(b. 24 April 1963, Tashkent).
Uzbek composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Mr. Yanov-Yanovsky studied composition and instrumentation with his father Felix Yanov-Yanovsky at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan in Tashkent, where he graduated in 1986. He attended masterclasses with Edison Denisov and Poul Ruders in Denmark in 1992 and attended IRCAM in Paris in 1993.
Among his honours are Deuxième Prix in the competition for sacred music in Fribourg (1991, for Lacrymosa), First Prize in the competition of the ensemble ALEA III in Boston, Massachusetts (1992, for Presentiment), the Prix Spécial de Nantes at the Festival International du Film de Cannes (1992, for Kammie [film score]), and the Prize of the Cinematographers' Union of Uzbekistan (1995, for The History of Islām, shared with Felix Yanov-Yanovsky [score for a series of animated films]). His music has been performed in Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Sweden, the USA, and Uzbekistan, including two portrait concerts in Italy (1999).
He is also active in other positions. He founded the annual festival for contemporary music Ilkhom-XX in Tashkent in 1996 and served as its artistic director from 1996–2006. He later served as composer-in-residence at the Siemens Foundation/Hearing Instruments Factory in New Jersey in 2002 and at Harvard University from 2008–10.
In addition to the works listed below, he has composed scores for more than 50 films and more than 25 stage productions.
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE:
Thread (text by Omar Khayyam), voice, dancer, flute, ghijak (spike lute from Central Asia), tanbur (lute from the Middle East), cello, piano, 2 percussion, 1989
Come and Go (stage étude no. 1, text by Samuel Beckett), 3 female voices, flute, guitar, cello, piano, 1995
The Little Match Girl (ballet for children in 1 act, scenario by the composer, after Hans Christian Andersen), 1996–97
Breath (stage étude no. 2, text by Samuel Beckett), flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, fixed media, 1999
Eh Joe (chamber opera, libretto by Samuel Beckett), mezzo-soprano, male actor, 2001
ORCHESTRAL:
Concerto, piano, small orchestra, 1983
Presentiment, small orchestra (16 players), fixed media, 1992
Chamber Music, small orchestra (14 players), 1993
Sotto Voce, 1993
Ritual, 1994
Conjunctions, string quartet, orchestra, fixed media, 1995
Takyr – Scorched Earth, 6 percussion, string orchestra, 1995
Lux æterna, violin, small orchestra (16 players), 1997
Predestination, harpsichord, small orchestra (15 players), 1997
Message, string orchestra, 2001
Notturno, small orchestra (15 players), fixed media, 2003
Concerto, cello, large orchestra, 2009–10
CHAMBER MUSIC:
String Quartet, 1985
Coda, ghijak, chang (hammered dulcimer from Central Asia), 1986
Epilogue, piano, string quartet, 1989
Chang Music I, chang, 1990
Chang Music III, violin, viola, cello, 1991
Fragments of Bird Life, alto recorder, 1991
Sounding Darkness, flute, oboe, viola, cello, glass harmonica, 1992
Haiku for Gert Sørensen, percussion, 1992
Awakening, string quartet, fixed media, 1993
Chang Music IV, string quartet, 1993
Chang Music V, chang, string quartet, 1993–94
Music of Dreams, chang, harpsichord, fixed media, 1999
Night Music: Voice in the leaves, cello, ensemble (flute, oboe, harp, violin, cello, double bass, piano, 2 percussion), fixed media, 2000
Seven Miniatures, flute, 2001
Twilight Music, flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, guitar, mandolin, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, 2002
Hearing Solution, cello, ensemble (harp, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, piano, 2 percussion), 2002
Postscriptum, 4 percussion, 2003
CHORAL:
Ad amorem (text from the Song of Solomon), 8/16 mixed voices, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, 1997
Drei Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert (text by Friedrich Rückert), mixed chorus, 2002
VOCAL:
Autumn rain in the darkness... (text by Matsuo Bashō), soprano, small orchestra, 1987
Lacrymosa, soprano, string quartet, 1991 (also version for soprano, string orchestra, 2002)
Hommage à Gustav Mahler (text by Friedrich Rückert), soprano, string quartet, 1996 (also version for mezzo-soprano, small orchestra [16 players], 1999)
Wiegelied für Heidelberg (vocalise), soprano, flute, guitar, violin, percussion, 1996
Moon Songs (text by Federico García Lorca), soprano, 2 pianos, 1996 (also version for mezzo-soprano, piano, 2003)
'...' (text by Alexander Pushkin), countertenor, violin, viola, cello, fixed media, 1999
Nach der Lese (sentimental comment, text by Stefan George), soprano, violin, cello, piano, 1999
Limericks (text by Edward Lear), baritone, small orchestra (15 players), 2003
PIANO:
Bagatelles, 1982
Cadenza, 1988
Chang Music II, 2 pianos, 1990
Allusions and Reminiscences, 2000
Silhouettes, 2001
Six Lost Chopin Waltzes, piano 4 hands, 2002
ORGAN:
Facets, 1996
Elf and Mirror, 2000
DISCOGRAPHY
Lacrymosa. Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Kronos Quartet (Nonesuch Records: 7559-79346-2, 1993)
Lacrymosa; Presentiment; Haiku for Gert Sørensen; Lux æterna; Hommage à Gustav Mahler. Roland Freisitzer/Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Le Chant du Monde: LDC 278 1110, 1998)
Nach der Lese. Linda Campanella, soprano; Antidogma Musica (Nuova Era: 7364, 2001)
Music of Dreams. Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, chang; Elisabeth Chojnacka, harpsichord (Opus 111: OPS 30-293, 2001)
Chang Music III. Xenia Ensemble (Felmay, 2002)