Dmitri Capyrin is a Russian composer of contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music

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. He graduated from Lviv Conservatory

Lviv Conservatory

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 in 1984. He lives in Moscow and works as a freelance composer. His music "successfully combines a variety [of] techniques, often using literary sources and motifs in his works." He won the second prize in the 1994 ICONS competition in Turin

Turin

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 and received a scholarship in 1995 from the Berlin Akademie der Künst. In 2010 he was the finalist of the YouTube Online Composers Competition. His compositions have been performed by "numerous prominent ensembles and soloists, and has also been featured in a variety of concert and festival venues, including the Moscow Autumn (1999), the Paris Presences (1993), Warsaw Autumn

Warsaw Autumn

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 (2005) and the Music Biennale Zagreb

Music Biennale Zagreb

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 (1993, 2011)." He has become "one of the most prominent composers of the younger generation of Russians." His style combines modal scales procedures with new tonal and atonal idioms. He prefers polyphonic texture and dense stratification of flexible melodic voices. At the same time he widely uses isolated tones and brief solo phrases surrounded with silence which resembles quasi-Webernian pointillism

Pointillism

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. His work list includes pieces of various genres from opera

Opera

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, symphonies

Symphony

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 and one movement poems

Symphonic poem

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 for full and chamber orchestras, concerto

Concerto

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s for harp

Harp

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 and oboe

Oboe

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 with orchestra, pieces for various chamber ensembles, duo and solo works. Among the performers of his music there are Yvar Mikhashoff

Yvar Mikhashoff

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, Claude Delangle

Claude Delangle

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, Marc Sieffert, Valery Popov

Valery Popov

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, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Russian National Orchestra

Russian National Orchestra

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, Ensemble Kyiv Sinfonietta, Da Capo Chamber Players

Da Capo Chamber Players

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External links

• Dmitri Capyrin Official website
• Dmitri Capyrin sheet music