Premiere of “Resonances” for piano solo, performed by David Jiajun Lai. The piece was composed for colaboration project between Composition and Piano departments at Jacobs School of Music.
Indiana University Auer Hall, March 30th, 2024.
MESSIER 87 for Orchestra Receives U.S. Premiere
Alexey Logunov’s orchestral work MESSIER 87 received its U.S. premiere on November 12th, 2023, performed by the Indiana University Concert Orchestra under the direction of David Dzubay at the Indiana University Musical Arts Center as part of the New Voices Orchestra concert.
The work was originally premiered on September 15th, 2022, by the Saint-Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fedor Lednyov.
Let’s play together?
Alexey Logunov’s Let’s play together? (2023) for piano, live electronics, and interactive media was premiered at the Indiana University Center for Electronic and Computer Music (CECM) Spring 2023 Concert in Auer Hall, performed by the composer.
The work explores the relationship between human interaction, technology, and the ways digital environments influence communication and shared experience.
Program note:
A doppelgänger phenomenon has existed for centuries in mythology, literature, visual art, and later cinema and television. It is about the idea of a biologically unrelated but look-alike, or a double of a living person (usually considered evil version of the original). So far, I’ve never met one in my life. However, if I meet him one day, the first thing I will ask him (or them) would be: “Let’s play together?”
On the Blue Sea
On the Blue Sea for mezzo-soprano, flute, violin and prepared upright piano.
Performed by Elizaveta Agladze (mezzo soprano), Tierney McClure (flute), Marienn Sanchez (violin), Alexey Logunov (piano), conductor – Hung-Yuan Cheng,
Winner of Georgina Joshi Composition Commission Award 2023
Date of premiere: 4/4/2023, Indiana University Recital Hall, Bloomington, United States.
MESSIER 87 Receives World Premiere in Saint Petersburg
Alexey Logunov’s orchestral work MESSIER 87 received its world premiere on September 15th, 2022, performed by the Saint Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Fedor Lednyov.
Program notes:
April 10th, 2019 became a turning point in history of astronomic observations. In the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project’s boundaries the first direct image of a supermassive black hole at the center of Messier galaxy was presented. This image provided a test for Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. M 87 black hole is characterized by strongly defined accretion disc which consists of large body of incandescent matter. MESSIER 87 for symphonic orchestra (2020) is based on idea of spinning that chaotically gives birth to tempests, hurricanes, and explosions. It is an approach to this gigantic object through clouds of dust, its close overflight observation and departing back to cold depths of outer space.