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
PS [passé simple] : for piano solo and optional instrumental ensemble / Dmitri Kourliandski
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Instruments:
pf
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Instruments:
3sopr 2actress bas-bar fl(fl-a) cl perc pf vl vc cb tape
François Villon : opéra en 1 acte et 3 tableaux / partition chant & piano, par Sem Dresden
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Instruments:
soloists 3recit GK4 3220 2000 perc hp pf str dancers
Die Visioen : Oper in einem Akt / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Instruments:
sopr 2ten bar bas GK4 2233 4330 timp perc str
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