Andreas Urevsky
*12 May 1990
Works by Andreas Urevsky
Biography
Andreas Urevsky, born 1990 in the former USSR in the Republic of Uzbekistan/Tashkent comes from a Russian-Jewish family. He discovered music first at the age of 17 and began to cover songs on guitar and button accordion by ear. At the same time he taught himself musical notation autodidactically. He completed basic studies in law at the University of Marburg/Germany in 2014 before deciding to turn his hobby into a profession. Without any formal musical education, he passed the entrance examinations at the Vienna Conservatory in 2014 and began dual studies in classical accordion and composition. Since 2017 he has been working as a freelance composer and accordion teacher. His work is specially dedicated to the accordion. Dancing is a very big passion of his, he won the Austrian champion title in 2016 and 2nd places in Zell am See in 2018 and 2019. He is considered the only artist who combines two seemingly very different forms of art, namely the modern button accordion and street dance, in a creative way in one (see the works "Get funky and dance, Lockin' it down"). He lives and works in Vienna.
About the music
In his works he combines three levels (from the listener's perspective):
1) that of music (what can not be said and not seen, but only felt).
2) that of poetry (what can not be seen and not felt, but said)
3) and that of dance (what can neither be felt nor said, but only seen)
He likes to push the limits of creativity and create diversity. One of his peculiarities as a composer is also that each composition is preceded by a poem written by him, which serves as a support for the performer. (Emotion, structure, metrics) His music is polystylistic and includes styles such as tonality, atonality, serial music, aleatoric and jazz.