The Master and Margarita

The Russian composer Gamma Skupinsky was born in Chernivtsi, a city in the historic region of Bukovina in Ukraine. He studied composition with composer Albert Lehman at the composition department of the Moscow Conservatory.

In the 70s, Skupinsky was the musical leader of two popular Bucovina rock bands, Червона Рута (Chervona Ruta) or Magic Flower and Смеричка (Smerichka) or Evergreen.

In 1979 he moved to the United States and continued studying composition at the New England Conservatory (Boston) and the Boston University. He also spent two years at the Boston Massachusetts Institute of Technology, doing research in computer related applications in music.  

After graduating from the Boston University, Skupinsky moved to Hollywood and opened the post-production facility Gamma Soundworks. He wrote symphonies, operas and chamber music.

In 2008, Gamma Skupinsky completed the opera Margarita, based on The Master and Margarita. The libretto is written by Richard Gales. The opera uses the format of comic book art.  Skupinsky hoped to stage it in 2011, but so far nothing happened.

Here you can listen to Margarita's Flight, an excerpt of Skupinsky's opera.

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• Introduction
• Rukopis Mastera - 2010
• Grupa Teatralna Verde - 2009
• The Moscow Childrens' Theatre - 2009
• Aleksander Gradsky - 2009
• Gamma Skupinsky - 2008
• Burn Me Dead - 2006
• Yuri Kouznetsoff - 2006
• Valentin Dubovskoy - 2004
• Rumen Balyozov - 1997
• Eugene Glebov - 1992
• York Höller - 1991
• Rainer Kunad - 1983
• Sergei Slonimsky - 1972
• Andrey Pashchenko - 1971

• Introduction
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• The Russian bards
• Classical music
• Operas and musicals
• Soundtracks
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