Oleg Paiberdin (1971-); RUS

Oleg Paiberdin was born in 1971 in Altay, Russia, and spent much of his childhood in Karatau, Kazakhstan. He pursued musical study first at the Karatau Music Children School, then at the Asbest Music College (Russia), and finally at the Ural State Conservatory Mussorgsky in Yakaterinburg, Russia - where he graduated and completed post-graduate work in composition under Professor A.Nimensky. He has participated in numerous contemporary music festivals in Russia, Germany, and the Netherlands, and has earned several awards and composition grants. Mr. Paiberdin is a co-founder and co-director of the New Music Workshop in Yakaterinburg and is currently on the composition faculty at the Ural State Conservatory. He has written numerous chamber works, as well as several works for string or full orchestra - with several performances by the Ural Philharmonic; his works have been published by the Composer (Moscow) and the New Consonant Music (Belgium) houses. Mr. Paiberdin has been a member of the Russian Composers' Association since 1997.

Reviews

"Oleg Paiberdin's music attracts with its naturalness, precision and cleanliness of writing, emotional richness and plasticity of the form built without prejudices. His musical language is quite simple, but at the same time it does not contain any cliché, nothing is made mechanically or from force of habit, everything has been thoroughly heard out and verified by inner hearing. That leads to very fresh sound. He widely uses diatonicism that is not an archaic tonality but modality. It is a hard job to write in new diatonic techniques, as one should make a path on a blade of the knife to not lose attractiveness and intensity of sounding. Paiberdin succeeds in this."

Contrasts, VII International Festival Program (Russia)