Yesterday spent a pleasant day at the Studio89, Tallinn. Duo Telluur was recording my piece (Woke Up) In the Dream for English horn (or Oboe) and guitar. Since myself I have little of experience as a sound technician / engineer, for me it was fascinating to see how the professionals work in high class studio. […]
read more…then dreams are the strings, that make it sound.
read morePrefer to write for guitar without guitar in my hands.
read moreRecently I received an offer to write a duo for English horn and guitar.
read moreWriting a new piece. I dreamed for many years to write a piece for cello and guitar. Today morning when I woke up I heard a beautiful harmony in my mind and sweet melody over it. Smooth chill arpeggio played by the guitar, dancing melody of the cello sometimes stopping to listen to itself, then […]
read moreIn recent weeks I felt a great lack of knowledge about different musical forms. I understood how vital it is for a composer to know ways of developing an idea: how is was done in different centuries, in different countries: form of a song, variations, sonata, ricercare and fantasia. At least this basic stuff should be […]
read moreToday had an amazing experience of playing and improvising Afghanistan traditional music together with great professionals: Homayun Sakhi on rubab, Siar Hashimi on tabla from Afghanistan and Abbos Kosimov on doyra from Uzbekistan. My guitar duo partner, some colleagues on Chinese flutes, another rubab and doyra. Very inspiring!
read moreThis time decided to buy a bit more, than only four sets 🙂 Here is work at least for one year. These high quality strings I use already for over more than 10 years and never switched to any other type (I tried several other, but this one is the best for me):
read moreToday with my guitar duo partner we had a master class from amazing guitarist and teacher Arturo Tallini, who is an expert of modern and contemporary music. We played Piazzolla’s Tango Suite. He helped us to understand better the style of Piazzolla’s music by saying how one could approach this music (since it is quite specific), […]
read moreThree weeks ago I received a task from a teacher to compose a piece, using some composing tools of Bela Bartok. Thinking about the new piece and it’s structure I soon came up with an idea of a composition consisting of four small pieces, each of a different character. So next time at the lesson I […]
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