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Yaskov, Konstantsin (Yaskou, Kanstantsin) (b. December 29, 1981, Vetka, Gomel region). Belarusian composer of mostly chamber and piano works that have been performed in Europe.
Mr. Yaskov studied composition with Viktor A. Voytik and conducting with Nikolay Kolyadko at the Belarusian Academy of Music in Minsk from 2001–06, where he graduated with a diploma. He then had post-graduate studies in composition there with Viktor A. Voytik from 2006–08. In addition, he studied composition with Aleksander Lasoń at the Academy of Music in Katowice in 2008, on a grant from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Polish government.
His music has been performed in Belarus, Poland and Ukraine.
Mr. Yaskov is also active in other positions. He co-founded with Natalia Ganul and Elena Zdobnikova the biannual festival DIALOGUES: Young Composers and Performers in Minsk in 2007 and has served as its co-organizer with them since 2007. In addition, he co-founded with Maksim Kruhly and Katyaryna Shymanivich the Association of Young Belarusian Composers in Minsk in 2010 and has served as its president since 2010.
He has taught analysis and contemporary-music theory at the Belarusian Academy of Music in Minsk since 2008 and the transcription of recordings of Belarusian folk music at the Belarusian University of Culture and Art in Minsk since 2008.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: konstmusic@inbox.ru or konstmusic@gmail.com
Street address: Mr. Konstantsin Yaskov (Kanstantsin Yaskou), ul. Beleckogo 32, kv. 237, 220117 Minsk, Belarus
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: The Prophet (after Mikhas Bashlakou), viola, 18 strings, 2005; Adagio, orchestra (8 winds, 10 brass, harp, timpani, percussion, strings), 2007
CHAMBER MUSIC: The Castle of Stefán Báthory: Three short pieces, flute, cello, 2000; ...to the sea..., piccolo, 2 flutes, alto flute, 2007; Hukanne wyasny – Inviting Spring, cello, 2008; Vitrage, string quartet, 2008; One, Two, Three... (pulse music in C after the waltzes of Johann Strauss II), flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2009; Ludus mobile I: diatonic metaepitaphy in memory of conceptualism, piano, any 3 moving players with any instrument in C (with 6 desks), 2009; Ludus mobile II: dance of Yin and Yang about the Deepest Emptiness, violin, 2010 (also version for 2 violins, 2010)
CHORAL: Lux æterna (text from the Requiem), mixed chorus, 2 French horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, violin, piano, 2 percussion, 2006
VOCAL: Credo (text from the Mass), 2 sopranos, baritone, organ, string quartet, 2007
PIANO: Variations on a Theme of Franz Joseph Haydn, 2002; Sonata-poem, 2004; Zone Opus-posth, or... (Eight multi-informational audio-graphic models from the experience of culture), 2009
ORGAN: Ludus mobile III: Sanctus Benedictus, 2010
DIDACTIC MUSIC: Rondo, flute/oboe, piano, 2006
(Last updated on June 1, 2010)
