Nelly Bordunova, who was an assistant and teacher on the way to success on the stage.
And the first achievements were not long in coming. In 1989, Irina won the First Republican Competition for Young Performers. Participation in the competition of young performers of the festival of Belarusian song and poetry "Molodechno-94" brought her not only the title of laureate, but also the invitation of Vasily Rainchik to become a soloist of the legendary ensemble "Verasy". While working at Verasy, the first songs written especially for her appeared in Irina's repertoire.
From 1997 to May 1999, Irina Dorofeeva worked as a soloist with the State Concert Orchestra of Belarus conducted by Mikhail Finberg. With her new songs, Irina, together with the orchestra, participated in numerous concerts and festivals, the most significant of which she considers the orchestra's anniversary concert at the International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar-97", performances on Red Square in honor of the celebration of the 850th anniversary of Moscow, the celebration of the days the city of Minsk, author's evenings of the People's Artist of the USSR composer Yevgeny Glebov, the People's Poet of Belarus Rygor Borodulin, composers Oleg Eliseenkov and Vladimir Sorokin.
With great interest, Irina Dorofeeva participated in the project “Belarusian Song Workshop” by Leonid Pronchak. The purpose of this action was to revive interest in the Belarusian language and Belarusian song. During this period, Irina's repertoire palette was replenished with a jazz program. In 1998, together with the jazz trio Arkady Eskin, Irina could be heard at the V International Jazz Music Festival "Minsk-98" and in the jazz panorama at the "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk-98".
From 1996 to the present, Irina Dorofeeva has been working with producer Yuri Savosh - he is the artistic director and main organizer of the creative process in preparing solo projects and tours of the singer. Yuri Savosh is the author of many songs from the singer's repertoire ("The Secret of the Greshnaga Spatkannya" and "Sooner or Later", "Puls Makhilin" and "It Happens", "Geta Noch" and many others). To date, Yuri Savosh and Irina Dorofeeva have released albums: “Redki Gost” (1998), “Sooner or Later” (2000), “Kakhanachka” (recording, 2003), “Pulse of the Whilst” (2003), “Like the first time” (recording, 2003 - 2006), “I want to be a dream” (2007), and also released an MP-3 album, which included more than 100 songs by the singer, including previously unreleased.
Irina Dorofeeva has repeatedly participated in international competitions and festivals, successfully representing the Belarusian musical culture. In 1998 - 1999, Irina became the winner of five music competitions - "Golden Hit-98", "Vilnius-99", "Discovery-99" in Bulgaria, "Vitebsk-99" at the festival "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk", "Ukrainian pop songs named after V.Ivasyuk" in Kyiv, In 2008 she became the owner of the Grand Prix at the 1st Russian Song Festival in Zielona Góra (Western Poland). And according to Irina's performances outside the homeland, the foreign audience, perhaps, imagined Belarus, got acquainted with its song heritage and traditions.
Irina Dorofeeva is one of the most touring performers in Belarus, the singer often gave concerts outside of Belarus. In 2001 - 2002, the collective under the direction of Yuri Savosh "Irina Dorofeeva's Song Theater" organized a social and humanitarian action "The Energy of the New Generation of Young Belarus in the New Millennium". For two years, Irina traveled all over Belarus with concerts: literally at every venue in every district, even in large villages, where there were halls from 250 seats, concerts were given. In total, 435 concerts were held throughout the country during the action, which were attended by about 1.5 million people. Of all the performances, more than 165 concerts were charitable. Irina tried to come with a concert to everyone. Charitable performances were held for children left without parental care, for the disabled, military personnel, residents of villages who suffered from the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
At the same time, the tour did not become an obstacle to replenishing the repertoire. On the contrary, during the two years of the action “Energy of the New Generation of Young Belarus in the New Millennium”, the concert program of Irina Dorofeeva was almost completely updated several times, new songs appeared. At the same time, spectacular concert performances were staged with the State Dance Ensemble of Belarus and the project of Evgenia Pavlina "Stars of Gymnastics".
In 2004, 2005, Irina Dorofeeva, as a soloist and host of concert programs, took part in the tours of the Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus. Concerts were held in 25 cities of the country with constant success. In 2005 - 2006, Irina performed in tour concerts accompanied by the DALI group. In January 2007, another musical project by Irina Dorofeeva, the concert "Christmas with Friends", was staged on stage, which is planned to be held regularly in the future.
Since 2004, the "Irina Dorofeeva Song Theater" has been annually implementing an unprecedented action - the tour "Under the Peaceful Sky". During the harvest period, the team performs directly in the field, on any open areas. As a rule, two or three concerts are held a day - in the afternoon for village workers, for those who work on the ground, in between stubble in the field, at grain streams (here Irina performs on any impromptu stage) and in the evening on the central square of the city with large staged concerts and invariably "live" sound. In general, about 50 such outdoor concerts are held a year, and the action ends at the republican holiday "Dozhinki".
