Interview with Composer and Pianist Sergei Oskolkov

Abstract

In this interview the famous St. Petersburg-based composer and pianist Sergei Oskolkov tells about his music, his biography and about the festival for the arts “Sergei Oskolkov and his Friends” of which he is the artistic director. The musician presents a characterization of the main stylistic parameters of his music and how there are manifested in certain particular musical compositions of his written in the genres of opera, orchestral, chamber, piano and incidental music for the theater. He describes the festival for the arts directed by him, which has been organized for the last 25 years in St. Petersburg and its suburbs. According to the main principles of its organization, classical and contemporary music, paintings, poetry, cinema and presentations of new books are demonstrated in it on an equal footing. 

Keywords: composer Sergei Oskolkov, contemporary music, festival “Sergei Oskolov and his Friends,” musical setting of St. Petersburg, Peterhof, Oranienbaum