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Kolarovski, Goce (b. 1959, Skopje). Macedonian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been successfully performed throughout Europe, as well as in Asia.

Prof. Kolarovski studied at the Faculty of Music in Skopje, where he graduated from the composition class of Vlastimir Nikolovski in 1984 and the conducting class of Fimcho Muratovski in 1992. In 1986-87, he studied with Sergey Slonimsky at the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg.

His music has been performed throughout Macedonia, as well as in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Moldova, The Netherlands, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, and Ukraine.

Since 1986, he has been a professor of analysis, composition, form, orchestration, and 20th-century music literature at the UKIM - Faculty of Music in Skopje. In 1999, he co-initiated the Ohrid Multimedia Composers Workshop and remains a teacher there.

CONTACT INFORMATION

E-mail address: kolar@mol.com.mk

Street address (university): Prof. Goce Kolarovski, UKIM - Faculty of Music, 1 Ul. Pitu Guli, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia

SELECT LIST OF WORKS

ORCHESTRAL: Concertino, piano, string orchestra, 1981; Symphonic Poem on a Biblical Text, 8 or more baritones, orchestra, 1985; Concerto, piano, orchestra, 1987; Raspevy (on a theme by Jovan Kukuzel), string orchestra, 1991 (also version for string quartet); Concerto for Orchestra, 1992 (also version for 2 pianos); Sorrow, string orchestra, 1994; With Prayers, 1998; 1.3, string orchestra, 2001

CHAMBER MUSIC: Sonata, viola, piano, 1980; Fair Suite, string quartet, 1982; Three Preludes, violin, piano, 1986; Leningrad Sonata, violin, piano, 1988; Raspevy (on a theme by Jovan Kukuzel), string quartet, 1992 (version of string orchestra work); Tower Bell, 2 pianos, vibraphone, tubular bells, 1995; Alone - Ezgiya, flute, 1997; Zurladziska, trumpet, piano, 2000

CHORAL: Broken Game, children's chorus, bass drum, any other instrument, 1982; Voices (cantata, text by T.S. Eliot [translated by Bogomil Gjuzel]), baritone, mixed chorus, orchestra, 1990

VOCAL: Will I Wake up Again (song-cycle, texts by Hristo Petreski, Andrey Voznesensky), voice, piano, 1989; Four Blinks of Spring (song-cycle, text by Matsuo Basho), voice, piano, 2002

PIANO: Free Variations, 1979; Sonatina, 1980; Sonata, 1984; Suite, 1984; Concerto for Orchestra, 2 pianos, 1992 (version of orchestral work); Evening Bell Prelude, 1992

(Last updated on March 17, 2003)