Yevgeniy Sharlat has composed music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo, theater, ballet and film. He was recipient of last year’s Charles Ives Fellowship from American Academy of Arts and Letters; other honors include ASCAP’s Morton Gould, Boosey & Hawkes, and Leiber & Stoller awards, Yale University’s Rena Greenwald Award, and a MacDowell Fellowship.
His Pavane was recently played by the Seattle Symphony and the Hartford Symphony (conducted by, respectively, Gerard Schwarz and Edward Cumming). Seattle Chamber Players took his Divertissement on their European tour last year. Astral Artistic Services, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, and Chamber Orchestra Kremlin have commissioned works for the upcoming seasons.
Mr. Sharlat was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1977. He majored in violin, piano, and music theory at the Academy of Moscow Conservatory. After immigrating to the United States in 1994, he studied composition at the Juilliard Pre-College, Curtis Institute of Music (B.M.) and Yale University (M.M., Master of Musical Arts). His teachers included Aaron Jay Kernis, Martin Bresnick, Joseph Schwantner, Ned Rorem, and Richard Danielpour. He also studied at the Fontainebleau Academy in France under the tutelage of Andre Bon and Marco Stroppa.
Mr. Sharlat is Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin School of Music, where he teaches composition and music theory.
Yevgeniy Sharlat’s compositional skills are such that he moves effortlessly from writing for orchestra (The Conqueror Worm) to theater (Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy) to voice and chamber ensemble (Krespel-Haus). His musical vocabulary is extraordinarily rich ranging from sophisticated tonality to various degrees of dissonance and atonality. He is not fearful of writing works that have strong emotional considerations. His music, rich in gesture, can also be playful, satiric, and totally accessible. He’s a composer of great range that commends respect and admiration.
—Citation from American Academy of Arts and Letters