Atanas OURKOUZOUNOV アタナス・ウルクズノフ
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----日本語
アタナス・ウルクズノフ
１９７０年ブルガリア生まれ。ソフィアの名教師ディミター・ドイチノフのもとで１６歳でギターを始めるも、ブルガリアの民俗音楽とストラヴィンスキーの「ペトルーシュカ」に挑発され、同時に作曲し始める。その才能をアルノー・デュモンに見出されてフランスに移住。ギターを始めてわずか５年でパリ国立高等音楽院に入学を果たす。１９９７年、審査員全員一致の一等賞にて卒業。この時自作曲を演奏し、ローラン・ディアンスより絶賛される。
アレクサンドリアコンクール作曲部門、パオロ・バルサッキ作曲コンクール、モンテヴィデオ作曲コンクールをはじめ、作品が世界のコンクールに多数入賞を果たし、カナダのドーベルマン、フランスのルモワーヌ、イタリアのズビニ・ゼルボニ、アメリカのメルベイなどより次々に出版される。
トレードマークであるキャッチーで親しみやすいメロディーや強烈なブルガリアン・リズムはそのままに、より現代的、多元的で豊かな作風を目指す。近年ギターを取り巻くより大きな室内楽編成に目を向け、２００２年JTホール室内楽シリーズにて福田進一氏により室内協奏曲が初演、またフランスのアントニー・ギターフェスティバルにて２００８年に自身により、２０１６年にゾーラン・ドキッチにより２曲のギター協奏曲が初演された。
演奏、作品の両面で福田進一、スコット・テナント、パブロ・マルケス、カルロ・ドメニコーニなど数多くの著名ギタリストから絶大な支持を得て、世界中のフェスティヴァルに招聘される。２００３年イタリアのkleレーベルより自身の室内楽作品集を発表したのを皮切りに、２００６年には福田進一氏プロデュースの「ヴァリエ」レーベルより日本デビューCD「レジェンズ」をリリース、その後はフルーティスト ミエ・ウルクズノフとのデュオで「ムーヴメント」「ファルス・クラシック」「サムシング・エルス」「ブル・バップ」を、また自身のギターソロの作品を集めた「オートポートレイト」をリリース。
現在パリ市立１３区モーリス・ラヴェル音楽院ギター科、室内楽科教授として 後進の指導にあたるほか、世界各地でギターと作曲のマスタークラスを行っている。
------English
Atanas Ourkouzounov (b. 1970 in Burgas, Bulgaria), a leading figure in Bulgaria’s contemporary music, is winning international fame both as a guitarist and as a composer. His music features the asymmetric
rhythms and modal harmonies typical of his homeland but, like Béla Bartók, Ourkouzounov (pronounced
Oor-koo-ZOO-nov) uses regional traditions as a point of departure from which he ranges widely in an intu-
itive and personal way. Whereas Bartók’s muse was the piano, Ourkouzounov’s muse is―fortunately for gui-
tarists―the guitar. Ourkouzounov has written over 60 works for guitar―solos, duos, trios, quartets, instrumental ensembles, and two concerti―a number of which have won important prizes, and a majority of which have been published by leading publishers.
Atanas Ourkouzounov performs widely as soloist, with his wife the Japanese flautist Mie Ogura, and with the Ourkouzounov Ensemble (two guitars, flute and cello).
In addition to three CDs on which Ourkouzounov plays, more than 30 CDs of his music performed by others are currently available.
Ourkouzounov is also in demand as a teacher and juror at conferences and conservatories in Europe and
Japan and he holds a full-time position at the Conservatoire “Maurice Ravel” in Paris.
Atanas Ourkouzounov grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he began guitar studies with Dimitar Doitchinov.
Starting in 1992, he continued his studies in France with Arnaud Dumond, Alexandre Lagoya and Olivier
Chassain. He studied guitar, chamber music, analysis, ethnomusicology and improvisation at the Paris Conservatory and graduated in 1997 winning by unanimous vote the First Prize in guitar.
Six years before he went to Paris, he started to compose. He was 16 years old and had been playing guitar only one year. For fun, he began changing details in pieces he was learning and then he wrote his first piece―3 Inventions―using the baroque idiom
and subject of a fugue he was studying. He became intoxicated with composing and soon started using melodies, rhythms, and modal harmonies of Bulgarian folk music. At the same time, he was avidly listening to recordings, especially Arthur Honegger’s Symphonie
N°5 and Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Petrushka.To this day, Igor Stravinsky, György Ligeti, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Claude Debussy are among Ourkouzounov’s favorite composers.
