Alexander Jurjewitsch Radwilowitsch
Alexander Jurjewitsch Radwilowitsch ( Russian Александр Юрьевич Радвилович , in English transcription Alexander Radvilovich ; * 1955 in Leningrad ) is a Russian composer and pianist .
Life
Radvilovich graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory in the composer class of Sergei Slonimski . Alexander Radwilowitsch is a member of the Russian Composers Union and Secretary of the Union of Russian Composers St. Petersburg.
He founded the New Music Festival Sound Ways in St. Petersburg and is the artistic director of this annual event. He is also the founder of the eponymous association of avant-garde musicians from Europe, Asia, the USA and Russia. In 1992, Alexander Radwilowitsch was the first Russian composer to give lectures at the International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt . Since 1996 he has been a lecturer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and at the St. Petersburg University of Social Sciences.
Prizes and awards
Radvilovich received several prizes and awards, including
- 1992 - Queen Marie-José International Composers' Competition in Geneva
- 1998 - Johann Wenzel Stamitz Special Prize , Germany
- 1996 - Scholarship from the Russian Ministry of Culture
Works
(Selection)
Orchestral works
- The Legend of the Violinist , symphonic poem
- Pushkin , Chamber Symphony
- Sinfonia-Sacra for choir and ensemble
- Chekhov Symphony for Symphony Orchestra
Concerts
- Concerto for cor anglais and chamber orchestra
- Chamber concert for harpsichord and strings
- Concerto for violin, strings and percussion
Operas and songs
- Splitter vom Kreuz for two speakers, wind quintet, organ and glockenspiel to texts by Johannes Jourdan
- The Boy of Christ's Christmas Party for string quartet and percussion
- Chamber opera Hindrance to texts by Daniil Charms
- Mini-opera Let's write a story for two soloists and choir
- Mini-opera disruption based on Daniil Charms (Austrian premiere, Vienna 2017, Festival VISUAL)
- Götterdämmerung , postlude in memory of Verdi
- Sequence in memory of Luciano Berio for female choir, string orchestra and percussion
- The Passion of Judas
- An Alpenrequiem for piano, large percussion and vocal quartet, commissioned by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater for the scenic concert "Ten thousand kilos of phosphorus", world premiere at Klagenfurt Central Station on August 5, 2017
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.ruslania.com/context-321/entity-6/details-156922/language-1.html
- ↑ Student-Faculty Ensemble Plays Russia's "Sound Ways" ( Memento from June 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.ceo.spb.ru/eng/music/radvilovich.a.yu/index.shtml
- ↑ http://www.arbos.at/download/2017/2017-VISUAL_18-PROGRAMM.pdf
- ↑ http://dada.arbos.at/downloads/ARBOS-War=daDa%20Projekte_2017.pdf
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Radvilovich, Alexander Jurjewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Радвилович, Александр Юрьевич; Radvilovich, Alexander (English transcription); Radvilovich, Aleksandr Yur'yevich (scientific transcription) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |