Moritz EGGERT
Moritz Eggert, composer and pianist
Moritz Eggert (*1965, Heidelberg) studied piano and composition at Dr.Hoch´s Konservatorium in Frankfurt (with Wolfgang Wagenhaeuser and Claus Kuehnl), at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt (with Leonard Hokanson) and in Munich at the Musikhochschule Muenchen (with Wilhelm Killmayer). Later he continued his piano studies with Raymund Havenith and Dieter Lallinger, and his composition studies with Hans-Jürgen von Bose in Munich. In 1992 he spent a year in London as a post-graduate composition student with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School for Music and Drama.
Moritz Eggert has covered all genres in his work – his oeuvre includes 7 operas as well as ballets and works for dance and music theatre, often with unusual performance elements. 1997 German TV produced a feature-length film portrait about his music.
As a pianist he regularly collaborates with many artists, as soloist with orchestra, as chamber music partner in various formations and as a Lied accompanist. In 1996 he presented the complete works for piano solo by Hans Werner Henze for the first time in one concert, in 1989 he was a prizewinner at the International Gaudeamus Competition for Performers of Contemporary Music.
As a composer Moritz Eggert has been awarded with prizes like the composition prize of the Salzburger Osterfestspiele, the Schneider/Schott-prize, the „Ad Referendum“-prize in Montréal, the Siemens Förderpreis for young composers, and the Zemlinsky Prize. 2003 he became a member of the “Bayerische Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste”.
1991 he founded - together with Sandeep Bhagwati - the A*Devantgarde festival for new music, which took place for the 9th time in June 2007.
His concert-length cycle for piano solo, „Haemmerklavier“, is among his best known works and has been performed around the world.
Moritz Eggert has written 8 operas and several more works for music and dance theatre. Among his latest works are the opera “The Snail” (together with Hans Neuenfels) and the “Soccer Oratorio”, commissioned by the Ruhrtriennale for the FIFA World Cup 2006.
Moritz Eggert created the opening ceremony for the FIFA World Cup 2006 (together with director Christian Stueckl and stage designer Marlene Pohley) and has just finished a a new opera for the Beethovenfest and the Bonn opera house (“Freax”, together with librettist Hannah Duebgen, premiere September 2007) which created a scandal around it’s director Christoph Schlingensief. A collage of all 22 Mozart operas (“Orale Pole Mazy Brats”) for 4 singers, speaker and orchestra for the opening concert of the Salzburger Festspiele 2006 has recently been broadcast live on TV in all of Europe. There are currently 6 new productions of Eggert’s operas in several different cities in Germany and Switzerland in the season of 2006/2007.
Moritz Eggert is the only contemporary music composer who was both mentioned on the national tv news and the sports news.
Dmitry LYBIN
Lybin Dmitry was born in June 27, 1963. Belorussian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, and organ works that have been performed in Europe.
D. Lybin studied musicology with Iosif Ryzhkin at the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, where he graduated with a DMus in 1986, and composition with Dmitry Smolsky at the Belorussian Academy of Music in Minsk, where he graduated in 1994. His music has been performed in Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Moldova, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, including at the ISCM World Music Days (1999, Bucharest/Chisinau).
He co-founded with Sergey Beltiukov, Galina Gorelova, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Poplavsky, Oleg Sonin and others the Belorussian Society for Contemporary Music in 1990. He has served as its permanent secretary since 1991 and as its chairman since 2001. During 2003-2006 he prepared and led monthly program for modern music at Belarus State Radio (in collaboration with T.Pesniakevich). He has taught orchestration and score reading at the Belorussian Academy of Music in Minsk since 2001.
LIST OF WORKS:
ORCHESTRAL: Concerto, violin, orchestra; Music for the Town of Nyasvzhe, small orchestra (8 winds, 16 strings); From Tales of the Vernal Wind, symphonic band; From Kraków to Vienna, small orchestra (14 players), 2003; Provincial Symphony, string orchestra, 2003-2006; Classic-Avantgarde Symphony small orchestra (14 players), 2005; Ascent to Mozart, solo Alphorn, small orchestra (12 players), 2006.
CHAMBER MUSIC: Seven Small Fancies on a Theme of Glinka, flute, guitar, string quartet, 2003; La maison avec un spectre, cello, 2003; Ornament of the Polotsk Temple, tzimbaly (Belorussian dulcimer), 2004; Brought to the Coast, flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, piano, percussion; Lament with Cradle Song, bass saxophone (also version for violin); Last Procession, trumpet, 2 pianos, 2 percussion, tape; Nostalgic Elegy, violin, piano; Reflection of the Sun in the Water, flute, piano, temple block.
CHORAL: Lost Strophes (cantata, text by Fyodor Tyutchev), soprano, alto, baritone, speaker, mixed chorus, orchestra; Prayers (text by Aleksandr Blok), mixed chorus, celesta, 2 percussion.
