Tag: orchestration

  • Reserve some time for…

    I had a chance to study with very good musicians. One of them was my orchestration teacher. He taught me to pay more attention to instrumentation and orchestration. Through him I again discovered the art of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (couple of year ago I visited his home – now a museum, – in Saint-Petersburg, sensed a…

  • A carpet made of notes

    Around 40 pages of orchestration during the last couple of months. ALL HANDWRITTEN! Will I pass the exam?  

  • 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…

  • Looong exam 🙂

    Yesterday, on Sunday, I had a longest exam in my life – 8h (!) – and it was orchestration. When I work, I like to have a lot of space to put all my notes on. Nowadays seems, that table in size of two school desk is more or less enough 🙂