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Lybin, Dmitry (b. June 27, 1963, Minsk). Belarusian composer of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, and organ works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Lybin studied musicology with Iosif Ryzhkin at the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, where he graduated with a DMus in 1986, and composition with Dmitry Smolsky at the Belarusian Academy of Music in Minsk, where he graduated in 1994.
His honors include a creative stipend from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and the friends of the Warsaw Autumn festival (2006, for the première of Provincial Symphony in Lviv) and a residency from the Gaude Polonia program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland in Warsaw (2008). His music has been performed in Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Moldova, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Ukraine, including once at the ISCM World New Music Festival (1999, Bucharest/Chişinău).
Mr. Lybin is also active in other positions. He co-founded with Sergey Beltiukov, Galina Gorelova, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Poplavsky, and others the Belarusian Society for Contemporary Music in 1990. He has served as its permanent secretary since 1991 and served as its chairman from 2001–06.
He taught form, orchestration and score reading at the Belarusian Academy of Music in Minsk from 2001–10.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: dlybin@hotmail.com or dlybin@yandex.ru
Street address: Mr. Dmitry Lybin, PO Box 24, 220103 Minsk, Belarus
SELECT LIST OF WORKS (dates not available for most 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 Prypiat Flows, Belarusian folk orchestra (flute, clarinet, 10–12 soprano tzimbaly [Belarusian dulcimers], 4–6 alto tzimbaly, 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; From Tales of the Vernal Wind, symphonic band; Music for the Town of Nyasvizh, 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; Ornament of the Polotsk Temple, tzimbaly, 2004; Dialogue about Tristan, English horn, baritone saxophone, 2005; Pas-de-sept (Hommage à Strawinski), flute, clarinet, trombone, viola/violin, 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, tzimbaly, 2010; Ancient Suite, flute/Baroque flute, harpsichord, 2010–11; 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, tape; Nostalgic Elegy, violin, piano; Reflection of the Sun in the Water, flute, piano, temple block
CHORAL: Lost Strophes (cantata, text by Fyodor Tyutchev), soprano, alto, baritone, speaker, mixed chorus, orchestra; Prayers (text by Aleksandr Blok), mixed chorus, celesta, 2 percussion
VOCAL: Recollection of the Motherland (text by Maksim Bogdanovich), voice, piano, 1988–89 (also version for soprano/tenor, ocarina, tzimbaly, piano, percussion, 2003); Six Poems of Aleksandr Pushkin, mezzo-soprano/baritone, piano, 2003–04; Russian Landscapes (texts by Apollon Maikov, Sergey Gorodetsky, Don Aminado), mezzo-soprano/baritone, piano, 2003–04; Two Poems of Vladimir Solovyov, soprano, piano, 2004–05; Psalm IX, 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 Aleksandr 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 Sergey 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 (each of 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)
(Last updated on July 22, 2011)
