Donemus Webwinkel — Retinsky, Alexey

Alexey Retinsky (ukr. Oleksii Retynskii) was born in 1986 in Simferopol, Crimea. Retinsky's early musical experiences was with playing wind instruments. He graduated from the School of Music, mastering the oboe, saxophone and trumpet. In parallel, he began to study composition. He later studied composition and electroacoustic composition in Music Academy of Kiev (under the tutelage of Prof. I. Sherbakov) and in the Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste) (under Prof. Bruno Karrer and Prof. German Toro-Perez). Since 2014, he lives and works in Vienna.

Retinsky's oeuvre is wide; he is a creator of symphonic, chamber and electronic
music, as well as music for theatre, installation art and other performances. As a
composer, he has participated in festivals and concerts throughout Europe and in Asia. His works have been performed in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, France and the USA. In common with the studio Idee und Klang, he created electroacoustic works for the Swiss National Museum in Zurich, the Imperial War Museum in London, the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabia and others.