Victor Kissine

Education

Kissine graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he studied under professor Mikhail Druskin, among others In 1981 he obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in musicology from the same Conservatory.

Career

He settled in Belgium with his family in 1990, and is currently a professor of musical analysis and orchestration at INSAS and at the Royal Conservatory of Mons. Starting in, he frequently collaborated with Gidon Kremer and his orchestra Kremerata Baltica. Between and hz was composer-in-residence of the Belgian ensemble Musiques Nouvelles.

Aftersight, Concerto for Violin and Chamber orchestra.

Created in May at Davies Hall, San Francisco, by Alexander Barantschik, violin, Hans Graf, conductor, and the San Francisco Symphony Barcarola, concerto for Violin, String Orchestra and Percussion, created in July at Nivelles, Belgium, by Gidon Kremer, violin, and the Kremerata Between two waves, for Piano and String Orchestra, created in November at the National Philharmonic Hall, Vilnius, by Boyan Vodenitcharov, piano, Martynas Staskus, conductor, and the Kremerata Baltica Zerkalo, Piano trio Number. 2, created in August at the Salzburger Festspiele, Haus für Mozart, by Gidon Kremer, violin, Giedre Dirvanauskaite, cello, and Khatia Buniatishvili, piano Partita, for Piano, Harp and Strings, created in August at the Louisiana Jolla Summer Fest, San Diego, by Vladimir Feltsman, piano Post-scriptum, for large orchestra, commissioned by San Francisco Symphony and created in March, Davies Hall, San Francisco, with Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Duo Number.

2, for Viola and Cello, created in July at the Lockenhaus Kammermusikfest, by Daniil Grishin, viola, and Giedre Dirvanauskaite, cello Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, commissioned by the National Orchestra of Belgium and created in December at the Palais des Beaux-Arts of Brussels by Gidon Kremer, violin, with Andrey Boreyko, conductor.

Achievements

• He obtained the Tokyo Irino Prize Foundation in 1995 and the Académie de Lutèce prize in 1993.

Membership

In May 2008 he became a member of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium.