Svyatoslav Lunev (born April 19, 1964) is a Ukrainian composer, author of symphonic, chamber, choral, piano and electroacoustic music. His works also include operas (Moscow - Petushki, Poorly Tempered Songs) and film music.
His works have been performed at such festivals as the International Forum of Young Music (1993-1998, Kyiv); "Premieres of the Season", Kyiv; "Kyiv Music Fest", Kyiv; "Contrasts", Lviv; "Two Days and Two Nights", Odesa.
Among the performers of his works are the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Kyiv State Philharmonic Orchestra, State Variety and Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Symphony Orchestra of the National Radio Company of Ukraine, Limerick Chamber Orchestra (Ireland), Kyiv Camerata Chamber Orchestra, Kyiv Municipal Choir, National University of Culture Choir, Ricochet Contemporary Music Ensemble, Harmony of the World Ensemble, MusikFabrik Ensemble (Germany), Alter Ratio Vocal Ensemble.
Conductors: Volodymyr Sirenko, Viktor Ploskina, Viacheslav Blinov, Valeriy Matyukhin (Ukraine), Fedor Glushchenko (Russia), Veronique Lacroix (Canada), Dermot Dun (Ireland), Mikheil Menabde (Georgia), Olga Prykhodko (Ukraine), Theodore Kuchar (USA), Herman Engels (Belgium).
S. Lunyov is a laureate of the Rachmaninoff (Kyiv, 1992) and Gradus ad Parnassum (Kyiv, 1993) All-Ukrainian competitions for young composers, winner of the Revutsky Prize (1997), the Lyatoshynsky Prize (2007), and the Verikovsky Prize (2017).
Author of the musical performance "Witness" [Archived October 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine], which won the Bronze Lion [Archived January 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine] at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017.
Works
1993: "Black Trio" based on the words of I. Brodsky ("There was a black sky...") for voice, cello and piano
1993: "Process" for piano and large symphony orchestra
1994: "Symphonic Stanzas" for large symphony orchestra
1995: "Musick to heare", "Wreath of Sonatas" - musical analysis of the stanza of the 8th sonnet of W. Shakespeare in 4 sonatas for piano
1995-1998: "Cantus aeternus" for mixed a cappella choir in 7 parts on canonical texts (in Latin)
1996: "Poorly Tempered Songs", 24 songs to the words of L. Carroll from "Alice in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass" in Russian (or English) for voice and chamber orchestra
1997: "Letargia" for large symphony orchestra
1998: Rehearsal for orchestra for 13 performers
1998: "Libera me" for high voice and organ
1999: "TRIAS" - symphony for organ, piano and strings in 3 parts
2000: "Koans" for bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion
2000: "Pezzi della Piazzi" - concerto for accordion (bayan) and string orchestra on themes by A. Piazzolla
1998-2001: "Mardongs" for piano (cycle of 24 pieces)
1998-2001: "Five romances on poems by foreign poets"
2001: "Apocrypha" for organ (in 7 parts)
2001: "New Russian Dances" for 2 pianos (five cycles of 4 parts each)
2003: "Melencolia" (based on the poem by I. Brodsky "The Great Elegy to John Donne"), a composition for reader and tape recording
2004: "Vor Deinen Thron" (Before Your Throne), an offering to J. S. Bach for 2 violins, harpsichord, piano, organ and orchestral groups of instruments
2004: "TRISTIUM" for string orchestra
2005: "TUTTI" for large symphony orchestra
2006: "Unicorn's Games" for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn
2007: Sonata No. 5 for piano
2008: "Panta Rhei" utopia for large symphony orchestra
2008: "Zehn Stuck" for sextet
2009: "Ave-Because-Adieu" Three pieces for violin and piano
2009: Sonata for cello and piano
2010: "Serenade" for violin and piano
2010: "Two Things" for violin and piano
2010: "Hymns to the memory of the inhabitants of Atlantis" for symphony orchestra
2011: "Vox aeterna" Mass for mixed a cappella choir
2011: "Holy Week" symphony for mixed a cappella choir
1992-2012: "Moscow-Petushki", an opera based on Venedikt Erofeev
2012: "Four Stichyrs" for a cappella strings
2013-2014: "The Noel Consort" concert for a cappella choir on the themes of traditional Christmas songs
2015: "Night Music" for string orchestra
2015: "Daytime Music" for string orchestra
2015: "Nocturne" for symphony orchestra
2016: "Witness" for two children's voices, three violins and phonograph
2016: "Mariologia" for harp, percussion and mixed choir based on texts of the Marian antiphons
2016: "The Invisible Axe" - audio installation for the museum project "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" [Archived June 14, 2019, at the Wayback Machine].
2018: Feast in the Time of Plague, musical drama
2018: "13 Rooms with a View to the Northwest" for piano, violin and cello
2018: "Saturnalia" (Sonata No. 6) for piano
2018: "Seven Portraits" for piano
2018: "Nocturnales" for piano
2018: "Trolling Studies" for piano
2021 Sonata No. 7 ("Sip of Earth") for piano
Recognition.
Laureate of the All-Ukrainian Competition for Young Composers named after S. Rachmaninoff (1992), All-Ukrainian Competition "Gradus ad Parnassum" (1993). Laureate of the L. Revutsky Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Ukraine (1997). Laureate of the B. N. Liatoshynskyi Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine (2007). Laureate of the M. I. Verikivsky Prize (2017).
Author of the musical performance Witness, which received the Bronze Lion at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2017.
