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Bakshi, Alexander (b. 1952, Sukhumi). Georgian-born Russian composer of mostly stage and orchestral works that have been performed throughout Europe and in the USA.
Mr. Bakshi studied composition at the State Conservatory of Music in Rostov-na-Donu from 1969-77.
Among his honors is the Russian State Prize (1994, for Hotel Room in Town N [incidental music]).
He is the pioneer of a new form of musical experience entitled theatre of sound, in which sounds replace words and actions are directly connected to the musical content.
He is married to the musicologist and soprano Lyudmila Bakshi.
In addition to the works listed below, Mr. Bakshi has written much incidental music for stage productions.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: bakshi@rinet.ru
Street address: Mr. Alexander Bakshi, Kirovogradskaya St. 16, Bldg. 1, Apt. 201, 117587 Moscow, Russia
Telephone: + 709 5315 4261
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Sidur-Mysteria (text by Vadim Sidur), soprano, synthesizer, 8 percussion, 1992; The Polyphony of the World (musical mystery/theatre of sound, vocalise, choreography by Svetlana Voskresenskaya), tenor, Abakan-region folk voice (+ folk instruments), Dakota-Red Indians folk voice (+ folk instruments), 2 Russian folk voices (both + folk instruments), Tuva-region folk voice (+ folk instruments), actor, 2 performance artists, shaman, assistant shaman, female dancer, mixed chorus, violin, shell horn (+ dung-chen) (Tibetan horn), zurna (+ duduk) (Armenian folk instruments), 6 percussion, brass ensemble (French horn [+ Alphorn], trumpet [+ shofar], trombone [+ didgeridoo], tuba), string orchestra, 2001; The Red Book (musical show, vocalise), soprano-dancer, 2 Russian folk voices, actress, piano, 2003
ORCHESTRAL: Winter in Moscow. Ice-covered ground…, violin, cello, string orchestra, 1994; Shostakovich Concerto, violin, string orchestra, 1996; Hamlet is Dying (concerto), 2 violins, bass drum, string orchestra, 1998; The Unanswered Call, violin, 6-7 telephones, string orchestra, 1999; Orpheus, violin, string orchestra, 2001
CHAMBER MUSIC: Drama, violin, cello, piano, 1977; 23/6, 6 percussion, 1989; He and She, 2 violins, 1997
CHORAL: Orpheus and Euridice (vocalise), tenor, mixed chorus, cello, brass ensemble (French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba), 2001
VOCAL: Poetic Music Drama (texts by Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky), 2 sopranos, flute, trumpet, tuba, balalaika, string quartet, piano, organ, percussion, 1982; Sonata (vocalise), voice, piano, 1989
PIANO: Remembering Georgia (sonata), 1983
PERFORMANCE: Games in Installations (vocalise), soprano, 6 percussion, 1992
DISCOGRAPHY
Hamlet is Dying; Sidur-Mysteria; Shostakovich Concerto. Lyudmila Bakshi, soprano; Tatyana Grindenko, Gidon Kremer, violins; Peter Sadlo, bass drum; Mark Pekarsky Percussion Ensemble; Kremerata Baltica (Long Arms/IMA Press, 2000)
(Last updated on August 18, 2003)
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