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Biography

Semyon Suhanov

I was born in 2000 in the city of Glazov. Soon he moved to Nizhny Novgorod.

I made his first attempts to compose music at about the age of 10. It is quite difficult to call these experiments serious: simple pieces of 8-16 bars were "stamped" on an industrial scale... I began to study composition purposefully in the eighth grade of school (since 2014) under the guidance of the Nizhny Novgorod composer and musicologist Denis Olegovich Prisyazhnyuk.

In 2016, I entered the Nizhny Novgorod Music College named after M.A. Balakirev (Department of Music Theory). Classes with Prisyazhnyuk continued throughout the entire training period. In the first year of college, I wrote a piano piece, which I often perform to this day at concerts - "Autumn in Murnau" (the only composition of that year, which I currently consider quite successful). Among the considerable amount of music from 2016-2019, several "strong" compositions can be distinguished: Suite for String Trio (2018), romances "Tycho" and "Everything in Everything" based on poems by F. Sologuba (2018), piano pieces "Pleasant Memory" and "Humoresque" (2019), Three Preludes for Piano (2019), Sonata for Violin and Piano (2019).

In 2020, I entered the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory with a degree in Musicology (Faculty of Composition). During two academic seasons, I studied electively under the guidance of Professor Alexander Vladimirovich Tchaikovsky. Since the fall of 2022, I have been studying in the class of Associate Professor Maxim Isaakovich Dunaevsky.

In the period from 2020 to mid-2023, a number of piano, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal and choral compositions were created.

For piano: Three Minuets (2020), Two Romances (2021), Two Impressions (2021), Two Old Dances (2022), "My Little Quiet World" in 3 parts (2022).

Chamber ensembles: Sonatina for saxophone-soprano and piano (2022), Saxophone Quartet in 4 movements (2022), "Simplex et infinita" for string quartet (2023)

Chamber vocal compositions: Four songs on poems by E.Guro and V.Khlebnikov (2021), "Snowfall" on poems by A. Kurova for voice and piano (2021), "Circle of Songs" for soprano and piano (2023).

Choral music: "Three Haiku" for mixed choir (2020), "Lord, I cry to You" and "Glory to God in the Highest" (2021), "It is Worthy to Eat" for mixed choir (2022), "Jesus Prayer" for mixed choir (2022), "Angel" and "Clouds" for children's choir (2022).