Vladimir Iliev (composer)
Vladimir Iliev (born September 29, 1935 in Yambol , Bulgaria ) is a composer , musician and music teacher .
Life
Vladimir Iliev was born in 1935 in the southern Bulgarian town of Yambol. His mother was a teacher and his father an instrument maker. Vladimir had to learn to play the violin at the age of four. Although he hated the instrument in childhood because of his father's reprisals, he studied violin, harmony and music history in Sofia from 1954 to 1959 after graduating from high school . He completed his three-year military service as a musician in the Bulgarian State Military Ensemble. He then worked as a band leader in Sofia.
His great affection for jazz music , which was banned in socialist Bulgaria at the time, began in his youth when he and friends listened to jazz programs on the American broadcaster AFN at night . Since there were of course no jazz notes to buy, titles were written by hand in notes by ear and played secretly in small ensembles. While making music together, the young jazz enthusiasts developed self-taught skills among themselves to improvise. He taught himself to play on a saxophone that he made playable , which would become a lifelong musical passion. The then state concert agency in Bulgaria forbade playing the saxophone because it was "decadent music that did nothing to educate socialist personalities". That was de facto a professional ban. So until further notice he only had to make music with the violin.
By a lucky coincidence, Vladimir Iliev was able to take on an engagement with a Bulgarian combo in the GDR in 1963 . At that time they played in Dessau , Halle / Saale , Quedlinburg and Merseburg with great success. In the afternoon there were concerts with mainly classical repertoire and in the evening there was dance.
In 1964 he married; after reunification he became a German citizen in 1992.
In the 1960s he was on tour with his own line-ups, mostly with Bulgarian musicians. In 1971 he took up teaching at the music school in Merseburg. At the same time he began a distance learning course at the University of Music Franz Liszt in Weimar in the subjects saxophone, guitar and drums , which he completed with excellent results.
At the Georg Friedrich Händel Conservatory in Halle / Saale, he began teaching saxophone, drums and guitar in 1977. In addition to teaching, he influenced the content of the Conservatory's profile. He built up the area of dance and light music, which expanded the previous mainly classically oriented training.
In addition to teaching music, he works as a freelance composer and interpreter. In 1986 he founded the first class in Halle for the jazz-related training of professional musicians in the GDR. In 1988 the first and only improvisation class for musicians was formed on behalf of the General Directorate for Entertainment Art of the GDR. With the creation of his own private studio in the 1980s, he expanded his field of activity for composing, teaching and practicing.
Since 1977 Vladimir Iliew was a member of the Association of German Composers and Musicologists. His extensive compositional oeuvre includes compositions for orchestra, for large ensembles, jazz titles for guitar and saxophone ensembles as well as for solo piano to sacred themes. From 1982 he was head of the jazz and rock music section in the composers' association. The world premieres of his works are published in the booklet “Contemporary Music Creation in the GDR”, published by the Saxon State Library in Dresden. He gave up his membership in the composers' association in 2010.
In addition to his compositional work, Vladimir Iliev is the author of music pedagogical works, including a. a three-volume school for plectrum guitar (together with Thomas Buhé), a collection of pieces for solo guitar and a songbook. The guitar school has been the basis of training at music schools and other institutions since 1987. In 1993 he founded the Saxony-Anhalt Youth Jazz Orchestra, of which he was also director. Vladimir Iliew has lived in Bad Lauchstädt with his wife Thea since 2004 . He has just finished setting Ringelnatz poems to music . He archived his compositions, including extensive sheet music, with the associated digital sound carriers and handed them over to the Kurt Weill Center in Dessau in 2015 to preserve his music.
Selected compositions
- Circle 1981; Synthesizers and strings
- African Express 1982; Synthesizer, percussion and big band
- Concerto for bass guitar and strings 1983
- PAX NECESSE EST 1985; 4 saxophones, 3 trumpets, 2 drums
- LEUNA WERKE MUSIK 1985; Soprano saxophone, guitar, piano, drums and recorded factory sounds on CD
- Melodrama for East Africa 1986; 4 wind instruments, piano, bass, drums
- Pop concertino for flugelhorn, tenor saxophone, youth symphony orchestra
- E-symbiosis U 1987; 2 vocalists, saxophone, piano
- Concertino for guitar and strings 1987
- The accursed Stalin era in 1989; Saxophone quartet
- Saxophone Symposium 1989, 4 saxophones
- Quari atonal 1989; Saxophone trio
- Concerto for tenor saxophone and piano 1990
- Boulevard Bounce 1991; Saxophone sextet
- Blue Calls 1991; Saxophone quartet
- Funky Saxophone 1991; Saxophone quartet
- Saxophone jump 1991; Saxophone quartet
- EAST OF EDEN 1992 (music project for the exhibition of the same name in Mosigkau); Saxophone, keyboard, violoncello, vocalist
- TELEKOM Music 1992; Saxophone quartet
- Festive Music in Two Movements 1994; 2 saxophones, trumpet, trombone, percussion group
- The Awakening 1994; Saxophone trio
- 5 years after 1995; Saxophone, keyboard, guitar, percussion
- Concerto for tenor saxophone and piano 1996
- Fiesta Mexicana and Siera Morena 1996; Guitar trio
- Memorial for EU 1997; Trumpet, baritone saxophone, guitar, piano, bass, drums
- Youth quartet 1997; Clarinet, concert guitar, bass, piano
- Magnificat "Where is Bethlehem today?" 1999; 3 saxophones, guitar, speaker
- New Sacred Music 1999; Saxophone trio, guitar, speaker
- Sonata for tenor saxophone and piano 2002
- Cycle of 6 compositions for saxophone trio, piano, drums 2004 (Easter hymn, the three, ragtime, passion of a drug addict, tango versus techno, saxology)
- Santa Crusis Dedicatum 2005; Tenor saxophone, piano, bass
- Cycle of compositions for youth 2008; Tenor saxophone, bass, piano, speaker
- GO DOWN MOSES in three variations, Tocatta 2010; Organ, soprano saxophone
- Sonata for organ and soprano saxophone 2010
- Summer fantasy for organ 2010
- Setting of 8 poems by Joachim Ringelnatz 2015; Singing, piano
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ilyv, Vladimir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian composer, musician and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yambol |