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Ukrainian composer. Laureate of seven
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Born on June 22, 1960 in Kharkiv, Ukraine
ON HIS MUSIC
Zoran Minderovic. Web site http://wm04.allmusic.com
Alexander Shchetinsky is an important Ukrainian
composer whose works, which include a variety of instrumental and vocal compositions,
have been widely performed, to considerable acclaim, throughout Europe.
Proficient in a variety of avant-garde modes of expression, Shchetinsky seeks,
and attains, a personal synthesis of stylistic modalities, thereby transcending
mere eclecticism.
Virko Baley. New Grove Dictionary of Music &
Musicians
His style is essentially that of a structuralist,
relying on a synthesis of a variety of modernist techniques and exploring in
each piece a particular musical metaphor. This method explains his reliance on
pieces with descriptive titles. The influence of an especially eastern European
variety of minimalism (more meditative and less didactic) is also apparent in
the carefully worked out relationship between different degrees of sound and
silence, the predominance of soft dynamics, and in the smallest details and
changes in pitch, timbre and rhythm.
Zoran Minderovic. Web site http://wm04.allmusic.com
For Shchetinsky, musical metaphor is the expressive
formula which translates the composer's deepest intuitions into an intricately
structured, subtle, sophisticated, enigmatic, but nevertheless essentially
intelligible, sonic language, in which the common-sense boundaries between
sound and silence remain fluid.
Allan Kozinn. The New York Times, September 21,
2004
...Face to Star (1991), a study in dark-hued,
slow moving blocks of string, wind and percussion texture... Mr. Shchetynsky
has created a harmonic mist, and the themes that emerge from it are sometimes
angular, sometimes pointillistic and tactile...
from the booklet of the BBC National Orchestra
of Wales, the concert series New Voices - New Choices
He is drawn to religious subjects. Glossolalie is based on a religious
idea, as is The Preacher's Word, a powerful setting for soprano and
string quartet of texts from the Old Testament. In 1992 this latter piece won
First Prize at the Fourth Fribourg Sacred Music Competition in Switzerland.
Levon Hakopian. Muzykalnaya Akademiya, Moscow,
2000, #1
The chamber pieces by Alexander Shchetynsky (b. in 1960) - a composer from
Kharkiv inclined to the "post-serial" idiom - testify his innate
feeling for elegance and plasticity. His meticulously wrought Way to
Meditation for five instruments (1990) is a kind of instrumental drama
showing an interesting line of development; musical gourmets may enjoy it as a
real delicacy.
Natalia Zimyanina. Vremya MN, Moscow, August 17,
2002
Some fragments [of the opera The Blind Swallow] will
remain in memory forever.
Yulia Bederova. Vremya novostey, Moscow. August
19, 2002
The score plays with styles, speaks with either
vanguard post-serialism, medieval plainchant or quasi-citations from Bizet
and Stravinsky. However, its main advantage lies not in a number of
reminiscences but their artistry and intelligence.
Alexey Parin. Program note on the performance of
Annunciation at the Helikon Opera, 1999
Alexander Shchetynsky established himself as a consequent stickler for
avant-garde... His spirituality reveals in strict, ascetically beautiful sounds
that impress with their hermetism, within the context of up-to-date musical
language."
CDs
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The Music of Alexander Shchetynsky Annunciation, chamber opera (1998) Tatiana
Kuindji, soprano contact
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TNC 1460 |
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Alexandre Chtchetinsky - Musique aujourd'hui Sonata
da camera for cello and ensemble (1998) Alexander
Rudin, cello contact
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LDC 2781123 |
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EDUCATION
1983
graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute, Valentyn Borysov's composition class
1990, 1991
Summer Composer's Courses in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland (lectures of
