Michail Goleminov

Michail Goleminov (Bulgarian: Михаил Големинов) is a Bulgarian composer, pianist and conductor.

He studied music in Sofia, Amsterdam and Vienna - orchestra conducting and twelve tone composition with Konstantin Ilijev of the Academy of Music in Sofia, composition with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati of the Academy of Music in Vienna, Ton de Leeuw of the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, and Alexander Baltin (Moscow). He also studied piano with Harald Ossberger (Vienna).

As a composer Goleminov has worked for stage, web, TV, movies, dance companies etc. International prizes he has won include: C. M. von Weber, Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Hambacher Preis, Osterfestspiele Salzburg. Functioning in the capacity of notation and graphic layout expert, he has worked for numerous publishing houses, such as Doblinger Vienna and Musikwissenschaftlicher verlag Vienna. He is currently living as a freelance musician and music publisher in Sofia.

Goleminov's works have been performed and broadcast in Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, France, Poland, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Italy and in the USA. In 2003 he founded together with his partner pianist Angela Tosheva the music school, multimedia studio and music publishing house The Orange Factory, which offers audio recording and music publishing services and an International Master's Course in piano and composition.

Goleminov's father, Marin Goleminov, was also a composer.

Works

• Sonata for clarinet and piano
• 'Ungrammatical liberations' for piano, electronics, snare drum and plastic mannequins
• Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
• Concerto for piano and string orchestra
• Concerto for piano and large orchestra
• 'Floating metal' for piano
• Sonatina, 10 piano pieces
• 'Piano people' (two pianos)
• 'Revelation' for two pianos
• 'Illusion valley' for two pianos and electronics ad lib.
• 'Maze of Ravings' for two pianos and electronics
• "Music of melting ice" for piano
• 'Coyote' for saxophone quartet and live electronics
• 'VOX' for saxophone quartet, vocals and electronics
• 'X streams' for saxophone quartet, vocals and improvising computers
• "Five o'clock at Heiner Stadler's" for violin, piano and electronics
• 'Chain Wheel' for cello, piano and electronics
• 'Lightwave' II for large orchestra and electronics
• Symphony (2003)
• "Thracian enigma" (ballet, 2003)
• "Incoherent.... lay-by" for chamber ensemble
• "Goldmine" (2005) for ensemble (any instruments)
• 2 Sonatas for solo cello
• 3 string quartets
• 7 piano etudes
• Concerto for 5 percussionists and any solo instrument (2005)
• Video works (2003 - 2005): "The lords", "The trap", "The time machine", "Chain wheel", "zenWALL", "The castle in the Pyrenees", "Le Voyeur", "RNCZ", "Rituals I and II", "Vision", "Desert sparrows"
• Electronic, computer aided and computer generated music - various compositions
• Works for mixed and female choir
• Music for theatre, TV and video