Irina Dorofeeva, with her creative achievements and active concert and touring activities, proved her ability to carry out any musical project, showed that Belarusian music occupies an equal place in European musical culture. Irina sincerely loves her people and her language: the basis of her repertoire is songs in the Belarusian language, and Irina always performs them with pleasure. She seeks to develop the interest of young people in the traditional song art of Belarus.
Irina presented large staged solo programs of the national level in October 1999 at the Minsk Concert Hall - My Love, and in November 2003 at the Palace of the Republic - Kakhanachka. The best creative forces of the country took part in the creation and holding of the concert "My Love" - the State Concert Orchestra of Belarus conducted by Mikhail Finberg, the State Dance Ensemble of Belarus, the vocal group "Camerata", musicians Arkady Eskin and Nikolai Neronsky.
The folk-modern show program "Kakhanachka" marked the 10th anniversary of the creative activity of Irina Dorofeeva, and even in its title emphasized the "Belarusian" singer and her attitude to life and love. The concert was accompanied by the Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus and the leaders of the Belarusian choreography - the State Dance Ensemble of Belarus, a dance group conducted by Svetlana Gutkovskaya, the show group "Pops Foundations", the ballet "Eos". The whole concert was recorded on digital media, an audio and video version of the program was published under the same name - "Kakhanachka".
On June 24, 2007, the unpretentious show “Irina Dorofeeva’s Kupalle: Festival of the Elements” was shown near the walls of the Mir Castle, in which more than 400 artists of various genres took part, helping the singer recreate the picture of the ancient Slavic holiday. The concert was truly European scale. It was attended by the Head of State and over 120,000 spectators.
Irina Dorofeeva successfully participates in television projects and television filming: she worked as a TV presenter in the Big Breakfast and Entertainment Planet (STV) programs, since September 2007 she has been the host of the Soyuz TV magazine, which is broadcast weekly on the ONT channel (Belarus) and Russian channels TRO and Ren-TV.
Currently, Irina Dorofeeva is working with the Force Minor group (Dmitry Penkrat, Valery Bashkov, Dmitry Parfenov, Dmitry Bronovitsky), which includes singers Inga, Ekaterina Muratova, Elena Berezina as soloists. Over the past 2 years, Irina Dorofeeva with her team has repeatedly represented Belarus in Venezuela, Poland, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania. Her new concert program, which included songs written by Russian authors K. Breitburg, M. Tanich, A. Pakhmutova, N. Dobronravov, K. Kavaleryan, S. Sashin, E. Muravyov, E. Melnik, as well as the Serbian composer J. Joksimovich, the singer in her Belarus showed about 300 times.
Dorofeeva Irina Arkadyevna (b. 1977) is a Belarusian singer, the most touring performer in the country, has repeatedly traveled on tour outside of Belarus. She has the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus. He is an assistant professor at the Department of Variety Art at the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts.
Irina was born on July 6, 1977 in the city of Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR.
As a child, Ira was a very small and fragile girl. But, despite the strong thinness, she was not active. Both in the yard and at school, she was known as a ringleader, fought with boys, climbed trees and hunted yard cats. Already in early childhood, her leadership qualities were manifested. She wanted to subdue absolutely everyone, and there was also a desire that all the boys in the yard fall in love only with her.
For such a combination of thinness and activity, one of the adults gave Ira the nickname "Flea". Friends called her affectionately - Dorik. Irina herself did not like all these nicknames, and she generally considered the word Dorik unpleasant and offensive. Then the girl invited her friends to call her Bustard, like an older brother. She even came up with an adult interpretation of this name - Dropafandra.
Every summer on vacation, the Dorofeev family went on a trip to Belarus. They found the most beautiful places, set up a real camp with tents somewhere near the lake and lived for a long time in nature. From here came Irina's love for her native country, its natural beauties and people. From childhood, she could look at the world around her and admire its magnificence.
Despite the fact that Ira was considered a little robber in the yard, in her childhood dreams she saw herself on the big stage. At first, she really wanted to become a ballerina, she could sit for hours in front of the TV if ballet was shown there. In sports, Ira was most attracted to rhythmic gymnastics and figure skating. But the girl was destined to become famous in a completely different field of art.
For the first time, Irina's truly musical talent manifested itself at a school matinee, where she sang at the age of ten. And a year later, she got into the creative studio "Rainbow", after which she fell in love with music completely and irrevocably. From that moment on, the girl had a dream - to become a singer. And not some ordinary one, performing at the House of Culture in Mogilev, but outstanding, so that the whole country would know about it.
Soon Ira became a soloist of VIA "Rainbow". The ensemble toured a lot in Belarus, she quickly got used to the stage, she felt like a fish in water on it. She liked this life with rehearsals, trips, concerts.
