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DCV 245 – Kourliandski: 4 bagatelles

DCV 245

Dmitri Kourliandski

4 Bagatelles
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
‘ Maps of non-existed cities: St.
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‘Bagatelle N5’ for ensemble has been commissioned to Dmitry Kourliandski by the 32 Festival Milano Musica 2023.
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The 6th seasonal programme of ensemble for new music ö! (Switzerland), which will conclude the 22/23 season, once again has a title taken from Paul Celan’s poetic work: “Wild roses, sweet wine” reflects on the past and at the same time cheers you up the upcoming summer.  PROGRAM: Gerard Grisey (1946-1998) – Talea (1986) for flute, […]
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The internationally active composer Dmitri Kourliandski and the writer Nastya Rodionova are working on a work on behalf of the HKB and together with students: In the spring semester, the texts for the work are created in workshops with the HKB Literature Institute, while the musical parts are composed by music students as part of […]
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A festival is by definition a time of celebration, and there are many things we want to celebrate in the program of the Opening Concert of the 8th Edition of the impuls Festival: on the occasion of his 80th birthday, we pay homage to Brian Ferneyhough, and welcome Francesco Filidei and Francesca Verunelli, who are […]
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The 8th impuls Festival for Contemporary Music will close with zone expérimentale basel and Ex-Sentia Ensemble, two Swiss ensembles, that originate from the Master’s program for Contemporary Music at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel/Switzerland and now gain additional expertise from working with composers on site at the impuls Academy.
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‘Possible places 3’ by Dmitri Kourliandski on the program ‘Possible Places’ by ensemble 2E2M in Paris. Possible Places is not about utopia, but about finding places to create and express ourselves. In our world, past and present, human beings migrate and leave their homeland, often more by compulsion than by choice.
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As an extension of the projects carried out with the conservatory’s chamber music class (Jean-Renaud Lhotte), Ensemble Cairn has invited exiled Russian composer Dmitri Kourliandski to compose several pieces and take part in several ongoing projects (Julien Malaussena’s residency, Festival Ensembles 2024 in Bagnolet).
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‘Resonant Mass’ by Dmitri Kourliandski on the program of the Musicae civitas concert series by percussion ensemble of the conservatory next to the pieces by Nyman, Ligeti and Liebermann.
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Pedro Carneiro conducts the Sond’Ar-te Electric Ensemble at a concert at the World New Music Days 2025 in Portugal, with works by the Portuguese composers Patrícia Sucena de Almeida and Rui Penha.
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Celia Swart

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.
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Michael Fine

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.
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Jan-Peter de Graaff

Netherlands, 1992,
"De Graaff is een alleskunner en een echte en helder opflitsende komeet aan het muzikale firmament die aan niemand ongemerkt voorbij kan gaan." - Maarten Brandt, Opus Klassiek
"De Graaff is een tovenaar met orkestkleuren in een taal die weliswaar van nu is, maar harmonisch ook vaak vertrouwd klinkt." - Paul Herruer, Dagblad van het Noorden
"De Graaffs grootste kracht schuilt in een paradox: stilstand die zindert van spanning." - Guido van Oorschot, De Volkskrant 
 
"Zijn muziek is in essentie atonaal, maar doordat ze niet is doodgesystematiseerd en De Graaff in de contouren en het verloop van zijn melodieën nog steeds romantisch durft te zijn, wordt de luisteraar met zachte, maar dwingende hand meegevoerd in het abstracte verhaal dat hij wil vertellen. Een grote troef is hierbij zijn orkestratiekunst. De muziek is kleurrijk, blijft altijd helder en verrassend." - Erik Voermans, Het Parool
 
"Had iemand mij van te voren voorspeld dat in een programma van Bach, Bartók en Jan-Peter de Graaff het stuk van de laatste mij het meest zou boeien, dan had ik dat niet geloofd. - Dingeman van Wijnen, Friesch Dagblad
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Maxim Shalygin

January 30, 1985

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

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