BIOGRAPHY
Leonid Desyatnikov
Composer, Lady with a Lapdog. Work includes opera (Poor Liza), ballet (A Love Song in A Minor), symphony (Sacred Winter, Sketches of Sunset), vocal cycles (to poems of Rilke), and instrumental variations on the themes of Astor Piazzola. His music has been performed at major European festivals, by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra; he has collaborated with the violinist Gidon Kremer for a number of years. Film music includes: Sunset, Lost in Siberia, Katia Izmailova, Hammer and Sickle, Giselle's Mania, The Prisoner of the Mountains, and His Wife's Diary.