In the morning did a PRESENTATION about my Composer-Performer program within the framework of Tallinn Guitar Festival. In the evening breathtaking GUITAR CONCERT of legendary Roberto Aussel. As well as after-party in a restaurant: eating a soup and Roberto watching me with a smile while playing nice Argentinian music just in the front! Whoa! Once-in-a-life-time […]
read morePreparing a presentation for Tallinn Guitar Festival. In that presentation I will try to show the importance of teaching composition to small kids and adults. Looking back in history, when each player was also a composer, and learning from our predecessors is an access to a lot of joy when playing an instrument.
read moreI remember how my jazz guitar teacher, who also gave me my first lessons in composition, told me: “Dmitri, write down all your musical ideas and melodies, never throw them away – you might need them in future.” So I did. Recently, looking through old papers, I found an entire piece that I wrote in 2014, […]
read moreMany years ago, when I was in my teens and started studying classical guitar in Tallinn, I dreamed: how nice it would be to play on a stage of the Estonia Concert Hall – one of the most prestigious concert venues in the country. Now, this Saturday – more than ten years later, – it’s […]
read moreGot an invitation to work with Peeter Klaas – viola da gamba player – on one 16 – 17 century music project. Peeter can be fairly considered an Estonian Jordi Savall. Excited, for sure I will learn something new about the music!
read moreSoon, in the end of June, will be recorded and published my guitar duo piece “Un Rêve”. Inspired a little bit by Indian pop music, as well as African rhythms it was written in 2016 winter, when I was living in Geneva. The theme was written while I was watching out of my 5th floor […]
read moreToday was the last concert of this schoolyear for my young Composers-Performers. Almost an hour lasting concert was versatile and interesting: solo pieces as well as duos. Now last working week left and vacation can begin! 🙂 Writing your own music is cool, interesting and fun.
read moreSomeone can impress you for a several of times with a perfect technique, virtuosity, drumming, strumming and all other athletic stuff on an instrument. But it’s all is short-lasting. The real power of a piece is in a melody. A melody, that is singable, swinging and expressive. If you are able to write such a […]
read moreI would like my music to serve at least three purposes: 1. To be educational (that it would contain information about a distant places and cultures; connected to history) 2. That it would have something, that one can think of and discuss, as well as 3. Purely for aesthetical pleasure while listening to it (relaxing, […]
read more… a DIALOG. It opens many opportunities how to compose a piece as well as puts certain game rules. In case of a two instrument composition it is very beautiful when one instrument “asks” and other “answers”, one “proposes” and other “rejects” or “accepts”.
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