In this live stream, we will meet the award-winning pianist and composer Boris Kosak.
„As a child, I wanted to create something that would make the world better and more beautiful. I believed that composing music could be my contribution. Later I felt that this beauty does not have to be created because it already exists deep within us and only needs to be made visible or audible to others. I became a composer.
If we let music into our lives, our fast-paced world decelerates and we get the opportunity to touch some “really” important things: the timelessness and the eternity behind the material world. Welcome on an exciting journey into the realm of my music!“ (Boris Kosak)
The composer and pianist Boris Kosak studied musicology and composition at Kharkiw Institute of Arts in Ukraina
with Valentin Bibik and Alexander Shchetynsky. 1994 Boris Kosak moved to Cologne where he studied
composition with York Höller and electronic composition with Ulrich Humpert at the Music Univercity of
Cologne. Simultaneously, he studied musicology as well as English and French philology at the University
of Cologne.
Boris Kosak is an author of t h r e e s y m p h o n i e s (Sinfonia in G Nr. 1, Craftworks Symphony Nr. 2,
and Vienna Symphony Nr. 3), two piano concertos („Il Carnevale die Colonia“ and „Four Seasons“), a
violin concerto „Concerto in stile coloniale“, a cello concerto („BarCellona concerto“), monumental
„Lemberg Variations“ for orchestra.
These works testify a mature master of the orchestra score and they were celebrated in concert halls all
over the world: in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Russia, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria,
USA, Brasil, Australia, China, and South Korea. For his original creative style and the highest quality of
work, Boris Kosak is recognized as one of the most innovative musical talents of the contemporary
generation who left a deep trail with his exciting and melodic scores, always winning a stunning applause
and a sheer enthusiasm of the audience.
A special predilection for the Baroque tradition inspired several compositions reviving concerto grosso
(„King Arthur's Table Music“ ) and instrumental suite, most of the last consisting of one-minute pieces
like 25 „Amuse-bouches“ for piano, 25 „Petit-fours“ for violin and piano, 14 „Dim Sum“ for piano, 36
„Momenti intimi“ for violoncello and piano, and 25 „Bagatelles essentielles“ for viola and piano.
2019 appeared the opera „Störtebecker and Jödge Michaels“, inspired by the Reinhard Keiser's lost work,
based on the original libretto from 1701 and composed completely new in an authentical style of the
epoch.
Several albums with music by Boris Kosak were published in Germany, Austria, and South Korea. In the
last year Boris Kosak has increasingly dedicated himself to neoclassical music for piano, performed by
the composer himself or in a piano duo with renown Hamburg pianist Alina Kabanova. As a result two
albums have been published so far: „Beyond Silence“ and „All the Colors of Love“, the last one at Austrian
Gramophone (Austria) and Stomp Music (South Korea).
2016 Boris Kosak moved the center of his creative activities to Hamburg.
Watch more here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/boriskosakVisit Boris' Website:
https://boris-kosak.com/
