Korsun Anna
Born in Donetsk, Ukraine in 1986. She undertook her musical training at the Dzerzhinsk School of Music in the piano department (2000–04), participating in various concerts and competitions as both pianist and vocalist. In 2004–09 she studied musicology, and from 2005 composition, at the P. I. Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she obtained a BA degree. She is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich on the Master programme with Moritz Eggert.
She has appeared as composer and performer at various concerts and festivals, such as the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music; Musikfest der Münchner Gesselschaft für Neue Musik, Lange Nacht der Musik (Munich), Junge Solisten (Munich), Season’s Premieres, Kyiv Music Fest, Youth Forum, Gogolfest (Kyiv), Young Composers (Lviv), Tax Free: Territory of Young Composers, From Avant-garde to Our Days (St. Petersburg), Exposition II (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). She has also participated in competitions such as the National Grand Prize in Lviv (2004) in which she was a prize winner, and the “Step to the Left“ competition in St. Petersburg in which she was a finalist (2008). Her work Landscapesfor five voices was selected for the finale of the Gaudeamus Music Week 2011. She has also taken part in the workshops of ensemble recherche (2008), J. Appleton (2008), Gaudeamus Music Week (2010), P. Dusapin (2010, 2011), S. Bhagwati (2010), Aventa Ensemble (2011) and H. Lachenmann (2011). She has been awarded scholarships by Donaueschinger Musiktage (2009), Stockhausen Concerts and Courses in Kürten (2009) and Baltic Youth Philharmonic in Kaunas (2011). In 2011 she was commissioned by the Kulturkreis Gasteig in Munich to write a new chamber piece.
Performers of her music include eNsemble, Feodor Lednyov, VOCAALLAB, Ensemble Oktopus, Moritz Eggert, Natalia Pschenitschnikova; Ensemble Nostri Temporis, Diana Syrse and Simon Klavzar.
S e l e c t e d w o r k s: Theory of String for flute, bass clarinet, violin, viola and piano (2007), Aqua Sonare for piano (2008), Micromaa for tape (2010), The Song of a Fish for voice (2010), Rarefaction of Water for symphony orchestra (2010), Rock. Scissors. Paper for “non-musical“ instruments and five performers (with co-author S. Khismatov, 2010), Surfaces for percussion (2010), Dream of a Whale for two low brass and two low string instruments (2010), Landscapes for five voices (2011), Isostasie for piano quintet (2011), 3in1 for tuba, cello and organ (2011), Wehmutfor five voices, violin, double bass and sound objects (2011), Tohuwabohu, chamber opera for three voices, trombone, double bass, sound objects and sampler (2012).
