Pyotr Yurievich Dranga (russian: link=no, Пётр Ю́рьевич Дра́нга, Moscow), also known as Peter Dranga, is a Russian
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
ist, singer and composer based in Los Angeles, CA.
Dranga's father, Yuir Petrovich Dranga, is a classical accordion player and introduced the instrument to Pyotr at a young age. Dranga was the first to incorporate the accordion in electronic music, which he brought to the Russian and world stages.
Life and career
Dranga was born in 1984 in a family of musicians. His father, Yuri Petrovich Dranga – is a professor at
Gnessin Academy of Music Art in Russia,
People's Artist of Russia
People's Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: Народный артист Российской Федерации, ''Narodnyy artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii''), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the Russian Federation, is an h ...
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his mother- Elena Kirillovna Dranga.
In 1999 he was named Laureate at the VII Moscow Open Music Competition and began his concert career organized by Russian Cultural Foundation.
In 2008, he presented his first CD.
Pyotr prefers to play on the instruments of the Italian brand Bugari Armando.
As of May 2022, Dranga has 11 releases on Spotify.
Discography
References
External links
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Piotr Drangain
Argumenty i Fakty
Concert in SamaraPeter Dranga took part in the project named Dancing on ice where he took the third place with
Oksana Grishuk
Russian TangoGnesein music academy
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1984 births
Living people
Russian accordionists
Russian folk-pop singers
21st-century accordionists
21st-century Russian male singers