Author: Dmitri Timoshenko
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The honor to be…
Today I was given the honor to be one of the juries of the Composition Concert/Competition, during which students of the Old Town College ( where I currently teach guitar and composition) will play their own music. So next Tuesday hope to vote for as much first prizes as possible! 🙂
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9 years ago…
…I finished the Georg Ots Music School, which had significant impact on my life. Today was the first day there as a teacher of my program “Composer-Performer”. Day before I was nervous, wondering how it will go, polishing the text of my first speech to the students and preparing first exercise for them revising and…
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Two ways of composing
Speaking about a composing process, I found two efficient ways for myself: 1. using music theory knowledge 2. using inspiration Often I combine those two. Sometimes I rely purely on theory. Other times I let my feelings to guide me and just write what I hear inside. It depends of how much time I have…
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Young Composers-Performers
This week came two new wonderful exercises to train writing in a form of a song. Several students have already tried them out and saw that it is not necessary to spend many years to learn how to write beautiful and interesting music.
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Concert in Kuusalu – “Creating music” 25.11.2016
Yesterday’s concert in Kuusalu – “Creating music” – was another proof that audience like to participate actively in a concert. The last “audience” piece came out different compared to the previous one, cause there were some older students in the audience, who used their knowledge and invention very skillfully to complete the task. So, me…
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Concert “Creating music” 24.11.2016
Today’s concert in Rakvere passed according to its title – “Creating music”. The last piece was composed directly at end of the concert by the audience (kids, parents, students – all who came) and performed by Estonian guitarist Vahur Kubja and me. It sounded nice! The piece is all written down, well preserved and now…
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Surprise for the audience
For two upcoming concert I plan a small surprise for the dear audience. On of the pieces performed will be composed by the audience directly at the concert and right away performed by me and my colleague.