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Vyacheslav Artyomov

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Vyacheslav Petrovich Artyomov (; born 29 June 1940) is a Russian composer. Early life and education Vyacheslav Artyomov was born on 29 June 1940 in Moscow, Soviet Union. He initially pursued studies in physics while also receiving formal musical training. He attended the musical college affiliated with the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied composition with Nikolai Sidelnikov and piano with Tovi Logovinsky. Artyomov became a member of the Union of Soviet Composers and the Association for Contemporary Music (ACM). He also worked as an editor at the Moscow publishing house Musyka and graduated in 1968. Career In 1975, he joined the improvisation group “Astreya” alongside the composers Sofia Gubaidulina and Viktor Suslin. In 1979, he was blacklisted as one of Khrennikov’s Seven at the Sixth Congress for unapproved participation in several Soviet music festivals in the Western world. His music has been performed by conductors and musicians including Rostropovich, Rozhdestvensky, Fedoseyev, Spivakov, Pletnyov, Currentzis, Virko Baley, Bunin, Kopachevsky, Isakadze, Grindenko, Yo-Yo Ma, Rudin, Yanchenko, and Ashkenazy. He has participated in European musical performances since the 1970

Vyacheslav Ganelin

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Vyacheslav (Slava) Ganelin (, , ; born 17 December 1944) is a Soviet, Lithuanian and Israeli jazz pianist, composer, and pedagogue. Primarily a pianist, he also plays other keyboards (organ and synthesizer) as well as bass, guitar, and percussions. He was the leader of the Ganelin Trio, described by critic Chris Kelsey as “arguably the world’s greatest free jazz ensemble” of the 1970s and ’80s. He was a founder of Lithuanian jazz (Soviet jazz, when Lithuania was controlled by the Soviet Union). Early career Ganelin was born in Kraskovo, near Moscow. In 1948 his family moved to Lithuania, where he learned to play piano in the music school. Later he studied piano and composition at the Vilnius Conservatory where he graduated in 1968. For many years, Ganelin taught composition at the Vilnius Conservatory, and was music director of the Vilnius Russian Drama Theatre. Ganelin trio In 1968, Ganelin formed a trio with percussionist Vladimir Tarasov and saxophonist Vladimir Rezitsky. Rezitsky left the trio in 1971, and was replaced with Vladimir Chekasin. and in 1986, in the US. In 1999 he founded the Ganelin Trio Priority with soprano saxophonist Petras Vyšniauskas and percussionist Klaus

Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (composer)

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Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Kuznetsov (; ; born 15 June 1955 in Vienna) is a Belarusian classical music composer. Selected works * Diary of a Madman (Записки сумасшедшего), Opera in 1 act after Nikolai Gogol * Capriccio (Капрыччио) for viola solo (1988) * Heterophony (Гетэрафонія) for oboe, violin and viola (1993) References External links * Vyacheslav Kuznetsov at the Living Composers Project * Композитор Вячеслав Кузнецов: «Партитуры не горят» (in Russian) * Оперный театр Беларуси - Записки сумасшедшего - YouTube * Вячеслав Владимирович Кузнецов (in Russian) * Композитор Вячеслав Кузнецов о том, как поставить балет и спеть Достоевского (in Russian) *Кузнецов Вячеслав Владимирович (in Russian) *ВЫСТАВКА “ПРОФЕССИЯ – КОМПОЗИТОР” К ЮБИЛЕЮ В.В. КУЗНЕЦОВА (in Russian) *Вячеслав КУЗНЕЦОВ: Musica Marginale (in Russian)

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

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Vyacheslav Aleksandrovich Ovchinnikov (; 29 May 1936 in Voronezh, Soviet Union – 4 February 2019 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian composer. Biography He began composing at age 9 and entered the Moscow Conservatory at 15. Later he studied with Tikhon Khrennikov and Leo Ginzburg. He composed symphonies, symphonic poems, as well as works for chamber orchestra, small ensembles and solo instruments. Outside his native country he is best known as a composer of music for such films as War and Peace, the 1966–67 film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, Ivan’s Childhood and Andrei Rublev for Andrei Tarkovsky. He has composed for some 40 films in total. Tarkovsky is said to have been so impressed by Ovchinnikov that he stated: “I cannot imagine a better composer for myself than Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov.” Ovchinnikov also had a successful career as a touring conductor from the 1970s. He has recorded for Melodiya, the Russian record company. His Symphony No. 2 was released on the Melodiya label. Ovchinnikov was named a People’s Artist of the RSFSR in 1986. For the 60th birthday (1992) of Queen Sirikit of Thailand, he was commissioned to compose The Bouquet for the Queen. For that work he w

