Lidia Kalendareva
Lidia Kalendareva (* 11. November 1982 in Leningrad ) is one in Berlin living film and Ballettkomponistin and concert pianist .
Career
Lidia Kalendareva wrote her first composition when she was 6 years old. From an early age she composed several pieces for the musical theater Around the Piano and at the age of 16 founded her music band The White Night , consisting of three artists , in which she was involved as a songwriter , pianist and singer .
Various theater performances and concert appearances took her through different countries, whereupon several radio and television recordings followed. After several years of piano lessons in Saint Petersburg with concert pianist and music theater director Lubov Boruchzon, he studied piano with Bernd Zack at the Rostock University of Music and Theater and studied music theory with a focus on style-related composition with musicologist and composer Hartmut Fladt and Stefan Prey at the University of Arts Berlin .
During her studies, Kalendareva won many piano and composition competitions in Saint Petersburg, Prague , Vienna , Munich , Berlin , Frankfurt am Main , Zurich , New Jersey and Los Angeles . In 2009 she was awarded the Franz Grothe Film Music Prize by Enjott Schneider and Andreas Weidinger as "Best Young Composer" in Munich on the following grounds:
“Lidia Kalendareva convinced through stylistic diversity, tonal freshness and a pronounced compositional individuality. Her talent for mixing electronic sounds with live recordings and using electronics as a means of composition was particularly noticeable. (...) "
In 2013 she won three prizes at the Sergei Rachmaninov international composition competition for the piano compositions Sonata Nostalgia , Elegie Nostalgia and Prelude Nostalgia . During the 10th Zurich Film Festival , Kalendareva and the composer Alin Cristian Oprea were nominated for The Golden Eye - Best international Film Music 2014 at one of the world's largest international film music competitions (221 participants from 40 countries) . They received a special mention from jury members Frank Strobel , Marcel Barsotti , Henning Lohner , Bettina Oberli , Axel Tillement and positive feedback from Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer for the performance of their orchestral score for the French animation film Maximall .
The compositions by Kalendareva and Alin Cristian Oprea have been recorded with renowned artists and international orchestras such as B. the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under the direction of the film music conductor Frank Strobel , the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg with the conductor Bernd Wefelmeyer , the Radio- und Symphonieorchester Sankt Petersburg, the Georgian Sinfonietta, and the piano trio Some Handsome Hands , which a CD with the composition Russian Dance for 6 Hands by Kalendareva published by AMA Verlag . In 2013 an intensive collaboration began with the ballet choreographer Anna Svitlychenko and the students of the state ballet school & school for artistry in Berlin . This resulted in several music videos with ballet choreographies such as the Elegie Nostalgia and the Modern Time Fugue .
In 2014 she composed with the composer Alin Cristian Oprea a film score in orchestral, jazz , rock and pop styles for a 90-minute feature film from Spain Stones from the desert with the directors Max Olivier and Bruno Jubin.
Competitions and Awards
- 2000: 1st prize in the national competition for young composers in Saint Petersburg
- 2004: 3rd prize at the international piano competition in Vienna Art and Education in the 21-Century
- 2004: 3rd prize at the 4th Anton Rubinstein International Pianist and Composer Competition in St.Petersburg. Prize-winning performance of his own composition Autumn Sonata in the St. Petersburg Philharmonic
- 2005: 1st prize at the 1st ISAM international composer competition in Michelstadt. Prize-winning performance of his own composition Between Heaven and Earth in Los Angeles and Tel Aviv
- 2007: 4th prize at the international Joseph-Dorfman composers' competition for the composition The Life Of The Dead Sea
- 2007: 2nd prize with Alin Cristian Oprea at the Eastwest Film Music Competition for the short film setting Digital Loneliness in Hollywood / Los Angeles
- 2008: 1st prize and audience prize with actress Nina Schwartz at the Zdenek Fibich melodrama competition in Prague for the music for the diary of Salvador Dalí & the texts by Heiner Müller
- 2009: Composition grant from Künstlerhaus Lukas for the stay and the concert activity in Sweden .
- 2009: 1st prize and best newcomer composer at the Franz Grothe film music competition in Munich
- 2010: 2nd prize (together with Alin Cristian Oprea) for the a cappella jazz choir composition Das Karussell (poem by Rainer Maria von Rilke) at the Fabulous Fridays competition in Berlin
- 2013: 1st prize at the international Rachmaninov composition competition in Frankfurt am Main for the compositions Sonata Nostalgia and Elegie Nostalgia and Prelude Nostalgia .
- 2014: Nomination for The Golden Eye- Best international Film Music 2014 and honorable mention (together with Alin Cristian Oprea) at the International Film Music Competition during the Zurich Film Festival . World premiere of the competition composition with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich.
- 2015: 1st prize as best orchestral soundtrack with Alin Cristian Oprea for the music for the film Stones form the Desert at the Garden State Film Festival in New Jersey, USA.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Stones from the Desert at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Jury decision about the award of the composition grant in Sweden ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Article on winning the Franz Grothe Filmmsikpreis in Munich in 2009
- ↑ Article on the winners' concert from the Sergej Rachmaninov composition competition ( Memento from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Article on the winners of the International Film Music Competition in Zurich 2014
- ↑ Article on the winners of the Garden State Film Festival 2015
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kalendareva, Lidia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-German film and ballet composer, concert pianist and cultural manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |