CHO, Eun-Hwa

Born in Pusan, Korea, Eun-Hwa Cho began to study compositon at Seoul National University and then continued her composition study under professor Hanspeter Kyburz and music theory under professor Joerg Mainka at Hochschule fuer Musik Hanns-Eisler, Berlin. Continue reading “Eun-Hwa CHO” »

With his extraordinary pianistic talents, Fazıl Say has been touching audiences and critics alike for more twenty-five years in a way that has become rare in the increasingly materialistic and elaborately organised classical music world. Concerts with this artist are something else. They are more direct, more open, more exciting; in short, they go straight to the heart. Which is exactly what the composer Aribert Reimann thought in 1987 when, during a visit to Ankara, he had the opportunity, more or less by chance, to appreciate the playing of the seventeen-year-old pianist. He immediately asked the American pianist David Levine, who was accompanying him on the trip, to come to the city’s conservatory, using the now much-quoted words: ‘You absolutely must hear him, this boy plays like a devil.’ Continue reading “Fazıl Say” »

Leonid Desyatnikov

Leonid Desyatnikov is one of the most successful living Russian composers.
Leonid Desyatnikov was born in 1955 in Kharkov, Ukraine. He is a graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition and instrumentation. Desyatnikov has penned four operas, several cantatas and numerous vocal and instrumental compositions. The composer defines his style as “the emancipation of consonance, the transformation of the banal, minimalism with a human face”; his favourite genre is the “tragically naughty bagatelle”. His principal compositions include: Rosenthal’s Children (an opera in two acts; libretto, Vladimir Sorokin), commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre; Poor Liza (a chamber opera in one act; libretto, Leonid Desyatnikov, after the novel by Nikolai Karamzin); Gift (a cantata based on the verses of Gavrila Derzhavin); The Leaden Echo (a work for voice(s) and instruments based on the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins); and The Rite of Winter 1949 (a symphony for chorus, soloists and orchestra). Continue reading “Leonid Desyatnikov” »

Olga Viсtorova

Olga Viсtorova, Russian composer, was born in 1960. She is a graduate of the Kharkov Music School for gifted children. In 1984 she graduated with honors from the St.-Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory where she studied composition with professor B.Arapov and folklore. In 1986 she completed her postgraduate course at the same conservatory. Continue reading “Olga Viсtorova” »