Yevgeny Stankovich

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 14 February 2012

Born

19 September 1942 in Svalava (Ukraine).

Education

He studied composition with Adam Soltis at the Lviv Conservatory (1962-63), and with Boris Liatoshinsky (1965-68) and Miroslav Skorik (1968-70) at the Kiev Conservatory. In 1970 to 1976, he worked as an editor for Muzykna Ukraina, the only one music publishing house in Soviet Ukraine. For many years he is a professor of composition at the Ukrainian Music Academy (former Kiev Conservatory). He received many prizes and honorary titles in Ukraine, including the Taras Shavchenko State Prize for Symphony No. 3 for baritone, choir and orchestra on verses by Pavlo Tichina, the prominent Ukrainian poet of 20s-60s of 20th century (Stankovych received this the highest artistic award in Ukraine, when being 35 years old, that was rather unique case in Soviet Ukraine).

Style

His early works are influenced by Prokofiev, Bartok, Stravinsky and Webern. At the end of the 1970s he returned to a traditional style.
Features as direct expressiveness, dynamism, large-scale of writing are typical of his music.

Works

Suite for piano (1965)

Fugue for piano (1966)

Sonatina for piano (1966)

Sonata for violin solo (1966)

Sonata No. 1 for cello and piano (1966)

Allegro moderato for string quartet (1967)

Overture for large orchestra (1967-1968)

Concertino for flute and violin (1968)

Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano (1968)

Cello Concerto (1970)

A Word of Lenin, cantata after V. Tsherednishenko for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1970)

Sinfonietta for orchestra (1971)

Sonata No. 3 for cello and piano (1971)

Suite for string quartet (1971)

Sonata for piano (1972)

Chamber Symphony No. 1 for seven instrumentalists (violin, flute, clarinet, trombone, harp, piano, kettledrum, bells and xylophone) (1972)

Phantasy on Ukrainian, Latvian and Armenian folk themes for orchestra (1972)

Two Pieces for violin and cello (1972)

"Na Verkhovyni (At the Mountain Plato)", tryptich for violin and piano (1972)

Symphony "Verkhovynska" (Mountain Symphony) (1969-1973)

Symphony No. 1 "Sinfonia Larga" for fifteen strings (1973)

CD Marco Polo 8.223792: Kuchar (cond)
String Quartet (1973)

Symphony No. 2 "Eroica" (1975)

CD Marco Polo 8.223792: Kuchar (cond)
Symphony No. 3 "I strengthen myself" after Pavlo Tutshina for baritone, chorus and orchestra (1975-1976)

Symphony No. 4 "Sinfonia Lyrica" for sixteen strings and cello solo (1977)

CD Marco Polo 8.223792: Kuchar (cond)
Music to the film "Born by Revolution" (1977)

Sonata Piccola for violin and piano (1977)

Children's Pieces for flute and piano (1977)

"When the Fern Blooms", folk-opera after N. Gogol for soloists, folk choir and chamber orchestra (1978-1980)

Libretto by À.Stelmashenko.
Elegy in memory of S. Liudkevych for string orchestra (1979)

Music to the film "The Nymph" (1980)

Symphony No. 5 "Pastorale" for violin and orchestra (1980)

CD Consonance 81 0006: Glushchenko (cond)
Chamber Symphony No. 2 for two flutes, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, percussion and string instruments (1980)
CD Consonance 81 0006: Glushchenko (cond)
Music to the film "Yaroslav Mudry" (1981)

"Olga", ballet legend (1981)

Libretto by Y. Illienko.
Music to the film "Princess Olga" (1983)

Chamber Symphony No. 3 for flute and twelve strings (1983)

CD Nimbus Alliance NI 6168: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Volodomyr Sirenko (cond)
Spark, ballet (1983)

Music to the TV-film "Stolen Fortune" (1984)

Prometheus, ballet (1985)

Libretto by Y. Illienko.
Symphony - Diptych after verses by T. Shevshenko for chorus a capella (1985)

"A Night in May", ballet on themes from works of M. Hohol (1986)

Music to the TV-film "Ustym Karmeliuk" (1986)

Symphony No.6 "Dictum" for small symphony orchestra (1987)

An 11 movement work written to commemorate the Tsernobyl nuclear disaster.
Music to the TV-series "Time to pick rocks" (1987)

Music to the film "Heart of Stone" (1988)

Chamber Symphony No. 4 ""In memory of a poet" for baritone and chamber ensemble (1989)

"Rasputin", ballet (1990)

Libretto by Y. Illienko.

