is a Russian composer, musician, songwriter, leader of the Great Stereo Orchestra, sound producer.
Writing songs from the age of 12. Singing, playing guitar, piano, percussion, harmonica, cass. In his high school years he played in amateur groups, while simultaneously playing music at a jazz school. In December 1993, he organized the band "Tank," whose repertoire consisted mainly of covers of the songs and compositions of Maximachev himself. According to the expression of rock journalist Andrei Burlaki, the group performed the rarity of melodious, cheerful and energetic music, in which elements of rock and roll, blues, British bat, country and ragges are folded with a rhythmic basis of the sciffle, its artistic world is invariably positive, and the poetic language is filled with romantic images.
Debuting in March 1994, the band joined an active club life. In the winter of 1994, a single of two songs was recorded, released on cassettes. In the summer of 1996, the group "Tanks" got into the program of the festival "The We will fill the sky with the kindness," organized by the group DDT - at the stadium "Petrovsky." In June 1997 she performed at the second rock festival - the DDT Theatre - in the Palace of Sports "Jubilee," and in January 1999 she recorded the debut album "Unheardless" with sound engineers Vadim "Dessage Sergeev," published on the CD in 2001.[2] The main composition of the group was also included: Elizaveta (Verekila Sergeeva), the main composition of the group was also included:
In the late 90s and early 2000s, Dmitry Maximachev became a regular participant of Вячеславом Ковалёвымthe festival of Singing Poets "Moguchaya Kuchka", which was organized by the musicians of the group "Zimovye Zverius - Konstantin Arbenin and Alexander Peterson, and the regulars of the concert hall of the Leningrad Zoo (later the club "Zoopark"), the leader of the author of his team. Maximachev, who studied at the Institute of Cinemataries, became friends with the team and soon became a staff-based sound engineer of the club "Zoopark." Gradually, from the voice of the concerts, he went to the recording: for 2000-2001 he recorded in the "Zoo" hall the albums of many St. Petersburg bands, including the bands "Steps" and the Billys Band, with whom he subsequently began to work closely with.
Since 2001, Maximachev and the leader of the group "Stupery" Nastya Makarov have become an integral part of the acoustic composition - Bashakov Band. And in November 2002, Maximachev and Makarov presented to the public their joint project - an acoustic duo "MAY," named for the first syllable of their names. In the spring of 2003, they recorded and released their debut album "K to yourself" and participated in the tribute to Alexei Rybnikov "At the crossroads of childhood (2005). A little later, Bashakov, Maximachev and Makarov starred in the small roles of musicians in the film by Yuri Mamin - Do not think about the white monkeys (I went on the screens in 2008).
In 2002, Maximachev began a constant collaboration with the Billys Band as a sound engineer and sound producer.
In March 2003, Maximachev presented to the public fragments of his new program, after which "Tanks" were gradually reborn into a new musical project. Permanent participants of the "BS" were Natalia Nazarova (a cello), Konstantin Ionochkin (bass-guitar), Yulia Usova (violin), Alexey Gussarov (violin), Alexey Gusev (alt).
The new project did not prevent Maximachev from living a rich creative life and working in other groups in a variety of musical roles. At the end of the first half of the zero, he actively performs with the acoustic Bashakov band, he plays percussion in the bands Splin and Billys Band, continues to cooperate with the "Steps" as a sound engineer, sound producer and concert.
In 2005, Maximachev's first solo album "Music" was released, in which many musicians from "Tanks" were performed, "Stup" and Billy’s Band.
In 2007, the second solo album of Maximachev "Khoroography" was released. The bonus track in the album included a cover of the famous song "I walk around Moscow," recorded for the tribute to the composer Andrei Petrov. In 2009, Maximachev and "BSO" performed several times together with Konstantin Arbenin, who had just left the group - Winter Beasts. The result of this commonwealth was the network EP "Interseason" from 4 songs of Arbenin in the arrangements of BSO (later the same songs, but in other versions of the performances were included in the album Arbenin - One-Non-Non-Non-Non-Non-Noned Songs (2010)). In 2011 - in the laps - published the mini-album of the Live in the Museum. In the repertoire appeared songs written by Dmitry in cooperation with the singing poet Anatoly Bagritsky.
Since 2009, Maximachev has been performing in another capacity as a composer who writes music for theater and cinema. He creates the soundtracks for the film "Widrimasgoor, or the History of My Space" (Lenfilm 2009, dir. Yana Polyarush), to the single performance of Konstantin Arbenin, "Two clowns (2011), to the performances of Uppsala-Zirk . Gradually, this becomes the main direction of his activity. In 2012, the first symphony work of Maximachev "Valse" appeared. The lost dream.
In December 2013, a grand concert of the "StereoUyut" took place on the stage of the friendly Maximachev - Upsal-Tirk, in which the author was accompanied by a small symphony orchestra of 25 musicians. This became an annual tradition. In the following years, the team performed at different venues in St. Petersburg (Capella, Yaan Kirik, Museum - Erarta).
In 2014 he began to cooperate with the composers of the animated series - Smeshariki - Marina Landa and Sergey Vasiliev, founders of the project "SmesBanda" and the musical theater of children of Marina Land.
In the summer of 2017, together with the "Upsala-Cirkom" takes part in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, performing in a duet with Natalia Nazarova's music in the play "The effect of the ping-pong ball."
In 2019, Dmitry was nominated for the highest theatrical award of St. Petersburg - Golden Sophite - in the nomination - the best music for the puppet performance for the performance of "Nikita and Kita."
In 2021, the play "About the fisherman and fish" (director of Yana Tumina) received the award - Golden Mask - as the best performance in the puppet theater.
In 2022, Dmitry became the winner of the Russian National Theatre Award "Harlequin" in the nomination "the best work of the composer" for the performance of Noos (directed by Jan Toumina).
On May 12, 2022, the series "Self and butterflies" (series - Smeshariki), where Maximachov sang the song "Once" by the authorship of Marina Land and Sergey Vasiliev.
