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Nationality
  
Russian

Alma mater
  
Moscow Conservatory

Role
  
Composer


Name
  
Pavel Karmanov

Occupation
  
composer

Albums
  
Re-Music

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Born
  
February 12, 1970 (age 54) (
1970-02-12
)
Bratsk, Irkutsk Region, USSR

Music director
  
Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg, The Arena, Long Bridge of Desired Direction, The Playmate

Similar People
  
Ivan Maximov, Peter Orloff, Alexandr Voytinskiy

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Pavel Karmanov (Russian: Пáвел Виќторович Кармáнов; born February 12, 1970, in Bratsk, Russia) is a composer and a Russian rock musician.

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Karmanov was introduced to music by his mother, a pianist. As the result his first compositions were written in Novosibirsk at the early age of 5. In the late 1970s he moved to Moscow, where was accepted to the Central School of Music for gifted young musicians, which he graduated in 1988. In 1995 he graduated from Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In Moscow he studied with:

1978 - 1981 - Georgy Dmitriev (ru) 1978 - 1995 - Professor Alexey Nikolayev 1978 - 1995 - Professor Albert Leman 1981 - 1995 - Anatoly Bykanov 1985 - 1995 - Professor Yuri Kholopov

In 1996 Karmanov was accepted to the Moscow Composers Union.

Since 2000 he is a permanent member of an alternative rock group Vezhlivy Otkaz.

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Festivals

He is a regular participant of the major music festivals, such as:

Moscow Autumn - 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2006 The Alternative - 1990, 1996, 1997, 1998 Moscow, Russia SoundRoute 1999 Tokio - Moscow festival in Japan Warsaw Autumn Poland - 2005 Shostakovich Festival in Seattle US - 2006.

Performances

Karmanov’s pieces are performed at the Moscow Conservatory, the St. Petersburg Philharmonics, and concerts and festivals around the world. His music is regularly performed by Alexei Lubimov, Yuri Bashmet, Vadym Kholodenko (Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner - 2013), Tatiana Grindenko and "OPUSPOSTH", the percussionist Mark Pekarsky and his ensemble, the pianists Polina Osetinskaya, Mikhail Dubov, and other prominent Russian musicians and orchestras. Among the foreign performers playing pieces by this composer:

  • PADSEnsemble (Italy)
  • Seattle Chamber Players ensemble (US)
  • The Odeon Quartet (US)
  • Beethoven quartet (Basel, Switzerland)
  • Awards

  • 2005 Golden Eagle Award for Best Original Score for Soldatsky dekameron
  • 2009 Bessie Award
  • Screen works

    See the imdb list.

    Karmanov has also composed music for movies and documentaries. The collection includes

  • Arena (Gladiatrix) director Timur Bekmambetov, producer — Roger Corman (US)
  • Soldatsky dekameron by Andrei Proshkin
  • Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg by Evgeny Pashkevich
  • documentaries by Alexei Khanyutin, including "Music for the Fireworks" and "The Road" etc.
  • Karmanov created soundtracks for television series. Some of it:

  • "Only you”, by Nana Dzhordzhadze
  • "Multiplying Grieve” by Oleg Fesenko.
  • He composed music for various cartoons including animated movies by Ivan Maximov.

    Stage work

    In 2009, in New York, the choreographer Pam Tanowitz won the new dance award “The Bessies”, using Pavel's music for her show titled ”Be in the Gray with me”. Karmanov also received the award for his music.

    In June 2013 Bolshoi Theatre staged Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, which was warmly received by audiences and critics. The new opera is shorter, with director cutting out some parts of the opera. Karmanov and Vladimir Martynov worked on the opera's score to accommodate the new structure. According to Vassily Sinaisky, the Bolshoi chief conductor, such a new structure of the opera was conceived to make it more dynamic and intense.

    Recordings

    Since 1997, Karmanov’s music is playing on TV and radio around the world.

    In 2006 Nazar Kozhuhar and his ensemble “The Pocket symphony” recorded and released Karmanov’s first CD with chamber music

    In 2014 FANCYMUSIC records released the second disc titled «Get in».

    Major works

  • "Re-Major III" for piano, vibraphone and string quintet (1992)
  • Trio "Birthday present for myself", Viola, Cello and Piano (1993)
  • "Music for the Firework" for chamber ensemble (1997)
  • "Different ... rains" for flute, piano and magnetic tape (1996)
  • "Seven minutes before Christmas" for flute, piano and magnetic tape (1996)
  • "String quaREtet" (1997)
  • "ForellenQuintet" ("Trout-quintet") (1998)
  • "Schlaf, mein Herz, schlaf ein" for soloists, 3 choirs and orchestra (2000)
  • "GreenDNA" for String Orchestra (2000) for strings
  • "Den" (folk drama "Death of King Herod") for soloists, choir, rock band and orchestra (2002)
  • 9/11 for chamber orchestra in the memory of tragedy in NYC (2001)
  • "The Word" for soloists and mixed choir (2002)
  • «Second snow at the Stadium» for viola and piano (2003)
  • «Intermezzo» for piano and orchestra (2004)
  • «Get in» for 5 performers (2005). SCP commission.
  • «Cambridge music» for Piano Quintet (2008)
  • «Innerlichkeit» («sincerity, intimacy") for two pianos, flute, harp and string quintet (2009)
  • Music for video installations by a group of artists AES+F
  • Twice a double concerto (2009) for 2 chamber orchestras in different tunings
  • Force majeur for 2 violins and 2 pianos (2010)
  • Different brooks - order of Tallinn festival
  • "Day One" for viola, children's choir, organ and percussion (2011)
  • "Funny Valentine" for viola and harp (2012)
  • "The City I Love and Hate", Piano sextet (2012) commissioned by Basel music festival "Culturescapes"
  • Oratorio "5 Angels" for mixed choir, soloists and chamber choir (2013) Commissioned by international Festival "Academia of Orthodox Music"
  • "Past perfect" for Piano solo commissioned by Ksenia Bashmet (2015)
  • "La musica con Cello" for Cello and Orchestra (2015) commissioned by cellist Boris Andrianov
  • References

    Pavel Karmanov Wikipedia