Karmella Tsepkolenko facts for kids
Karmella Tsepkolenko (Ukrainian: Кармелла Семенівна Цепколенко; born 20 February 1955) is a talented Ukrainian author and composer. She has written many different kinds of music, from operas to pieces for orchestras. She is also known for helping new music artists.
Quick facts for kids
Karmella Tsepkolenko
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Her Life Story
Karmella Tsepkolenko was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She loved music from a young age. She studied music at the Pyotr Stoliarsky Special Music School in Odessa. There, she learned about composing music and playing the piano.
She continued her studies at the Odessa State A.V. Nezhdanova Music Academy. She learned from famous teachers like Aleksandr Krasotov and Lyudmyla Ginzburg. After finishing her studies, she started teaching music herself. In 1980, she became a composition teacher at the same academy.
Karmella also earned a special degree, a PhD, in 1990. She studied at Moscow Pedagogic University. Her music has been played in many places around the world. These places include Europe, Japan, and the United States.
She also helped create the "Two Days and Two Nights of New Music" festival in Odessa in 1995. She was the artistic director for this festival. She also led important music groups like the Association New Music in Odessa. She was also president of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) in Ukraine.
Karmella Tsepkolenko has written articles about music. She also co-wrote a book called Artistic Games in 1990.
Awards and Recognition
Karmella Tsepkolenko has received many awards for her amazing music. These awards show how talented she is.
- Third Prize, USSR All-Union Student Spring Festival in Yerevan (1978)
- Second Prize, 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, Tvoi Imena Odessa Competition (2002)
- Shevchenko National Prize (2024)
Her Musical Creations
Karmella Tsepkolenko has composed more than 70 musical pieces. These include music for the stage, orchestras, and small groups of instruments. She has also written music for singers, pianos, and organs. She has even created three operas!
Here are some of her selected works:
- 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 (1996)
- Dorian's Fate, an opera (2004)
- Heute abend Boris Godunow, an opera (2008)
Her music has also been recorded on more than twelve CDs. Some of these include:
- Various Works Audio CD
- Piano Music Dinescu/K. Tsepkolenko Audio CD
- Karmella Tsepkolenko (piano) CD Association New Music