Vyacheslav Tyurin

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Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Tyurin (; born 16 May 1967, in Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast) is a Russian composer, producer, music video maker, director. President of Reflexmusic и VIVITI. He is the author of songs by Irene Nelson and the musical groups REFLEX, Litsey, Non Stop, Electroversia, by singers Natalia Gulkina, Shura, Irina Saltykova, Sasha Project, Slava, Kristina Orbakaitė, Elvira T, and Alyona Sviridova. Biography Electroversia In 1989, in Novosibirsk, he formed the group Electroversia, the keyboardist of which was Pavel Yesenin, the future composer and producer of the Hi-Fi group. At the same time, Tyurin met the soloist of the jazz big band Irina Tereshina (better known under the pseudonym Irina Nelson) and began to collaborate with her. Diana In 1992, he moved to Moscow, where he became a producer of the TV-show Autograph on Saturdays on Channel One, and also worked in the TV-show Up to 16 and older. In 1993 he created the project Diana, positioning Irina as a solo performer. The name was chosen in tribute to the singer Diana Ross. Over the years of the project’s existence, six records, a remix album and a compilation album The Best of Diana were released In 2002, Vyac

Vykintas Baltakas

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Vykintas Baltakas (born July 10, 1972, in Vilnius, Lithuania) is a Lithuanian composer and conductor known for his contributions to contemporary classical music. Education and early career Baltakas studied at the Vilnius Music Academy from 1990 to 1993 under Vytautas Barkauskas. In 1993, he moved to Karlsruhe, Germany, to study composition with Wolfgang Rihm and conducting with Andreas Weiss at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. Between 1994 and 1997, he also studied at the International Eötvös Institute under Peter Eötvös. In 1997, Baltakas continued his studies in Paris at the Conservatoire National Supérieur and later attended IRCAM’s composition and computer music course from 1999 to 2000. Professional career Vykintas Baltakas is active in contemporary music, participating in festivals and collaborating with various European ensembles. His works have been commissioned by institutions such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Biennale, the Wiener Festwochen/Klangforum Wien, the Ensemble Modern, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/musica viva, the Venice Biennale, the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium, and Maerz Musik Berlin. His compositions have been performed and

Vytautas Bacevičius

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Vytautas Bacevičius (9 September 1905, in Łódź, Poland then Russian Empire – 15 January 1970, in New York City, United States) was a Lithuanian composer of radical and modernistic leanings. Most of his works are in an atonal idiom of his own devising. He developed a theory of ‘cosmic music’ and came to regard Schoenberg’s 12-note music as out-dated, regarding himself as a successor to Scriabin, André Jolivet and Varèse. Bacevičius studied in Łódź with, among others, Kazimierz Sikorski and moved to Kaunas in Lithuania in 1926. In 1927 he went to Paris, where he studied composition with Nikolai Tcherepnin and graduated from the Paris Conservatory in 1928. Returning to Lithuania in 1928, he established himself as a pianist and composer and teacher. He became the Chair of the Lithuanian Section of the ISCM. He was on tour in Argentina in 1939 when the Germans invaded Lithuania, rendering him an exile in America. He moved to the United States in 1940 and lived mainly in New York, continuing to give recitals but mainly supporting himself by teaching. He made his New York debut at Carnegie Hall on November 28, 1940. Although born in Poland, he adopted the Lithuanian form of his name (Bace

Vytautas Miškinis

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Vytautas Miškinis (born 5 June 1954) is a Lithuanian composer, choral conductor and academic teacher. He is the artistic director of Ąžuoliukas, a boys’ and youth choir and music school, and of other ensembles, performing internationally. He has taught choral conducting at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre since 1985. His groups have won prizes at international competitions, where he also served as a member of the jury. His compositions are part of the international standard choral repertoire. Life Miškinis was born in Vilnius, then Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union, in a musical family. He began his musical career with the Vilnius Teacher House Boys Choir (now Ąžuoliukas), at the age of seven. External links * * * Vytautas Miškinis Music Export Lithuania * Vytautas Miškinis: Der Internationale Stasys Šimkus-Chorwettbewerb in Litauen (in German) icb.ifcm.net * Litauen und Amerika: das geht gut / Chorleiter-Forum mit Referenten aus den USA und Litauen (in German) Neue Musikzeitung 3/2005 * Ąžuoliukas Celebrates its 60th birthday. The Light of Life / To mark the 60th birthday of the Ąžuoliukas boys and youth choir and the 40th anniversary of Ąžuoliukas Music School filharmonija.