This is my first work completed as a DMA candidate in 2021. 
Performers:
Sahada Buckley, violin
Trace Johnson, cello
Daria Tennikova, piano

Piano Trio no. 2

Dedicated to the Ukrainian people, fighting for their sovereignty Composed in 2023, 
Performance November 20th 2023.
Drew Whiting-Saxophone
Daria Tennikova, Piano

Rhapsody in Yellow and Blue for Alto Sax and Piano

Claude Monet Waterloo Bridge Series for String Quartet

My second sonata for solo piano. Composer as pianist. Masters of Music Recital at Shepherd School of Music. January 2017

Sonata No.2  for solo piano

Monstrous Menagerie

An old piano piece form the cycle of Graceful Piano Pieces

Graceful Pieces for Piano I.

Second piece form the cycle of Graceful Pieces for Piano. composer as pianist. 2014

Graceful Pieces for Piano II.

Butterfly (БАБОЧКА) (by Mike Tennikov, 1991)
 
…дрожащий взмах пунцового крыла,
булавкою распято существо –
так – бабочка сегодня умерла,
один лишь день успев прожить всего.
 
Один лишь день, под солнцем и луной,
глядела ввысь искристая пыльца…
 
(Та бабочка кружилась надо мной,
едва касаясь смуглого лица.) 
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…дрожал родник. И – клен стократ 
     дрожал.
И ветер гнал угрюмо облака;
ее душа, почувствовав кинжал,
стремилась улетучиться. Пока,
 
иссохшись, крылья не явили – рук,
и сталь клинка кольнула под ребром…
 
Мне показалось, что распятый Друг
напрасно в этот мир пришел с добром… 


…a trembling flap of crimson wing,
with mere pin is crucified a creature-
thus-a butterfly has died today,
one only day was her entire life.

One only day, beneath the sun and moon
Gazed skyward sparkling pollen…

(This butterfly was circling around me,
touching slightly the swarthy face.)
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A spring was trembling. And – a maple tree 
    a hundred times trembled.
The wind was wistfully driving clouds;
her soul, when felt the dagger, 
strived to escape.  Until, 

the withered wings revealed – the arms, 
and dagger’s steel punctured under the ribs…

It seemed to me, my crucified companion
In vain came into this world with kindness…
                [Transl. Daria Tennikova-Satral]

Butterfly (БАБОЧКА)

Instrumentation: Flute (doubling on Alto flute), Clarinet (doubling on Bass clarinet), French horn, Double bass and percussion. It was created as a ballet and premiered with dancers in Miller Outdoor Theater, Houston, TX. April 2017

Resurrection Of Hatshepsut: The Great Female Pharaoh

Three Movements:
I. Caesar's March
II. Russian Song
III. Gopak
Performance by Shepherd School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Joshua Hong, March 2018

Three Scenes For Symphony Orchestra

TWO PEOPLE. Poem by Mikhail Tennikov
Original in Russian. 
Two people, one alive and one dead
were lying in a steppe in winter...
The third and the fourth one could not understand Which one was dead and which one alive.
The fourth and the fifth argued for ages Over this seemingly simple thing... The sixth was nervously smoking,
while setting his erroneous watch.
The seventh and the eighth looked around: near them was a pattern left by the wheels; those two were starring with a frozen gaze that resembled an evil question.
The reticent ninth approached the comrades and sent them all back;
he said something to these young soldiers and each one remained glad,
that the unstoppable nightly rounds
went around and left them unharmed,
that at least there was no question about them who was dead and who was alive.

Daria Tennikova

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