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Composing
Composing for me is like telling a story about what I love the most and what I fear the most.
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Counterpoint 3
Last year I did Counterpoint (voice leading) 2 level. It was not easy. Today I made a decision to take Counterpoint 3 for this year, the highest possible level at the academy. Only two guys in the group. Some fellow students call us kamikaze 🙂 But my belief in importance of skillful voice leading in composition…
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“New Peace”
Here is a piece from English composer John Bennett (1942) called “New Peace”. I had an opportunity to meet this very talented jazz composer and player in person and talk to him during my trip to London few years ago, when I was invited to play a solo recital there. He showed me some of his…
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Use of quotation
As nice quotation makes story strong, the same effect has borrowed musical idea on a piece!
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Art of imitation
In music schools we study Renaissance and Baroque cadenzas and do exercises so to learn doing them well. But another thing is to master those skills of great composers at level that you are able to make your own nice piece using them and that it sounds nice and natural! So nowadays I am digging deeper…
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Pieces becoming ready!
Three of five pieces inspired by the Lapland are ready! All pretty and different from each other 🙂 Little by little I start practicing them and during the beginning of Autumn will make a recording, so you can hear them too! There is obvious development in my composition skills and I feel more or less satisfied…
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set of pieces inspired by traditional music of Lapland
Currently I am writing set of pieces inspired by traditional music of Lapland. For that I use different pictures of Lapland as well as my personal memories from a solo concert tour there around two years ago. Sami music – traditional music of the place – is a very special one and, when sang, can touch…
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Composer: how to find your own style
That’s an interesting question! I guess, many young “classical” composers break their heads on figuring out the answer. So do I… Here I would like to write about my vision of composing as a professional. Style of composing: “classical” or since word “classical” has very wide meaning (are we talking about Classicism period music – Mozart, for example,…
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Study different forms!
In 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…
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The last exam is done!
The last exam is done! Two days ago I did my last exam: 54 page orchestration of Mozart’s piano sonata. Work will be sent to jury in Madrid (two other options were: Paris and Vienna). And even though I don’t know yet any results of all the exams, I turned on the “summer mode”. During…