Victor Kissine (Russian: Виктор Романович Кисин; born on the 15 of March 1953 in Saint Petersburg (at the time Leningrad)) is a Russian-born classical composer.
Kissine graduated from Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under professor Mikhail Druskin, among others. In 1981 he obtained a PhD in musicology from the same Conservatory.
He settled in Belgium with his family in 1990, and is currently a professor of musical analysis and orchestration at INSAS and at the Royal Conservatory of Mons. Starting in 2001, he frequently collaborated with Gidon Kremer and his orchestra Kremerata Baltica. Between 1998 and 2002 he was composer-in-residence of the Belgian ensemble Musiques Nouvelles. He obtained the Tokyo Irino Prize Foundation in 1995 and the Académie de Lutèce prize in 1993. In May 2008 he became a member of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium.
His work initially concentrated on chamber music. Since 2000 he has begun to compose for larger groups of instruments, including symphony orchestra and concertos, chamber music for soloists and ensembles, vocal and choral works, two operas and ballets, as well as numerous film scores.
1992
Musique Nostalgique
Triplum
1993
Piano Trio No.1, for Violin, Cello and Piano
1994
Le Tombeau de Pasternak, for Soprano and String Quartet
Quintette for Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Violin and Cello
1995
Sonate for Cello and Piano
1996
Miroirs, double concerto for Bass Flute, Cello and Strings
1997
Schmetterling (new version), octette for Harp, Flute, Clarinet, two Violins, Viola, Cello and Double Bass
Confutatio for Violin solo
Sonate for Violin and Cello
1998
Madrigal à Philippe Hirschhorn for 5 Violins
Silentium for Flute, Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet
Duo (after Ossip Mandelstam) for Viola and Cello
Partita for Piano-forte ( period instrument), Harp and String Quintet
Impromptu for Violin and Piano
1999
Les abeilles de Perséphone (on a poem by Ossip Mandelstam) for Soprano and Viola, Cello, Bass, Harpsichord and Marimba
2001
Stilleben, for Volon solo
2002
Orchestration of Schubert’s Quartet No.15, op. 161, for soloist and String Orchestra
Etude automnale, for 16 instruments
2007
Aftersight, Concerto for Violin and Chamber orchestra; created in May 2007 at Davies Hall, San Francisco, by Alexander Barantschik, violin, Hans Graf, conductor, and the San Francisco Symphony
Barcarola, concerto for Violin, String Orchestra and Percussion, created in July 2007 at Nivelles, Belgium, by Gidon Kremer, violin, and the Kremerata
2008
Between two waves, for Piano and String Orchestra, created in November 2008 at the National Philharmonic Hall, Vilnius, by Boyan Vodenitcharov, piano, Martynas Staskus, conductor, and the Kremerata Baltica
2010
Zerkalo, Piano trio No. 2, created in August 2010 at the Salzburger Festspiele, Haus für Mozart, by Gidon Kremer, violin, Giedre Dirvanauskaite, cello, and Khatia Buniatishvili, piano
Partita, for Piano, Harp and Strings, created in August 2010 at the La Jolla Summer Fest, San Diego, by Vladimir Feltsman, piano
Post-scriptum, for large orchestra, commissioned by San Francisco Symphony and created in March 2010, Davies Hall, San Francisco, with Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
2011
Duo No. 2, for Viola and Cello, created in July 2011 at the Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, by Daniil Grishin, viola, and Giedre Dirvanauskaite, cello
2012
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, commissioned by the National Orchestra of Belgium and created in December 2012 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Brussels by Gidon Kremer, violin, with Andrey Boreyko, conductor
