| Alexander Yurevich Radvilovich | |
| Native Name: | Александр Юрьевич Радвилович |
| Birth Date: | 1955 |
| Birth Place: | Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Occupation: | Composer and Lecturer |
Alexander Yuryevich Radvilovich (Russian: Александр Юрьевич Радвилович; born 1955) is a Russian composer, pianist, teacher, and lecturer from Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) who specializes in contemporary music discourses. He is the recipient of numerous domestic and foreign awards, and has had his compositions performed internationally, including Germany, Finland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His musical style focuses on exploiting the extremes of music in order to create from them new modes of communication which are both accessible in nature for listeners yet complex in its language.[1]
From 1962 to 1973, Alexander studied in the Secondary Specialized Music School within the St. Petersburg Conservatory in piano and theory with the composer Vladimir Arzumanov. Alexander happened to be his first graduate,[2] and due to this close relationship he would introduce Alexander to Nikolas Slonimsky. Alexander would go onto study at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the faculty of composition under Slonimsky, graduating in 1978 and continuing his education through participation in numerous courses and private tutorship with European (non-Russian) composers like Witold Lutoslavsky, Boguslaw Schaeffer, Ton de Leeuw, and Klaus Huber.
He is known for his symphonies of two of his own poems called Legend About Violinist and Pushkin. At one time, after reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky he composed a string quartet called The Boy at Christ’s New Year Celebration and also designed a mini opera called Let’s Write Fairy-tale. He also composed an opera called Hindrance which was based on Danii Kharms' poem Ruin of the Gods. Currently he is a member of both Russian Composer’s and Saint Petersburg Composer's Unions and works as music pedagogue at the Humanitarian University of the Petersburg Conservatory. On occasion, he tours the world as composer, pianist. His music is published and performed by various labels and ensembles in countries such as Russia, as Austria (ARBOS - Company for Music and Theatre),[3] the Netherlands and the United States.[4] He is the founder and artistic director of the annual festival Sound Ways International Festival of New Music,[5] dedicated to the presentation of contemporary music, and has served on competition jurys in countries such as Germany, Ukraine, and France.