Elena Rykova
Elena Rykova (born 1991 in Ufa), is a Russian composer, performance artist and improvisor, currently based in Cambridge.
Compositional Style[edit]
Her work often involves a visual, choreographic or theatrical element and an intense engagement with sound. She regularly builds her own instruments for her works.[1] She identifies as a "spiritual composer", seeing music composition as akin to faith, and "to make this faith stronger and stronger with every single idea, every piece being born; learn how to trust the piece, how to trust yourself."[2]
Education[edit]
Rykova was a student of Yuri Kasparov at the Moscow State Conservatory from 2010-2015. She then studied with Johannes Schöllhorn at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Cologne, and is currently pursuing her PhD at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. She also participated in the Summer Academy at Schloss Solitude with Czernowin, Ming Tsao and Rebecca Saunders.
In 2017, she was a resident of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin.[3]
Career[edit]
In 2015, Rykova wrote 101% mind uploading[4] for Ensemble Nikel as part of the Tzlil Meudcan Summer Festival who performed the work in at the festival in Tel Aviv, at Haifa University and at the Bludenzer Tage in 2017.[5] In the same year, she also wrote Bat Jamming, for piano, singing bowls and objects, for Luis A. Martínez and Carmen Iriarte from ensemble Vertixe Sonora, which was premiered at the Galego de Arte Contemporáne in Spain.[6] Moving around a grand piano without its lid, the work asks the two musicians to manipulate the objects that are placed on the strings. The work is exemplary of Rykova's relationship with objects as sound-creators.[7]
In 2016 she wrote Life Expectancy. Experience #2. Your Moon for the German ensemble hand werk, which was premiered at Cologne's new talents festival in the same year.[8] In this year, she also wrote You exist and I am an illusion for the Swedish cello-percussion duo UmeDuo.[9][10]
In 2017 her work was featured in a portrait on the German radio station Deutschlandfunk.[11] In February of that year, a portrait concert of her work took place in Montreal, performed by No Hay Banda, and included the works Life expectancy. Experience #1. The Sun, Life expectancy. Experience #2. Your Moon, Marionette and 101% mind uploading.[12]
In 2018, Rykova wrote Thousand splinters of a human eye for the Neue Vocalsolisten and Calefax, which was premiered at the ECLAT festival in Stuttgart.[13]
Her work has also been performed by Yarn/Wire[14], KontakteDUO, IEMA, and Soundinitiative.[15]
Prizes[edit]
Rykova is the winner of the 2015 Frederic Mompou International Award of the 36th Young Composer Competition for Saxophone Quartets in Barcelona. Elena was nominated for the Gaudeamus Prize in 2013[16] and was one of the finalists of the Kandinsky Prize in 2014.[17] [18] She also received a scholarship of the Berlin Academy of Arts in 2016 and was chosen to represent Russia during the ISCM-World Music Days 2016 in Tongyeong, South Korea.[8]
Works List[edit]
| Title of work | Year | Instrumentation |
|---|---|---|
| Playing shimmy | 2011 | Solo / clarinet in Bb |
| The Mirror of Galadriel | 2012 | Musical performance / two performers, pine cones, ping pong table |
| Purple Haze | 2013 | solo accordion |
| Alone against the wall | 2013 | Fl, Ob, Cl, Pno, Perc, Vn, Vc and objects |
| Quest # | 2013 | 6 to 9 non-specified chromatic instruments |
| TypewritERyk | 2013 | flute, clarinet and accordion |
| Stop at the next cloud or I'll turn into a scorpion | 2013 | Cl, Vc, 2 home swingers, percussion, objects, a construction |
| Marionette | 2014 | solo (amplified) violin |
| A blink of the evanescent smile | 2014 | guitar, violin, cello and objects |
| The Codex of a Wolverine | 2014-2015 | symphony orchestra |
| One Step to the Portal / work in progress | 2015 | clarinet in Bb, timpano and light |
| Brain-ring | 2013-2015 | saxophone quartet |
| 101% mind uploading | 2015 | prepared piano, percussion, objects |
| Bat Jamming | 2015 | piano, two singing bowls, objects |
| Life expectancy. Experience #1. The Sun | 2015-2016 | seven performers |
| You exist and I am an illusion | 2016 | Prepared snare drum, prepared cello, objects, percussion |
| Life expectancy. Experience #2. Your Moon. | 2016 | prepared cello, acoustic quitar, prepared snare drum, a Medium (guitar amp) |
| Cryptic Thingness | 2016 | Electroacoustic |
| Subito Dodo | 2017 | 5 players; prepared table, objects, percussion |
| Thousand splinters of a human eye | 2018 | 5 voices and 5 single reeds |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Elena Rykova - Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt". Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- ↑ Clasico, Mundo. "Interview with Elena Rykova". Mundoclasico.com. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- ↑ "JUNGE AKADEMIE: AGORA ARTES / Interplay of the Arts". Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ Shockley, Alan (2018). "The Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer’s Guide to Techniques and Resources", p. 186.
- ↑ oe1.orf.at. "Uraufführungen bei den Tagen zeitgemäßer Musik | MO | 11 12 2017 | 23:03". oe1.orf.at (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- ↑ "SERIES OF CONCERTS. MUSIC AND ART 2016 - CGAC". cgac.xunta.gal. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ Carmen Iriarte Ibarra (2017-03-21), Bat Jamming - Elena Rykova, retrieved 2018-09-12
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Elena Rykova | New Talents 2016". www.2016.newtalents-cologne.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- ↑ rеМusik.оrg (2017-02-28), Elena RYKOVA: You exist. And I am an illusion, retrieved 2018-09-12
- ↑ "non classé - Cité internationale universitaire de Paris". Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (in français). Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ "Die russische Komponistin Elena Rykova - "... oder ich verwandele mich in einen Skorpion"". Deutschlandfunk (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ "NO HAY BANDA #3: Elena Rykova + Frechette/Primard – Heyevent.com". heyevent.com. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ "ECLAT Konzert 9 - Musik der Jahrhunderte". mdjstuttgart.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ "Yarn/Wire, 3/18/2017 — Harvard Group for New Music". hgnm.org. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ "Soundinitiative". www.teatrodellavoro.it. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ↑ "Elena Rykova – The Rambler". johnsonsrambler.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- ↑ Prize, Kandinsky. "Elena Rykova". www.kandinsky-prize.ru. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
- ↑ "State of the art: who will win Russia's Kandinsky Prize this week?". The Calvert Journal. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
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