The team was managed by Nelly Bordunova, who became Dorofeeva's teacher and reliable assistant on the way to pop success. The first positive results did not have to wait long. Immediately after Ira was chosen as the soloist of the ensemble, she became a participant in the republican competition for young performers, which she won.
And in 1994, Dorofeeva participated in the festival of young performers of the Belarusian song and poetry "Molodechno", where she was not only among the laureates, but also attracted the attention of the composer, artistic director of VIA "Verasy" Vasily Rainchik. He invited her to his famous team.
And while Irina's classmates were deciding where to go after school, her choice had already been made: she became an artist. After graduating from school with a silver medal, the girl entered the Belarusian State Institute of Culture without exams.
With the beginning of cooperation with Veras, Dorofeeva's repertoire was replenished with songs that authors and composers wrote exclusively for her.
In 1997, Ira became a soloist in the State Concert Orchestra of Belarus, led by Mikhail Finberg. The singer worked with this team for two years, took part in various festival and concert programs, competitions.
Dorofeeva was very interested in the project of the Belarusian poet and songwriter Leonid Pronchak “Workshop of the Belarusian Song”. The purpose of the action was to revive the love for Belarusian poetry, language and music, Ira gladly agreed to participate in this project.
In 1998, a jazz program appeared in the singer's repertoire, she began to collaborate with a trio led by Arkady Eskin. They performed together at the International Jazz Music Festival "Minsk-98" and in the jazz panorama as part of the "Slavianski Bazaar-98".
From 1996 to the present day, Dorofeeva has been collaborating with producer Yuri Savosh. He is the artistic director of her team "Irina Dorofeeva's Song Theatre", organizes the entire creative process, solo projects and tours. Savosh wrote many songs for the singer, the most famous of them: "Sooner or Later", "Geta noch", "It happens."
Together they released several song albums:
The singer has repeatedly taken part in international song contest programs. Only in 1998-1999 she became a laureate in five of them.
With concerts, Ira traveled all over Belarus. She gave them in different areas and at any venues, even if they were villages and halls in a club with only 250 seats. She had many tours outside of Belarus, thanks to which people learned the traditions and song heritage of this country. Dorofeeva often gives charity concerts for the disabled, veterans and military personnel, for children left without parental care, for villagers affected by the Chernobyl tragedy.
Since 2004, Dorofeeva has announced and is implementing an unprecedented project - the tour "Under the Peaceful Sky". With the team, she gives two or three concerts a day right among the fields where the harvest is going on.
The singer proves with her creativity that Belarusian music occupies a worthy place in the culture of Europe.
Social activities have always attracted Irina no less creative. She wanted to work for the good of her country and people, to make their life better. At some point, she realized that she could achieve this not only with her songs, there was still the strength to go into politics.
In 2013, Ira joined the public council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. In the summer of 2016, she put forward her candidacy for deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus. Dorofeeva was pleased with how her election campaign went. She's got a great team. And she did not pay attention to attacks from competitors, she had long learned this over the years of her stage career. Already in the world of show business, there are no less envious people and ill-wishers than in politics. In September 2016, Dorofeeva was elected a deputy of the VI convocation.
Friends and relatives were only happy for Irina, supported her in her decision. Fellow artists were very surprised and constantly asked: “How are you going to keep up with everything now?” But Ira hopes that by her example she will inspire at least one of the singers of Belarus to conduct more active social activities.
The appearance of deputy duties made adjustments to the stage schedule of the singer. Indeed, now in the life of Dorofeeva there are parliamentary sessions, meetings with voters, meetings of the Commission on Education, Culture and Science. A lot of time is spent on solving the problems that citizens come to Irina with.
To date, the singer is still not married. According to her, she considers her team “Irina Dorofeeva’s Song Theater”, like-minded people, musicians and a producer, with whom she spends most of her time, to be her family. It’s just that so far her fate has developed so that Irina gives herself without a trace to her beloved work. Although the singer hopes and believes that there will be changes in her personal life, because she is, first of all, a woman ...
Irina's grandfather went to the front in 1941 and soon died. Grandmother managed to receive only one postcard from him, where the first words were “Hello, Love” (grandmother's name was Lyuba). Grandmother kept this message all her life and firmly believed that grandfather did not die, but would return soon. Ira remembers from childhood how her grandmother carried this love through her whole life. It is this kind of love, bright and real, that the singer wants in her life. And getting married just because it's time for you is not her option at all.
In the media, publications repeatedly appear that President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is not indifferent to Irina. But the singer herself does not see anything wrong with such attention of the head of state to her work, she is very pleased.
Ira is a crazy romantic, she loves the night and the moon very much. Since her birthday almost coincides with the holiday of Ivan Kupala (in Belarus it is called Kupala), the singer celebrates it according to folk rites and traditions, every year she jumps over the fire. Irina admits that she is unfamiliar with bad mood and despondency, she lives with a constant feeling of happiness.
