The Composer
Nikolai
Badinski was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 19 December 1937, and
started to take violin lessons at the age of five. His attempts at composition
also date from an early age (including an opera in which the orchestra consists
exclusively of violins and percussion). In 1961, he completed the Academy of Music,
Sofia. He lived
in East-Berlin from 1962 to 1976, where he attended a Masterclass for Composition at the Academy of Arts
(1967-70). He also took Masterclasses at the Accademia Musicale, Siena, Italy
in 1975 and 1976. Badinski founded and directed the Chamber Ensemble „G.F.
Händel“ and a String Quartet in East Germany, and worked as a composer, docent,
soloist, [...]
Reviews
Critical
Reviews:
His music is far from mere
contrivance and shows a true creative impulse...all these compositions, while
uncompromisingly ‚modern’, seem to aim at giving contemporary music a human
voice. (Record Reviews, 1981)
The Concerto (Violin Concerto
Nr.3) was very successfully performed as world premiere with the Berlin
Philarmonic Orchestra under Cristobal Halffter and Christiane Edinger as
soloist. (Deutsche Tagespost, 1980)
Nikolai Badinski has created
a remarkable and rich oeuvre. (Radio
France, 1982)
His music has really a truly
new sonority. (Radio RAI, 1981)
Badinski´s music displays an
exciting richness of invention, an abundance of constructive olutions and [...]
