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Victor Copytsko (Belarus)

SUMMARY

Composer, musicologist, conductor, director. Versatile musician with more then 25 years of experience in music composition in a wide variety of genres ranging from opera, symphonic, chamber and choral works to theatre and movie scores. His music has been performed throughout Belarus and Russia, as well as Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Germany, Switzerland and USA.                     

LANGUAGES

Byelorussian (fluent), Russian (fluent), English (fluent), reading knowledge in several ancient and modern European languages.

TITLES AND CITATIONS

1995 Composer in Residence (Washington and Lee University, USA).
1997 Best  Music Award at BCM International Film Festival
1997, 2003 Best  Music Award at the 1st and the 3rd National Film Festivals (Belarus)
1980 Song cycle “Six poems by A. S. Pushkin” won the Best Composition in International Music Competition.

FESTIVAL PERFORMANSES

2003 Krakow International Contemporary Music Festival (Poland)
2001 1st Festival of religion music of Patmos (Greece)
1998, 2002 Sollertinsky Music Festival (Vitebsk, Belarus)
1999 New Sacred Music Festival (New York, USA)
1995 Sonoklect 1994-1995 “Interselection” (Lexington, USA)
1994 Celebration in Honor of the Ministry of Peace of the United Nations    (New York, USA)
1994 Passages European Festival (Switzerland)
1993 Bonner Summer Festival (Germany)
1993 Baltic Music Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania)
1992 Ussachevsky Festival (New York, USA)

EXPERIENCE

1992-1994 Musical Director of State Drama Theatre (Minsk, Belarus)
1991-1992 Musical Director of “Russian Video” (St-Petersburg, Russia)
1982-1984 Teacher of music composition at Municipal Music School (Minsk, Belarus)

EDUCATION

1982 B.S. in music composition.
St-Petersburg State Conservatoire, Russia.
1975 Certificate of Graduation in music theory and composition / High School Di-ploma. Minsk State Music College, Belarus.

MEMBERSHIP

Member of the Byelorussian Music Authors Foundation.
Member of the Byelorussian Cinematographic Society.
Member of the Byelorussian Theatrical Association.

PERSONAL DATA

Date of birth: October 8, 1956, Minsk, Belarus.

Most of the time Victor Copytsko works as a free-lance artist in close association with a variety of Philharmonic societies, film studios and theatrical establish-ments.