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Mikita, Andrey (b. 1959, St. Petersburg). Russian composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere; he is also active as a pianist.
Mr. Mikita studied composition with Boris Tishchenko and piano with Nathan Perelman at the Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg in 1977-78. He then studied composition with Tikhon Khrennikov and Aleksandr Tchaikovsky and piano with Yevgeny Malinin and Stanislav Neuhaus at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow from 1978-84, where he later studied as an assistant to Yevgeny Malinin from 1986-89.
Among his honors is First Prize in the Choral Spiritual Music competition in Moscow (2003, for Bogoroditse Devo, raduysya... – Virgin Mother of God, Rejoice). His music has been performed in Armenia, France, Germany, Israel, Kazakstan, Russia, Switzerland, Turkey, and Ukraine.
As a pianist, he has performed his own works and those of Aleksandr Skryabin, as well as classical and contemporary music. In addition, he has played with Aleksandr Mekayev as the Moscow Piano Duo since 1993.
Mr. Mikita has taught composition at the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow since 2001.
In addition to the works listed below, he has written more than 40 choral works for the Russian Orthodox Church.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: mikitandr@mtu-net.ru
Street address: Mr. Andrey Mikita, ul. Chelyabinskaya 11, kv. 167, 105568 Moscow, Russia
Telephone: + 709 5308 0656
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Wild Angel (incidental music, play by Nikolay Kolomiets), 1982; The Ugly Duckling (2 act ballet, libretto by Nikolay Lebedev, after Hans Christian Andersen), 1983 (collaboration with Olga Petrova, Irina Tseslyukevich); Marriage (2 act ballet, libretto by Aleksandr Polubentsev, after Nikolay Gogol), 1993; Hero of Our Time (incidental music, play by Mikhail Lermontov), 2001; Prince I. (incidental music, play by Asya Durgarian, after William Shakespeare, Ilya Tyurin), 2003
ORCHESTRAL: Safari (suite), 1986 (version of piano work); Symphony, 1989; Polden – Midday (symphonic poem), large orchestra (61 players), 1990; Skazka – Fairy Tale, 1993; Concerto on Themes of Grieg for Piano and Orchestra, 1997; The Franco-Prussian War (symphonic poem), large orchestra (60 players), 2002
CHAMBER MUSIC: String Quartet No. 1, 'Bachiana', 1976; String Quartet No. 2, 1978; Five Moods of Flute and Cello, 1978; Expectation, cello, piano, 1979; String Quartet No. 3, 1979; Sonata for Viola and Piano, 1984; String Quartet No. 4, 1984; Sonata in A, violin, 1987; Red Gates (7 sketches and postlude), flute, violin, viola, cello, piano (+ harpsichord), 1989; Elegy to the Memory of Shostakovich, violin, piano, 1989; Presushchestvlenie – Sonata of the Holy Communion, cello, piano, 1994; The Himalayas, flute, 1994; Steppe, flute, domra, piano, 1995
CHORAL: Slavyanskaya dusha – Slavonic Soul (concerto, text by Aleksey K. Tolstoy), mixed chorus, 1986; Two Poems of Sergey Mikhalkov, children's chorus, 1988; Velikaya vechernya – The Great Vesper (text from the Russian Orthodox Vespers), mixed chorus, 1991; Liturgiya Krasoty – Liturgy of Beauty (cantata, text by Konstantin Balmont), tenor, bass, mixed chorus, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, 1993; Bogorodichnye pesnopeniya – Hymns to the Virgin (spiritual concerto, text from Russian Orthodox prayers), mixed chorus, 1996; Initium Caritatis (texts from the Book of Genesis, the Song of Solomon), mixed chorus, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1997; Jesum autem flagellatum... (text from the Book of Matthew), mixed chorus, organ, 1997; Three Folksongs on Texts of Aleksandr Pushkin, folk voice, mixed chorus, guitar, 1999; Tiramisú (text by Noira Volpi), mixed chorus, 1999; Drugu vo Khriste – To a Friend of Christ (text by Archbishop John Shakhovskoy), mixed chorus, 2000; Bogoroditse Devo, raduysya... (texts from ancient Greek, Russian religious songs), female chorus, male chorus, 2002
VOCAL: Nate! – Take it (text by Vladimir Mayakovsky), bass, piano, 1977; Dalyoky chertog – The Celestial Palace (text by Aleksandr Blok), bass, piano, 1981; Fragments d'enfance (text by Arthur Rimbaud), soprano, prepared piano, 1996; On i ya – He and I (text by Innokenty Annensky), soprano, piano, 1997; O slezakh – On Tears (texts by Ss. Isaac of Syria, Fyodor Yenatsky, Avva Longin [Russian translations]), soprano, domra, cello, piano, 1999; Three Musics on Texts of Valentin Fyodorov, soprano, piano, 2000
PIANO: Allegro ostinato, 1978; Sonata for Two Pianos, 1978; Solnovert: Obrazy drevney Rusi – Images of Ancient Russia, 1982, revised 2002; Album in C, 1983; Safari (suite), 1985 (also version for orchestra); Sonatina, 1986; Herzog Bluebeard (suite), 1986; Variations on a Jazz Theme, 1987; Dom – Images of My Homeland, 2 pianos, 1992; Impossibility (poem), 1993; Dedicated to Rakhmaninov, 2 pianos, 1994; Loss and Consolation, 2 pianos, 1996
ELECTROACOUSTIC: The Wolf and the Seven Kids, CD, 2003
(Last updated on January 29, 2004)