L. Andriessen, W. Lutoslawski, K. Penderecki, B. Schaeffer,
M. Lindberg, a.o.)
1991
Course of Computer Music at the Kraków Music Academy, Poland
1992
Master classes with Edison Denisov and Poul Ruders in Lercherborg, Denmark
TEACHING AND LECTURING
1982 - 1990
composition at a children's music school in Kharkiv (utilizing the innovative Brainin Teaching Method of music education)
1991 - 1995
composition, instrumentation, special course in techniques of contemporary
composition at the Kharkiv Art Institute
1995
cycle of lectures on modern and contemporary music at the Ukrainian National
Music Academy in Kyiv
1995 - 2007
lectures on new Ukrainian music, presentations of own works at symposia and
conferences in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia,
Switzerland, Ukraine
1999, 2001
composition master classes in Ohrid, Macedonia
ORGANIZER OF THE FESTIVALS
1989 - 1990
co-organizer of several contemporary chamber music festivals in Ukraine and
Russia (together with Dmitri
Capyrin, Roman Yakub, a.o.)
1995 - 2001
concert series New Music in Kharkiv
1997 - 2005
member of the Art Council of the International
Contemporary Music Festival Contrasts, Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine
2000
member of the Organizing Committee of the festival Ernst Krenek in Helikon
Opera, Moscow
2001
program coordinator of the International Youth Music Forum, Kyiv,
Ukraine
COMPOSITION AWARDS
1990
Main and
Special prizes at the International Kazimierz Serocki Competition,
Poland (for Glossolalie for orchestra)
1991
First
Prize at the International Sacred Music Competition, Fribourg, Switzerland (for
The Preacher's Word for soprano and String Quartet)
1995
Second
Prize at the International Witold Lutoslawski Competition, Poland (for Flute
Concerto)
1996
Second
Prize at the International Henri Dutilleux Competition, France (for The
Baptisme, Temptation and Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ for bass,
clarinet, trombone, viola, cello and double bass)
1998
Third
Prize at the International Gustav Mahler Competition, Klagenfurt,
Austria (for Sonata da camera for cello and chamber ensemble)
2000
Russian
National Theatrical Prize Gold Mask, nomination Innovation, in
frame of the performance of Voices of the Invisible at the Helikon
Opera, Moscow (for chamber opera Annunciation)
2006
Second
Prize at the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2006, Luxembourg (for Chamber
Concerto for piano and 12 instrumentalists)
PERFORMERS (selection)
- Helikon Opera, Moscow
- Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre, Perm, Russia
- BBC National Orchestra of Wales
- Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
- Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
- National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine
- Kyiv Philharmonic Orchestra
- State Symphonic Band of Ukraine
- Chamber orchestra Leopolis, Ukraine
- Children's choir Maîtrise de Radio France
- Chamber choir Gloria, Ukraine
- Uzhhorod chamber choir Cantus, Ukraine
- Chamber Choir Credo, Ukraine
- Arditti String Quartet
- Kairos Quartett, Germany
- Zagreb String Quartet
- Moyzes String Quartet, Slovakia
- Ensemble Wiener Collage, Austria
- Janus Ensemble, Austria
- Ensemble Firebird, Great Britain
- Ensemble Continuum, USA
- New Juilliard Ensemble, USA
- MAVerick Ensemble, USA
- Ensemble Mosaik, Germany
- ecco – neues ensemble freiburg, Germany
- Stockholm Saxophone Quartet
- KammarensembleN, Sweden
- SON Ensemble, Sweden
