Alemdar Karamanov News
Ukrainian composer and pianist (1934-2007)
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- Soviet Union, Ukraine
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Faces of classical music
2019-01-05 07:26:00
The Faces of Classical Music Choose the 20 Best Albums of 2018
[…] and national competitions. Among others he received the Special Prize of the Jury at the 1. Int. Vladimir Horowitz Competition for young pianists in Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1995, in 1997 he was awarded 2. prize at the 1. Int. Carl Czerny Piano Competition in Prague (Czech Republic), in 2003 3. Prize at the 5. Int. Vladimir Horowitz Competition for young pianists in Kyiv, and in 2005 he was the winner of the 5. Int. A. Karamanow Piano Competition in Simferopol (Ukraine). In 2007 he won 3. prize and the prize of the audience at the Val Tidone Competition (Italy) and 2010 the Prize of the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation in Zurich (Switzerland). At Trio di Trieste in Italy he was awarded 1. prize and audience prize in 2015. The same year he was the winner of the German Competition of Polish Music and in 2016 he received the 1. prize of […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-02-17 18:44:47
A lost composer of the Soviet Union
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Some 15 years ago I was asked by one of the London orchestras to curate a series titled Other Russia, looking at the composers who fell or were pushed off the wayside under the Soviet Union. We were going to focus on the likes of Karamanov, Kancheli, Knaifel, […]
2015-08-28 22:44:37
My column in this week's New Yorker, on symphonies of the post-Mahler era, is rooted in old loves. I fell for Mahler and Sibelius as a teenager, and soon began exploring the myriad byways of twentieth-century symphonic writing, often following recommendations in Fanfare magazine. Fanfare led me to, among others, Eduard Tubin, whose symphonies I blasted at high volume throughout my freshman year of college, to the puzzlement of my roommates. At my college radio station, I presented a show called The Twentieth-Century Symphony, which featured not only the obvious Mahler, Sibelius, Nielsen, Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams, and Ives / Harris / Schuman / Copland but also the likes of Bax, Hartmann, Pijper, Vermeulen, Henze, Killmayer, Kelterborn, Bentzon, Holmboe, Valen, Haug, Saeverud, Nørgård, Kokkonen, Sallinen, Nystroem, and Pettersson. Tubin's Sixth was the theme music for my other radio show, Music Since 1900. And my first published piece of music writing, […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-02-17 12:16:27
The pianist who lived in her car was half-Russian
The fullest account of poor Anne Naysmith, killed last week by a lorry in west London, appears today in the Independent newspaper. The obituary writer Garry Humphries knew the old lady and provides some fascinating facts – that she was just 39 when she went to live in her car, that she had been a rising artist on the ilfred Van Wyck list, that her mother was Russian and that she performed what must have been the London premieres of piano works by the mystic and altogether absorbing Russian composer, Karamanov. Read here.
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