While at least a trace of Bulgaria is always present in Ourkouzounov’s music, in the last eight years he has
also written pieces he calls “dedications” in which he composes his own music
from the point of view of other composers and/or idioms―for example, Caprice d'après Paganini(which imagines a "new” Paganini as
he might exist today); Fantaisie d'après Kapsberger (which draws on elements of 17th-century music for archlute); and Toryanse
Tales(which uses a Japanese folk theme).
Ourkouzounov is also fascinated by timbre and idiomatic colorisitic effects ―as explored for example in Light Echoes from Star -
light―5 Nocturnes, in the Reflet guitar duos, and above all in the Visions Chromatiques N°1for guitar solo and
the Visions Chromatiques N°2 for voice, violin, mandola, and guitar.
Ourkouzounov feels the “timbre” works are more contemporary and abstract―and perhaps more personal― than his pieces in which Bulgarian elements prevail.
Ourkouzounov enjoys performing flute-guitar duos with his wife. Typical programs are two Ourkouzounov works alongside arrangements and original music by diverse composers―for example, pieces by Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Béla Bartók, and Claude
Debussy―as well as arrangements Ourkouzounov calls “postcards” (folk music from countries such as
Mali, Japan, Bulgaria, Brazil, and India). As a listener, Ourkouzounov loves performers such as the conductor Carlos Kleiber, the pianists Grigory Sokolov and Keith Jarrett, and many jazz or folk-jazz musicians―for example, the Bulgarian clarinetist Ivo
Papazov, the Bulgarian flautist Theodosii Spassov and the group Shakti (especially the guitarist John McLaughlin and the tabla player Zakir Hussain).
------Français
Atanas Ourkouzounov est né à Bourgas (Bulgarie) et a vécu à Sofia où il a été initié à la guitare avec Dimitar Doychinov. Il poursuit ses études en France où il a comme professeurs Arnaud Dumond, Alexandre Lagoya et Olivier Chassain. Au sein du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (d’où il sort en 1997 avec un Premier Prix à l’unanimité de guitare) il étudie la musique de chambre, l’analyse, l’ethnomusicologie et l’improvisation générative.
Son activité de compositeur a été récompensée par plusieurs prix (« Michele Pittaluga – Città di Alessandria » - Italie 1997 - ; « Paolo Barsacchi » - Italie 1997 - ; « Il fronimo – Suvini Zerboni » - Italie 1998 - ; « Ciudad de Montevideo » - Uruguay 1998 - ; « Carrefour mondial des guitares » - Martinique 1998-).
Ses œuvres sont publiées aux éditions Doberman-Yppan (Canada), Henry Lemoine (France), Suvini Zerboni (Italie), Daminus (Allemagne), Margaux (Allemagne), Mel Bay (U.S.A.), D’Oz (Canada), Tuscany (U.S.A.).
Plusieurs interprètes internationaux ont joué ses compositions. Parmi eux : Shin-Ichi Fukuda, Scott Tennant, Alberto Vingiano, Eduardo Isaac, Pablo Marquez, Antigoni Goni , Trio de Cologne, Gruber-Maklar , Thomas Muller-Pering ,Thibault Cauvin, Dimitri Illarionov , Fabio Zanon, Stanley Yates, Patrick Kearney, etc.
Autant qu’interprète il se produit en solo et la flûtiste Mie Ogura. Il a été invité dans plusieurs festivals (« Chitarre dal mondo » - Suisse - , « Nuits atypiques de Langon » - France -, « Guitar Festival of Aarhus » - Danemark - , « Festival Internazionale di Fermo » - Italie - , « Festival Luigi Legnani » - Italie – ,« Festival d’Antony » - France - , « Zevener Gitarrenwoche » - Allemagne –,« Gendai Guitar »-Japon-,« Shonai Guitar Festival »-Japon-, »Guitare Lachine »-Canada-…).
En 2003 il est sorti le premier CD d’Ourkouzounov Ensemble (« Contes des Balkans ») chez le label KLE (Italie) entièrement consacré à sa musique.
En 2006 il enregistre CD chez le label Gendai Guitar(Japon)avec la flûtiste Mie Ogura, musique de Debussy, Bartok, Keith Jarrett etc.
Il enseigne la guitare et le musique de chambre au Conservatoire « Maurice Ravel » à Paris.
