For Cello solo. Difficulty: advanced.
Olga Magidenko studied at Moscow Conservatory piano with Lew Wlasenko
and composition with Aram Chatchaturjan, and passed both exams with
distinction. 1980 she won the composition competition of the former Soviet republics
with her examination paper, her first symphony Ostinato. In 1990, she
worked as a composer »Artist in Residence« of the Stetson University
Deland, Florida. She received several scholarships from the
Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis e.V. and also the Margarethen
Stiftung (Berlin), recently in 2009. She took part in numerous
international music festivals and was awarded to the Heidelberger
Künstlerinnenpreis in 2002. Working as a pianist, she played classical
and contemporary repertoires touring Russia, White Russia, Georgia,
Poland, England and the U.S. The oeuvre of Olga Magidenko includes various genres: operas, works for orchestra,
symphonys, chamber music, vocal works, works for piano and organ. The
composer has lived in Germany since 1994, today she lives in Heidelberg.
The majority of her works are published by the publishing house Furore Verlag
Furore Edition FUE4930.