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Margarita Zelenaia’s vocal cycle ‘No Mercy Left. End of the End!’ based on Tsvetaeva’s poetry is premiered at the New York Composers Circle concert.

Attend the final concert of the season of New York Composers Circle featuring Margarita Zelenaia and Zoya Gramagin. Watch the world premiere of Margarita Zelenaia’s vocal cycle ‘No Mercy Left. End of the End!’ performed by Zoya Gramagin and Margarita Zelenaia. here My vocal cycle “No Mercy Left. End of the End!” based on Tsvetaeva is about the endless grief of separation […]

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Concert on March 27, 2025

My song cycle “I Wear My Wings” consists of 6 songs based on Emily Dickinson. They are about loneliness and pain, happiness and ecstasy; religion and death; as well as love and love lost. – Emily Dickinson truly believed (and I echo her!) that God can be found in simple things as well as one’s soul (1. “Some Keep the Sabbath […]

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Enchanted Melodies: Dialogue between Lori Laitman and Margarita Zelenaia at the concert on 12/6/2024 (French Embassy, Washington DC)

There were the two women composers, one – Lori Laitman – was born and raised in America, the other – yours truly – in Russia. Both of us received excellent musical educations and became composers. What distinguishes us, who came from different worlds? What do we have in common? This was the topic of our  dialogue with Lori in front […]

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Looking back to the making of the fashion film-ballet “Wild Turnpike” (2019) featuring my music

You know how it happens, by chance (or not really?) you come across something that brings back pleasant memories… And I came across the very beginning of our collaboration with Lauren Starobin, a talented dancer and extraordinary clothing designer. How amazing, after everything has already come true, going back to the very beginning, to watch how the idea of the […]

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Precious moments of the “Caesonia’s Lullaby’s” first rehearsal with Deidra Palmour, outstanding mezzo-soprano

How exciting for a composer, the first minutes of rehearsals of the newly written work are! Even knowing that in front of you is a performer of the highest caliber, you still don’t really understand what you can expect from sight-reading! To my great joy, Deidra Palmour, an outstanding mezzo-soprano, showed interest in several of my works, including the opera […]

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Tap dancer’s improvisation on my “Colombine’s Fantasy” for piano solo.

One day, through my wonderful student and friend Donna Starobin, I had the honor of meeting in person Brenda Bufalino, “one of the great women dancers who have ever lived” (I completely agree with Gregory Hines – American dancer, actor, singer and choreographer whom I quoted.) http://brendabufalino.com/ Here is Brenda’s stunning improvisation on my Columbine Fantasia, the 2nd movement from […]

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The world premiere of “Unwinding the Memory’s Thread”, my piece for cello and piano took part on February 13, 2024 at Merkin Concert Hall

https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/andrey-tchekmazov-cello-irina-nuzova-piano/ The recital of outstanding performers Andrey Tchekmazov www.andreytchekmazov.com  and Irina Nuzova www.irinanuzova.com has become a sensational event! In terms of interaction, simultaneity of breathing and unified feeling it was an incredible duet! Congratulations! Thank you for the interesting, sometimes unexpected, however, certainly convincingly played world premiere of my piece “Unwinding the Memory’s Thread”!

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Caligula’s Favorite Play

When as a teenager I began writing music actively and even studying composition with Evgeny Gudkov, a professional composer, my mother was never tired of repeating: “Write joyful, optimistic music! Where do you get the craving for drama at your age, for conveying a joyless mood?” Well, the current stage of my life led me to the creation of a […]

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