By nature, she is a traveler, nowhere can she relax as much as on a long-distance train. She loves to be on the road, look out the window at forests, fields, cities and villages running past. She enjoys discovering new places, fishing, walking in the woods, picking mushrooms and singing songs loudly at the same time.
The singer loves baths and saunas, she works out in the pool (she swims well in different styles). She loves underwater shower-massage, she has a dream to have such an installation at home. In general, she is attracted to everything that is somehow connected with the water element. According to Irina, there are no bodies of water left in her native country in which she would not swim.
She is always organized and goal oriented. Ira is not familiar with whims, she considers this a waste of time and effort. He tries not to get upset over trifles, he resolves any conflicts peacefully, without quarrels, reproaches, scandals. In life, she is most afraid of letting someone down, Ira is a very responsible person. This is how my parents taught me from childhood: “If you gave your word, keep it!”
The singer says that she has the best family in the world. Looking at her parents, she feels herself infinitely in love. Receives positive emotions from every minute lived, this gives her youth, beauty, activity and positive.
Among all the color shades, she likes white the most, especially adores white tulips. From clothes, Irina never made a cult, in ordinary life she wears quite simple things. The singer is absolutely not attracted by jewelry and jewelry, she is not indifferent only to scarves, scarves and pashminas.
In music, Irina likes Ella Fitzgerald, Tina Turner and Freddie Mercury the most.
Irina always wakes up early, every morning she starts with exercises, most often this is an hour-long swimming lesson, and from 8 o’clock she starts her planned business. She always returns home after midnight, so the singer cannot sleep for more than six hours.
She has shaping classes twice a week. To always be in great shape, he adheres to a healthy diet, and in the evening after six does not eat at all. Ira is a fan of her native Belarusian cuisine, all kinds of sorcerers and potato pancakes. Preference is given to seafood, a favorite dish is deep-fried shrimp. As a child, she had a sweet tooth, but now she can’t afford ice cream or cakes. The maximum that allows is a piece of chocolate with a cup of tea for breakfast or curd yogurt. According to the singer, she is very mobilized by the idea that she should always have a great shape, look her best and feel good at the same time.
She began her professional musical career at the age of 12, becoming a soloist of the Mogilev vocal and instrumental ensemble "Rainbow" under the direction of Nelli Bordunova, who was an assistant and teacher on the way to success on the stage.
For 2009, Yuri Savosh and Irina Dorofeeva published albums: "Rare Guest" (1998), "Sooner or Later" (2000), "Kakhanachka" (recording, 2003), "Pulse of the air" (2003), “Like the first time” (recording, 2003-2006), “I want to be a dream” (2007), and also released an MP-3 album, which included more than 100 songs by the singer, including previously unreleased.
Includes 21 tracks performed by Irina Dorofeeva and 21 professional backing tracks for lovers of good songs.
Work as a TV presenter in the Big Breakfast and Entertainment Planet (STV) programs, since September 2007 she has been the host of the Soyuz TV magazine, which is broadcast weekly on the ONT channel (Belarus) and the Russian channels TRO and Ren-TV.
2001-2002 - a group led by Yuri Savosh "Irina Dorofeeva's Song Theater" organized a social and humanitarian action "The Energy of the New Generation of Young Belarus in the New Millennium". For two years, Irina traveled all over Belarus with concerts: literally at every venue in every district, even in large villages, where there were halls from 250 seats, concerts were given. In total, 435 concerts were held throughout the country during the action, which were attended by about 1.5 million people. Of all the performances, more than 165 concerts were charitable. Irina tried to come with a concert to everyone. Charitable performances were held for children left without parental care, for the disabled, military personnel, residents of villages who suffered from the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since 2004, the "Irina Dorofeeva Song Theater" has been annually implementing the "Under the Peaceful Sky" tour. During the harvest period, the team performs directly in the field, on any open areas. As a rule, two or three concerts are held a day - during the day for village workers, for those who work on the land, in between stubble in the field, at grain streams (here Irina performs on any impromptu stage) and in the evening on the central square of the city with large staged concerts and invariably "live" sound. In general, about 50 such outdoor concerts are held a year, and the action ends at the republican holiday "Dozhinki".
Currently, Irina Dorofeeva is working with the Force Minor group (Dmitry Penkrat, Valery Bashkov, Dmitry Parfenov, Dmitry Bronovitsky), which includes singers Inga, Ekaterina Muratova, Elena Berezina as soloists. Over the past 2 years, Irina Dorofeeva with her team has repeatedly represented Belarus in Venezuela, Poland, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania. His new concert program, which included songs written by Russian authors K. Breitburg, M. Tanich, A. Pakhmutova, N. Dobronravov, K. Kavaleryan, S. Sashin, E. Muravyov, E. Melnik, as well as Serbian composer Zh Joksimovich, the singer in her Belarus showed about 300 times.
group "Fors-Minor" line-up since June 2009: Dmitry Penkrat - vocals, keyboards, Dmitry Parfenov - guitar, Valery Bashkov - bass, Svyatoslav Chernukho - drums (from June 2009 to January 2011), Ales Sobol - drums (from April 2011) ,
Group "Fors Minor" winner of the festival "Golden Hit" in 2009.
