Posts Tagged ‘cello’
Veli Kujala: Coral Fantasy
Veli Kujala (b. 1976) studied concert accordion and composition at the Sibelius-Academy receiving his Doctor of Music degree with distinction in 2010. He is a prizewinner of many international competitions for soloists and for composition. His compositional output covers a wide variety of genres ranging from electro-acoustic to orchestral works. His composer portrait CD Hyperorganism…
Read MoreVictor Kaminskyi: Quasi una Sonata
Victor Kaminskiy (b. 1953) is a Ukrainian composer, teacher, theorist, and social activist. He studied at the Khmelnytsky College of Music before entering the Lviv State Conservatory M. V. Lysenka. Starting out exploring avant-garde trends, Kaminskiy turned to neoromanticism and neo-folk styles in his symphony, his first violin concerto, and the oboe concerto. After he…
Read MoreOlexiy Voytenko: The music of Erich Zann
Alex or Olexiy Voytenko (b. 1981 in Kyiv, Ukraine) is a composer, music teacher, and musicologist. He graduated from the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music in 2002 in the Department of Composition in the class of Yuri Iuschenko and received an invitation to return to that department as a teacher in 2012. Since 2014 he has…
Read MoreLaura Ana Mânzat: Concerto for 3 cellos and orchestra
Laura Ana Mânzat was born on the 24th of April 1969, in the town of Dej, Cluj County, Romania. She studied composition at the ‘’George Enescu’’ Academy of Music Iași, with Vasile Spătărelu as her professor and at the National University of Music Bucharest, with Ulpiu Vlad. She graduated in 1993. After that, she pursued…
Read MoreHelmut Lachenmann: Notturno
Helmut Lachenmann (b. November 27, 1935 in Stuttgart) studied piano, theory, and counterpoint at the Music Conservatory in Stuttgart from 1955 to 1958 and from 1958 to 1960 composition with Luigi Nono in Venice. The first public performances of his works took place at the Biennale in Venice in 1962 and at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt. After his teaching activity…
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