Contact
ourkouzounov a yahoo.com change a to @Profile in English,French,Japanese
----日本語
アタナス・ウルクズノフ
１９７０年ブルガリア生まれ。ソフィアの名教師ディミター・ドイチノフのもとで１６歳でギターを始めるも、ブルガリアの民俗音楽とストラヴィンスキーの「ペトルーシュカ」に挑発され、同時に作曲し始める。その才能をアルノー・デュモンに見出されてフランスに移住。ギターを始めてわずか５年でパリ国立高等音楽院に入学を果たす。１９９７年、審査員全員一致の一等賞にて卒業。この時自作曲を演奏し、ローラン・ディアンスより絶賛される。
アレクサンドリアコンクール作曲部門、パオロ・バルサッキ作曲コンクール、モンテヴィデオ作曲コンクールをはじめ、作品が世界のコンクールに多数入賞を果たし、カナダのドーベルマン、フランスのルモワーヌ、イタリアのズビニ・ゼルボニ、アメリカのメルベイなどより次々に出版される。
トレードマークであるキャッチーで親しみやすいメロディーや強烈なブルガリアン・リズムはそのままに、より現代的、多元的で豊かな作風を目指す。近年ギターを取り巻くより大きな室内楽編成に目を向け、２００２年JTホール室内楽シリーズにて福田進一氏により室内協奏曲が初演、またフランスのアントニー・ギターフェスティバルにて２００８年に自身により、２０１６年にゾーラン・ドキッチにより２曲のギター協奏曲が初演された。
演奏、作品の両面で福田進一、スコット・テナント、パブロ・マルケス、カルロ・ドメニコーニなど数多くの著名ギタリストから絶大な支持を得て、世界中のフェスティヴァルに招聘される。２００３年イタリアのkleレーベルより自身の室内楽作品集を発表したのを皮切りに、２００６年には福田進一氏プロデュースの「ヴァリエ」レーベルより日本デビューCD「レジェンズ」をリリース、その後はフルーティスト ミエ・ウルクズノフとのデュオで「ムーヴメント」「ファルス・クラシック」「サムシング・エルス」「ブル・バップ」を、また自身のギターソロの作品を集めた「オートポートレイト」をリリース。
現在パリ市立１３区モーリス・ラヴェル音楽院ギター科、室内楽科教授として 後進の指導にあたるほか、世界各地でギターと作曲のマスタークラスを行っている。
------English
Atanas Ourkouzounov (b. 1970 in Burgas, Bulgaria), a leading figure in Bulgaria’s contemporary music, is winning international fame both as a guitarist and as a composer. His music features the asymmetric
rhythms and modal harmonies typical of his homeland but, like Béla Bartók, Ourkouzounov (pronounced
Oor-koo-ZOO-nov) uses regional traditions as a point of departure from which he ranges widely in an intu-
itive and personal way. Whereas Bartók’s muse was the piano, Ourkouzounov’s muse is―fortunately for gui-
tarists―the guitar. Ourkouzounov has written over 60 works for guitar―solos, duos, trios, quartets, instrumental ensembles, and two concerti―a number of which have won important prizes, and a majority of which have been published by leading publishers.
Atanas Ourkouzounov performs widely as soloist, with his wife the Japanese flautist Mie Ogura, and with the Ourkouzounov Ensemble (two guitars, flute and cello).
In addition to three CDs on which Ourkouzounov plays, more than 30 CDs of his music performed by others are currently available.
Ourkouzounov is also in demand as a teacher and juror at conferences and conservatories in Europe and
Japan and he holds a full-time position at the Conservatoire “Maurice Ravel” in Paris.
Atanas Ourkouzounov grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he began guitar studies with Dimitar Doitchinov.
Starting in 1992, he continued his studies in France with Arnaud Dumond, Alexandre Lagoya and Olivier
Chassain. He studied guitar, chamber music, analysis, ethnomusicology and improvisation at the Paris Conservatory and graduated in 1997 winning by unanimous vote the First Prize in guitar.
Six years before he went to Paris, he started to compose. He was 16 years old and had been playing guitar only one year. For fun, he began changing details in pieces he was learning and then he wrote his first piece―3 Inventions―using the baroque idiom
and subject of a fugue he was studying. He became intoxicated with composing and soon started using melodies, rhythms, and modal harmonies of Bulgarian folk music. At the same time, he was avidly listening to recordings, especially Arthur Honegger’s Symphonie
N°5 and Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Petrushka.To this day, Igor Stravinsky, György Ligeti, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Claude Debussy are among Ourkouzounov’s favorite composers.
