Composer and Artistic directorBio and List of works
Listen to some of his compositions :
Enkidu's Funeral
(from the ballet "GILGAMESH"
or "LAUDA"
for voice and three instruments performed by "Syntagma" on period instruments
- What are your priorities in Early Music?
(From an interview to a Russian Early Music Resource)
I do not have an specific priorities, as long as the muic makes sense Personally,in mnodies I like what is sophisticated, with rhythmic problems, or rich in melodies, complex, in short, displaying genius...
I like every kind of music, as long as it is of the highest quality. I try to gather round me pieces that are still unpublished or rarely performed...
I think that unfortunately medieval music is in need of a certain rehabilitaiton: often its profundity is hidden behind its exoticism;
I place the emphasis on the former spects: profundity and seriousness."
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- How would you define the term "interpretation"?
From the interview by Tobias Fischer for "TOKAFI"
"Spoiled telephone"; but not only. It has sometimes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
happened to me that I listened to my own works
which had not been rehearsed with me, and performers
found unexpected beauties.
But there were also quite awful performances,
when I thought that I'd better bury it somewhere.
We possibly may find an analogy with translations:
Shakespeare's texts are well alive and up-to-date,
whereas their translations by Voltaire
are hopelessly obsolete.
A masterpiece lives and develops. So interpretation
is a necessary element of a composition, and
a composer has to take it in account, even
a really bad one.
About his artistic mission:
"There is too much music, and it sounds everywhere, but strangely, nobody had said that music can be the most dangerous dope, that can destroy our integrity.
Only in old China, Lee-tsy, in his "Notes on Music", I century B.C., argued about the desorder in music involving the downfall of States.
There is so much music...that it seems we don't need to create more, but the creative act is as important for our survival, as salvation of a hermit in desert.
From immemorial time, it has been said that music's condition is terrifying. This everlasting pessimism is may be due to the contradtion between the music ideal essence and the human imperfection. Music is an impression of what we are incapable to grasp completely. No words, no distortion."
