Yevgeniy Sharlat, 27
Moscow, Russia

Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy (Incidental Music) for Flute/Piccolo, Clarinet in Eb, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon, Trumpet, Trombone, Piano and 3 Violoncelli: 17´

Yevgeniy enjoys writing music for diverse media, using a variety of genres and styles. He has studied violin, piano and music theory since the age of six. He started composing seriously at the Academy of Moscow Conservatory. Upon coming to the US in 1994, he attended the Juilliard Pre-College, Curtis Institute and Yale School of Music (from which he currently holds the degree of Master of Musical Arts). Yevgeniy has participated in summer programs in Fontainebleau, France and Florence, Italy. In 2002 he received an honorable mention in The ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and among other prior awards are included the The ASCAP Foundation Boosey & Hawkes Young Composer Award Honoring Aaron Copland, the Virgil Thompson Scholarship at Yale University, the Rena Greenwald Memorial Prize for the Best Piano Composition and the Ezra Laderman Award for the Best Vocal/Theater Work. Yevgeniy’s music has been recently performed by the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin at the Great Hall of Saint-Petersburg, and due to the success of that performance, he has been commissioned to write another work for that ensemble. His special interests include opera, French literature and early 20th-century avant-garde. His subject of research is a Russian émigré composer Nikolay Obukhov. His latest composition Krespel-Haus for soprano, violin, clarinet and harpsichord explores operatic gestures of the Baroque era without being referential. Yevgeniy is currently teaching undergraduate composition at Yale University.