Igor Drukh is Russian composer, prize winner of numerous international and All-Russian music competitions. Since 1995 he is Member of the St. Petersburg Composers’ Union.
Biography
Igor Drukh was born in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia), where he successfully completed his studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire in 1992, graduating with a degree in composition under the tutelage of Prof. A. D. Mnatsakanyan.
Igor Drukh has participated in a number of international masterclasses held in Germany, Poland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Russia. These have been conducted by a number of highly esteemed composers, including P. H. Dietrich, H. Lachenmann, M. Kopytman, E. Denisov and S. Slonimsky. Together with E. Denisov, he composed the musical score for the film Tsar’s Hunt, directed by A. Melnikov.
His principal area of composition is chamber music. A significant proportion of Drukh’s compositions are inspired by works of painting, architecture and sculpture. Drukh’s music has been performed at a number of international contemporary music festivals, including those held in Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Lithuania, Poland, the USA and Russia. He has also written music for dramatic plays (Mironov’s Entreprise, Comedy Theatre), and circus performances.
In 1995 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the UNESCO competition in Paris (for Frescoes of the Cappella Scrovegni, a suite for two pianos based on frescoes by Giotto di Bondone). In 2007 Igor Drukh won first prize at the International Chamber Music Competition announced by the Millennium Chamber Players (Chicago, USA). He collaborates with chamber ensembles and soloists: with the Alea Ensemble of Boston University (Boston, USA), Ensemble Alpha (Denmark), the Mozarteum String Quartets (Salzburg, Austria), theN. A. Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet (St. Petersburg, Russia), with ensemble ‘Musica da camera’ (St. Petersburg, Russia), with ensemble QuARTru (St. Petersburg, Russia), with ensemble IN-TEMPORALIS…
Igor Drukh is Diploma winner of the 6th (2012) and winner of the 1st prize of the 8th (2014) Andrei Petrov All-Russian Composition Competition in the category of symphonic music; winner of the 2nd prize of the first Shostakovich All-Russian Composition Competition (2015) in the category of chamber music; winner of the 1st and 3rd degree in two categories (music for ensemble and music for solo instrument) of the First AVANTI All-Russian Competition in composition among professional composers (Moscow 2018); winner of the 3rd AVANTI-competition in composition (3rd prize / 2020) and award winner of the D.D. Shostakovich-Prize (2020) for his significant contribution to the development of academic genres of instrumental music.
Videos
Igor Drukh ‘Song of Songs’
Artists : Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Stolbov – conductor, Vitaly Papyrin – clarinet.
‘Take five’ for orchestra (Igor Drukh’s arrangement)
Artists : St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Nikolai Alexeev. Denis Sukhov – clarinet and saxophone.
Igor Drukh ‘Christmas song’ for piano and orchestra
Artists : Orchestra of the State Hermitage, Vladimir Begletsov – conductor, Polina Fradkina – piano.
Igor Drukh ‘Flowing Clock’
Artists : St.Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Fedor Lednev – conductor , Vladimir Virok-Stoletov – cello
‘Pulsar’ for string orchestra (in memory of Mikhail Popov)
Artists : St.Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic orchestra, conductor – Jeffery Meyer
‘Betelgeuse’ – Phantasmagoria for large symphony orchestra.
Artists : St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor – Alexander Titov
‘The Sign of Jonah’ – Mystery for percussion and large symphony orchestra.
Artist : International Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Golikov
Igor Drukh ‘Petersburg Sphinx’ (Mystifications for violin and symphony orchestra). The work was written for the project of the Ministry of Culture (St. Petersburg Renaissance). Artists : International Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Golikov, Elina Drukh – violin.
‘The Resurrection of Lazarus’ – Concerto Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra No. 1. Artists : St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fedor Lednev. Vladimir Virok-Stoletov – Cello.