Irina presented large staged solo programs of the national level in October 1999 at the Minsk Concert Hall - My Love, and in November 2003 at the Palace of the Republic - Kakhanachka.
The State Concert Orchestra of Belarus conducted by Mikhail Finberg, the State Dance Ensemble of Belarus, the vocal group Camerata, musicians Arkady Eskin and Nikolai Neronsky took part in the creation and holding of the concert "My Love".
The folk-modern show program "Kakhanachka" marked the 10th anniversary of the creative activity of Irina Dorofeeva. The concert was accompanied by the Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus and the leaders of Belarusian choreography - the State Dance Ensemble of Belarus, a dance group conducted by Svetlana Gutkovskaya, the Pops Foundations show group, the ballet Eos. The whole concert was recorded on digital media, an audio and video version of the program was published under the same name - "Kakhanachka".
On June 24, 2007, an unprecedented show "Irina Dorofeeva's Kupalle: Festival of the Elements" was shown near the walls of the Mir Castle, in which more than 400 artists of various genres took part, helping the singer to recreate the picture of the ancient Slavic holiday. The concert was truly European scale. It was attended by the Head of State and more than 120,000 spectators. The concert was attended by: the Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus, the Honored Group of the State Dance Ensemble of the Republic of Belarus, the ballet under the direction of Svetlana Gutkovskaya, the show group POPS FOUNDATION, the ballet "TAD", the school-college of arts in Bobruisk, laureates of international competitions Petr Elfimov, Georgy Witch. Guests of honor of the concert: Kim Breitburg (Russia), Alexander Ponomarev (Ukraine), Ruslan Alekhno (Russia-Belarus).
A flight over Aikumenai On November 17, 2011, a grandiose concert-presentation of the new program of the Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus Irina Dorofeeva “Flight over the Ecumene” was held at the Minsk Concert Hall in Minsk, which was timed to coincide with the release of the first MP3 disc of the same name in the history of Belarus, which includes more than 130 songs recorded Irina Dorofeeva in different years (including about 50) previously unpublished.
In the concert, which was held in the "live sound" format, accompanied by the Force Minor group, many premieres were presented, their choreographic performances were presented: the show ballet "Tequila", "Pops Foundation", "Fatality", in duets with the Honored Artist The Republic of Belarus was sung by Vitaly Gordey, Yevgeny Slutsky and Dmitry Penkrat.
REFERENCE. Plot - 14 acres; house - 206 square meters; 1st floor - entrance hall, hall, living room, kitchen, bathroom, utility room; 2nd floor - two bedrooms, bathroom, dressing room; heating - stove-fireplace and gas (plus boiler). The average fat bill in winter is about 100 rubles, in summer - about 50 rubles.
I built the house 12 kilometers from the Minsk ring road in the village of Dzerzhinsky district, where my friends - producer Yuri Savosh and his family have been living for 20 years. I wanted to equip my nest nearby, but my dream has matured for 20 years, - Irina Dorofeeva smiles, opening the gate.
Neighbor's roosters roar loudly, a red-haired hairy dog Sancho, matching the house, greets guests with a loud bark - a mixture of a yard terrier with a chow-chow. A spectacular red booth - a copy of the singer's house - was built for the family's favorite by Irina's dad.
Construction began 6 years ago. I did everything myself: from the purchase of materials to interior design. I invented everything myself, since I travel a lot, I observe, ideas are born by themselves. A lot of things were thought up during the construction process on the go: what will be the attic, balcony, roof ...
The construction lasted three years, and for three years I have been engaged in interior design. For about 10 years I gave 130-150 concerts a year, for wear and tear, I was very tired: concerts, the university, staging musicals, building a house took all my strength and money.
I suddenly realized that I could not buy myself a new outfit, not to mention jewelry or elementary things in everyday life - all the funds were spent on construction! And I ordered myself to say “stop!”. There is a roof, there are walls, we will solve the rest of the problems as they become available.
My parents supported me and two years ago they sold an apartment in Mogilev and moved into my still unfinished house to help and manage the household. At first, they even lived in field conditions: without a kitchen and cabinets.
How did you decide on the size of the house?
Once I really liked one house. And it so happened that a preliminary project of this house was presented to me. Later, an architect from the Dzerzhinsky district adapted the project to my wishes. I decided that the house should have two bedrooms - mine and a guest room, now my parents live in it. I didn’t think about the nursery at that time, I understood that it was possible to provide for it, if necessary. In the future, this is a house for living, where I will move, but now for me it is more like a house for the weekend.
