Grigory Korchmar (born in 1947) got his higher musical education at the Leningrad (St Petersburg) State Conservatoire. His teachers were Vadim Salmanov (composition) and Pavel Serebryakov (piano). Being a man of different gifts, Korchmar uses to combine adjacent musical activities. The composer Korchmar performs solo and ensemble programmes, working as a pianist and clavecinist at the chamber ensemble ''St Petersburg Soloists''. His musicologic activity (articles, annotations, lectureship in Russia, USA, countries of Europe and Asia) pours to the pedagogical one quite naturally, for Korchmar is the professor of Gertsen Pedagogical University, conducting master-classes everywhere. Having revealed his talent for organization as the art director of the international festival ''Musical Spring'', Korchmar carries on social work as the vice-president of St Petersburg Composers’ Union. His contributions to the musical culture of Russia made him to be given the honourable name of the Russian F ederation Art Worker and the St Petersburg government prize.
Grigory Korchmar is the author of 140 compositions of different genres, embracing theatre, symphonic, choral, vocal and chamber instrumental ones. His creation includes the works for all ages and instrumental casts, so as the transcriptions of the other composers’ pieces. Korchmar holds on author’s concerts in St Petersburg, Moscow and other cultural centres of different countries (New-York, Boston, Hartford, Berlin, Koln, Tokyo, Jerusalim). Korchmar’s symphonic and chamber compositions are very often performed at the most prestigeous festivals in Russia, USA, European countries (Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Slovakia), Asian countries (Republic of Korea, Japan, Turkey, Israel). Many of the compositions by Grigory Korchmar were published by various native and foreign publishing houses. Some of them were recorded to the CDs. Among his works’ performers there are such