Today we’d like to introduce you to Konstantin Taigildin.
Hi Konstantin, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I began studying music at the age of six. My first experience was at a music school for exceptionally gifted children in Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El Republic, Russia, where I enrolled in the violin department. In my second year, I began taking composition as an elective in Sergei Nikolaevich Makov’s class, after which composing became my priority. I was more interested in playing the piano than the violin. At age 11, I entered the Secondary Specialized Music School at the Kazan State Conservatory, also studying violin. However, my primary interest was composition, which I began studying with the outstanding composer and even more outstanding composition teacher, Professor Alexander Mikhailovich Rudenko. Starting in the seventh grade, I began studying an individual program tailored specifically to me, focusing on composition, as well as private lessons in music theory and harmony with Kazan Conservatory professor Lidiya Alekseyevna Fedotova, and music history with the distinguished musicologist Larisa Nikolaevna Chumakova. That same year, I abandoned violin studies and began studying a specialized piano program with Tamara Emmanuilovna Savina. I graduated from music school with four majors: composition, piano, music theory, and music history. During my years at school, I won international and national composition competitions. The final culmination of my school years was a concert composed entirely of original music from various genres, including major works such as a String Quartet and a Duet for Violin and Piano. After graduating from high school, I entered the Kazan Conservatory. After completing less than two years, I entered the Moscow Conservatory to study opera and symphony conducting under Associate Professor Stanislav Dmitrievich Dyachenko, who at the time was an assistant to the distinguished conductor Gennady Nikolaevich Rozhdestvensky. After my third year, I joined the army, where I had the opportunity to master church choral singing, as the military unit was located near a monastery whose abbot, Father Barnabas (Stolbikov), was also the chaplain of the unit in which I served. He was also the founder and artistic director of the Orthodox soldiers’ choir “For Faith and Fatherland,” whose commander I served as for the second half of my military service. After completing my military service, I continued my studies at the Moscow Conservatory, where I also took an elective course in organ performance under the great organist and teacher, Professor Alexei Alexandrovich Parshin. He also took optional composition classes with the distinguished Professor Yuri Borisovich Abdokov, who also taught him orchestration. After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, he returned to Kazan and enrolled in the Kazan Conservatory’s master’s program in opera and symphony conducting, studying under Professor Sergei Vladimirovich Ferulev, a student and follower of the great Ilya Alexandrovich Musin. During his master’s studies, he won the Ilya Musin International Opera and Symphony Conducting Competition. After his second year, he began working as a production assistant with producer Timur Saifullin, who was developing two projects, Awaz Beatz and Young Fam. He worked with Saifullin for three years, serving as both a producer and a source of musical ideas. The most significant successes of this collaboration were the releases of Layton Greene – “I Choose” (nominated for a BET Award); August Alsina – “Perfect Strangers, Tonight”; Roddy Ricch, Birdman, and Lil Wayne – “STUNNAMAN.” In all of the above examples, I was the author of the main musical ideas. I am also the author of loops for a large number of releases on the Young Fam project. After leaving the team, I created my own project, TaiKoBeatZ, which I currently run independently, without a manager. Over the past year, as part of this new project, I have released several albums in various genres – TaiKoBeatZ & Yamberdova – T Ü M I R – Ü M I R (ethno edm); Lord Fractal – Love is all that is (rock); MIRASLAVA – NARTSISS (hyperpop). I also create improvisational streaming meditative music, which is currently becoming one of my main interests in music. I am also the current choir director (director of the church choir) at the Kizichesky Monastery in Kazan, where I also live. I play meditative ambient concerts, continue to write beats, and run several channels, which I am just beginning to promote.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
My path hasn’t been easy, and it still isn’t. I constantly have to deal with self-deprecation and the emptiness of reactions to my work, which in itself only discourages me and demotivates me. I also spend most of my time feeling like a waste of time in music and incapable of anything. The sense of futility and meaninglessness of my creative endeavors constantly accompanies me.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
What sets me apart is that I can do absolutely everything in music. Even if I can’t play an instrument or don’t know something at the moment, I can quickly do it better than anyone else. I have no genre limitations. It’s hard for me to single out just one thing I do; all my music is filled with love, attention, and depth. A characteristic feature of my work is that it has such a powerful impact that those close to me have always tried to devalue what I can do, but it has never left anyone indifferent. My music penetrates to the very core of the listener.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
In addition to the banal work, faith, and perseverance, one must be an absolutely crazy person who is ready to put everything on the line, even this same success and social approval. However, in the end, it is simple and banal luck that decides, which the Almighty God sends or does not send only at His own will.
Pricing:
- Beats from $30 depends on license
- concert as a pianist or conductor from $1,000
- arrangement for orchestra or instruments from $250
- Producing a track for an artist starts at $1,000
- theoretical lectures from $1,000 per lecture
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.beatstars.com/taikobeatz
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taikobeatz and https://www.instagram.com/konstantintaigildin
- Telegram: https://t.me/taikobeatz
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@taikobeatzproduction and https://www.youtube.com/@divinemusicflow
- VK: https://vk.com/konstantintaigildin and https://vk.com/taikobeatz
- Other: https://t.me/taigildinmusic
Image Credits
Anastasia Mezhakova, Nadezhda Taigildina
