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Art Institute. Since 1995, although being a free-lance composer, he regularly lectured on Ukrainian music, gave master classes, and presented own works at international festivals and symposia in Austria, Germany, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Ukraine. Since 2018 he
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procedures and special attention to attractiveness of sound material and to melody as a source of expression. Another fundamental feature of his music is its rhythmic, structural and formal flexibility, which provokes feeling of "self-development" of initial micro-thematic patterns. The idea of
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aesthetics utilizing stylistic elements of various epochs. However, he stays apart from eclecticism and aims at finding a new unity in combination of those musical elements that historically never existed next to each other.
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Second Prize at the International Henri Dutilleux Competition, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, France (for The Baptism, Temptation and Prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ for bass, clarinet, trombone, viola, cello and double bass,
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Russian National Theatrical Prize, Gold Mask, in the category innovation (for chamber opera Annunciation in frame of the performance Voices of the Invisible – The Bible Triptych at the Helikon Opera in Moscow,
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modern spirituality became an impulse for many his vocal and instrumental compositions. This is particularly significant in his 3 operas and several choral compositions written recently. Moscow critic
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Since the late 80s, his music has been presented at festivals and concerts in Europe and America, performed by internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles, such as the Moscow
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First Prize at the International Sacred Music Competition, Fribourg, Switzerland (for The Preacher's Word for soprano and string quartet, 1991),
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Second Prize at the International Composition Prize Luxembourg 2006, Luxembourg (for Chamber Concerto for piano and 12 instrumentalists, 2006)
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Third Prize at the International Gustav Mahler Competition, Klagenfurt, Austria (for Sonata da camera for cello and chamber ensemble, 1998),
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Main and Special prizes at the International Kazimierz Serocki Competition, Poland (for orchestral work Glossolalie, 1990),
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Art Institute in 1983. Although he studied composition officially with Valentyn Borysov, another Ukrainian composer,
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From 1991 to 1995 he taught composition, instrumentation, and techniques of contemporary music at the
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Second Prize at the International Witold Lutosłavski Competition, Poland (for Flute Concerto, 1995),
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From 1997 to 2005 Shchetynsky was the member of the Art Council of the Festival Contrasts in
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He wrote the scores for three films which was written, directed and produced by
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teaches composition, instrumentation, and other music theory subjects at the
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in Denmark, and summer courses in Poland, where he attended lectures by
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From 1982 to 1990 Shchetynsky taught composition at a music school in
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Showcase of Unknowns Soviets Kept From the West (The New York Times)
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Shchetynsky received seven international composer’s awards:
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Melos-Ethos, International Festival of Contemporary music
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At the age of about 30, he developed his personal post-
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referred to Shchetynsky as "a consequent stickler for
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Shchetynsky

Ukrainian
Russian
Ukrainian
Kharkiv
Ukrainian SSR
Soviet Union
Kharkiv
Valentyn Bibik
avant-garde
Edison Denisov
Alfred Schnittke
Arvo Pärt
Sofia Gubaidulina
Valentin Silvestrov
Edison Denisov
Poul Ruders
Louis Andriessen
Witold Lutosławski
Krzysztof Penderecki
Boguslaw Schaeffer
Magnus Lindberg
Second Viennese School
Olivier Messiaen
György Ligeti
Helikon Opera
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Maîtrise de Radio France

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