Alexandra Filonenko

Alexandra Filonenko (* 1972 in Donetsk , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian composer living in Germany.

Life

Alexandra Filonenko's father Boris Isaakovitch Plon was a football coach and educator, her mother Natalia Grigorieva Filonenko was a singer. Filonenko started playing the piano at the age of three and began composing at the age of five. In 1984 the family moved to Moscow.

From 1986-1991 Filoinenko studied at the Ippolitov-Iwanov Music School in Moscow and received composition lessons from Vladimir Tarnpolski. She graduated with honors as a musicologist. From 1991 to 1996 she studied at the Moscow Conservatory PI Tchajkovski in Edison Wassilijevitch Denissov's composition class. In 1996 she moved to Germany with her family and completed a postgraduate course in 1998. Her first CD Nackt was released in 2016, and the opera Noumen in 2018 . Alexandra Filonenko is a freelance composer and lives in Berlin.

Scholarships and awards (selection)

1995–1996 scholarship at the Berlin Academy of the Arts , Moscow-Berlin project
1998 scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Wiepersdorf
2004–2005 scholarship from the Rheinsberg Music Academy
2006 scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Lukas (Ahrenshoop)
2007–2008 scholarship holder at Akademie Schloss Solitude
2009 scholarship holder at the Künstlerhof Schreyahn
2010 Scholarship holder Villa Massimo / Casa Baldi (Olevano, Italy)
2016 scholarship from the Berlin Cultural Senate
2020 German Study Center Venice / Senate Scholarship Berlin

Prices

1st prize of the composition competitor at the Handel Festival
2nd prize at the Deutsche Oper composition competition
1st prize “Operare 2007” / Contemporary Opera Berlin, Rapunzel Music Theater

2018 Rheinsberg Composition Prize

Works

Orchestral music

1996 Creation-Disappearance of the Past Figures for large orchestra, organ and 2 children's voices
2008 farce for large orchestra
2017 Genetika for large orchestra and tape
2020 Frammenti di ricordi sfuggenti for large ensembles and electronics

Choral music

2001 Mudo Universo que me cercas for 16 voices and percussion; 2nd version (2005) for large choir
1993 Canticum Canticorum for 6 voices
2009 Canto d'amore e de morte for 7 voices
2012 Schwarzeis for choir and ensemble
2012 border zone for choir and ensemble

Opera / music theater

2008 Rapunzel monologue, music theater based on the story by SASchuemmer Rapunzel
2013 dinner for 6 performers
2016 Chiaroscuro for ensemble, video, light projections and live electronics
2018 Noumen , opera for one actor, vocal ensemble, video and electronics
2019 A business with dreams , music theater piece based on texts by Ingeborg Bachmann

Chamber music / chamber orchestra

1998 Once when I shed bitter tears for a large ensemble, speaker (low voice), treble, string quintet
1995 Look at the clouds for flute, clarinet, harp and string quartet
1996 Steps in the Snow for oboe, clarinet, percussion, piano, violoncello and double bass
2004 Ende-Stille for 3 flutes, oboe, clarinet, harp and string quintet
2006 The Breath of Autumn for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello
2008 The oppressive lack of a creative space for flute, guitar, harpsichord, double bass and accordion / 2 version for clarinet, trumpet, drums, violin, violoncello and accordion
2009 Mute for countertenor, ensemble: bass flute, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussionists, piano, accordion, electric guitar, violoncello and electronics
2009 Der Ungeheuer no longer sings for 4 voices, ensemble: trumpet, trombone, 2 percussionists, piano, electric guitar, violoncello and electronics
2012 The Monster Doesn't Sing anymore , 2nd version
2010 Open the gate, Matador! for soprano and ensemble: flute (also bass flute), clarinet in Bb (also bass clarinet), percussion, piano, accordion, violin and cello
2013 Aleph for Ensemble Aleph
2014 Hydra for ensemble and electronics
2019 Ржавчина for 2 voices, flute, piano and electronics

Chamber music / small line-up

1993 Eos for oboe and violoncello
2000 Song of the Parzen for 2 marimbas
2000/2005 Kiefer's shadow for string quartet based on pictures by Anselm Kiefer
2011 Sirens for recorder quartet [05´03]
2000 So near, so far , trio for clarinet, violoncello and piano
2007 Rasch , trio for flute, harp and accordion
2007 From the river of times ... the seasons , trio for violin, violoncello and accordion
2008 Sun of the Sleepless / A BeautifulMind , trio for alto saxophone, violoncello and accordion
2009 Last , for voice and violoncello
2010 Scarbo for string quartet
2010 Genesis for accordion and tenor saxophone
2010 Offret for clarinet, bass and violoncello, 2nd version (2012) for baritone saxophone, percussion and double bass
2011 Scarbo for violin and piano
2011 Aria for soprano, accordion, double bass
2013 conclusion for the saxophone quartet and playback
2013 Bellxtreme for voice and accordion
2014 Hydra for piano, percussion and accordion
2014 Ger for 2 percussionists
2014 Jackson for speaker, double bass and electronics
2014 Anna for voice and piano
2015 Nostalgia for 2 violini, video and electronics [50´]
2015 Obsession for violin and violoncello [10´]
2016 Don't try for high soprano, piano and tape
2018 Gravity of Love for high soprano, percussion, video and electronics
2019 infinity for bass flute, electric guitar and electronics
2020 Too far away Hermine / In time of the tides for high female voice and piano

Solo music

1995 Five piano pieces
2004 Hommage a memori Alfred Schnittke for violin solo
2006 Prometheur for piano solo
2009 Last for violoncello
2010 In the shadow of women for voice and tape
2011 Ariel for bass flute and tape
2011 shadow play for accordion solo
2011 Spiegel for bass clarinet, live electronics and playback
2012 L'impossible for oboe solo and electronics, 2nd version (2017) for oboe solo
2013 Sicht-Schatte .... Silence word for organ solo
2013 Naked for countertenor and electronics
2014 Pha for accordion and live electronics
2014 Irreversibility of Mechanisms for violin and electronics
2014 Insonia for piano
2015 obsession for violoncello and tape
2015 In Darkness for cello solo
2016 Exercises in the beautiful for soprano and electronics
2016 Medusa. Love song for double bass recorder and electronics
2017 fleur for violin solo
2017 Suprime for amplified cello, light and electronics
2018 surimbe for electric guitar, light and electronics
2018 Heroica for piano and electronics

reception

The Swiss radio and television describes Filonenko's compositions as "floating sounds, iridescent segments and scraps of sound" would be characteristic of her work and "transparent sound carpets open wide, seemingly endless landscapes".

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Filonenko, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Donetsk , Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

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