Happy woman’s day! I wish all the women patience, perseverance and love! (the same thing I said to reporters who caught me downtown today and asked me to give a short speech to women all over the world). For 3 months I haven’t been very active in terms of making music due to some major […]
read moreIt’s a good time for peacefulness and thoughts that matter. A nostalgic moment, “A Tune”.
read moreLong time since my last post. During that time few things happened: I wrote a set of “Pieces for Kids. Level I”, finished one of my older pieces called “A Tune”, which I was composing in 2015, but didn’t finish, went to a lecture of Patrick Zeoli (student of Abel Carlevaro) about the guitar technique. […]
read moreThe festival this year was special in a few different ways. Would like to denote several of them. I presented a recording of my new piece, which was warmly received (soon available on Internet). Went to Assad Brothers concert, as well as attended their masterclasses and spent nice evening in a restaurant talking about musical […]
read moreCouple of months ago, while looking through a bunch of scores on my shelves, I found the score. After a short sight-reading I decided to record it. “Brothers” is one of my early pieces, written back in 2012 and is dedicated to my brother. It was a Christmas time, when our family gets together, because […]
read moreThought about improving my piano playing skills and… Wrote a “waltz” piece for piano solo! 🙂 One of the ways to learn any instrument is to “talk” to it, to discover it and to understand how it works (how sound is produced). Then to write a small easy pretty piece for it. That’s how that […]
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 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 moreCouple of days ago I came across one interesting article. The author was writing about 6 varieties of love that ancient Greek used to distinguish. It seemed to me so wonderful the idea, that few days later I sat down and decided to write a set of small pieces – each representing one kind of […]
read moreThree months ago got an offer to compose a piece for anniversary of the school where I currently teach – Vanalinna Hariduskolleegium. For about two months I was wondering, what should be the concept of the piece. Usually after the concept is found – everything else start going smoothly. I wanted to accent the school’s long […]
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