Desyatnikov Leonid Arkadevich

Born in 1955 in Kharkov. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory composition class of Professor B. Arapova and the class of instrumentation with Professor Boris Tishchenko (as a student of 3rd year, wrote his first opera "Poor Liza").
1979. - Adopted by the Union of Composers.
In 1990 Desyatnikov met with director Alexander Zeldovich and wrote the music for his film "Sunset" by Isaac Babel. Soundtrack released an unusually successful and solid: the composer managed to cross the Jewish shtetl melodies with the tragic power of the Psalms of David. Then there were other kinoraboty - "Lost in Siberia" (1991), "Moscow Nights" (1994), "Hammer and Sickle (1994)," Giselle's Mania "(1995)," Those who tenderly "(1996)," His Wife's Diary "(2000), received the prize" Nick "as" the best feature film of the year ".
Received the "Golden Aries" for the music for the movie "Moscow" (2000)
. Since 1996, working extensively with Gidon Kremer as a composer ( "Wie der Alte Leiermann ..."; chamber version of" Sketches of Sunset ") and arranger of works by Astor Piazzolla, . among which are nominated for a Grammy tango operita "Maria de Buenos Aires",
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One of the most performed of contemporary Russian composers. His music often sounds at major music festivals: Lockenhaus (Austria, 1996, 1998), Gstaad (Switzerland, 1997), "Richter December Nights" (1997). Symphonic composition "Sketches for" Sunset "performed by major orchestras in German: Deutsches Simphonie Orchester Berlin and the Symphonic Orchestra Gewandhaus (Leipzig).