Oleksandr SHCHETYNSKY (SHCHETINSKY)
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Ukrainian composer. Laureate of
seven international competitions. |
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Born on June 22, 1960 in
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Zoran
Minderovic. Web site http://www.allmusic.com
Alexander Shchetinsky is an important Ukrainian
composer whose works, which include a variety of instrumental and vocal
compositions, have been widely performed, to considerable acclaim, throughout
Europe. Proficient in a variety of avant-garde modes of expression, Shchetinsky
seeks, and attains, a personal synthesis of stylistic modalities, thereby
transcending mere eclecticism.
Virko Baley.
New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
His style is essentially that of a structuralist,
relying on a synthesis of a variety of modernist techniques and exploring in
each piece a particular musical metaphor. This method explains his reliance on
pieces with descriptive titles. The influence of an especially eastern European
variety of minimalism (more meditative and less didactic) is also apparent in
the carefully worked out relationship between different degrees of sound and
silence, the predominance of soft dynamics, and in the smallest details and
changes in pitch, timbre and rhythm.
Zoran
Minderovic. Web site http://www.allmusic.com
For Shchetinsky, musical metaphor is the expressive
formula which translates the composer's deepest intuitions into an intricately
structured, subtle, sophisticated, enigmatic, but nevertheless essentially
intelligible, sonic language, in which the common-sense boundaries between
sound and silence remain fluid.
Allan Kozinn.
The New York Times, September 21, 2004
...Face to Star (1991), a study in dark-hued,
slow moving blocks of string, wind and percussion texture... Mr. Shchetynsky
has created a harmonic mist, and the themes that emerge from it are sometimes
angular, sometimes pointillistic and tactile...
from the
booklet of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the concert series New Voices -
New Choices
He is drawn to religious subjects. Glossolalie is based on a religious
idea, as is The Preacher's Word, a powerful setting for soprano and
string quartet of texts from the Old Testament. In 1992 this latter piece won
First Prize at the Fourth Fribourg Sacred Music Competition in Switzerland.
Levon Hakopian.
Muzykalnaya Akademiya, Moscow, 2000, #1
The chamber pieces by Alexander Shchetynsky (b. in 1960) - a composer from
Kharkiv inclined to the "post-serial" idiom - testify his innate
feeling for elegance and plasticity. His meticulously wrought Way to Meditation
for five instruments (1990) is a kind of instrumental drama showing an
interesting line of development; musical gourmets may enjoy it as a real
delicacy.
Natalia
Zimyanina. Vremya MN, Moscow, August 17, 2002
Some fragments [of the opera The Blind Swallow] will
remain in memory forever.
Yulia
Bederova. Vremya novostey, Moscow. August 19, 2002
The score plays with styles, speaks with either
vanguard post-serialism, medieval plainchant or quasi-citations from Bizet and
Stravinsky. However, its main advantage lies not in a number of reminiscences
but their artistry and intelligence.
Alexey Parin.
Program note on the performance of Annunciation at the Helikon Opera,
1999
Alexander Shchetynsky established himself as a consequent stickler for
avant-garde... His spirituality reveals in strict, ascetically beautiful sounds
that impress with their hermetism, within the context of up-to-date musical
language."
The Music of Alexander Shchetynsky Annunciation, chamber opera (1998) Tatiana Kuindji, soprano order: |
TNC 1460 |
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Alexandre Chtchetinsky - Musique aujourd'hui Sonata da camera for cello and ensemble (1998) Alexander Rudin, cello order: |
LDC 2781123 |
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Alexandre Shchetynsky - New Sacred Music from Ukraine Know Yourself (Uznay Sebe), symphony for mixed choir a cappella (2003) Cantus Chamber Choir Gloria Chamber Choir order: Physical Release: 03/2011 |
NAXOS 8.579005 |
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1983
graduated from the Kharkiv Art Institute, Valentyn Borysov's composition class
1990, 1991
Summer Composer's Courses in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland (lectures of
L. Andriessen, W. Lutoslawski, K. Penderecki, B. Schaeffer,
M. Lindberg, a.o.)
1991
Course of Computer Music at the Kraków Music Academy, Poland
1992
Master classes with Edison Denisov and Poul Ruders in Lercherborg, Denmark
1982 - 1990
composition at a children's music school in Kharkiv (utilizing the innovative Brainin Teaching Method of music education)
1991 - 1995
composition, instrumentation, special course in techniques of contemporary
composition at the Kharkiv Art Institute
1995
cycle of lectures on modern and contemporary music at the Ukrainian National
Music Academy in Kyiv
1995 - 2010
lectures on new Ukrainian music, presentations of own works at symposia and
conferences in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia,
Switzerland, Ukraine, and the USA
1999, 2001
composition master classes in Ohrid, Macedonia
2018 -
composition,
instrumentation, special course in techniques of contemporary composition at
the I. P. Kotlyarevsky Kharkiv National
University of Arts
1989 - 1990
co-organizer of several contemporary chamber music festivals in Ukraine and
Russia (together with Dmitri
Capyrin, Roman Yakub, a.o.)
