Born in 1932 in Leningrad. Graduated from the Leningrad Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in 1955, having specialised in composition (class of Orest Yevlakhov) and piano studies (class of Vladimir Nilsen). Is currently a Professor at the St Petersburg Conservatoire, where he has taught since 1959. Sergei Slonimsky is a People´s Artist of Russia; he was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2002, the State Glinka Prize and the Prize of the Administration of St Petersburg in 1996, and is an academician of the Russian Academy of Education and a Cavalier of the Commander´s Order for Services to the Republic of Poland (2003).
Sergei Slonimsky´s works include the operas Virineya (1967), Master and Margarita (1972), Mary Stuart (1980), Hamlet (1990), The Visions of Ivan the Terrible (1995), King Lear (2001) and the ballet Icarus (1971). Sergei Slonimsky has composed thirteen symphonies, a Requiem (2004) and numerous instrumental concerti. Among his many chamber works are piano, violin and cello sonatas and twenty-four preludes and fugues for piano. Sergei Slonimsky has composed the cantatas Songs of Vagabonds (to texts from Russian folk songs), A Voice from the Choir (to words by Alexander Blok), romances to poetry by Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Rein, Kushner and Gorodnitsky among others, as well as the music for films such as ShKID Republic, Intervention and Before the Court of History. Sergei Slonimsky has written many works for children and young people.
He wrote the music for the ballet The Magic Nut between 2000 and 2005.
May 2005
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