- Trio Obscura, Sweden
- HEX Ensemble, the Netherlands
- Luxembourg Sinfonietta
- Orion Duo, Switzerland/France
- Ensemble Erwartung, France
- Spirales Ensemble, France
- Ensemble Opus 16, France
- Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
- Mark Pekarsky Percussion Ensemble, Russia
- Ensemble Cluster, Ukraine
- Ensemble Ricochet, Ukraine
- Duo Violoncellissimo, Ukraine
opera stage directors Dmitri Bertman, George Isaakyan
conductors Yevgeny Brazhnik, Sylvio Gualda, Alexis Hauser, Huub Kerstens,
Theodor Kourentzis, Wojciech Michniewski, Zsolt Nagy, Tadaaki Otaka, Arild Remmereit, Joel Sachs,
Volodymyr Sirenko, Jean
Thorel, Petro Tovstukha, Alexey Vinogradov, Marsel Wengler
singers Mikhail Davydov, Alisa Gitsba, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Tatiana Kuingi,
Fyodor Lednev, Nao Nigano, Natalia Zagorinskaya
pianists Claudia Chen, Annie Kraus, Elena Letńanová, Yvar Mikhashoff, Jozsef Örmény,
Yuri Polubelov, Joel Sachs
organist Hervé Désarbre
cellists Zoltán Almasi, Martin Dörfler, Luzius Gartmann, David
Hetherington, Paul Marleyn, Alexander Rudin, Rohan de Saram, Alexander Zagorinsky
flutists Robert Aitken, Jadwiga Kotnowska
clarinettists Gareth Davis, Rita Karin Meier, Oleg Tantsov
bassoonists Valeri Popov, Otto Virtanen
saxophonists Christoph Kirschke, Alfonso Padilla López, Marc Sieffert,
Alexei Volkov
trombonist Ivo Nilsson
percussionists Jonny Axelsson, Mark Pekarsky, Gert Sřrensen, Robert
Sztorc
guitarists Magnus Andersson, Reinbert Evers, Wolfgang Weigel
accordionists Joseph Purits, William Schimmel, Andrej Serkow, Nenad Ljubenovic
MAJOR PERFORMANCES
Festivals & concert series
- ALMEIDA, London (1989, 1994)
- EUROPHONIA, Zagreb (1990)
- WARSAW AUTUMN (1997, 2006; fringe events 1990, 1991)
- FRIBOURG FESTIVAL OF SACRED MUSIC, Switzerland (1992)
- LERCHENBORG MUSIC DAYS, Denmark (1992)
- TAGE FÜR NEUE MUSIK, Zürich (1992)
- MOSCOW AUTUMN (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2005)
- PRÉSENCES, Paris (1993)
- MUSIC BIENNALE ZAGREB (1993, 2005)
- INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MUSIC FORUM, Kyiv (1992 - 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001)
- INTERNATIONALE TAGE FÜR NEUE BLOCKFLÖTENMUSIK, Basel (1993)
- BONNER HERBST (1993)
- NEW VOICES - NEW CHOICES, Cardiff, Great Britain (1994)
- ENSEMS, Spain (1994)
- KHARKIV ASSEMBLIES (1994)
- 9. INTERNATIONALES FESTIVAL FÜR NEUE MUSIK, Heidelberg, Germany (1994)
- KYIV MUSIK FEST (1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2002-2005, 2007)
- NEW MUSIC IN KHARKIV (1995, 1996, 2001)
- DAYS OF NEW MUSIC, Kishinev, Moldova (1995, 1997, 2001)
- INTERNATIONAL GAUDEAMUS MUSIC WEEK, Amsterdam (1995)
- DAYS OF KRAKÓW COMPOSERS’ MUSIC (1995, 1998)
- CONTRASTS, Lviv, Ukraine (1995 - 2007)
- MELOS-ETHOS, Bratislava, Slovakia (1995, 1997, 2005)
- BERLIN IN MOSCOW (1996)
- 9th LABORATORY OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, Poland (1996)
- TWO DAYS AND TWO NIGHTS, Odesa, Ukraine (1996, 1997, 2000-2004, 2008)
- MOSCOW FORUM (1997)
- SACRO ART, Loccum, Germany (1997, 1999, 2002, 2004)
- NEUE GEISTLICHE MUSIK AUS OSTEUROPA, Freiburg (1997)
- TRIESTE PRIMA 1997 - Incontri Internazionali con la Musica Contemporanea
- TO EUROPE THROUGH MUSIC, Lviv, Ukraine (1998)
- ILKHOM—XX, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (1998, 2001)
- MUSIKFORUM VIKTRING-KLAGENFURT, Austria (1998)
- 8th CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL GAIDA, Vilnius, Lithuania (1998)
- DAYS OF UKRAINIAN MUSIC IN WARSAW (1999)