1995 - 2001
concert series New Music in Kharkiv
1997 - 2005
member of the Art Council of the International
Contemporary Music Festival Contrasts, Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine
2000
member of the Organizing Committee of the festival Ernst Krenek in Helikon
Opera, Moscow
2001
program coordinator of the International Youth Music Forum, Kyiv,
Ukraine
2008-2012
concerts of modern and contemporary music performed by the National Concert
Band of Ukraine conducted by Petro Tovstukha (Kyiv, Lviv)
2008-2012
concerts of modern and contemporary music performed by the Ensemble Kyiv
Sinfonietta conducted by Vitaly Protasov (Kyiv, Lviv)
1990
Main and Special prizes at the International Kazimierz Serocki
Competition, Poland (for Glossolalie for orchestra).
1991
First Prize at the International Sacred Music Competition, Fribourg,
Switzerland (for The Preacher's Word for soprano and String Quartet).
1995
Second Prize at the International Witold Lutoslawski Competition, Poland
(for Flute Concerto).
1996
Second Prize at the International Henri Dutilleux Competition, France
(for The Baptisme, Temptation and Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ for
bass, clarinet, trombone, viola, cello and double bass).
1998
Third Prize at the International Gustav Mahler Competition, Klagenfurt,
Austria (for Sonata da camera for cello and chamber ensemble).
2000
Russian National Theatrical Prize Gold Mask, nomination Innovation,
in frame of the performance of Voices of the Invisible at the Helikon
Opera, Moscow (for chamber opera Annunciation).
2006
Second Prize at the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2006, Luxembourg
(for Chamber Concerto for piano and 12 instrumentalists).
2015
Lyatoshynsky State Prize, Ukraine (for symphony orchestra works written in
2011-2014).
opera stage
directors Dmitri
Bertman, George Isaakyan, Armen Kaloyan, René Zisterer
conductors Andrzej Bauer, Hermann Bäumer, Yevgeny Brazhnik, Mykola
Diadiura, Oleksiy Fartushka, Sylvio Gualda, Alexis Hauser, Huub Kerstens,
Matthew Coorey, Teodor Currentzis, Igor Dronov, Sigvards Klava, Roman Kofman,
Vincent Kozłowski, Wojciech Michniewski, Zsolt Nagy, Ivan Ostapovych,
Tadaaki Otaka, Erki Pehk, Modestas Pitrėnas, Viktor Ploskina, Vitaly
Protasov, Arild Remmereit, Joel Sachs, Volodymyr Sirenko, Andriy Syrotenko,
Jean Thorel, Petro Tovstukha, Alexey Vinogradov, Marsel Wengler, Keri-Lynn
Wilson, Yuri Yakovenko, Yury Yanko, Andriy Yurkevych, Vladimir Yurovsky;
singers Mikhail Davydov, Alisa Gitsba, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Tatiana
Kuingi, Nao Nigano, Olha Tabulina, Natalia Zagorinskaya;
pianists Oleh Bezborodko, Denys Bocharov, Angelina Gadeliya, Timothy
Hoft, Annie Kraus, Elena Letñanová, Roman Lopatynsky, Yvar Mikhashoff, Jozsef
Örmény, Yuri Polubelov, Denys Proshayev, Joel Sachs, Maksym Shadko;
organists Hervé Désarbre, Svitlana Pozdnysheva, Nadia Velychko;
violinists Gabriele Brunner, Solomiya Ivakhiv, Andriy Pavlov;
cellists Zoltán Almashi, Anssi Karttunen, Martin Dörfler, Luzius
Gartmann, David Hetherington, Oksana Lytvynenko, Paul Marleyn, Viktor Rekalo,
Alexander Rudin, Rohan de Saram, Alexander Zagorinsky;
contrabassist Nazar Stets;
flutists Robert Aitken, Roman Iievsky, Jadwiga Kotnowska, Dmytro
Medolyz;
clarinettists Gareth Davis, Rita Karin Meier, Oleg Tantsov;
bassoonists Valeri Popov, Jonny Reinhard, Otto Virtanen;
saxophonists Christoph Kirschke, Alfonso Padilla López, Marc Sieffert,
Alexei Volkov;
trombonist Ivo Nilsson;
percussionists Jonny Axelsson, Nikolay Lgovsky, Mark Pekarsky, Gert Sørensen,
Robert Sztorc;
guitarists Magnus Andersson, Reinbert Evers, Wolfgang Weigel, Janne
Malinen;
accordionists Maciej Frąnckiewicz, Ruslan Horbachenko, Nenad
Ljubenovic, Josif G. Purits, William Schimmel, Andrej Serkow, Roman Yusipey.
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site)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002146392914
http://alexandershchetynsky.brandyourself.com/
(brief information)
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:101541~T1
(brief essay by Zoran Minderovic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shchetynsky
(biography)
Oleksandr Shchetynsky |
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Last revised on November 30, 2023
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Shchetynsky