NINA SINIAKOVA
contemporary classical composer & pianist

Young Performers
Solo Piano
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“Pigtails And Freckles”. 12 piano pieces for children. (ca. 20’, 1996. Published in St. Petersburg, Compozitor publishing house, 2000)
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"Sunny Day" five jazz pieces for young pianists (2020)
Piano Four Hands
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“The City’s Pictures”, suite for piano four hands. In three movements.(ca. 10’, 1990)
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“My World”. Four pieces for a piano for four hands (ca.7’, 2000/2009)
Choir
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“Wind From the South” for children choir and piano. Poetry by L. Panteleev (ca 3’, 1984)
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“A Little Joke” for children choir and piano. Belorussian folk poetry. (ca.2’, 2000)
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“January Stamps at the House” for children choir and piano. Poetry by V. Zuionak (ca 2’, 2002)
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“A Little Train” for children choir a capella. Text by D. Rodari (ca. 4’, 2008)
Ballet- Instrumental Suite
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“Cinderella”. Suite for young musicians. For violin, clarinet (block flute), percussion and piano. (15”, 2003. First performance- 2007, Cologne)
Piano Solo
Sunny Day
five jazz pieces for children
1. Little Erin
2.Cowboy's Song
3. Sunny Day
4. Rock-n-Roll for Gabriel
5. Waltz for Lucy
Pigtales and Freckles
2,2,2,2;2 corni, 2 trompe;harpa; timpani, vibr; archi
"astonishing"
Barry Wordsworth,
BBC conductor, Royal Ballet Music Director emeritus.
"very interesting, inventive, and dynamic.
I enjoyed listening to it very much"
David Kim,
concertmaster of Philadelphia Orchestra
Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra was written for Jackson Heights Community Orchestra ( New York) and two outstanding soloists, Julia Meynert-Guarino and John Guarino.
The piece received First prize and People's Choice award, being chosen out of 106 scores submitted for Andrey Petrov Symphony Music Composers' Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia.
"Paazer'e" ("Land by the Lakes")
for three folk singers and orhcestsra (2011, 10')
2,2,2,2;4,3,3,1;harpa,pno; timpani, percussion; archi
Premiere: March 2, 2023, Minsk, Belarus
Belarus State Philharmonic orchestra, conductor Aleksandr Anissimov
"Paazer'e" is a work inspired by a pagan Belarusian tradition of "calling for Spring". At the end of Winter girls would get to hills all over the area and ask Spring to come. Echoing each other, their magic songs and requests were meant to initiate the beginning of a new season, joyful, desirable, full of sun and light.
"Nimmergekommener"
Symphony for soprano, organ and orchestra. In six movements.
Poetry by Rillke, Lasker- Schüler and Zelan (1999, 35')
3,3,3,3;4,3,3,1; timpani, percussion; harpa; organ; soprano solo; archi
1. Nimmergekommener
2. Scherzo
3. My Archangel
4. Moderato
5. Winter
6. Allegro
Other Works:
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Concerto for harp and fifteen strings. In two movements (ca. 20’, 1998)
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“The Little Mermaid”. Suite for a symphony orchestra and a narrator (ca. 40’, 2007-2010)
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"My Love". Sonnet by Shakespear No. 147 for mixed choir, harp, vibraphone , and strings (2016, ca.6')
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Eurydice for orchestra (ca. 10', 2020)