ABOUT ME
David Kozyrkov
Welcome to my personally curated music portfolio for college. As a music student, I have had the pleasure of performing in various concerts and productions. This portfolio showcases my musical journey and highlights my skills and achievements. I have a passion for recording music and have received training in instruments such as the piano, drum, bass, guitar, and vocal. Music has been an integral part of my life and I dream to continue growing and learning as a musician.
My music portfolio shows the skills and knowledge that I have received over the years, my dream is to build myself and improve the world with this, create something new, and develop here, I want to show that I do not only have a lot of musical work but also a lot of social assistance.
Life is an endless development and improvement of oneself.
Considering yourself perfect is the same thing as killing yourself.
2018
Each of us has the best year of our lives, some had this year a long time ago, maybe this year has not yet come for others, but my best year of life is the year in which I realized my goal, my passion, the year in which mine began career. this year our friends the group Vertex came to our city, a group that showed how strong the influence of music on a person can be. This year they didn’t have enough people who could play the piano with my not much experience in music school playing this instrument. I wanted to help them with this, the purpose of their visit was to give concerts on the front line at the zero points of the war, sing songs familiar to the military, and help them remember home, remember family, and give hope that year I realized 3 things that are truly important, the first is doing something that I really like doing something that makes me feel like I’m in flight, a feeling that gives me goosebumps, second is helping those who are close to me, helping people feel what I feel, because I can see how people’s eyes begin to change, start to burn, and third the fact that not everything comes easy, that everything depends on small steps from day to day. after they left, I realized what I would do for the rest of my life, after I started working hard, going to concerts, helping people with music to the best of my ability, and of course striving to see the best version of myself
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
2019
I don’t know whether this year was productive or just difficult, but I know that difficulties are even good, they stimulate me, and the process of achieving the desired goal becomes even more interesting. I gained a lot of experience working and doing what I love, and this year I was transferred to another piano group, and I actively practiced learning key parts and timbres in general. This year I learned how to write parts and chords for a band. Soon I wrote my first song. which I dedicated in honor of the cause that my team from the church came up with the purpose of this charitable work was that we wanted children living in villages where the war was going on to receive food, clothing, and gifts, we threw lists of things, gifts and sweets online and people from all over the country gave what children needed. and soon I performed this song at a city Christmas concert. I also attended a concert in the city of Sloviansk, where I performed vocal songs, where I learned how to connect sound to monitors and perform on a big stage.
2020
When I think back on this year, I try to remember something happy, I try to remember what kind of person I was then, what motivated me and what my success was, but all I can remember is that this year was not the easiest. more precisely, it was very difficult, but a couple of days ago, while reading a book, I read one phrase that made me think a lot: there is a Scandinavian proverb that should become a life motto for many of us: “The North Wind created the Vikings.” and I asked myself where we got the idea that a quiet life, full of pleasures, absence of difficulties and worries, in itself can make people good or happy. The most important thing in life is not to make the most of your successes. after all, every fool can take advantage of his success. What really matters is the ability to capitalize on losses. And this requires intelligence, this is the difference between a wise person and a person with a lack of critical thinking. I've had a lot going on this year: I've written another song, played a lot of piano in a band, and gotten very deep into writing electronic music, recording audio for playback, and playing parts on instruments like saxophone, violin, and double bass. etc. and, while studying the structure of sound, I sometimes recorded people for money in my apartment, which was poorly equipped for this. this year in my city I was actively invited to various musical projects, for example, to help record songs on midi keys and help with harmonization of parts. Also, closer to winter, my team and I again carried out a series of helping people in front-line villages, but this time we increased the volume of work almost 3 times, covered 4 more villages and changed the work a little, we gave gifts to children, winter clothes and sweets, and the adults, mostly grandmothers, also received bags of food and winter clothing, and at their request we bought what they needed. Also this year, I graduated from music school and was preparing to enter a prestigious jazz college, majoring in piano.
2021
This year has become quite decisive in my life, this year I realized quite a few useful things and made quite a few difficult decisions, I realized that talent is not success, that success is discipline in life is not to find yourself, although this is not a little important. life is about creating yourself. This year I actively played in two groups and soon created my own, participated in podcasts, actively wrote music for myself for advertising for YouTube videos, wrote playbacks, and recorded people for money, I also entered college to study jazz piano on a scholarship and started study orchestra management, not just conducting, but registration and study of parts with an orchestra in general; also this year I was able to record a song with one very strong popular singer Zlata Ognevich in Ukraine and shoot a video with her; I also participated in live broadcasts of Ukrainian radio and did a lot of social work. the team created 2 camps for children from front-line villages and increased the project to help pensioners
2022-2023
"Only the presence of a goal brings meaning and satisfaction to life. This not only improves health and longevity, but also gives you a drop of optimism in a difficult time." Steve Jobs
There is a phrase that everything happens, happens for good, I could agree with this, I don’t know, but this year I lost full awareness of the meaning of the word faith or goodness, this year I lost everything I had, or rather, I they stole my family, my friends and my home, I could have died and more than once I will even say that it was a miracle that I survived, but in my entire life I never thought that grief was similar to fear. I'm not really scared, but the feelings I experience are like sudden fear, the same internal trembling, the same anxiety, sometimes it's like a slight intoxication, sometimes like confusion. and in moments of loneliness, you understand that it will no longer be the same as before, that almost all your friends either died or in other countries this year I overestimated a lot, I revised my understanding of life, understanding the purpose and faith and being left alone with myself, you understand that the essence of any faith is that it gives life a meaning that is not destroyed by death, this year I tried to survive, tried to earn a living, but I never had the idea that I could get something more, to get the most valuable thing we have, an education, the moment I realized that my life was going on, I began to remember my values, my hobbies and passions, and over time I began to play in bands, give concerts, collect money for Ukraine and help people go through what I went through. convey to them my emotions through music, having gone through all this, I realized that people are a thousand times more concerned with acquiring wealth for themselves than with educating their minds and hearts, although for our happiness, undoubtedly, what is in a person is more important than that what a person has.
Much information about my works, concerts, and performances remained in Mariupol. During my life, I finally had a chance, a chance to fulfill my dream, a chance to become someone in life, and having gone through everything that I saw and understood for myself, I know what is most important for me and this is improving myself and the world, because each of us is obliged work on yourself, on improving your personality, taking on a certain part of the responsibility for the life of humanity
These photos from my city Mariupol
