- Leonid Karev
Leonid Karev is a composer, organist and pianist. He was born in
Moscow ,Russia in 1969 and has lived inFrance since 1992.He studied at the Moscow
Tchaikovsky Conservatory and at Conservatoire National Superieur of Paris both as composer and organist. Among his professors - Michel Chapuis,André Isoir ,Jean Guillou , Alain Banquart, Michel Merlet, Guillaume Connesson... He graduated from Ecole Normale Superieure de Musique in Paris as a composer. His symphony "Dulce Memoriae" was awarded Sacem prize and a prize at the Gino Contilli competition in Italy and his piece for choir "Ave Maria" was awarded at the Guido d’Arezzo competition in Italy.He is also the First Prize winner of Marcel Dupré organ Competition in Chartres (1998), and the First Prize of honor winner of the UFAM in Paris (1996).Actually his is a professor of organ and piano accompaniment at the Conservatory of Yerres (France) and organist at the Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption church in Paris.
In his music Léonid Karev has continued the Russian tradition adapting it to contemporary compositional ideas. He has given many organ concerts in Russia, France, Italy, USA and other countries. His compositions has been performed at Moscow Autumn Festival (2001, 2004, 2006), Saint-Eustache organ festivals in Paris (1994, 2003, 2007), Russian Contemporary Music Festival in Iowa (2000) and many other music events.
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