Alexander SHCHETYNSKY (SHCHETINSKY)composer |
Ukrainian composer. Laureate of seven
international competitions. |
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Born on June 22, 1960 in Kharkiv, Ukraine
Zoran Minderovic. Web site http://www.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://www.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."
The Music of Alexander Shchetynsky Annunciation, chamber opera (1998) Tatiana
Kuindji, soprano contact
and order: |
TNC 1460 |
Alexandre Chtchetinsky - Musique aujourd'hui Sonata
da camera for cello and ensemble (1998) Alexander
Rudin, cello contact
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LDC 2781123 |
Alexandre Shchetynsky - New Sacred Music from
Ukraine Know
Yourself (Uznay Sebe), symphony for mixed
choir a cappella (2003) Cantus
Chamber Choir Gloria
Chamber Choir contact
and order: Physical Release: 03/2011 |
NAXOS 8.579005 |
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
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 - 2009
lectures on new Ukrainian music, presentations of own works at symposia and
conferences in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia,
Switzerland, and Ukraine
1999, 2001
composition master classes in Ohrid, Macedonia
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
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)
opera stage directors Dmitri Bertman, George Isaakyan
conductors Yevgeny Brazhnik, Sylvio Gualda, Alexis Hauser, Huub Kerstens, Matthew Coorey,
Teodor Currentzis, Igor Dronov, 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, Nao Nigano, Natalia Zagorinskaya
pianists Claudia Chen, Annie Kraus, Elena Letñanová, Yvar Mikhashoff, Jozsef
Örmény,
Yuri Polubelov, Joel Sachs
organist Hervé Désarbre
cellists Zoltán Almashi, 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, Nikolay Lgovsky, Mark Pekarsky, Gert Sørensen, Robert
Sztorc
guitarists Magnus Andersson, Reinbert Evers, Wolfgang Weigel
accordionists Joseph Purits, William Schimmel, Andrej Serkow, Nenad Ljubenovic
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http://www.is.svitonline.com/shchetynsky (official site)
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:101541~T1 (brief essay by Zoran Minderovic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shchetynsky (biography)
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://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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