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Yanov
Mr. Yanov-Yanovsky graduated from the Tashkent State Conservatory in 1986, where he took composition and instrumentation classes with his father, Felix Yanov-Yanovsky. He was a participant in the masterclasses in Lerchenborg, Denmark with Poul Ruders and Edison Denisov (1992) and took part in Summer Academia at IRCAM, Paris (1993).
He has won a number of awards for his musical compositions. These include Second Prize at the International Competition of Composition De musique Sacrée in Fribourg, Switzerland (1991) for his piece Lacrymosa and the ALEA III International Prize in Boston (1992) for his work Presentiment. In addition, he has won the Special Award of Nantes at the Cannes International Film Festival (1992) for his score to the film Kammie.
In 1993-94, Mr. Yanov-Yanovsky performed and recorded the chang part in his piece Chang-Music V together with the Kronos Quartet, and in 2000, he and Elisabeth Chojnacka performed and recorded his piece Music of Dreams. In 1999, two monographic concerts of his music took place in Italy - one in Rome and one in Torino.
His works have been performed at the International Music Festival, Brno (1988), the cycles of concerts Europhonia, Zagreb (1990), the Lerchenborg Music Days (1992, 1994), the Vienna Jazz Festival (1993), Présences, Paris (1993, 2000), the Zagreb Biennale (1993), and the Cervantino, Mexico (1993). In addition, his works have been heard at the Kronos and Friends Festival (1993-94), the ISCM World Music Days, Stockholm (1994), the Schleswig-Holstein Festival (1994-95), Music Today (1995), the Moscow Autumn Festival (1996-97), the Warsaw Autumn Festival (1997), the Museum of Modern Art (2001), and others.
Among the performers of his music are the ALEA III Ensemble, Antidogma Musica, the Arditti String Quartet, the Erwartung Ensemble, the Jerusalem Contemporary Players, the Kronos Quartet, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Nieuw Ensemble, percussionist Gert Sørensen, soprano Dawn Upshaw, and the Xenia Ensemble. Other performers include Alter Ego, sopranos Barbara Bayer and Phyllis Bryn-Julson, harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka, conductor Dennis Russell Davies, countertenor David James, soprano Sarah Leonard, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, conductors Diego Masson, Pascal Rophé and Joel Sachs, the Silk Road Ensemble, the Xenakis Ensemble, and others.
In 1996, he founded the International Festival of Contemporary Music ILKHOM-XX in Tashkent, and is now an artistic director of the festival. In addition to the works listed below, Mr. Yanov-Yanovsky has composed scores for 40 films and more than 20 theatre performances.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: yanovsky@mail.tps.uz
Street address: Mr. Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, C-1 47-ap. 42, Tashkent 700000, Uzbekistan
Telephone: + 998 711 361 382
Fax: + 998 712 560 296
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Thread (text by Omar Khayyam), voice, dancer, ensemble (10 players), 1989; Come and Go (stage étude no. 1, after Samuel Beckett), 3 female voices, flute, guitar, cello, piano, 1995; The Little Match-Girl (ballet for children, after Hans Christian Andersen), 1996-97; Breath (stage étude no. 2, after Samuel Beckett), flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, tape, 1999; Eh Joe (chamber opera, libretto by Samuel Beckett), mezzo-soprano, actor/video, 2001
ORCHESTRAL: Concerto, piano, small orchestra, 1983; Sotto Voce, 1993; Ritual, 1994; Takyr, 6 percussion, string orchestra, 1995
CHAMBER MUSIC: String Quartet, 1985; Coda, gijak, chang, 1986; Epilogue, string quartet, piano, 1989; Chang-Music I, chang, 1990; Chang-Music III, violin, viola, cello, 1991; Fragments of Bird Life, recorder, 1991; Sounding Darkness, flute, oboe, viola, cello, glass harmonica, 1992; Haiku for Gert Sørensen, percussion, 1992; Chang-Music IV, string quartet, 1993; Chamber Music, ensemble (12 players), 1993; Chang-Music V, chang, string quartet, 1993-94; Lux aeterna, violin, ensemble, 1997; Predestination (after M.C. Escher), harpsichord, ensemble, 1997; 7 Miniatures, flute, 2001; Twilight Music, flute, oboe, B-flat clarinet, harp, mandolin, guitar, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, 2002
CHORAL: Ad amorem (text from the Song of Solomon), vocal ensemble, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, 1997
VOCAL: Autumn rain in the darkness… (text by Matsuo Basho), soprano, small orchestra, 1987; Lacrymosa, soprano, string quartet, 1991; Hommage à Gustav Mahler (text by Friedrich Rückert), soprano, string quartet, 1996 (also version for mezzo-soprano, ensemble, 1999); Wiegelied für Heidelberg, soprano, flute, guitar, violin, percussion, 1996; Moon Songs (text by Federico García Lorca), soprano, 2 pianos, 1996; Nach der Lese (sentimental comment, text by Stefan George), soprano, violin, cello, piano, 1999
PIANO: Bagatelles, 1982; Cadenza, 1988; Chang-Music II, 2 pianos, 1990; Allusions and Reminiscences, 2000; Silhouettes, 2001
ORGAN: Facets, 1996; Elf and Mirror, 2000
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Presentiment, ensemble, tape, 1992; Awakening, string quartet, tape, 1993; Conjunctions, string quartet, orchestra, tape, 1995; Music of Dreams, harpsichord, chang, tape, 1999; '…', countertenor, violin, viola, cello, tape, 1999; Night Music: Voice in the leaves, cello, ensemble (9 players), tape, 2000
DISCOGRAPHY
Lacrymosa. Dawn Upshaw, soprano; Kronos Quartet (Elektra Nonesuch, 1993)
Music of Dreams. Elisabeth Chojnacka, harpsichord; Dmitry Yanov-Yanovsky, chang (Opus 111, 2000)
Nach der Lese. Linda Campanella, soprano; Ensemble Europeo Antidogma Musica (Nuova Era, 2001)
Lacrymosa; Presentiment; Haiku; Lux aeterna; Hommage à Gustav Mahler. Roland Freisitzer/Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Harmonia Mundi)
(Last updated on November 8, 2001)
