One of my new recently written pieces, which is dedicated to Christine Gabrielle, will be performed on Saturday 12 of November 2016, 18:30 at Foyer du Théâtre Les Salons (6, rue François Bartholoni, 1204 Genève) during the “festival des instruments anciens à cordes pincées, luths & théorbes”. Here is the beautiful flyer: flyer_acma_16_a
read moreFew days ago started writing a new piece for solo guitar. The form reminds of a sonata, but with more freedom. It is nice to study different forms and know how to handle them, but it is exiting to open them up a bit and bring some freshness and unpredictability. It will be […]
read moreYesterday I finished my new piece for soprano and lute. The text is by Georgy Ivanov (a leading poet and essayist of the Russian emigration between the 1930s and 1950s), who in some of his poems was passionate about and inspired by the Middle East. In the music I also tried to add a bit […]
read moreAlmost finished my next piece for two guitars. It will be entitled A Dream (Ru. Мечта – Metchta), I guess. What made me choose this English word, is that it has several meaning and two of them are: visions that person sees during the night, as well as the moment when we dream while awake. In Russian […]
read moreBy the end of this month I will finish my piece for a string quartet, which will be performed on 21 of May by Animato Quartet in Geneva.
read moreAt the request of our fans few days ago we gathered with Angelito and recorded our original pieces on video. Enjoy! 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iwXCUAxd3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i5ygAepyWo
read moreThree 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 […]
read more“Theme, Variations and Finale” (Tribute to Ilya Muromets a bogatyr)” is RECORDED! 🙂 In my opinion it is one of my best compositions for guitar solo written until now. Here is a short background of the piece: When I was a small kid, my mother used to read me a lot of Russian fairy tales, […]
read moreYesterday I started to write a new piece for two violins using African rhythms 🙂 That’s something interesting to think of and try. We, guitarists, have great Leo Brouwer (whom I had lucky chance to meet in person and talk!), who uses a lot of African rhythms in his music. So why not to try […]
read moreToday I finished another new piece of mine for solo guitar. Here is a short background of the piece: When I was a small kid, my mother used to read me a lot of Russian fairy tales, when I went to bed: breathtaking adventures of strong knights and beautiful princesses, battles between good and evil, […]
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