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Obligatory piece
Category: Up to 12 years
Name of the piece: Autumn
Composer Eugene Magalif
Composer Eugene Magalif (b. 1957, Vitebsk, Belarus), has lived in the USA since 1990. He graduated from Vitebsk Music College and Belarusian State Conservatory (Academy of Music). During the years in Belarus, E. Magalif became well-known for his pop-songs. Many of them were recorded by famous singers and orchestras from the countries of the former USSR and featured on Radio and TV. Seven of his songs hit Top 10 in the Belarusian Hit-Parade, and 12 of the songs were accepted into USSR Radio fund in Moscow and were delivered to Radio stations of all the former Soviet Republics. As of today, his songs are performed in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic («Radio Liberty/Free Europe»), Lithuania, France, and Israel.
Eugene Magalif is the author of the musical «SWINEHERD», cantata «BARMALEY», music for Theater, Radio, and TV, instrumental pieces, Christian music for the choir, and popular songs and ballads.
Most of E. Magalif’s works are not too long, and the style of his music has the influences of Baroque music and pop-music; some of his favorite composers are Vivaldi, Mozart, C. Frank, A.L. Webber and Karl Jenkins. So, one can describe the style of the music as combination of classical and pop-music, or so called modern classical.
Maestro Yuri Temirkanov, Chief Conductor of the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Orchestra, wrote that Eugene Magalif’ music is “delightful, first of all in its professionalism, as well as quite amusing and witty.”
Magalif’ sacred choral music got an excellent response from one of the hierarchs of Belarusian Church: «Dear Mr. Magalif, your music, no doubt, is a new word in Russian Orthodox music» (from the letter of Archimandrite Ioasaf, Rector of Belarusian Orthodox Seminary and Academy)
E. Magalif was a jury member in several competitions in Belarus. In 2008 and 2010 he was an honored guest at the International Festival «Slavianski Bazaar» in Vitebsk, Belarus. As a pianist, Mr. Magalif gave concerts in different states of the USA, including a performance in the United Nations. Composer E. Magalif lives in New Jersey, and teaches music to high-school students.
Category: Ensemble
Name of the piece: FORGET-MY-NOT
Composer Anton Arensky (transposition for 4 flutes S.Golubenko's)
Flutist, lecturer.
Ph.D. in History of Arts (2011).
Laureate of All-Russian and International Competitions. Participant of numerous international festivals and conferences.
Born in Moscow in 1979.
Graduated from the Central Musical School under Moscow Conservatoire (Y.N. Dolozhikov and A.V. Korolev’s class), Moscow Conservatoire (A.V. Korneev’s class), post graduate school of Moscow Conservatoire (faculty “Orchestra of modern music” – under the supervision of V.G. Tarnopolskiy).
Initiator of organising and Art Director of the flute quartet “Syrinx”(1998).
Concert repertoire of the ensemble consists of original compositions of Russian and foreign composers of all styles and genres (from baroque to modern), popular music and arrangements for this ensemble.
At the moment the repertoire of the quartet is more than 130 original compositions (the half of which is the compositions of modern composers, written specially for the flute quartet “Syrinx”) and more than 100 arrangements for 4 flutes.
Ñî-organiser and participant of Russian flute ensemble «The Grand Flute Ensemble» (2007).
Co-author of the idea and organiser of the concerts in cycles “Flute Extravaganza” (2007-2011) and “Terra Flute” (2009-2010).
Author of numerous arrangements and editor of compositions for flute ensembles.
Lecturer in the Department of History and Theory of Performing Art at Moscow Conservatoire.
Jury member of the III International Internet Competition for young musicians “My favourite flute» (2011).
Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine. With his mother and father, he moved to Saint Petersburg in 1879, where he studied composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in 1882, Arensky became a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among his students there were Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Gretchaninov.
In 1895 Arensky returned to Saint Petersburg as the director of the Imperial Choir, a post for which he had been recommended by Mily Balakirev. Arensky retired from this position in 1901, spending his remaining time as a pianist, conductor, and composer.
Arensky died of tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Perkjärvi, Finland. It is alleged that drinking and gambling undermined his health. The Antarctic Arensky Glacier was named after him.
The material is taken from wikipedia
Svyatoslav Golubenko
Flutist, lecturer.
Ph.D. in History of Arts (2011).
Laureate of All-Russian and International Competitions. Participant of numerous international festivals and conferences.
Born in Moscow in 1979.
Graduated from the Central Musical School under Moscow Conservatoire (Y.N. Dolozhikov and A.V. Korolev’s class), Moscow Conservatoire (A.V. Korneev’s class), post graduate school of Moscow Conservatoire (faculty “Orchestra of modern music” – under the supervision of V.G. Tarnopolskiy).
Initiator of organising and Art Director of the flute quartet “Syrinx”(1998).
Concert repertoire of the ensemble consists of original compositions of Russian and foreign composers of all styles and genres (from baroque to modern), popular music and arrangements for this ensemble.
At the moment the repertoire of the quartet is more than 130 original compositions (the half of which is the compositions of modern composers, written specially for the flute quartet “Syrinx”) and more than 100 arrangements for 4 flutes.
Ñî-organiser and participant of Russian flute ensemble «The Grand Flute Ensemble» (2007).
Co-author of the idea and organiser of the concerts in cycles “Flute Extravaganza” (2007-2011) and “Terra Flute” (2009-2010).
Author of numerous arrangements and editor of compositions for flute ensembles.
Lecturer in the Department of History and Theory of Performing Art at Moscow Conservatoire.
Jury member of the III International Internet Competition for young musicians “My favourite flute» (2011).
