Biography
Hieromona Fotius - Monk, Regent Monastic Choir, winner of the television show "Voice" and the only clergyman of Russia, which was popular after participating in a music television show. The monk is scrupulously refer to the selection of material for execution. In the repertoire of Foto, the Russian romances, the classic pops of the last century, Aria from the popular opera, Rock Classic and recognized foreign hits.Childhood and youth
Vitaly Mochalov was born in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) on November 11, 1985 in a non-religious family. At school, attended by a local music school, where the vocal and the game on the piano. In addition, the boy sang in the school church, often soloated. Since childhood, Mochalov dreamed of becoming a composer and writing music and songs. In adolescence, when the voice began to break, Vitaly visited a church school, where he also sang in the choir.
After graduating from an incomplete high school, Mochalov entered the local music school, where he chose the separation of musical theory. But only one year has managed to learn. Together with the family, the young man emigrated to the German city of Kaiserslautern. There, Vitaly did not abandon music and singing: he studied the game on the organ. The young musician participated in the organ concerts and earned the game on this tool in Catholic and Protestant services.
Monasticism
After 3 years, Vitaly returned to Russia and entered the service in the Borovsky of the Nativity of the Virgin of the Holy Paftyev Monastery in the Kaluga region. There, a worldly young man accepted the victim and first became inkom under the name of Savvathi.In early 2011, he was ordained in San Ierodicone, and in 2012, he was tonsured in the mantle under the name of Fotius. In the middle of 2013, Fotius got San Hieromona.
Subsequently, Hieromona Fothy became the regeneration of the sacred Paftyev of the monastery.
Music and TV projects
Love for music and singing did not leave him. The Oteller of the Holy Paftyev Monastery Fotiy renounced singing for himself when he began to attend the lessons of the teacher's teacher's lessons on Viktor Tvardovsky's vocal, which was engaged in the training of monastic singers. According to Fothia, he went through his Moscow teacher a course on his author's methodology and was able to "configure" a voice.
Later, the priest Fotius was engaged in the vocal for several years, using the exercises of the Tvardovsky, specially designed for him and recorded on the cassette. Developing vocal skill, the performer began to give chamber concerts, and also released 2 disks, which included a cover version of a number of popular songs.
In 2013, Fothy decided to participate in the "Voice" project. An application for the show by Ieromonah was still in the 2nd season and received an invitation to casting, but did not decide to ask the blessings from the Metropolitan of Kaluga and Borovsky Clement. This year, the monk did not participate in the TV show. In 2015, the foty again sent the application and received an invitation again. This time the first channel was written by an official letter addressed to Metropolitan, in which he asked to let go of the monk Fothia to participate in the musical competition. The permission was received, and the Fothy appeared in the "Voice".
For the first time in the history of the television show "Voice", the priest appeared as a contestant. Hieromona Fothy on the "blind auditions" performed "Aria Lensky". This is a complicated composition of the Opera "Eugene Onegin".
According to Hieromones, his spiritual father is blessed to participate in the competition - Schirchimandritis of Mills. He provides foty prayer support. I joy supported the participation in the show and the brotherhood of the monastery together with the Metropolitan Kaluga and Borovsky Clement.
Hieromona Fothy got into the team of Gregory Leps, who turned to him after "blind listening". The priest says that he expected to get into the team of Alexander Gradsky, as he is closest to him academic execution.
Jury members warmly met an unusual contestant. Alexander Gradsky defended the priest when Grigori Leps asked him provocative questions. And Vasily Vakulenko (Basta) at the end of the competition took the blessing from Father.
In the last stages of the most popular musical project of Russia, Ieromona Fotius acquitted the confidence of the Leps, who accepted him to his team. From the first speeches, the artist confidently went to victory. At the stage of "fights", he spoke in a duet with Ella Crystalieva, Sveti Music Hit "Canto Della Terra". During the "knockouts", he managed to bypass the opponents thanks to the romance of Mikhail Glinka "I remember a wonderful moment."
In the quarterfinals, the musician conquered the audience and the jury of the song "On the way to Zagorsk", in the semifinals he submitted to the court to the audience a male version of the romance to poems by Marina Tsvetaeva "Requiem" ("Monolog"), in the final Fotiy performed "Good night, gentlemen" and sang In a duet with Gregory Leps "Labyrinth".
For the first time in 4 seasons, the "Voice" project won the priest. As the song of the winner of the Fotiy chose not Russian romances who brought the monk victory, but fulfilled the foreign composition "Per Te".
Patriarch Kirill approved a victory and congratulated Ieromonaha. In a congratulatory word, the head of the church reminded the fotio of monastic obligations and asked to keep the mood and spiritual state. According to the Patriarch, fans of Fothia rated not only the voice of the monk, the TV viewers voted for the image itself, stretched to holiness. The monk proved that the pop singing and ministry of the Church is compatible and can bring fruit, but now believers, and unbelievers are wary of the fame and the popularity of the monk musician.
In early 2016, fans of a singing monk were worried because of the danger no longer hear Fothia. The media received information that the priestly banned him to continue participation in concerts and musical festivals. In September, the issue of Hieromonach was discussed at the meeting of the Igumen and Igness in the Church of Christ the Savior in Moscow.