- Has the issue of communications - electricity, heating, sewerage - been resolved?
I have local sewerage, water, gas heating, the builders have made warm floors. I bought a fireplace stove that can heat the entire first floor. At the same time, on gloomy cold evenings, it will be pleasant to admire the fire. I must say right away that everything in my house is Belarusian: from building materials to furniture. From import - only household appliances and a heating system, a fragment of Italian tiles in the kitchen and two walls of wallpaper in the bedroom.
- What was the most difficult?
The most difficult thing is to start, so the parents first came and planted thuja ( smiling). I went to the Grodno region for them, bought very tiny ones, but 176 pieces. Now, an already grown hedge rises along the perimeter of the site.
The most difficult work was associated with the foundation, leveling the site. Since the soil is clayey, the house had to be built on piles. When you delve into it yourself, buy what you need, it seems that at this stage you are simply burying money in the ground.
There were also problems with the builders: they came to pour the foundation - it didn’t work out, it turned out that the team was not very professional. And they could not figure out the formwork, and poured something at random ... The new team of builders had to redo it.
She went for building materials herself: both to the market and to manufacturers. But without store markups. Thanks to my producer Yuri Savosh, who understands the construction site - there was tremendous help from him. By the way, in his Komsomol years he supervised a large construction site in the city of Gagarin, Smolensk region.
Was everything easy from a financial point of view?
Not really - she spent all her savings, borrowed. I bought the kitchen in installments for six months, then it so happened that they extended it for another three months. The refrigerator is also in installments, I still pay.
My parents helped, I had long dreamed of moving them from Mogilev to Minsk in order to see each other more often. When I left home more than 20 years ago, you can say that my parents lost me (smiles). So they sold the apartment and moved into my unfinished house. They left only a small dacha near Shklov, with an apiary - now it's right there.
They do a lot with their own hands: they themselves built a dressing room in the house, and a cellar under the future terrace. Mom created another masterpiece - a large beautiful flower bed. Last year we planted tulip bulbs, this year my mother decided to act globally, she said that people walk by, they know that Irina Dorofeeva lives here, so the view should be worthy ( smiling).
I really love forged products, so there are many different forged accents in the house, I bought some in Vertilishki at the craftsmen's fair, where I went to concerts. The walls are partly covered with wallpaper, partly finished with decorative plaster. I really wanted to have skylights on the second floor, a lot of light and the sky above my head. Someone thinks through cabinets, shelves, sections. I, on the contrary, have a lot of free space: the more air and light, the better.
- And how did you decide on a spectacular pink kitchen? It looks like a Barbie house...
Yes, my goddaughter came in, gasped and asked: “Irina, are you a blonde?” I replied that, probably, in the kitchen - yes ( laughs). But you must admit, the color is not quite pink, it has many shades: pink, and lilac, and warm creamy notes. It all started with dark purple beams on the ceiling, unexpectedly they turned out with just such a sheen. Tiles were chosen for them, then the kitchen was already ordered. And I do not regret, the house should have bright accents. Moreover, in life I love muted pastel colors and made the house just like that.
- Many complain that heating a house, especially in winter, is an expensive pleasure. True?
We have heat regulation in each room, and thanks to the stove-fireplace, the entire first floor can be heated with wood. Underfloor heating provides even heat throughout the ground floor. It is not only functional, but also economical. The batteries on the second floor, as well as the floor temperature, can be regulated separately.
- And why is there stone tiles on the floor of the first floor, and wood on the second?
My Daphne (toy terrier puppy was presented to Irina for her 35th birthday. - Ed.) cannot run on wood, only on porous stone or carpet - where there is grip with its small paws and claws. Therefore, the living room on the first floor is its territory. And since I love a cozy tree, the second floor is for the soul: completely from pine. Of course, I initially thought about oak, but it would have been different money. smiles). Restoration Miracle!
I built a house according to the principle: live within your means, based on your possibilities. The most precious thing in a house is the house itself: the walls and the roof. Of course, I wanted a house made of high-quality wood, but often I bought something at a “red price”. At the same time, I live according to the law of three N: nothing is impossible.
There is also a good phrase: "As it turned out, it means that they wanted it." Because if you worry about every little hole - and at the beginning it was - there won’t be enough nerves. In this sense, construction hardened me very much, I began to understand that you can’t worry about the little things, the most important things in life are the health and well-being of loved ones anyway.
Tatyana Shakhnovich. Photo by Dmitry Lasko
Irina Dorofeeva is one of the most touring performers in Belarus, the singer often gave concerts outside of Belarus. In 2001 - 2002, the collective under the direction of Yuri Savosh "Irina Dorofeeva's Song Theater" organized a social and humanitarian action "The Energy of the New Generation of Young Belarus in the New Millennium". For two years, Irina traveled all over Belarus with concerts: literally at every venue in every district, even in large villages, where there were halls from 250 seats, concerts were given.
