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Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin (Kazakh: Рахат-Би Төлегенұлы Әбдісағин, born February 2, 1999) is a composer and pianist who received the Honorary Badge for Merits in the Development of Culture and Arts from the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the CIS).
Biography
Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin was born in Almaty on February 2, 1999. His father Tolegen Kozhamkulov is a theoretical physicist; his mother Gülmira Esimbaeva is a politician, educator and lawyer. Rakhat-Bi started composing music at the age of 10. He completed the regular 7-year course at the music academy in 3 years while also studying at an Almaty gymnasium.
Rakhat-Bi became a student of Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatoire at the age of 13, started his Master program at Kazakh National University of Arts at 17, did an internship at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatoire (Russia) and defended his thesis at 18, thus obtaining a MA in Art Criticism. In 2015 he joined the International Council for Traditional Music and became the youngest speaker of the ICTM World Conference.
In 2019 Abdyssagin became the youngest PhD student of Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome (majoring in composition) and later got his PhDs from Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan and Conservatorio Cesare Pollini in Padua (majoring in piano).
In 2022, Verlag Neue Musik Berlin released his Selected Solo Works (Sammelband), a collection of solo scores written specifically for every symphony orchestra instrument. Rakhat-Bi is the second composer in the world to have completed such a large-scale project (he is preceded by the great Luciano Berio (1925-2003) with his cycle of sequenzas).
Rakhat-Bi's compositions are featured in South Illinois University's Global Discography of Music for Piano and Orchestra alongside the classic masterpieces.
Compositions
- Childhood Pieces and Sketches (about 30 compositions, several of them published in the author's collection of creative works Edges of Harmony, Almaty 2011). (2008—2010)
- Fantasia (2011)
- Starlight Variations (2011)
- Winter-Qys (2011)
- Petrogliff (2011)
- Tabulatura Nova (2012)
- Landscape (2012)
- Klavierstück (2012)
- Snowflakes in the Starry Sky (2012)
- Messenetique (2012)
- Multiphonarium for flute (2012)
- Brightness (2012)
- Fantasia Murakami (2012)
- Light Through Fog (2012)
- Aqqu (2012)
- Light at the End of the Tunnel (2012)
- Tunneling of Quantum (2013)
- Plateau at Night (2013)
- Bulbul (2013)
- Aurora Polaris (2013)
- Nostalgya (2013)
- Óleń-Poem (2013)
- Suite Aport pour Satie (2013)
- Rondine Piangente (2013)
- Aftersounds of Eternity (2014)
- Thunderbolt (episode from Grand Opera) transcription (2015)
- Stargazer aria (2015)
- Games of not Parallel Lines (2015)
- Feeling of Autumn (2015)
- Fantasia Quasi una Sonata (2015)
- Painting in Sounds für Flöte (2015)
- Ancient Scroll (2016)
- Internal Thoughts (2016)
- Mirror Effect of Ghosts (2016)
- Reverberations of Metric (Gμν) (2016)
- La Canzone Isoritmica del Trovatore (2017)
- Noise of Time (2017)
- Reflection of Essence (2017)
- Over the Vault of Depth for 8 performers (2017)
- The Shadow of Alhambra (2017)
- Lo Sguardo Limpido (2017)
- The Way of a Scarab Beetle (2017)
- Chant Lunaire du Vent (2017)
- L’Aura Sonante (2017)
- Celesti Collisioni (2017)
- A Fleeting Glance Away (2018)
- Fleeting Sketches I, II, III (2018)
- Con Tempo (2018)
- Alta Tensione (2018)
- The Space of Resonance for oboe (2018)
- Omaggio a Ivan Fedele (2018)
- Ombre del Vuoto (Shadows of the Void) (2019)
Essential symphony orchestra music
- Kazakh Rhapsody for piano and symphony orchestra (2013)
- Forward into the Sunlight for violin and symphony orchestra (2014)
- The Will to Live for piano and symphony orchestra, published by Kompozitor Publishers in Moscow (2015)
- God’s Dwelling for symphony orchestra, published by Kompozitor Publishers in Moscow (2016)
- Aftersounds of Romanticism for symphony orchestra (2017)
- Beyond the Darkness for tenors choir and symphony orchestra on the poetry by Lord Byron (2017)
- Time Run for symphony orchestra (2018)
- Des Pensées de Loin for 24 flutes, a commission by Pierre-Yves Artaud and Orchestre de Flûtes Français (2018)
- Tears of Silence, concerto for piano and symphony orchestra (2018)
- A Drop of Eternity, concerto for violin and symphony orchestra (2018)
- The Sacred Universe of Particles for symphony orchestra (2018)
- Phantom Reflections, concerto for cello and symphony orchestra (2018)