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Kourliandski, Dmitri (b. 1976, Moscow). Russian composer of mostly chamber works that have been performed in Europe.
Mr. Kourliandski studied flute with Daniil Kharkeyevich at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow from 1991–95 and with Geneviève Amar at the Nadia et Lili Boulanger Conservatoire de Paris in 1995–96. He studied composition with Leonid Bobylev at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory from 1997–2002 and had post-graduate studies with him there from 2002–06.
Among his honors are an honorable mention in the All-Russia Young Composers Competition (1999, for ...per flauto [withdrawn]) and First Prize in the Gaudeamus competition (2003, for Innermost man). His ~#(:-&PER4MUSICIANS was also a finalist in the competition of Ensemble Eleven in Manchester (2003) and he worked as a guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (2008). His music has been performed in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, and the UK and is regularly featured at the Alternativa, Moscow Autumn and Moscow Forum festivals.
Mr. Kourliandski is also active in other positions. He founded the journal Tribuna Sovremennoy Muzyki – Tribune of Contemporary Music in Moscow in 2006 and has served as its editor-in-chief since 2006.
He has taught instrumentation at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory since 2001.
Le Chant du Monde publishes some of his music.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: kourl@mail.ru
Street address: Mr. Dmitri Kourliandski, ul. B. Ordynka 17, kv. 43, 115035 Moscow, Russia
Telephone: + 749 5504 0186
Website: http://www.kourl.ru/
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Symphony in D minor, 'Hypothetical' (unfinished), large orchestra (80 players), 2001; Artificial life-support machinery, large orchestra (77 players), 2004; Night-turne, string orchestra, 2004 (version of work for string quartet); Life and death of Ivan Ilich, small orchestra (16 players), 2005; DSCH. Recollecting the name, small orchestra (16 players), 2005; Contra-relief, small orchestra (18 players), 2005
CHAMBER MUSIC: Fegis, violin, piano, percussion, 2001; Ars stricta, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, harp, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, piano, marimba, 2001; Une histoire de la musique, tuba, double bass, bass drum, 2001; ~#(:-&PER4MUSICIANS, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2002; Seven circles, string quartet, 2002; Brown study, bass flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, 2002 (also version for flute, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano, percussion, 2002); SONOGRAMMA (improvisation), any player, live electronics ad libitum, 2002; Resonant mass, 4 percussion, 2002; ...pas d'action, Alphorn, contrabass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 2003; FL[falsa lectio], flute, 2004; still_life, flute, English horn, bassoon, French horn, B-flat trumpet, trombone, tuba, harp, violin, viola, cello, double bass, percussion, 2004; Inside the movement, harp, double bass, piano, percussion, 2004; Night-turne, string quartet, 2004 (also versions for string quartet, double bass, 2004; string orchestra); Danc[e]inG, alto flute, alto saxophone, viola, 2 snare drums, live electronics, 2005; Broken memory, violin, cello, piano, 2005; [ob]version, oboe, piano, 2005; White concerto, bass flute, bass clarinet, trombone, piano, accordion, percussion, 2006; Moscow lullaby music, flute, clarinet, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass, CD, 2007; Unsolvable acoustic case, 6 percussion, ensemble, live electronics, 2007; dissecta... still life with bows and surfaces, any brass instrument (with 2 bows), cello (with 2 bows), double bass (with 2 bows), piano (with 2 bows), percussion (with 2 bows), 2007; Tube space, tuba, 2003–08
VOCAL: Innermost man (text by Andrey Platonov), soprano, 4 ensembles (flute, bass clarinet; French horn, trumpet, trombone; violin, viola, cello, double bass; piano, bayan, percussion), 2002; Marche for 'de ereprijs' (texts from articles on the words "march", "marche"), 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, tenor, bass, 2 flutes, clarinet, 2 saxophones, French horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, percussion, 2002; 4 states of same, voice, flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, percussion, 2005; Lacrimosa [anatomy of pain], 2006 (each of its two sections may be performed separately: Lacrimosa, soprano, 40 mixed voices; Lacrimosa [anatomy of pain], soprano, speaker, small orchestra [15 players], live electronics); Voice-off, any voice, 2008
PIANO: forte:music:piano:music, 2000–02 (each of its three sections may be performed separately: Synchronization primitives, 2002; Symmetrical matrix, 2000; Absolute majority, 2002); Surface, 2007
MULTIMEDIA: Negative modulations, dance troupe, small orchestra (16 players), CD, film, interactive system (by Olga Kumeger), 2003–06; happy mill (interactive performance for 4 female performers), chicken nuggets, French fries, Coca-Cola, Macintosh, 2007
(Last updated on May 21, 2008)