Irina Dorofeeva was born on Kupalle - July 6, 1977 in Mogilev. Irina began her professional musical career at the age of 12, becoming a soloist of the Mogilev vocal and instrumental ensemble "Rainbow" under the direction of Nelly Bordunova, who was an assistant and teacher on the way to success on the stage.
And the first achievements were not long in coming. In 1989, Irina won the First Republican Competition for Young Performers. Participation in the competition of young performers of the festival of Belarusian song and poetry "Molodechno-94" brought her not only the title of laureate, but also the invitation of Vasily Rainchik to become a soloist of the legendary ensemble "Verasy". While working at Verasy, the first songs written especially for her appeared in Irina's repertoire.
From 1997 to May 1999, Irina Dorofeeva worked as a soloist with the State Concert Orchestra of Belarus conducted by Mikhail Finberg. With her new songs, Irina, together with the orchestra, participated in numerous concerts and festivals, the most significant of which she considers the orchestra's anniversary concert at the International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar-97", performances on Red Square in honor of the celebration of the 850th anniversary of Moscow, the celebration of the days the city of Minsk, author's evenings of the People's Artist of the USSR composer Yevgeny Glebov, the People's Poet of Belarus Rygor Borodulin, composers Oleg Eliseenkov and Vladimir Sorokin.
With great interest, Irina Dorofeeva participated in the project “Belarusian Song Workshop” by Leonid Pronchak. The purpose of this action was to revive interest in the Belarusian language and Belarusian song. During this period, Irina's repertoire palette was replenished with a jazz program. In 1998, together with the jazz trio Arkady Eskin, Irina could be heard at the V International Jazz Music Festival "Minsk-98" and in the jazz panorama at the "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk-98".
From 1996 to the present, Irina Dorofeeva has been working with producer Yuri Savosh - he is the artistic director and main organizer of the creative process in preparing solo projects and tours of the singer. Yuri Savosh is the author of many songs from the singer's repertoire ("The Secret of the Greshnaga Spatkannya" and "Sooner or Later", "Puls Makhilin" and "It Happens", "Geta Noch" and many others). To date, Yuri Savosh and Irina Dorofeeva have released albums: “Redki Gost” (1998), “Sooner or Later” (2000), “Kakhanachka” (recording, 2003), “Pulse of the Whilst” (2003), “Like the first time” (recording, 2003 - 2006), “I want to be a dream” (2007), and also released an MP-3 album, which included more than 100 songs by the singer, including previously unreleased.
Irina Dorofeeva has repeatedly participated in international competitions and festivals, successfully representing the Belarusian musical culture. In 1998 - 1999, Irina became the winner of five music competitions - "Golden Hit-98", "Vilnius-99", "Discovery-99" in Bulgaria, "Vitebsk-99" at the festival "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk", "Ukrainian pop songs named after V. Ivasyuk" in Kyiv. And according to Irina's performances outside the homeland, the foreign audience, perhaps, imagined Belarus, got acquainted with its song heritage and traditions.
Irina Dorofeeva is one of the most touring performers in Belarus, the singer often gave concerts outside of Belarus. In 2001 - 2002, the collective under the direction of Yuri Savosh "Irina Dorofeeva's Song Theater" organized a social and humanitarian action "The Energy of the New Generation of Young Belarus in the New Millennium". For two years, Irina traveled all over Belarus with concerts: literally at every venue in every
area, even in large villages, where there were halls of 250 seats, they gave concerts. In total, 435 concerts were held throughout the country during the action, which were attended by about 1.5 million people. Of all the performances, more than 165 concerts were charitable. Irina tried to come with a concert to everyone. Charitable performances were held for children left without parental care, for the disabled, military personnel, residents of villages who suffered from the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
At the same time, the tour did not become an obstacle to replenishing the repertoire. On the contrary, during the two years of the action “Energy of the New Generation of Young Belarus in the New Millennium”, the concert program of Irina Dorofeeva was almost completely updated several times, new songs appeared. At the same time, spectacular concert performances were staged with the State Dance Ensemble of Belarus and the project of Evgenia Pavlina "Stars of Gymnastics".
In 2004, 2005, Irina Dorofeeva, as a soloist and host of concert programs, took part in the tours of the Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus. Concerts were held in 25 cities of the country with constant success. In 2005 - 2006, Irina performed in tour concerts accompanied by the DALI group. In January 2007, another musical project by Irina Dorofeeva, the concert "Christmas with Friends", was staged on stage, which is planned to be held regularly in the future.
