Vladimir Tarnopolski (Russia)

• Composer
• Founder and artistic director of the Studio fo New Music Moscow orchestra
• Professor of composition at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow

Since 1973 until 2022 he studied and worked in Moscow, since April 2022 he lives in Munich.Tarnopolski studied composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Edison Denisov and Nikolai Sidelnikov and music theory with Yury Kholopov. His graduate work, the Concerto for Cello (1980) was selected by the prominent Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky for a series of concert programs, titled "From the History of Russian Music". Since then, works by Tarnopolski are regularly performed in Russia and abroad by numerous famous musicians, such as Mstislav Rostropovich, Reinbert de Leeuw, Valery Gergiev, Ingo Metzmacher, Vladimir Jurowski, Sylvain Cambreling, Alexander Lazarev, Kent Nagano, Vasily Sinaysky, Natalia Gutman, Yury Bashmet, Jens–Peter Maintz and many others.
Tarnopolski has written pieces on commission for some of the world's leading orchestras, among them Ensemble InterContemporain, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble of Soloists of the Bolshoi Theatre, Klangforum Wien, Munich Philharmonic orchestra, Musikfabrik, Rotterdam philharmonic orchestra, Schonberg Ensemble, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and others. His stage works were premiered at the Munchener Biennale, Beethovenfest Bonn, Barbican Hall London, Rencontres Musicales d'Evian, Contemporary Dance Festival Netherlands, Bergen Festival and others.
Vladimir Tarnopolski is the author of several operas, many orchestral, chamber and vocal works (see below). The musical matter of his compositions is associated, first of all, with a special sonorous quality, some kind of a sound magma, developed on the basis of a complexly constructed sound material, which abolishes the juxtaposition between consonance and dissonance, sound and noise, harmony and timbre, as well as electronic and acoustic instruments. His works inspire philosophical, spiritual and political reflection on life and death, on man, society and cosmos (operas “When Time Overflows” and “Beyond the Shadow”, “Redshift”, “Welt voll Irrsinn”, “Chevengur”, “Tabula Russia”, “Last Sunset”, “One Hundred Days of Solitude”, “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist:2022”, “Out of Step/Out of Time”, etc.)