CD ASV CD DCA 988: Odessa PO, Hobart Earle (cond)

"The Night Before Christmas", ballet on themes from works of M. Hohol (1990)

Music to the film "Izgoy" (1990)

"Babi Yar", requiem-kaddish for narrator, tenor, bass, choir and full symphony orchestra (1991)

Libretto by D. Pavlychko.
"Black Elegy" for soloists, choir and orchestra (1991)
Libretto by P. Movchan.
Requiem for Those Who Died of Famine for soloists, two mixed choirs, narrator and symphony orchestra (1992)
Words by D. Pavlychko.
Hanukah for orchestra (1992)

"Music of a Scarlet Forest", trio for violin, cello and piano (1992)

"Sumnoyi drymby zvuky" for cello and piano (1992)

"Music for Celestial Musicians" for woodwind quintet (1993)

For flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn.
A Poem of Sorrows for orchestra (1993)

Chamber Symphony No. 5 "Secret Calls" for solo clarinet and chamber orchestra (1993)

"What Has Happened in Silence After Echo" for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello (1994)

Music to the TV-series "Roksolana" (1994)

Chamber Symphony-Concerto No. 6 ""Fears of Autumn Days" for horn and chamber orchestra (1996)

Concerto for violin, piano and strings (1996)

Sonata for clarinet solo (1996)

"Blossoming Garden and Apples Falling Down into Water", trio for clarinet, cello and piano (1996)

"A Humble Pastoral" for violin, viola and cello (1996)

"Game Above an Abyss", concerto for solo clarinet (1996)

Sonata for solo clarinet (1996)

Monologue for solo clarinet (1996)

Music to the film "The Judgement" (1996)

"An Offering From God's Servant", passacaglia for organ (1996)

Chamber Symphony No. 7 for violin, cembalo, celeste, piano and chamber orchestra (1996)

Ave Maria for small symphony orchestra (1997)

Chamber Symphony No. 8, for voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion (1997)

Work for a cappella women's choir on traditional words (1997)

"The Trail and Steps" for violin and chamber orchestra (1997)

Ukrainian Poem for violin and piano (1997)

Elegy for string quartet (1997)

Idillium for flute and piano (1998)

Two Passacaglias "For departing and arriving centuries" for flute, clarinet, oboe, piano, and string orchestra (1998)

A Trumpet Festival for sixteen trumpets (1998)

Work for a cappella mixed choir on words by I. Franko (1998)

Passacaglia for the beginning of the century (1998)

Music to the film "The Passion" (1998)

Passacaglia for the end of the century (1998)

"Lord, Our Governor", concerto for mixed choir (1998)

Concerto for viola and orchestra (1999)

Psalm 27 for men's choir (2000)

"Unto Thee Will I Cry, O Lord (Psalm 28)" for male choir (2000)

Psalm 22 for women's choir (2000)

Chamber Symphony No. 9 for piano solo and chamber orchestra (2000)

"Thy Kingdom Come" for mixed choir and symphony orchestra (2000)

On Biblical texts.
"How Amiable Are Thy Tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts (Psalm 84)" for mixed choir (2000)

"The Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)" for female choir (2000)

Psalm 83 for mixed choir a cappella (2000)

"Vikings", ballet (2001)

Libretto by A.Bystrushkin.
"Word about Igor's Regiment" for soprano, tenor, baritone, basso, mixed choir and symphony orchestra (2001)

Music to the radioperformance of N. Gogol's "The Night before Christmas" (2002)

Music to the TV-series "Roksolana" (2003)

Symphony No. 7 (2003)

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