Svyatoslav Lunyov
He is the author of symphonic, chamber, choral, piano and electroacoustic music. Among his works are operas ("Moscow - Petushki", "Bad Tempered Songs") and music for movies. In 2017, he received the Bronze Cannes Lion, for Witness.
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Svyatoslav Lunyov

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- Name
- Svyatoslav Lunyov
- Born
- 19 April 1964
- Birthplace
- Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Composer
- Nationality
- Ukraine · Soviet Union
- Fields
- opera
- Education
- Ukrainian National Academy of Music
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He is the author of symphonic, chamber, choral, piano and electroacoustic music. Among his works are operas ("Moscow - Petushki", "Bad Tempered Songs") and music for movies. In 2017, he received the Bronze Cannes Lion, for Witness.
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Svyatoslav Lunyov (born 1964) is a composer and music teacher, of Soviet and Ukrainian nationality. The composer was born in Kyiv.
Svyatoslav Lunyov was educated at Ukrainian National Academy of Music. The composer worked for Ukrainian National Academy of Music. The work spans opera.
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He is member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. He was born in Kyiv and graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory where he studied with Lev Kolodub. Since 2000, he has been a lecturer at the Kyiv Conservatory. The 2020 Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, featured his work New Russian Dances. One of the most representative compositions is Panta Rhei– a utopia for a big symphony orchestra. This piece – is a hymn to elements of live and non-living nature. In addition to that, it is a look at the idea of the emergence and evolution of life through the idea of detuning an unison. Panta Rhei consists of three parts and lasts 53 minutes. For his entire career, Lunyov encompassed all genres of serious music, including chamber, choral, vocal, piano, electroacoustic, and film music. In the last years, Lunyov has explored writing electroacoustic, symphonic, and ensemble works. Also, he works on stage genres and music for films. His works are performed not only in concert halls but in art galleries, open-air happenings, and other informal stages. In 2017 his musical open-air performance Witness, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy, received the Bronze Cannes Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. During the full-scale war that began on February 24, 2022, Svyatoslav Lunyov created many new pieces. Among them are electronic POST, and also vocal cycles on Ukrainian poems, and piano cycles as well. Among the performers of his compositions: the National Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), the Camerata Kyiv Chamber Orchestra (Ukraine), “Kyiv” Municipal Choir (Ukraine), the National Culture University Choir (Ukraine), “Ricochet” Contemporary Music Ensemble (Ukraine), the vocal ensemble “Alter Ratio” (Ukraine), “MusikFabrik” Contemporary Music Ensemble (Germany), “Silk Road” Duet (Germany), “Trinity Wall Street Choir” (the USA), “Sinfonietta Sankt Gallen” (Switzerland), and many others. Volodymyr Sirenko, Vyacheslav Blinov, Viktor Ploskina, Valery Matyuchin, Volodymyr Runchak (Ukraine), Fedir Gluschenko (Russia), Veronique Laqroix (Canada), Theodore Kuchar (USA), Herman Engels (Belgium), Mikheil Menabde (Georgia/Ukraine), Olga Prykhodko (Ukraine).
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• Name — Svyatoslav Lunyov • Born — 19 April 1964 • Birthplace — Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Composer
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Svyatoslav Lunyov is recorded with the occupation music teacher. Recorded as a citizen of Soviet Union. Classed in the genre opera.
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Svyatoslav Lunyov was born on 19 April 1964.
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- 1.Svyatoslav Lunyov. UCMF.
- 2.Svyatoslav Lunyov // www.UMKA.com.ua. UMKA.
- 3.Donemus Webshop — Lunyov, Svyatoslav. webshop.donemus.com.
- 4.Svyatoslav Lunyov – Donemus Publishing House of Contemporary Classical Music. 13 July 2016.
- 5.Reising, Sam. This week: concerts in New York (February 24, 2020 – March 1, 2020). I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. 2020-02-24.
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