"Compozitor • St Petersburg" Music Publishing House

Our Composers Alexander Knaifel. Born in 1943. "The Petersburgian, who is popular and highly estimated more in the West, than in his Motherland…" (Iosif Raiskin, 2000). Knaifel is the author of more than 70 compositions in all the spheres of music. The premières of his compositions took place at the greatest music festivals in Paris, London, Amsterdam, New York, Zurich, Salzburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Köln, Maastricht, Ferrara. In 1992 the festival of Knaifel`s music was held in Frankfurt-am-Main. Alexander Knaifel was the first among the Russian musicians to be awarded the International DAAD prize. His recent large-scaled work is the opera "Alice in Wonderland" to Lewis Carroll, commissioned by Der Nederlandse Opera. The première took place in Amsterdam in 2001. Yuri Falik. Born in 1936. Composer, cellist, conductor. During the season of 1991-1992 Falik was invited to work as a professor at the North-West University of Evanstone (Illinois, USA). In 1990 the première of his fairy-tale for children "Polly and the Dinosaurs" took place in Chicago. Chicago symphony orchestra and Chicago Children`s choir participated in it. In March, 1999, the American première of the Mass for soloist, choir and chamber orchestra took place at the Episcopalian Saint-John Cathedral (Youngstown, Ohio). In May, 2000, Yuri Falik conducted the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at the concert of the Third World Cello Congress (Baltimore, Maryland). Such conductors as Ye. Svetlanov, G. Rozhdestvensky, M. Ianssons, V. Gergiev, A. Dmitriev, V. Yampolsky (USA), Mario di Bonaventura (USA), S. Edwards (UK) include symphony works by Yu.Falik into their repertoire. Leonid Desyatnikov. Born in 1955. The compositions of this modern Russian author are considered to be performed much more often than those by his contempararies. Let`s remember the significant music festivals, such as in Lokenhaus (Austria, 1996, 1998), Gstaad (Switzerland, 1997), "December Eves of Svyatoslav Rihter" (1997). The symphonic composition "Sketches to the "Sunset"" was performed by the remarkable German orchestras, such as the Deutches Simphonie Orchester (Berlin) and the Gewandhaus orchester (Leipzig). His transcriptions of Astor Piazzolla`s works, commissioned by Gidon Kremer, have enjoyed the greatest popularity. Among them there is the tango-operita "Maria de Buenos Aires", nominated for the prize "Grammy". Among the most important events of the last time one may remember the world première of the symphony "The Rite of Winter 1949" (May 22, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Andrey Boreiko within the framework of the project "Weimar - the Cultural Capital of Europe"), the participation as the "invited composer" in the International Chamber Music Festival in Lokenhaus (Austria), directed and held by Gidon Kremer. Boris Tishchenko. Born in 1939. Pupil of Dmitry Shostakovich and Galina Ustvolskaya, Tishchenko is one of the most original and profound Russian composers. The author of compositions in different traditional genres. Tishchenko's work is marked by expressive manner and grandiose ideas. Among his compositions there are symphonies, ballets, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Tishchenko has orchestrated numerous compositions by Monteverdi, Prokofiev, Shostakovich. His audio and printed production has been published in Europe, Germany, Italy, France and Czechia. Sergei Slonimsky. Born in 1932 (son of the writer Mikhail Slonimsky and the nephew of the American musicologist Nikolai Slonimsky). One of the mostly versatile masters of the modern Russia. His operas and large-scale compositions were performed in Dresden, Hannover, Rostok ("Master and Margarite" to M. Bulgakov`s novel), Edinburgh, Leipzig, Olomouc ("Mary Stuart"), Bologna, Parma ("Apollo and Marcius", the score was edited in Milan), San-Francisco, Los-Angeles, New-York, Boston ("Petersburg Vision"). Slonimsky works with the greatest producers, poets and musicians from Russia and abroad. Among them one can cite M. Rostropovich, G. Tovstonogov, G. Rozhdestvensky, A. Kushner, Ye. Rein. His last prominent work is the ballet "Princess Pirlipat", commissioned by the artist Mihail Chemiakin (to E. Th. A. Hoffman). Gennady Banshikov. Born in 1943. The author of witty and profound compositions to the texts by Gogol, Chekhov, Griboyedov, Blok, Garcia-Lorca, Baltrushaitis etc. Banshikov is the master of orchestral manner of writing, he is the author of compositions for unusual casts (e. g. The Sonata for organ and harp, edited recently). Among the composers, whose works are edited by Compozitor · St Petersburg there are the authors of the compositions performed in the concerts of St.-Petersburg music festivals: Vladimir Tsytovich, Vadim Bibergan, Grigory Korchmar, Anatoly Korolyov, Alexander Popov, Igor Drukh, Igor Vorobyov, and others. The publishing house also presents a series of Russian classical compositions of the 19-20th centuries, rarely edited nowadays.