Name Michail Goleminov | Role Conductor | |
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Albums "Superstrings" - destruction and recreation of sound (electronic and computer music) | ||
Michail Goleminov (Bulgarian: Михаил Големинов) (born 1956) is a Bulgarian pianist, conductor and composer.
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Life and career
Michail Goleminov is the son of composer Marin Goleminov. He studied composition with Dimitar Tapkoff and Konstantin Iliev and conducting with Konstantin Iliev at the State Music Conservatory in Sofia, then in 1985 continued his musical education in Austria and Holland with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Ton de Leeuw, Alexander Baltin (composition), Karl Österreicher (conducting), and Harald Ossberger (piano). He also studied electroacoustic music with Dieter Kaufmann at Institute for Electroacoustic Music in Vienna.
Between 1992 and 1998 he collaborated in a series of theatrical productions in Austria and took part in projects involving contemporary arts, mixed media, and intuitive and computer music.
A participant in various concerts in as pianist, composer, and conductor, he is the recipient of such international composition prizes as the Hambacher Preis, Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Carl Maria von Weber, and Osterfestspiele Salzburg.
His works span a wide spectrum of styles and genres, from chamber and orchestral pieces to computer music, video-compositions and music graphs, and have been commissioned by the Vienna Konzerthaus, Quebec New Music Society (Montreal), the MELO-x Saxophone Quartet, and other leading organizations and ensembles.
Now a free-lance musician based in Sofia, he is the co-founder with pianist Angela Tosheva of the company Orange Factory psychoacoustic arts, an experimental center for musical creation, performance, publication, and education.