Sauli Zinovjev
A composition at its best has everything. The entire life in a single moment. This is how composer Sauli Zinovjev (1988) sees it.
Since graduating from the Sibelius-Academy he has been focusing mainly on orchestral music with commissions and performances by distinguished orchestras such as the Finnish and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras, Orchestra de Chambre de Lausanne and most important Finnish orchestras in collaboration with some of the frontline conductors and soloists such as Klaus Mäkelä and Pekka Kuusisto. At the moment Zinovjev is composing a Piano Concerto for pianist Vikingur Olafsson commissioned by Finnish and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestras to be premiered in 2020.
Zinovjev composes music that conveys vast emotions. The kind of music which also made him a composer. Until the age of sixteen, he played the guitar in a rock band and skateboarded. Then he saw a clip online with György Cziffra performing Liszt.
“It was as if wallpaper had been torn off the wall revealing a window to an open landscape. The euphoria and the virtuoso performance left a fanatic impression on me. To have the ability to inject so much art into a single moment. The entire spectrum of life.”
Zinovjev uses classical music to make his view of the world intelligible. To convey it – life – to others.
- Anna-Kaari Hakkarainen -
Read Sauli Zinovjev's biography in Finnish here.
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| Title | Instrumentation | Year | Category | Duration | Available from |
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A Due | fl, guit | 2016 | Chamber Works | 00:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Arco | vlc | 2014 | 07:00 | saulizinovjev.com | |
Arco | vla | 2014 | 07:00 | saulizinovjev.com | |
Arco | vln | 2014 | Works for Solo Instrument | 07:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Batteria | 3333 4331 13 1, pno, str | 2016 | Works for Orchestra or Large Ensemble | 10:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Chained | acc | 2015 | Works for Solo Instrument | 08:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Charged 1 | 8vlc | 2015 | Chamber Works | 07:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Charged 2 | 8vlc, sopr | 2016 | Chamber Works, Vocal and Choral Works | 03:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Die Welt - Ein Tor | 2222 2200 11 0, str, vlc solo | 2017 | Works for Soloist(s) and Orchestra | 16:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Elegietta | guit | 2013 | Works for Solo Instrument | 02:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Epilogi | pno | 2013 | Works for Solo Instrument | 06:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Gryf | 2222 2210 11 0, str [pic, bcl] | 2013 | Works for Orchestra or Large Ensemble | 16:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Jum | 1111 2010 01 1, str, mezzo [str:11111] | 2014 | 04:00 | saulizinovjev.com | |
Kirkastus | baryt, pno | 2010 | Vocal and Choral Works | 05:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Maailma valehtelee | sopr, pno | 2015 | Vocal and Choral Works | 02:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Music for sextet | ob, bsn, hn, perc, vln, vla | 2015 | Chamber Works | 15:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Nova | fl, ob, cl, bsn, hn, perc, pno, 2vln, vla, vlc | 2012 | Works for Orchestra or Large Ensemble | 07:50 | saulizinovjev.com |
Pianokappale | pno | 2011 | Works for Solo Instrument | 07:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Piano Quartet | pno, vln, vla, vlc | 2014 | 12:00 | saulizinovjev.com | |
Recharged | str | 2018 | Works for Orchestra or Large Ensemble | 06:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Requiem | chx, vlc | 2016 | Vocal and Choral Works | 23:00 | |
Runo runosta | sopr, guit, bcl | 2011 | 04:00 | saulizinovjev.com | |
Sola | fl, ob, cl+bcl, asax, hn, perc, pno, vln, vla, vlc | 2013 | Works for Orchestra or Large Ensemble | 07:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Sonaatti-Fantasia | vlc, pno | 2011 | Chamber Works | 12:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Syrjä | vln, vla, vlc, pno, 2 dancers, video | 2016 | Multimedia Works | 20:00 | |
Un grande sospiro | 2222 2200 11 0, str [afl, ehn, bcl, cbsn] | 2018 | Works for Orchestra or Large Ensemble | 22:00 | saulizinovjev.com |
Violin concerto | 2232 4331 11 1, str, vln solo | 2017 | Works for Soloist(s) and Orchestra | 23:00 | saulizinovjev.com |