composer
Dmitri Kourliandski was born in 1976 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and completed post-graduate course led by Leonid Bobylev.
His compositions won several prizes at the international composers ...
related works
Possible Places : for violin solo and ensemble / Dmitri Kourliandski
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and large ensemble
Instruments:
vl-solo fl-a fl-b eh cl-b cl-cb cfg 2tpt trb tb perc gt hp pf 2vn 2vla 2vc db
Het land van de A : een kameropera in 6 scènes, 1990 / muziek en libretto van Ko Duijvestijn
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Instruments:
2sopr ten 3bas cl trp perc pf vc
Salto mortale : opera in twee bedrijven, 1980 / muziek: Wim Stoppelenburg, libretto: Belcampo
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Instruments:
sopr alt ten bar bas 1111 1110 timp perc pf(cel) str(6.5.4.4.2.)
Styx : Opera / Chiel Meijering; tekst van Imme Dros, bewerkt door Joke Hoolboom
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Instruments:
zang fl sax-a sax-t sax-bar h 3trp 3trb drum pf g-e-b
composition
octavia. trepanation : Opera based on the tragedy "Octavia", attributed to Seneca and Trotsky's essay on Lenin / Dmitri Kourliandski; libretto: Boris Yukhananov and Dmitri Kourliandski
Description:
In conducting our trepanation of revolution, we open a forehead and discover death, blood and tiranny. We sanitize it and graft a Buddha into the cavity, then we sew the forehead back up. We remove the source of the bloody revolution to seal off the notion of war forever. We transform a tyrant and send him to Nirvana.
Boris Yukhananov
The Opera’s music is based on the opening phrases of the revolutionary song Varshavyanika, but streches them out in almost 100 times. The temporal transformation of the song reveals various harmonic and melodic metamorphoses that become “nutritional material” for the 80-voice chorus, soloists and live electronic music thus arises a hermetic, self-referential construction that feeds on itself.
Dmitri Kourliandski