VOCAL: Recollection of the Motherland (text by Maksim Bogdanovich), voice, piano, 1988-89 (also version for soprano/tenor, ocarina, tzimbaly, piano, percussion, 2003); Six Poems of Aleksandr Pushkin, mezzo-soprano/baritone, piano, 2003-04; Russian Landscapes (texts by Apollon Maikov, Sergey Gorodetsky, Don Aminado), mezzo-soprano/baritone, piano, 2003-04; Psalm IX, 2 children's voices, oboe, 2 tubas, organ, percussion; Romantic Serenades (text by Afanasy Fet), bass/baritone, piano; Songs of Dusk and Dawn (text by Aleksandr Blok), soprano/tenor, piano.
PIANO: Echo of Belorussian Songs, prepared piano; Four Pieces; Italian Reminiscences of Sergey Prokofiev; Little Suite, piano (+ handbells); Toccata e Fuga on a Theme of Béla Bartók.
ORGAN: To a source returning... (Christmas toccata); Eastern fancy on Fabordon of Antonio Kabezon, 2007.
Victor SKOROBOGATOV
Victor Skorobogatov is art director of the Belarussian Capella
Honoured Artist of Republic Belarus (1982)
Diploma-winner of the Republican competition of singers (Minsk, 1974)
Prize-winner of the Republican competition of singers (Minsk, 1976)
Prize-winner of the International competition of singers (Tallinn, Estonia 1976)
Prize-winner of the all over the USSR competitions of singers in Riga (Latvia, 1976) and Tallinn (Estonia, 1979)
Diploma-winner of the International competition of singers in Paris (France, 1980)
Laureate of the State prize of the Republic of Belarus (1990)
Honourable member of the International Science Academy of EURASIA (1994)
Laureate of the Special prize of the President of the Republic of Belarus for the high achievements in arts and culture in the "Music art" section (production of the opera "Faust" by A.Radzivill, 1999)
1977 - graduated from Belarussian State Conservatoire (now Academy of music) as a solo-singer (by professor S.Oskolkov). 1984 - accomplished the post-graduate studies (by People's Artist of Republic Belarus, professor T.Nizhnikova). 1980-81 - won the UNESCO grant on probation work in La Scala, Milan (by professors G.Simionato and E.Muller). Since 1977 principal soloist (baritone) of Belarussian opera. Since 1984 - teacher of singing of the Belarusian State Academy of Music (since 2003 - professor). 1988-94 - the fist in the history of Belarussian art prepared and performed the cycle of 10 concert programs "Anthology of Belarusian vocal music of XVI-XX c". 1991 - initiated an conducted the first festival "Revival of Belarussian Capella". Since may of 1992 - the founder and art director of Belarussian Capella.
Victor Skorobogatov is the regular jury member of the International festival of church music "Mahutny Bozha (Mighty God)" (Mogilev, since 1993) and the National Stanislav Monyushko's competition of singers "Ubelskaya lastauka (The swallow of Ubel)" (Tcherven, since1999). 1999 - was the first to put on the Belarussian stage the opera "Faust" by A.Radzivill (composed in1820, libretto by J.W.Goethe), received with a great interest by the audience and press both in Belarus and abroad.
Victor Skorobogatov is engaged in research on Belarussian music heritage. His science articles are permanently published both in Belarus and abroad. Since 1996 - the Editor-in-chief of the two notes series: "Musyka starazhytnyh siadzibau (The music of the ancient manors)" and "Belaruski histarychny notazbor (Belarussian historical notes collection)", for the time being there are 16 collections been published. Victor Skorobogatov has compiled, prefaced and commented 9 of them.
Victor Skorobogatov and his colleagues have brought back in Belarus all the discovered autographic materials by Yan Tarasevitch (1889-1961), Belarussian composer of Belastok, the author of first works on verses by Belarussian poets F.Bogushevitch, J.Kolas, M.Bogdanovitch.
Dmitri ZUBOV
Dmitri Zubov was born in Saint-Petersburg in 1959.
Mr. Zubov graduated Saint-Petersburg Conservatoire where he studied piano, organ, choir and orchestral conducting.
He was a student of outstanding professor of conducting Ilya Musin.
During period 1987-1990 Mr. Zubov was the conductor of the Volgograd Symphony Orchestra.
Since 1993 Mr. Zubov was a permanent guest conductor of the State Chamber Orchestra of Belarus Republic.
In the period of 1998-2001 Dmitri Zubov worked as the Artistic Director of the given company.
Since 2001 Dmitri Zubov is the conductor of The National Opera of Belarus Republic.
Victor COPYTSKO
Belorussian composer.
Dr. Alexander ANISSIMOV
Alexander Anissimov is Conductor Emeritus of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Principal Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Belarus, Opera Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Perm State Opera, Russia, and Busan Philharmonic, Korea.
He is an Honoured artist of Russia.
Belarussian Philharmonic Orchestra
