Olga Virezoub
Olga Yakovlevna Virezoub (Russian: Ольга Яковлевна Вирезуб) (born 18 March 1975 in Grozny, Chechnya, USSR) is a Russian-German composer, music producer, pianist, and researcher.
Olga Virezoub was born into a family of musicians. She grew up in the artistic and theatrical atmosphere of theatre musicians, and, as a child, often traveled with her parents across the Soviet Union, sometimes acting in their theatre's guest performances in children's roles. She then began piano lessons at the Samarian music college and, concurrently, took composition lessons in Samara. Starting in 1994, she traveled to Saint Petersburg, where, on her aunt's recommendation, she began studying piano and composition with the renowned Russian composer and virtuoso pianist Georgy Firtich at the Herzen University of Saint Petersburg from 1995 to 1997. He introduced her to his colleagues and friends, became her most important mentor, and strongly influenced her as a composer. Similarly, following her aunt's advice, she studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where she received her foundational education in composition and instrumentation under Vladimir Tsytovich from 1996 to 2000. She completed her conservatory studies externally, as her family moved to Germany in 2000, but still earned an excellent composition diploma. She also attended numerous master classes in composition and piano during her studies, including those with Nikolai Petrov and Paul-Heinz Dittrich. In parallel to her music studies, she took courses in French law and history at the "Collège Universitaire Française" of the University of Saint Petersburg. From 2001 to 2003, she completed the graduate program in composition and piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. Also in 2003, she received a scholarship from OCNM to participate in master classes and a festival for contemporary and jazz music, featuring Alvin Lucier, Tristan Murail, Christian Wolff, Frederic Rzewski, Roscoe Mitchell and others. A residency in the world music program at Middletown, USA followed, where she was Alvin Lucier's advisee in composition, and also worked with the American composer and pianist Neely Bruce, among others.
Olga Virezoub has won several prizes and scholarships, including the Künstlerhaus Cismar fellowship from the Ministry of Education and Culture Schleswig-Holstein in Grömitz, Germany in 2004. She has been recognized for her work in Europe, Asia, and the USA, for example, as the "IMRadio featured artist" in Chicago in 2010 and multiple times as the number one featured artist in experimental and jazz music genres in New York in 2012. Her music has been performed, and she has performed as a pianist, in events for contemporary and jazz music such as the "Musical Spring" and "Sound Ways" (1999) in Saint Petersburg, "Cage Days" (2001) in Hannover, "Ostrava Days" (2003) in Ostrava, "Kieler Woche" (2005) in Kiel, "Donne Musica" (2004) and "Natale in Musica" (2007) in Rome. Musicians from ensembles such as "Sound Ways", "Das Neue Ensemble", "S.E.M. Ensemble", "OCNM Ensemble", and "Anthony Braxton Ensemble" have performed her work, as well as renowned composers and musicians like Roscoe Mitchell and Thomas Buckner.[1]
Furthermore, as a composer and pianist, Olga Virezoub presented many new contemporary works by West European and American composers in Europe, and initiated several projects showcasing contemporary works in Germany. For example, she was invited by the 'Verein Concertant e. V.' to give a piano recital featuring her own compositions and works by European and American composers in 2008 in Hannover, repeating and expanding this project in 2009 in Göttingen. As a piano performer, she was involved in over 30 world premieres of her own and contemporary chamber music works by European and American composers, including "Senzapatria Sempiterno" by the German composer Anton Plate for the concert and honorary doctorate award for Helmut Lachenmann in 2001 in Hannover. She has also performed as a drummer of some traditional instruments and as a dancer in classical ballet and West African dance in Russia and the USA. Additionally, Olga Virezoub is the author of several essays and works in music theory and history.
Since 2012, Olga Virezoub's music has been available worldwide in online music stores and has achieved several chart positions.
In April 2017, Olga Virezoub won the "The Akademia Music Awards" in Los Angeles in the "Best A Capella Song" category for her choral piece "Ne Poy, Krasavitsa, Pri Mne" based on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.
In 2000, her family immigrated to Germany, where she has resided in Hannover ever since.
Aesthetics of work and Perpetua Melodia © Music Conception
Olga Virezoub is the inventor of a so-called Perpetua Melodia © Music Conception, which she originally formulated in her violin piece Cadenza in 2003 and fully developed in 2012.
Seeking her own traditions in contemporary and multicultural music, she has intensely focused on world music, especially African traditional music and Indonesian Gamelan music (Gamelan Angklung), since mid-2009. She approaches world music as a composer, introducing new avenues and perspectives for new music, including her distinctive musical elements such as the "perpetua melodia" ("everlasting melody") and "cantica infinita" ("infinite song") or "cantiche infinite" ("infinite songs"). Her inspiration draws from her Russian heritage and melodious Russian music, the expressive melody of Italian language and poetry, and, most importantly, her musical approaches are primarily based on the principles of world music, especially African and Gamelan music, incorporating African rhythms and dances, as well as 20th-century West European compositional techniques, US-American music (including ragtime and jazz rhythms), and electronic music, particularly electronic dance music.
She has expressed these ideas in works such as Singa Nebah (2010) for guitar and Pulchritudinous Music (2010/11) for orchestra.
References
- Olga Virezoub Music Production on CD Baby: [1]
- Olga Virezoub Music Production on TuneCore: [2]
- NUMBER ONE music: [3]
External links
- Olga Virezoub on MySpace
- Olga Virezoub in German by Klassika
- Official site
- Olga Virezoub at the Certosa Verlag
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