Andrei Golovin

Composer and conductor Andrei Golovin (b. 1950) was born in Moscow. He received his musical education at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, from which he graduated in 1976. At the conservatoire he studied under Yevgeny Golubev (composition) and Yuri Fortunatov (instrumentation). He has written four symphonies, the cantata Simple Songs to verse by Nikolai Rubtsov, Eight Poems by Count Vasily Komarovsky for soprano and orchestra, Canto d’attesa for violin and orchestra, Canzone for Cello and Strings, Two Songs without Words for chamber orchestra, Music for Strings, Musical tableaux Bambi for an ensemble of soloists. In 1997 the Novaya Opera theatre staged Golovin’s opera First Love, based on the novella by Ivan Turgenev. The premiere was conducted by the composer himself.