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
HesseIndia : Opera / Rafael Reina; libretto by Vanessa Goad
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Instruments:
fl rec ob cl(cl-b) cl-b(cl-cb) trp 2perc pf vln vla vc db
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Instruments:
8soloists 3332 2sax 5332 5perc cel 2hp el.g cemb el.org pf str(vl vla vc)
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Instruments:
sopr sopr-m ten bar bas 3242 4331 timp perc cel 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