The clergymen were concerned that the monk gained popularity, enjoys glory and earned a large capital. The outrage of the hierarchs caused not the songs of Fothia, but the fact that he gives an interview, becoming an unofficial voice of the Church. For example, the question of journalists, why he began to sing, the monk complained about boredom in the monastery.
The conflict allowed Patriarch Kirill. He allowed the Fotio to continue the speeches, since the popularity of the monk, according to the Patriarch, attracted fans to the Orthodox faith. In addition, the funds collected at concerts, because of which Hieromonach accused of collecting capital, went to restore churches that need financial assistance.
The latest news from the life of Hieromonach only please fans. Fothy gives concerts in the cities of Russia, and the church leadership is no longer trying to ban musical activities of the monk.
March 18, 2016, a monk appeared on the first channel in the TV shows "Evening Urgant". In the spoken show, Ieromonah did not refuse to sing and executed the composition "Alejate".
On April 16, 2017, the monk again appeared on television in the Orthodox Transmission "Mental Supper" with Igumen Luka.
On May 16, Ieromona Fotiy gave a concert in Kirov on the stage of DC "Rodina". Before the speech, the musician visited the Alexandrovsky Church, where he asked permission to play on the body. Ieromona studied the game on this tool, but he had 16 years old had an opportunity to touch the body again.
After the permission was received, the Fotiy performed the Johanna Sebastian Baha unfortunate, and also played with the musician Alexander Tevelev. Joy on this occasion of Hieromona shared with fans through his account in "Instagram".
On May 31, the monk performed in Pskov. The musician performed the vintage romances and pop hits. On June 7, 2017, a solo concert of the singer was held in Moscow, in Crocus City Hall. Fothia's guests were colleagues in "Voice" - Witold Petrovsky, Guralia Gela, Renata Volkievich. Later, in an interview with Ieromona, he mentioned that for the first time he acted before such a number of public that was pronounced for him.
A year later, the premiere of the premiere of Metropolitan Metropolitan (Alfeyev) "Passion in Math" took place, where the tenor party performed the Fotius monk. 350 musicians participated in the concert, among which were artists of 5 choral groups, instrumentalists and soloists.
Since the end of the project "Voice", the repertoire of the singer was replenished with works of various genres and epochs. Among the rock compositions that the monk performs, the Hits "Maybe I, Maybe You" of the Scorpions Groups, "the city that is not" Igor Cornelyuk, "Love of My Life" Freddie Mercury. Fotiy also learned the Georgian song "Tbilisi", Norwegian "Teach me by your ways." Together with the composer Alexander Morozov, he recorded the songs "Raspberry ringing" and "Tornynya", and Evgeny Krylatov presented the musician "Be with me" the musician.
Foty's concerts visited the city of Belarus, Uzbekistan, Germany, USA. Also, the singer released a record, which entered 15 romances of Russian composers - Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Peter Tchaikovsky, Sergey Rakhmaninova, Mikhail Glinka.
In a conversation with reporters, Ieromona reports that it will no longer participate in the music television show. "Voice" became for his creative biography of those Spriplin, who allowed raising the strap of vocal skill. Today, the musical life of Fothia is saturated with events, which is reflected on his visit to the monastic services. Despite the fact that the musician is often absent in the monastery, the bosses for his concert activity looks condescending.
Personal life
The personal life of Hieromonach Fothy is the ministry of the church and the life of spiritual. Priest's comrades argue that he has a firm character, although it looks like a rather mild and even shye person. At one time, he, being in the monastery, was forced to decide on the service in the army. But due to problems with vision, he was denied.Fotius (Vitaly Mochalov) perfectly knows German and English. And he is performed by songs in Georgian, Japanese, Italian and Serbian. In his free time, it works in the monastic publishing house, engaged in layout and design. The monk is also enjoys the creation of a photo and video editing.
After the victory on the TV show "Voice", the Fotius was forced along with the life of the monk to start leading a secular life. Hieromonach has a personal page and the official group in Vkontakte, an account in "Instagram", microblogging in Twitter and the official channel on YouTube, where video from the speeches of Hieromona is posted.
The Fotius regularly broadcasts in the "Periscope", which discusses everyday themes with fans, arranges video speakers, shows how she prepares dinner or driving on the car. Such activity for believers has become an argument in favor of the fact that the church can be modern, close and interesting young people.
The monk is characterized by a good sense of humor. For example, Fothy posted a video in "Instagram", where the musician executes the romance to the microphone, and then the device is calmly eaten - the microphone turned out to be chocolate. His subscribers rated a joke.
Hieromona Fothy Now
Now the winner of the project "Voice" continues to combine the ministry of God and concert activities. At the beginning of 2019, the singer managed to visit Kaliningrad, Ufa, at the Christmas concert in Perm. The Fotya feared the honor to open the anniversary concert of the composer Alexander Morozov.
At the end of February, he first performed at the Theater Hall of MMDM with the program "Evening Romance". The concert was the works of "Lark", "Lilac", "well here", "Night sad", "not wind, vene from height" and other writings of Russian composers.
On April, the next execution of the Oratoria "Passion on Matthew" was appointed, in which Jeromona Fotius again took part.
Discography
- 2016 - "Romance"