- GOLD MASK, Moscow (2000)
- OSTERFESTIVAL ´00, Innsbruck, Austria (2000)
- LUDWIGSBURG FESTIVAL, Germany (2000, 2003)
- PERSPECTIVES, Yerevan, Armenia (2000)
- SEVEN WORDS (to his Holiness John Paul II visit to Ukraine), Lviv, Ukraine (2001)
- OHRID SUMMER, Ohrid, Macedonia (2001)
- PREMIERES OF THE SEASON, Kyiv (2002, 2003, 2007, 2008)
- MUSIC OF FRIENDS, Moscow (2002)
- CONTEMPORARY NATIONAL SCHOOLS ?, Krarów, Poland (2002)
- ARVO PÄRT - THE BORDERLANDER, Sejny, Poland (2003)
- FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY SACRED MUSIC, Uzhhorod, Ukraine (2004, 2006)
- NEW MUSIC IN UKRAINE (2004, 2005)
- FOCUS FESTIVAL, New York, USA (2005)
- ISCM WORLD MUSIC DAYS, Zagreb, Croacia (2005)
- PLOCK DAYS OF CHORAL MUSIC, Plock, Poland (2005)
- XIX WARSAW MUSIC ENCOUNTERS, Poland (2005)
- DIAGHILEV SEASONS, Perm, Russia (2005)
- VELVET CURTAIN, Lviv (2006)
- TERRITORY, Moscow (2006)
- GOGOL FEST, Kyiv (2008)
Concert performances
Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Finland, USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Brazil, China, Poland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine
Broadcastings
Radio France, BBC, Radio Suisse Romande, Danmarks Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Austrian TV and Radio Service, Polskie Radio 2, Radio Echo of Moscow, Yoshlar (Uzbekistan), Radio Kyiv, Radio Kharkiv, Radio Svoboda a.o.
PUBLISHERS
Acta Scientific Publisher
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Prymakova St. 46 |
Phone: +38 057 751 2125 |
Alain Van Kerckhoven Editeur
La Nouvelle Musique Consonante
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avenue Broustin 110 |
Phone: +32 - (0)2 - 420 21 21 |
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.
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295 Regent st. |
Phone: +44 - (0)20 - 7580 2060 |
Le Chant du Monde
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31/33, rue Vandrezanne |
Phone: +33 - 1 - 53 80 12 30 |
Chiola Music Press di Kamerton a.a.
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CP 13 |
Phone/fax: +39 - 085 - 496 19 82 |
Gerard Billaudot Editeur S.A.
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14, rue de l'Echiquier |
Phone: +33 - 1 - 47 70 14 46 |
Prokordeon Klaus Werner Verlag
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Germany |
Troppe Note Publishing, Inc.
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1932 Howard Avenue |
Phone: +1 - 702 - 457 3823 |
TNC Recordings
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1350 E. Flamingo Road #308 |
Phone: +1 - 800 - 253 7675 |
WEB SITES ABOUT SHCHETYNSKY
http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/shchetyn.htm (brief reference, work list)
http://www.projectmandala.com/Solid_Music_page/Alexander
Shchetynsky, composer.htm
(biography, work list)
http://www.geocities.com/shchetynsky (CV, work list, etc., not updated)
http://wm04.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:101541~T1 (brief analytical essay)
http://www.newconsonantmusic.com/composers/shchetinsky_alexander.php (biography at New Consonant Music site)
http://www.musikforum.at/shchetynsky98.htm (page at G. Mahler Composers' Competition site)
http://www.artona.org/Shchetynsky.html (page at Artona Association site, not updated)
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Alexander Shchetynsky |
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Last revised on June 5, 2008
© 2000-08 by Alexander Shchetynsky