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Performed by Konstantin Soukhovetski

Composed by Polina Nazaykinskaya for her long-time creative partner Konstantin Soukhovetski, Sparks is inspired the enigma of Cosmos. 
The perfect epigraph to it are the words of American cosmologist Carl Sagan:
“The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory,
of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
The musical fabric of Sparks is simply there – we join it for the time being to be pulled into its magnificent gravitational pull – but what it conveys is not the finite realm of human condition but
the pulsation of the ever-expanding cosmos; breathing, evolving, unraveling before us in its infinite variety. Neither good nor bad, evil or kind, brief or everlasting – the universe of Sparks is omnipresent, continuous marvel to which we are all but invited guests.

"Sparks" for piano solo

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Rudepoêma (1928)
Piano -  Konstantin Soukhovetski
1 Prelude: Quasi presto, arditamente -
2 Fantasia: Sostenuto, quasi adagio -
3 Ciaconna: Allegro risoluto
Live Recording - October 19 1999 - Paul Recital Hall
Series Piano Century - Juilliard
Illustration - Castellane (Arlindo Castellani de Carli)

Heitor Villa - Lobos Rudepoêma 1928 Konstantin Soukhovetski

"If I Had One More Day" by Polina Nazaykinskaya and Konstantin Soukhovetski. Poem by Gerald Appelstein.
Performed by Michael Corvino, baritone and Konstantin Soukhovetski, piano

If I had one more day

I’d spend it driving to your fav’rite place

Catching you every time you fell 

Showing care, always wishing well


If I had one more hour

I’d make sure to ask `bout your secret dreams

Hoping you might ease your mind

Thinking that I could have helped in time

Finding a way to share in the things you love

Wondering if you know all this from above

Silly to feel time will never waste away

Now it has stopped, wish you had planned to stay

If I had one more minute

I’d try so hard to hug your face

If I had one more minute

I’d try so hard to hug your face and say farewell


Breaking away from those who would steal

Listening well that you knew it was real


One more, one more… 


If I had one more second 

I’d stop to take a picture of your smile

Watching you light up the room

Clenching this last beat until the gloom


Finding a way to endure without your love

Wond`ring if you know this up above

Finding a way to endure without your love

With you high above

With you high above

"If I Had One More Day" based on the poem by Gerald Appelstein

I Saw The World Go By, sung by Jorge Echevería Yepes, poem by Alice Corbin Henderson, music by Micah Young, pianist/composer

I Saw The World Go By
I saw the world go by: 
With crimson banners flying, 
And loud bugles crying,
The young world went by.

I saw the world go by: 
Footsore and weary, 
Banners torn and dreary,
The old world went by.

I saw the world go by-
And laughed to see it going, 
And cried to see it going,
And while I watched it going,
The world went by!

-Alice Corbin Henderson

I Saw The World Go By - Jorge Echevería Yepes

2019 Innovation Award Winner from Music Academy Of The West Konstantin has a uniquely diverse artistic voice that reaches out to both classical and popular audiences. Konstantin’s multidisciplinary projects frequently involve dance and film.

In 2020 Konstantin joined the adjunct faculty of his alma mater The Juilliard School, where he received his BM, MM, and AD with Jerome Lowenthal.

Konstantin’s post-COVID live performances include October 30th with Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, the debut of two-piano project SOLO DUE with Jacopo Giacopuzzi in La Jolla, CA, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. In February 2022 Konstantin appears at BATURA Festival in St. Sebastian and Canary Islands, Spain. In March of 2022 Konstantin will appear with Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestra, which will also premiere his first symphonic composition in May, 2022.

In the Fall of 2022 return to NYC’s Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with Pegasus: The Orchestra.
In summer 2021 Konstantin resumed his Artist-in-Residency at Pianofest In The Hamptons.
In April 2022 Konstantin will premiere ballet Encounters by Polina Nazaykinskaya
for MorDance Company at Symphony Space, NYC. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Konstantin has recorded Polina’s piano miniatures on OClassica label, available on iTunes and Apple Music: Remembrance, Anticipation, and A Summer Rain.

Konstantin’s solo violin composition Postcard from The Edge is featured on 2 different CDs of renowned violinist Elmira Darvarova.
Konstantin is currently working on a libretto for an opera commissioned by Mississippi Opera, to premiere in the 2023 season.

Konstantin’s work as an actor includes both theater and film, most recently as Juror 12 in AlphaNYC virtual production of 12 Incompetent Jurors. Konstantin was also the narrator with Miami Symphony's Musimelange performance Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale, Forbidden Juilliard as multiple characters at The Juilliard School and Club Makkor in NYC and Victor or Children in Power as Young Victor at Moscow State Satire Theatre, Moscow, Russia. Konstantin stars as Pavel Sidorov in the 2014 feature film Dishonorable Vendetta directed by Andre Josef. His other film credits are short features Decent Men, Ossetia and Hansel and Gretel, Carbon Based, Pictures.

Konstantin is a recipient of over 16 awards from leading international piano competitions. Born in Moscow to a family of artists he studied at the Moscow Central Special Music School, where he double-majored in piano and composition.

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Konstantin Soukhovetski

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