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Kim, Artyom (b. August 10, 1976, Bekabad). Uzbek composer of mostly stage, chamber and vocal works that have been performed in Asia and Europe; he is also active as a conductor.
Mr. Kim began private music studies at age ten and studied bayan with Mikhail V. Mayevsky at the Khamza College of Music in Tashkent from 1991-95. He studied composition with Mirsadik Tadjiev at the State Conservatory of Uzbekistan in Tashkent in 1995-96 and with Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky there from 1996-2001, where he earned his MMus.
Among his honors is First Prize as a bayan-player in a state-sponsored young performers competition in Samarkand (1994). His music has been performed in France, The Netherlands, Russia, the UK, and Uzbekistan.
Mr. Kim is also active in other positions. He has helped to organize the annual new music festival Ilkhom-XX in Tashkent since 1997 and has served as music director of the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent since 1999. As a conductor, he has conducted his own music, as well as music by Carl Orff, Aziza Sadikova, Alfred Schnittke, Jakhongir Shukurov, and Igor Stravinsky.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: artyomkim@mail.ru
Street address: Mr. Artyom Kim, 40 Years of Victory - I 10, Apt. 13, 700207 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Telephone: + 9987 1296 4690
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Giselle (incidental music, play by Olga Mikhailova), 1997; Salome (incidental music, play by Oscar Wilde), 1998; Ubu roi (incidental music, play by Alfred Jarry), 1998; Twelfth Night (incidental music, play by William Shakespeare), 1999; The Portrait of Mademoiselle Tarzhi (incidental music, play by Ivan Elagin), 2000; Imitations of the Koran (incidental music, play by the Ilkhom Theatre, after Aleksandr Pushkin), 2002; Art (incidental music, play by Yasmina Reza), 2003
ORCHESTRAL: Concerto for Large Orchestra, 2001
CHAMBER MUSIC: Children's Suite, balalaika, 1997; Ostinato, guitar, 1997; The Page from the Album, violin, cello, piano, 2-track tape, 1998; Étude for Prepared Guitar, 1999; Stabilis-Mobilis, flute, oboe, bass clarinet, harp, guitar, mandolin, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, 2001; Cantus Firmus, flute, cello, accordion, vibraphone, 2002; De Profundis, cello, ensemble (bassoon, harp, double bass, harpsichord, vibraphone [+ 3 Thai gongs, tam-tam], any ritual bass drum), 2003; Rag Music, sheng (Chinese mouth organ), bass clarinet, harp, qanun (zither), kemençe (violin), erhu, viola, double bass, piano (+ Indian organ [hand-pumped harmonium]), vibraphone (+ 3 Thai gongs, tam-tam, harmonica), djembé (African drum), 2004
VOCAL: Drafts (text by Kora Rumiko [Russian translation]), voice, viola, piano, 1997; Anecdotes from Pushkin's Life (text by Daniil Kharms), voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello, bass guitar, piano, drumkit, 2000; Drei Gedichte von Heine, voice, violin, cello, piano, 2001; L'autre plane (text by Émile Verhaeren), soprano, alto, flute, pipa, cello, 2002
ORGAN: Incarnatus, 1997
HARPSICHORD: Suite, 1997
(Last updated on June 9, 2004)
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