(b. 27 June 1963, Minsk).
Belarusian composer of mostly orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Lybin studied musicology with Iosif Ryzhkin at the Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow, where he graduated with his DMus in 1986, and composition with Dmitry Smolsky at the Belarusian State Academy of Music in Minsk, where he graduated in 1994.
Among his honours are a creative stipend from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung in Munich and the friends of the festival Warszawska Jesień – Warsaw Autumn (2006, for the première of Provincial Symphony in Lviv) and a residency in Warsaw from the programme Gaude Polonia of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland (2008). His music has been performed in Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and the USA, including once at the ISCM World Music Days (1999, Bucharest/Chișinău).
He is also active in other positions. He co-founded with Sergey Beltiukov, Galina Gorelova (Halina Harelava), Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Poplavsky (Yauhen Paplauski), and other composers the Belarusian Society for Contemporary Music in Minsk in 1990. He has served as its permanent secretary since 1991, served as its chairman from 2001–06 and has again served as its chairman since 2016.
He taught form, orchestration and score reading at the Belarusian State Academy of Music from 2001–10. He has given lectures in Belarus and Russia.
SELECT LIST OF WORKS (dates unavailable for some works)
ORCHESTRAL:
Concerto, violin, orchestra, 1994
From Kraków to Vienna, small orchestra (13 players), 2003
Provincial Symphony, string orchestra, 2003–06
Classic-Avant-Garde Symphony, small orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 French horns, trumpet, 2 percussion, strings), 2006
Ascent to Mozart, alphorn/French horn/natural horn, small orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, percussion, strings), 2006
Where the Pripyat Flows, orchestra of folk instruments from Belarus (flute, clarinet, 10–12 soprano tsymbaly [hammered dulcimers from Eastern Europe], 4–6 alto tsymbaly, 3 accordions, 2 percussion, bass guitar), 2008
Postscriptum, piano, small orchestra (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, trumpet, timpani, strings), 2010
Not dead – only sleeping (Lullaby for Chopin), 2 pianos, string orchestra, 2010
The Legend of Beloozero (symphony in 3 parts), large orchestra, 2016–17
Breath of Autumn, accordion, string orchestra, 2017
Fraszka i Nokturn (Bagatella e Notturno) (musical joke on themes by Stanisław Moniuszko), small orchestra, 2019
Polka Leokadia (musical joke on themes by Stanisław Moniuszko), small orchestra, 2019
From Tales of the Vernal Wind, symphonic band
Music for the Town of Nesvizh, small orchestra (8 winds, 16 strings)
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Sonata, violin, piano, 1984, revised 2006
Seven Small Fancies on a Theme of Glinka, flute, guitar, string quartet, 2003
La Maison avec un spectre, cello, 2003 (also version for cello, piano, 2012)
Ornament of the Polotsk Temple, tsymbaly, 2004
Dialogue about Tristan, English horn, baritone saxophone, 2005
Pas-de-sept (Hommage à Strawinski), flute, clarinet, trombone, violin/viola, cello, piano, percussion, 2006
Among beatings of the heart, English horn, prepared piano, 2007 (also version for clarinet, prepared piano, 2008)
Thawed-out rings, 6–8 percussion, 2008
Faces of the Constellations, violin, viola, cello, piano, 2009
From wintry evenings in Polesia, tsymbaly, 2010
Ancient Suite, flute/Baroque flute, harpsichord, 2010–11
Sotto voce, clarinet, prepared piano, 2014
Letters on the Bells, flute, oboe, clarinet, piano, tubular bells, 2018–19
Brought to the Coast, flute, clarinet, trombone, violin, cello, piano, percussion
Lament with Cradle Song, bass saxophone (also version for violin)
Last Procession, trumpet, 2 pianos, 2 percussion, fixed media
Nostalgic Elegy, violin, piano
Reflection of the Sun in the Water, flute, piano, temple block
CHORAL:
Belarusian Songs (texts from folksongs from Belarus, folk texts from Belarus), mixed chorus, 1987, revised 2020
Lokomotywa (text by Julian Tuwim), mixed chorus, piano, percussion, 2015
Canticum Solemnis (text by Natallia Arsiennieva), mixed chorus, 2018
Alleluia (text from Psalm 148 [Belarusian translation]), mixed chorus, 2021
Three Miniatures (texts from a folksong from Ukraine, a folksong from Norway, Viktor Zhibul), children's chorus/female chorus, synthesizer, percussion, 2022
Lost Strophes (cantata, text by Fyodor Tyutchev), soprano, alto, baritone, speaker, mixed chorus, orchestra
Prayers (text by Alexander Blok), mixed chorus, celesta, 2 percussion
VOCAL:
Recollection of the Motherland (text by Maksim Bahdanovič), voice, piano, 1988–89 (also version for soprano/tenor, ocarina, tsymbaly, piano, percussion, 2003)
Six Poems of Alexander Pushkin (text by Alexander Pushkin), mezzo-soprano/baritone, piano, 2003–04
Russian Landscapes (texts by Apollon Maykov, Sergey Gorodetsky, Don Aminado), mezzo-soprano/baritone, piano, 2003–04
Two Poems of Vladimir Solovyov (text by Vladimir Solovyov), soprano, piano, 2004–05
Harmful Advice (text by Grigoriy Oster), soprano/baritone, speaker, small orchestra (15 players), 2012
From English and Scottish Poetry (song-cycle, texts by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, Robert Burns, William Shakespeare [all translated by Samuil Marshak]), soprano/baritone, piano, 2013
Psalm IX (text from Psalm 9), 2 children's voices, oboe, 2 tubas, organ, percussion
Romantic Serenades (text by Afanasy Fet), bass-baritone, piano
Songs of Dusk and Dawn (text by Alexander Blok), soprano/tenor, piano
PIANO:
Six Pieces for Children (collection of 3 pieces for piano, 3 pieces for piano 4 hands), 2005
Echo of Belarusian Songs, prepared piano
Four Pieces
Italian Reminiscences of Sergei Prokofiev
Little Suite, piano (+ handbells)
Toccata e Fuga on a Theme of Béla Bartók
ORGAN:
Eastern Fancy on a Falsobordone of Antonio de Cabezón, 2007
To a source returning... (Christmas toccata)
DIDACTIC MUSIC:
Pieces and Ensembles for Children, 2004–05 (its six sections may be performed separately: Organ-Grinder in the Rain, piano; Birds in the Fog, piano; Sentimental Waltz, piano; Very Sentimental Waltz, piano 4 hands; Jazz Lost the Way, whistle, piano 4 hands; Kupalskaya – Belarusian Summer Folksong, piano 4 hands, handbell)