Olesya Rostovskaya

Olesya Rostovskaya
Олеся Ростовская
Rostovskaya with theremin made by Andrey Smirnov
Born (1975-01-06) 6 January 1975 (age 51)
Occupations
  • Musician
  • composer
Musical career
OriginNear Moscow, Russia
GenresClassical, contemporary
Instruments
LabelsArtes Mirabiles
Olesya Rostovskaya with her first teacher Anna Artobolevskaya
Olesya Rostovskaya with her organ professor Oleg Yanchenko

Olesya Rostovskaya (Russian: Олеся Ростовская; born 6 January 1975) is a Russian composer, theremin player, carillonneur, organist, campanologist and Russian bell ringer (zvonist).[1]

Olesya Rostovskaya is playing a shaman's drum on ice of Baikal lake
Olesya Rostovskaya at workshop for MOTUS VITA in Riga

Discography

  • Soul of a Bell. Russian Music on Carillon (Audio CD) — AM 090000, © Artes Mirabiles, 2009
  • Nikolai Obouhov. Croix Sonore (Audio CD) - SMC CD 0083, © & (P) Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, 2012[2]
  • What Peter The Great Heard From The Carillon Tower (Audio CD + DSD 256) — AM 160001, © Artes Mirabiles, 2016
  • Soul of a Bell 2 (Audio CD + DSD 256) — AM 170002, © Artes Mirabiles, 2017
  • Tanido Espanol (Audio CD + DSD 256) — AM 170003, © Artes Mirabiles, 2017
  • 16 Century Discothèque (Audio CD + DSD 256) — AM 170004, © Artes Mirabiles, 2017
  • The Bells of Northern Skies (Audio CD + DSD 256) — AM 180005, © Artes Mirabiles, 2018
  • The Organ In A Russian Home (Audio CD + DSD 256) — AM 180007, © Artes Mirabiles, 2018
  • Weightlessness - theremin and electric violin (Audio CD + DSD 512) — AM 190008, © Artes Mirabiles, 2019
  • 5 Parts from 'Missa Electronica Paschalis' for theremin, voices, organ and electronics (DSD 512) — AM 200010, © Artes Mirabiles, 2020[3]

Awards

  • Sacred music contest (1996, Russia)
  • First National Young Composers Contest (1999, Russia)
  • “New generation music” festival (2000, Russia)
  • Massalitinov's national music contest (2005, Russia)
  • Piano improvisation contest (2006, Russia)
  • 10th ARTIADA of Russia (2009, Russia)
  • «Pure Sound 2019» International Award for the Best Audio Recording of Russian Academic Music (2019, Russia) [4]
  • «Pure Sound 2021» International Award for the Best Audio Recording of Russian Academic Music for solo album «Like Breath. Carillon improvisations» [5]

References