Yuri Falik

Yuri (also Youri or Yury) Alexandrovich Falik was born on July 30, 1936 in Odessa, Ukraine. His father was a musician in the esteemed Odessa Opera and introduced Yuri to music at a very early age, frequently taking him to performances. His musical education began at the Stoliarsky School of Music (or School of Stolyarsky); he then graduated as a cellist and composer from the Leningrad Conservatory (now known as the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory, or St. Petersburg Conservatory) - a highly respected school whose other graduates have included Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich. Though he was an award-winning cellist (he was a 1st prize winner of the Helsinki International Cellist Competition), he choose to pursue conducting professionally, and has since written more than 60 works across the spectrum of classical composition. He is currently a Professor of Composition and Instrumentation at aforementioned St. Petersburg Conservatory, and in 1991 became a Guest Professor of Music Composition and Chamber Orchestra at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Falik's works are more widely published in Russia; there are currently limited works in-print in the United States. The Russian classical music label Northern Flowers released a CD in 2004 featuring the Concerto della Passione and Second Concerto from "Symphonic Etudes". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.