Igor Kornelyuk started studying music at the local child music school in Brest when he was 6 years old. At the age of 12, he played keyboards in the ensemble of the
Palace of Dance Culture in Brest. In 1978, Igor Kornelyuk moved to
Leningrad to study at the School of Music of the
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory. He graduated in 1982, and started to follow the Composition classes at the same institute, from which he graduated in 1987. Being a student, he worked as musical director and composer for the Leningrad Theatre
Buff. His professional career started in 1988, when he reached the final of the TV show
Song of the Year with his song
Bilyet na Balyet (Ticket to the Ballet). Igor Kornelyuk wrote more than 200 popular songs, many of which were recorded by popular Russian singers like
Mikhail Boyarsky,
Anne Veski,
Edita Piekha and
Philipp Kirkorov, and he wrote the soundtracks for some of the most renowned Russian films and TV-series directed by
Vladimir Bortko like
Gangsters of Saint-Petersburg,
The Idiot,
The Master and Margarita and
Taras Bulba. == Discography ==