Alexandra Filonenko is a Ukrainian composer living in Germany. She was born in 1972 in Donetsk, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union. Her father Boris Isaakovitch Plon was a football coach and educator, and her mother Natalia Grigorieva Filonenko was a singer.
Filonenko began playing the piano at the age of three and started composing at five. In 1984 her family moved to Moscow. From 1986 to 1991 she studied at the Ippolitov-Ivanov music school in Moscow, where she received composition lessons from Vladimir Tarnopolsky and graduated with distinction as a musicologist.
From 1991 to 1996 she studied at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory in the composition class of Edison Denisov. In 1996 she moved with her family to Germany and completed postgraduate studies in 1998. She later settled in Berlin, where she works as a freelance composer.
Her first CD, Nackt, was released in 2016, and in 2018 her opera Noumen appeared. Her output includes orchestral, choral, chamber, solo, vocal, and music-theatre works, among them Entstehung-Verschwinden der vergangenen Gestalten, Farce, Genetika, Frammenti di ricordi sfuggenti, Chiaroscuro, Noumen, and Ein Geschäft mit Träumen.
Filonenko has received numerous fellowships and awards, including support from the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Künstlerhaus Wiepersdorf, Musikakademie Rheinsberg, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Künstlerhof Schreyahn, Villa Massimo / Casa Baldi, the Berlin cultural senate, and the German Study Centre in Venice. Her distinctions include first prize at the composition competition of the Handel Festival, second prize at the Deutsche Oper composition competition, first prize at Operare 2007 in Berlin for the music theatre work Rapunzel, and the Rheinsberg Composition Prize in 2018.
Swiss Radio and Television described Filonenko's music as characterized by “floating sounds, iridescent segments and sound fragments.” According to this description, transparent sound textures open up broad, seemingly endless landscapes, highlighting the atmospheric and timbral qualities of her work.
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