Svyatoslav Lunyov

Svyatoslav Lunyov was born 1964 in Kiev, Ukraine.

He graduated from the National Kiev's Conservatory (the class of composition, leaded by professor L. Kolodub) in 1993.

1992 — Laureate of the Ukrainian national “Rahmaninov's” contestof young composers in Kiev. 1993 — Laureate of the Ukrainian national contest “Gradus ad Parnassum”. 1997 — Laureate of “L. Revutzky's Prize” of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and Arts.

Svyatoslav Lunyov is the member of Ukrainian Union of Composers since 1994.

He is an author of symphonic, chamber, choir, vocal and electro-acoustic musical works and also some cinema-music.

The works of Svyatoslav Lunyov were presented on different international contests:

International Forum Of Young Music, (1993–1998, Kiev);
Festival “Premieres of the Season”, (1994–2006, Kiev);
International festival “Mystezke Berezillya”, (1997, Kiev);
“Kiev Music Fest”, (1995–2005, Kiev);
International Festival of Contemporary Music “Contrasts”, (2000, 2004, L'viv);
International Festival of Contemporary Music “Two Days and Two Nights”, (2003, 2004, Odessa);
Festival of Contemporary Sacred Music (2006, Uzhgorod)
and also on the concerts outside Ukraine — in Russia, Ireland and Serbia.

The performers of the Svyatoslav Lunyov's works are: National Symphony orchestra of Ukraine, Kiev's State Philharmonic orchestra, Kiev's National Symphony-Pop orchestra, National Symphony Radio orchestra, Chamber Limerick's orchestra (Ireland), Chamber orchestra “Kievskaya Camerata”, Municipal choir “Kiev”, choir of National University of Culture, Ensemble of contemporary music “Ricochet”, Ensemble “World's Harmony”.

The conductors are: Vladimir Sirenko, Victor Ploskina, Vyacheslav Blinov, Valery Matyukhin (Ukraine), Fedor Gluschenko (Russia), Veronique Lacroix (Canada), Dermot Dun (Ireland).

Discography:
2006 “Para Pacem Para Bellum” (CD, Quasi Pop)

List of Works:
1993 “Black Trio” by the poem of J. Brodsky for voice, cello and piano (12")
1993 “Process” for piano and large symphony orchestra (30")
1994 “Symphonic Stanzas” for large symphony orchestra (25")
1995 “Musick to Heare”, (Wreath of Sonatas) — musical analysis of the strophe of 8-th Sonet by William Shakespeare in 4 sonatas for piano (50")
1995–1998 “Cantus Aeternus” for mixed choir a cappella in 7 parts based on canonical texts on Latin (40")
1996 “Low Tempered Songs”, 24 songs by stories of Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” for voice and chamber orchestra (60")
1997 “Letargia” for large symphony orchestra (10")
1998 “Rehearsal for the Orchestra” for 13 performers (5")
1998 “Libera Me” for voice and organ (10")
1999 “TRIAS” — symphony for organ, piano and strings in 3 parts (20")
2000 “Koans” for bass-clarinet, violin, cello, piano and drums (18") ”Pezzi de la Piazzi“ — concert for accordion and string orchestra, based on themes by A. Piazzolla (20")
1998–2001 “Mardongs” for piano (cycle of 24 pieces) (60")
1998–2001 “Five Romances by the Poems of Foreign Poets” (25")
2001 “Apocryphs” for organ (in 7 parts) (18")
2001 “New Russian Dances” for 2 pianos (4 cycles in 4 parts) (35")
1992–2002 “Moscow-Petuschki” by the story by V. Erofeev in 2 acts (13 scenes)
2003 “Melencolia” (by the poem of J. Brodsky “Big Elegy to John Donn”), composition for the narrator and tape (56")
2004 “Vor Deinen Thron” (In the Front of Your Altar) the offering to J.S.  Bach for 2 violins, harpsichord, piano, organ and orchestral groups of instruments (10")
2005 “TUTTI” for large symphony orchestra (32")
2006 “Unicorn"s Games” for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and french horne (16")