Since 2004, the "Irina Dorofeeva Song Theater" has been annually implementing an unprecedented action - the tour "Under the Peaceful Sky". During the harvest period, the team performs directly in the field, on any open areas. As a rule, two or three concerts are held a day - in the afternoon for village workers, for those who work on the ground, in between stubble in the field, at grain streams (here Irina performs on any impromptu stage) and in the evening on the central square of the city with large staged concerts and invariably "live" sound. In general, about 50 such outdoor concerts are held a year, and the action ends at the republican holiday "Dozhinki".
Irina Dorofeeva, with her creative achievements and active concert and touring activities, proved her ability to carry out any musical project, showed that Belarusian music occupies an equal place in European musical culture. Irina sincerely loves her people and her language: the basis of her repertoire is songs in the Belarusian language, and Irina always performs them with pleasure. She seeks to develop the interest of young people in the traditional song art of Belarus.
Irina presented large staged solo programs of the national level in October 1999 at the Minsk Concert Hall - My Love, and in November 2003 at the Palace of the Republic - Kakhanachka. The best creative forces of the country took part in the creation and holding of the concert "My Love" - the State Concert Orchestra of Belarus conducted by Mikhail Finberg, the State Dance Ensemble of Belarus, the vocal group "Camerata", musicians Arkady Eskin and Nikolai Neronsky.
The folk-modern show program "Kakhanachka" marked the 10th anniversary of the creative activity of Irina Dorofeeva, and even in its title emphasized the "Belarusian" singer and her attitude to life and love. The concert was accompanied by the Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus and the leaders of the Belarusian choreography - the State Dance Ensemble of Belarus, a dance group conducted by Svetlana Gutkovskaya, the show group "Pops Foundations", the ballet "Eos". The whole concert was recorded on digital media, an audio and video version of the program was published under the same name - "Kakhanachka".
The unpretentious show “Kupalye of Irina Dorofeeva: Festival of the Elements” was shown near the walls of the Mir Castle, in which more than 400 artists of various genres took part, helping the singer to recreate the picture of the ancient Slavic holiday. The concert was truly European scale. It was attended by the Head of State and over 120,000 spectators.
Irina Dorofeeva successfully participates in television projects and television filming: she worked as a TV presenter in the Big Breakfast and Entertainment Planet programs, and currently hosts the Soyuz TV magazine, which airs at 13:15 on the ONT TV channel in Belarus and on the TNT TV channel in Russia ; shoots clips for his songs. The latest video works to date have been clips for the songs “I Want to Be a Dream” (directed by Alena Adamchik) and “The Heart of My Land” (directed by Vladimir Yankovsky), “The Girl on the Shore” (directed by Albert Khamitov). A documentary musical film "Instant" (directed by Anastasia Sukhanova) was shot about Irina. And according to the results of the tour “Energy of the New Generation of Young Belarus in the New Millennium”, cameraman Alla Tkachenko and director Irina Tomashevskaya created the film “Roads of Irina Dorofeeva”, which told about the unprecedented action of the singer and showed the hospitality and openness of Belarusians, the beauty of the Belarusian land, in December 2007 A documentary film about the tour of Irina Dorofeeva and her Theater "Songs under a Peaceful Sky" was released (director Alexander Vavilov, cameraman Alla Tkachenko). In total, the singer shot 17 clips. In addition, video versions of the My Love and Kakhanachka concerts were released. It is also planned to publish on CD and DVD the concert “Kupalye of Irina Dorofeeva”.
Irina Dorofeeva also works as a vocal teacher at the Belarusian State University of Culture and a leading stage master at the Irina Dorofeeva Song Theatre. Since 2007, she has been playing one of the main roles in the play based on the play by Andrei Kureichik “Beware, Women of Paris!” at the Mogilev Regional Theater of Drama and Comedy named after Dunin-Martinkevich in the city of Bobruisk, where performances are held with a constant full house.
Irina Dorofeeva plans to continue to promote and promote the Belarusian song and Belarusian culture. Currently, Irina is actively collaborating with pop artists from foreign countries. Irina maintains long-standing friendly relations with the Honored Artist of Ukraine Alexander Ponomarev, who has repeatedly been recognized as the best singer of the year in Ukraine. He is the author of many melodic songs that Irina Dorofeeva and Alexander Ponomarev perform with pleasure in a duet at festivals where they participate together.
Irina successfully collaborates with the Russian composer Kim Breitburg, who has already written 8 songs for her, including the romantic “Girl on the Shore”, a lyrical song about Belarus “The Heart of My Land” (performed in a duet with Ruslan Alekhno), as well as modern “ format" songs for listeners of different ages "Little Winter", "A Few Beautiful Words", "My Angel", "I Know Little About Love", "It's Inevitable". Irina also works with the Serbian singer and composer Zeljko Joksimovich (grand prix winner of the Golden Hit-98, Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk-99, 2nd place at Eurovision 2004). Zeljko Joksimovic's songs are highly appreciated by the performers themselves and are well received by the public.
By Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated July 5, 2007 No. 309, Irina Dorofeeva was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus
