Andrey Tikhomirov

Andrey Tikhomirov (born 10 February 1958) is a Russian composer currently living in Bulgaria.

Bio

Andrey Tikhomirov was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). At the age of 10 he became seriously interested in classical music and began studying the piano himself. At the age of 11 he entered a music school, performing at the entrance examinations a part of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata and two pieces of his own composition. In 1976, Tikhomirov graduated early with honors from the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music, as a pianist and a composer (class of Galina Ustvolskaya), and in 1982 he graduated from the Leningrad (St Petersburg) Conservatoire (class of Sergei Slonimsky).

Early in his career as a composer, Tikhomirov was close to modernist stylistics, but later he began to combine some elements of avant-garde techniques with classical principles of musical form and some melodic and rhythmic elements typical for the 20th and 21st centuries popular music^[1].

In February 2022, Tikhomirov was one of the first Russian musicians to publicly, through his website and social network Facebook, strongly condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the spring of 2022, in protest against the war, he wrote a symphony piece Special Military Operation (at first it was titled The Mariupol Symphony by DDSCH) — a paraphrase of the «Invasion» episode from Symphony No. 7 (Shostakovich).

Main music works

Operas

Dracula (2007; 2015) ^[2]
Posledniye Dni (The Last Days) A chamber opera based on the play of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov and fragments of Alexander Pushkin works (1990; 2016)

Symphonic works. Instrumental concerts

Three symphonies, including the repeatedly performed in Russia program symphony The Mirror
Image of a dance. Album of pieces for symphony orchestra
Fantasy-Concerto for Piano and Symphony Orchestra
Happy New Year Music for Piano and Symphony Orchestra
My First Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra (for the youngest soloists)
Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
Concerto for Balalaika, Piano and String Orchestra
Concerto for Domra and Chamber Orchestra
Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra
Concerto for Guitar and String Orchestra

Chamber Instrumental Music

Melodic Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano
Trio zum Abschied for Violin, Viola and Cello
Divertimento for Quintet of Wood Winds
Widmung an Mozart for Clarinet (Flute) and String Orchestra or String Quartet
The fun for Flute and Piano

Music for Piano solo

Dinner with the Classics, Album of Piano pieces
Sol. Triptych. (There is a play on words in this title: the word «sol» in Russian means not only the note Sol, but also salt, and in a figurative sense, an emotional, often sad, attitude toward some phenomenon).
Fantasia quasi una sonata
Medieval Landscapes. Triptych.
The Magic Lantern, Album of piano pieces for children

Chamber vocal compositions

1917. After all, what is spring now? Composition for Bass and piano to poems and excerpts from Cursed Days by Ivan Bunin
Music for Two, Album of double duets for soprano, mezzo-soprano and two Pianos to Juan Ramón Jiménez poems
Wind in an abandoned house, 5 songs to Juan Ramon Jimenez poems
When All Life Was Different, two vocal albums to Nikolay Agnivtsev poems

Theater music

When All Life Was Different, a performance by the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theater ^[3].
Nebilitza (The Fiction). Singspiel for children

External links

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[1] ttps://www.unioncomposers.ru/composer/view/?id=400

[2] ttps://vagnethierry.fr/contemporary-operas.html

[3] ttps://muzcomedy.ru/en/about/repertoire/studio_stage/kogda_vsya_zhizn_byla_inoj/About

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