While at least a trace of Bulgaria is always present in Ourkouzounov’s music, in the last eight years he has
also written pieces he calls “dedications” in which he composes his own music
from the point of view of other composers and/or idioms―for example, Caprice d'après Paganini(which imagines a "new” Paganini as
he might exist today); Fantaisie d'après Kapsberger (which draws on elements of 17th-century music for archlute); and Toryanse
Tales(which uses a Japanese folk theme).
Ourkouzounov is also fascinated by timbre and idiomatic colorisitic effects ―as explored for example in Light Echoes from Star -
light―5 Nocturnes, in the Reflet guitar duos, and above all in the Visions Chromatiques N°1for guitar solo and
the Visions Chromatiques N°2 for voice, violin, mandola, and guitar.
Ourkouzounov feels the “timbre” works are more contemporary and abstract―and perhaps more personal― than his pieces in which Bulgarian elements prevail.
Ourkouzounov enjoys performing flute-guitar duos with his wife. Typical programs are two Ourkouzounov works alongside arrangements and original music by diverse composers―for example, pieces by Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Béla Bartók, and Claude
Debussy―as well as arrangements Ourkouzounov calls “postcards” (folk music from countries such as
Mali, Japan, Bulgaria, Brazil, and India). As a listener, Ourkouzounov loves performers such as the conductor Carlos Kleiber, the pianists Grigory Sokolov and Keith Jarrett, and many jazz or folk-jazz musicians―for example, the Bulgarian clarinetist Ivo
Papazov, the Bulgarian flautist Theodosii Spassov and the group Shakti (especially the guitarist John McLaughlin and the tabla player Zakir Hussain).
------Français
Atanas Ourkouzounov est né à Bourgas (Bulgarie) et a vécu à Sofia où il a été initié à la guitare avec Dimitar Doychinov. Il poursuit ses études en France où il a comme professeurs Arnaud Dumond, Alexandre Lagoya et Olivier Chassain. Au sein du Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (d’où il sort en 1997 avec un Premier Prix à l’unanimité de guitare) il étudie la musique de chambre, l’analyse, l’ethnomusicologie et l’improvisation générative.
Son activité de compositeur a été récompensée par plusieurs prix (« Michele Pittaluga – Città di Alessandria » - Italie 1997 - ; « Paolo Barsacchi » - Italie 1997 - ; « Il fronimo – Suvini Zerboni » - Italie 1998 - ; « Ciudad de Montevideo » - Uruguay 1998 - ; « Carrefour mondial des guitares » - Martinique 1998-).
Ses œuvres sont publiées aux éditions Doberman-Yppan (Canada), Henry Lemoine (France), Suvini Zerboni (Italie), Daminus (Allemagne), Margaux (Allemagne), Mel Bay (U.S.A.), D’Oz (Canada), Tuscany (U.S.A.).
Plusieurs interprètes internationaux ont joué ses compositions. Parmi eux : Shin-Ichi Fukuda, Scott Tennant, Alberto Vingiano, Eduardo Isaac, Pablo Marquez, Antigoni Goni , Trio de Cologne, Gruber-Maklar , Thomas Muller-Pering ,Thibault Cauvin, Dimitri Illarionov , Fabio Zanon, Stanley Yates, Patrick Kearney, etc.
Autant qu’interprète il se produit en solo et la flûtiste Mie Ogura. Il a été invité dans plusieurs festivals (« Chitarre dal mondo » - Suisse - , « Nuits atypiques de Langon » - France -, « Guitar Festival of Aarhus » - Danemark - , « Festival Internazionale di Fermo » - Italie - , « Festival Luigi Legnani » - Italie – ,« Festival d’Antony » - France - , « Zevener Gitarrenwoche » - Allemagne –,« Gendai Guitar »-Japon-,« Shonai Guitar Festival »-Japon-, »Guitare Lachine »-Canada-…).
En 2003 il est sorti le premier CD d’Ourkouzounov Ensemble (« Contes des Balkans ») chez le label KLE (Italie) entièrement consacré à sa musique.
En 2006 il enregistre CD chez le label Gendai Guitar(Japon)avec la flûtiste Mie Ogura, musique de Debussy, Bartok, Keith Jarrett etc.
Il enseigne la guitare et le musique de chambre au Conservatoire « Maurice Ravel » à Paris.