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Poplavsky, Yevgeny (Paplauski, Yauhen) (b. 1959, Grodno region). Belorussian composer of mostly orchestral, choral and vocal works that have been performed in Europe.
Mr. Poplavsky studied composition with Igor Luchenok and Dmitry Smolsky at the Belorussian Academy of Music in Minsk, where he earned his diploma in 1986, and had post-graduate studies in composition with Sergey Slonimsky at the Conservatory of Music in St. Petersburg from 1989-91. He also attended a masterclass with Ton de Leeuw.
Among his honors are Second Prize in a national competition in Minsk (1991, for Lux aeterna) and Second Prize in the Jihlava competition in Prague (2000, for The Weather of an Already Late Autumn).
Mr. Poplavsky is also active in other positions. He co-founded with Sergey Beltiukov, Galina Gorelova, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Dmitry Lybin, and others the Belorussian Society for Contemporary Music in 1990 and co-organized the Festival of Modern Chamber Music in Minsk from 1991-95. He has worked with the performance organization Belorussian Capella since 1992, for which he has researched ancient Belorussian music.
He was active as a researcher at the Academy of Music in Gdansk and the Academy of Music in Kraków from 1997-99, on a grant from the government of Poland. He has taught arrangement and orchestration at the Belorussian State Institute of Culture in Minsk since 2000.
In addition to the works listed below, Mr. Poplavsky has composed incidental music and has made many orchestrations.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Street address: Mr. Yevgeny Poplavsky (Yauhen Paplauski), Fyodorov St. 11, Bldg. 1, Apt. 10, 220019 Minsk, Belarus
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
STAGE: Moonlight People (3 part ballet, scenario by the composer), guitar, 2 percussion, string quartet, 1995
ORCHESTRAL: Quo vadis, 1986; Music for Viola and Chamber Orchestra (in memoriam Stanislaw Hlakowski), 1987; Porazava – Sketches, 1991; Dea Luna (symphony), 1996; Barbara Radziwill, 1999; Light on the Path, small orchestra (15 players), 2000; Path in the Clouds, small orchestra (15 players), 2001; Gate, small orchestra (15 players), 2003
CHAMBER MUSIC: Sonata, viola, piano, 1984; Refraction, organ, 4 percussion, 1997
CHORAL: Batskovshchyna – Patrimony (texts by Larysa Geniyush, Nil Gilevich), tenor, bass, mixed chorus, orchestra, 1986; Zvany maioy Rusi – Bells of My Ruthenia (texts by Aleksandr Pushkin, Afanasy Fet, Nikolay Rubtsov), mixed chorus, 2 harps, piano, 4 percussion, 1987; Moy tikhi dom – My Tranquil Home (concerto, texts by Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Larysa Geniyush), mixed chorus, 1988; Lux aeterna (symphony, text by Levon Emilit), tenor, mixed chorus, orchestra, 1990; The Weather of an Already Late Autumn (song-cycle, text by Leopold Staff), mixed chorus, tubular bells, woodblock, 1998; To the Madonna of Suprasl (text from a Suprasl songbook), mixed chorus, 1999; Five Selected Songs from a Suprasl Songbook, mixed chorus, 2003
VOCAL: Night (song-cycle, text by Oles Garun), baritone, piano, 1989; My Soul (song-cycle, text by Maksim Bogdanovich), baritone, flute, piano, 1990
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Time Corrosion, tape, 1999; Lunayontse – Soaring in Space, tape, 1999; Path in the Clouds, oboe, percussion, computer, 2002
(Last updated on March 10, 2004)
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