Kanstantsin Yaskou Кастанцін Яськоў - Moonlight Sonata of Philip Glass

Biography

Kanstantsin Yaskou

Kanstantsin Yaskou (Канстанцін Яськоў (By), Константин Яськов (Rus)), (b. December 29, 1981, Vetka (Gomel region)).
Belarusian composer.
Mr. K.Yaskou studied composition and conducting at the Belarusian State Academy of Music in Minsk. There he received his diploma in 2006 and had post-graduate studies in composition from 2006-2008. In 2008 as a participant of  Gaude Polonia program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland he had a training in composition at the Academy of Music in Katowice. 
He is a participant and an organizer of many concerts and festivals of contemporary music. 
Since 2007 Konstantin Yaskou is a member of  Belarussian composers union.
He has taught the analysis of music form and the theory of the contemporary harmony at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. He also has taught the notation of the Belarusian folklore’s audio records at the Belarusian State University of Culture and Art in Minsk since 2008.

Moonlight Sonata of Philip Glass
(by the composer himself)

Arpeggio is the most prominent feature of the style Glass' music. In my musical experience arpeggio is associated with the most popular Betthoven 's piece "Moonlight Sonata". But also, I noticed that several harmonic sequences from this Beethoven 's opus are used in compositions of Glass. I decided to play with allusions to the music of these two composers. So I took some harmonic sequences from Beethoven 's "Moonlight Sonata" and arranged in Glass' music style. I imagined the way of composing "Moonlight Sonata" by Philip Glass. 

Svetlana Rynkova - Nostalgie

Biography

Rynkova Sviatlana

Rynkova Sviatlana (b. 1985, Gomel). Belarusian composer of mostly chamber music that has been performed in Europe; she is also active as a pianist.

Ms. Rynkova studied composition with Valery I. Karetnikov and piano with Eleonora I. Akhremchik at the Republican College of Music of the Belarusian Academy of Music in Minsk, where she graduated with honors in both subjects in 2004. She has studied composition with Vladimir Korolchyuk and piano with Yury N. Gildyuk at the Belarusian Academy of Music since 2004, where she received a special scholarship in 2007–08. She also attended masterclasses in composition with Biagio Putignano and in piano with Cinzia Falco in Trani in 2006, on a scholarship from the Associazione Domenico Sarro.

Among her honors as a pianist are First Prize in the Art of the 21st Century competition in Kyiv (2004), the Special Prize of the President of Belarus (2005) and Second Prize in the Rocco Rodio competition in Castellana Grotte (2007). Her awards as a composer include Third Prize in the Farbatony competition in Kaniv, Ukraine (2006, for Variations on a Theme of César Franck and Ballade), a special diploma in the Maksim Bogdanovich competition of the Belarusian Academy of Music (2006, for Night), Third Prize in the Maestro competition in Simferopol (2007, for Ballade and The Legend of Lake Naroch), and the Special Prize of the President of Belarus (2008, for her activities in 2006). Her music has been performed in Belarus, Italy and Ukraine, including once each at the Kyiv Music (2007) and Dialogues in Minsk (2007) festivals.

As a pianist, she has performed much 20th- and 21st-century music, as well as baroque, classical and romantic répertoire.

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