Victor Kissine

The idea for this composition was suggested by part of a poem by Anna Akhmatova: Only the mirror dreams of the mirror / Silence watches over silence . . . Two soloists (bass flute and cello) stare at...

There are two actors in the Partita: Mozart's piano, which is heard out in the open, and a harp, which acts as its backlight. A poetic idea emanates from these water-colour acoustics. It traverses thr...

Beethovens Skizze von 1816 des unvollendeten Satzes eines Klaviertrios in f-Moll beschränkte sich auf die Exposition, der erste der drei Teile eines Werkes, das offensichtlich ein großer Sonatensatz s...

Although the first version of the Duo was composed in 1998, I rewrote it completely for Giedre Dirvanauskaite and Daniel Grishin who premiered it at Lockenhaus festival 2011. The sub-title, 'After Oss...

Victor Kissine's 'Caprice' was performed at the Brussels concert hall of Flagey in May 2012 by 24 semifinalists at the Belgian Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. 'Although commissioned by and composed...

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Victor Kissine's 'Caprice' was performed at the Brussels concert hall of Flagey in May 2012 by 24 semifinalists at the Belgian Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. 'Although commissioned by and composed...

Il trio per pianoforte "Sotto Voce" è stato composto nel 2023 da Victor Kissine per Gidon Kremer, Giedré Dirvanauskaité e Geogijs Osokins, ai quali è anche dedicato. Il presente e il passato (una "mem...

Nell'autunno del 2023, l'Accademia di Kronberg ospiterà il festival "Zuerst Mensch", in onore del violoncellista Pablo Casals. Il presente brano, "For Pablo", è stato commissionato per questa occasion...

Duo (after Ossip Mandelstam) refers to a short poem from his 1910 collection Kamen (Stone), which underlies my piece: not only is this poem its epigraph, it is also quoted metrically throughout in the...