Born February 25, 1969 in Moscow.
At the age of 7 was sent to a musical studio, piano class. Due to the fact, that the education program of a studio was based on examples of the classic and native folk music, the future composer disregarded the classes and generally had no interest in music at all. Thus, the formal education soon ended.
At the age of 10 Andrey on his own determined his future activities - stars, space and the Universe. To learn about them in details, he enters the astronomy courses of the Moscow Planetarium in 1980. But, by the twist of fate, he found himself interested in space music.
Beginning from 1984, Andrey Klimkovsky is a participant of a group "ALRADO", born within the Moscow Planetarium in the same year.
The first concert of the group happened in April 1984 and consisted of compositions of the group "Space" in semiacoustic performance. In summer 1984 Andrey writes several musical plays for this group in a very close to "Space" stylistics. The performance of them at the concert of "ALRADO" in October 1984 under the Planetarium dome created a sensation.
These and similar compositions will make up the album "Milky Way", published 13 years later.
At the same time with creation of new pieces and concerts under the electric stars, Andrey Klimkovsky is still getting prepared to becoming a professional astronomer and spends many days in scientific library of Astronomy Institute and many nights in the observatory towers under the real stars, looking at them, hearing their hardly distinctive voices and yet more music in them.
In the Autumn 1989 Andrey Klimkovsky deliberately interrupts his education in Moscow Physical Technical Institute and returns to the music.
For a short time he returns to the Moscow Planetarium and gives a number of exclusive concert lectures, playing his music under the same stars, this time along with the narratives about the Universe, read by the leading lecturers of Moscow Planetarium.
In 1990 Andrey Klimkovsky performs the order from Moscow Planetarium to create the 10 minutes long soundtrack to play in foyer before the lecture.
The recording took place in April.
The participants were:
- Andrey Chudnov (percussions, effects, mixing)
- Pavel Paleshkin (guitar)
- Svetlava Vyatkina (voice)
- Alexa Xens (additional keyboards)
Later one more piece was added to five existing compositions from this soundtrack - the song "My Liar" written and performed by Andrey Klimkovsky. The entire musical program under the name "Legende" appeared in a number of sound recording studios of Moscow as the first album of "NEANE" group.
In summer two more musical programs were recorded: "Voyager" composed for the corresponding lecture of Moscow Planetarium, and "The Egey's Sea" - for recording studios which bought it as the second album of "NEANE".
Andrey Chudnov and Olga Sizikova participated in recording.
The third album of "NEANE" (in a cast of 1991) was created in "Nica" studio in 1991-1992. In May 1992 it appeared in recording under the name "Contrary Action".
For recording of the next album, Andrey invited the singer Sana.
The recording took place in "Nica" studio. Due to economical reasons the recording was not finished and the release of the album "We'll be closer" was postponed.
The group "NEANE" by that time changed the name to "Universe", gave a number of concerts (including recording from the unreleased album) and came apart in 1993.
During 1994-1996 Andrey opens his personal sound recording studio "NEANE Lab Studio" to begin the work on the new projects. At the same time he founded the publishing company "NEANE Records", where Sana works as an artist designer.
The first release of "NEANE Records" happened at May 15, 1997. It was the first solo album of Andrey Klimkovsky "Music of Celestial Spheres" Part 1 - "From Dusk to Dawn".
From 1997 on Andrey Klimkovsky releases the new albums once in several months. Sometimes he publishes again the old works of the "ALRADO" times.
Thus in Autumn 1997 the "Milky Way" written in 1984-1985 was published, and in February 1998 a presentation of an album by Andrey Klimkovsky "Dedicated to the Crew of Challenger" (written in 1986) took place before Russian and American audience.
In February 1999 an album "We continue the Search" written in 1985-1986 was released. An hour-lasting fantastic video score was created by Andrey and Sana for the presentation.
It exclusive presentation happened at February 20, 1999 in "Martian Concert" in movie theatre "Ashkhabad".
During his publishing activities Andrey Klimkovsky meets two interesting musicians of Russia - Alexey Ostrovky and Vyacheslav Kulikov. The cooperation with them leads to release of several albums of the composers.
Along with creation of new albums for music series "Music of Celestial Spheres" and "Starry Sky", Andrey Klimkovsky creates new projects: "Astral Journey", "DreamOcean", "ALEALA" - this one with the participation of a know art rock guitarist, leader of "In folio" group Sergey Sedykh.
In 2000 in commemoration of 120th anniversary of the known Russian novelist Alexander Grin, Andrey Klimkovsky composes the romatic album "Scarlet Sails" which becomes the popular instrumental hit of composer.
The 2001 is marked in creativity of Andrey Klimkovsky by an output of one of the most successful albums of the composer - "Star Triangle".
The disk has collected duration about 80 of minutes in itself all best, that the musician has made before.
For this album Andrey Klimkovsky as prepared four new compositions, and as has given attention to the future works, having illustrated them in an album - "Star Triangle" to four unknown spectators by the plays.
This album was written down on the highest technological level, and in record were used not only synthesizers, but also traditional musical tools - guitar Sergey Sedykh, bass - guitar of Roman Kalinin and flute of Gianeya Ruandil.
The 2002 Andrey Klimkovsky has devoted to the sated concert work.
In March the next concert in capital of republic Byelorussia - in city of Minsk was held, where know and love music of Andrey Klimkovsky.
In April the composer has presented the new version famous "Martian Live".
The show was held in a Memorial Museum of Space Researches.
Specially for this day Sana has created new "Martian Film", which was rendering and is mounted at support of Club of the Fans of Electronic Music (KLEM.ru) and since this day all concerts of Andrey Klimkovsky pass with high-quality video-support.
The new version "Martian Live" was repeatedly submitted to the spectators in 2002 however most interesting there were concerts "Music of Stars" and "Two Oceans" holding at the end of one year.
The plenty of the spectators was going on these concerts, which have opened new sounding of space music of Andrey Klimkovsky when under three-dimensional stars of a fantastic video-projection together with numerous synthesizers and effects - processors sound an acoustic guitar, grand piano and bells of a wind.
To the beginning of 2003 at Andrey Klimkovsky the constant group was generated: Roman Kalinin - bass - guitar, Nikita Kalutsky - electro and acoustic guitar, Oleg Artemenko - sound director and concert director.
In this structure the musicians have given two tremendous concerts - "Evolution" and "Music of Stars - IV".
In the summer of 2003 there was a new album of Andrey Klimkovsky to which composer has opened the new experimental - electronic project "Heaven".
The new coil in creativity of the composer carries away the spectators in spaces disappearing in the most secret corners of human soul.
After listening an album "Sad and soli music" the soul it too huge universe becomes clear, that.
The musical pictures of this hidden world also have made a track-sheet of a new album of Andrey Klimkovsky "Heaven" - " Sad and soli music ".
In July, 2003 Andrey Klimkovsky and his group come back to studio work.
The composer heads for record of the new version of the old project - album "The Egey's Sea".
In parallel with it the work above the same videofilm began which is planned to show on concert - presentation of the new version of an album in the autumn of 2003.
At the present moment discography of Andrey Klimkovsky totals 26 studio electronic-space albums, 8 concert sessions and 9 maxi-singles.
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