Karmella Tsepkolenko facts for kids
Karmella Tsepkolenko (born February 20, 1955) is a talented Ukrainian composer and author. She creates amazing music and has taught many students.
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Karmella Tsepkolenko
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About Karmella Tsepkolenko
Karmella Tsepkolenko was born in Odesa, Ukraine. She loved music from a young age. From 1973 to 1979, she studied how to compose music at the Pyotr Stoliarsky Special Music School in Odesa. She also learned to play the piano there.
After that, she continued her music studies at the Odesa State A.V. Nezhdanova Music Academy. She focused on composing with Aleksandr Krasotov and playing piano with Lyudmyla Ginzburg. In 1980, after finishing her studies, she started teaching composition at the same academy.
Karmella also went to Moscow Pedagogic University to get her PhD. This is a special degree for experts in a field. She studied there until 1990.
Her Music and Festivals
Karmella Tsepkolenko's music has been played all over the world! People have heard her compositions in Europe, Japan, and the United States.
She is also very involved in the music community. In 1995, she started a special music festival in Odesa called "Two Days and Two Nights of New Music." She was the artistic director for this festival, which means she helped decide what music would be performed. She also led the Association New Music in Odesa and the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) in Ukraine for a while.
Besides composing, Karmella Tsepkolenko has written articles about music and how to teach it. In 1990, she co-wrote a book called Artistic Games.
Awards and Recognition
Karmella Tsepkolenko has received many awards for her musical talents. These awards show how much her work is appreciated:
- Third Prize at the USSR All-Union Student Spring Festival in Yerevan (1978)
- Second Prize at the USSR All-Union Composers Competition in Moscow (1978)
- Honorable mention in the Carl-Maria-von-Weber Competition in Dresden (1983)
- Prize of the Rendezvous International du Piano en Creuse, France (1990, 1993)
- Boris Lyatoshynsky National Prize (2001)
- Mention in the Tvoi Imena Odessa Competition (2002)
- Shevchenko National Prize (2024)
Her Musical Works
Karmella Tsepkolenko has created more than 70 different musical pieces. These include music for plays (opera), for big groups of instruments (orchestra), for smaller groups of instruments (chamber ensembles), for singers, and for piano and organ. She has even written music that uses multimedia, like videos or lights.
She has written three operas, which are plays where the story is told mostly through singing. Some of her well-known works include:
- Glorification of the Four Elements
- Tonocolori (from the book Artistic Games)
- Duel Duo No. 5
- Duel-Duo No.6 for two violas (1997)
- Night Preference for clarinet, percussion, cello, and piano
- Parallels chamber symphony (1990)
- Symphony No. 4 for symphony orchestra (2004)
- Solo-Momento No.3 for viola solo (2003)
- Duel-Duo No. 9 for piano and percussion (2003)
- Vergessener Völker Müdigkeiten... Friedhofstück ("Forgotten Peoples' Exhaustion...") (2000)
- "Konzert der Vögel ("Concert of the Birds"), an opera with a story by Djevad Karahasan (1996)
- Dorian's Fate, an opera (2004)
- Heute abend Boris Godunow, an opera with a story by Kristine Tornquist (2008)
You can also find her music on more than twelve different CDs, such as:
- Various Works Audio CD
- Piano Music Dinescu/K. Tsepkolenko Audio CD
- Karmella Tsepkolenko (piano) CD Association New Music
