Boris Nikolayevich Golovin ( rus, Бори́с Никола́евич Голови́н, p=bɐˈrʲiz ɡɐˈlovʲɪn, a=Boris Nikolayevich Golovin.ru.vorb.oga; born 26 May 1955) is a New Zealand composer and poet of Russian descent.

Education

Golovin studied journalism at

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from 1975 to 1979. He later attended the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, where he studied poetry from 1982 to 1987. Golovin pursued further education at the

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in New Zealand, studying at the Conservatorium of Music from 2013 to 2017. He then completed a Master of Music in Composition at the

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's School of Music from 2017 to 2019, under the supervision of Eve de Castro-Robinson.

Occupation

Golovin began his career as a singer-songwriter while studying journalism at Moscow State University. He became known for performing his own songs, often accompanied by guitar, to live audiences and on television in Moscow and other parts of Russia. Notably, some of his tours were commissioned by the Northern Shipping Company, during which he performed on cargo and fishing ships in the Arctic Ocean. His music has been recognized in national competitions.

Literary movement

Golovin's work is associated with

Neoclassicism Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative arts, decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiq ...

and

Modernism Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

. He published his first book of poetry in Moscow in 1987. Since the late 1980s, Golovin's poetry has been considered influential within the neoclassical movement, although he himself has argued that the term "neoclassical" is tautological, as classical poetry inherently spans both the past and future. Golovin has consistently refused to align himself with any literary group.

Books

*''"The flight of a swift" ("Полёт стрижа")'' 1987 *''"Beetles and Giants" ("Жуки и великаны")'' 1999 *
"An overcoat for two"
("Пальто на двоих")'' 2009 *
"Jamé" (The mundane notes of an idiot). Book of poems. 2010 A.D."
"ЖАМЭ" (Бытовые записки идиота). Книга стихотворений. 2010 A.D."'' 2011

Awards

*''1990. The Russian Central House of Writers, Festival of singer-songwriters, Moscow. First Prize.'' *''1995. The All-Russia singer-songwriters Fest (Ostankino, Russian TV Channel One, 1994) Second Prize.''

References

External links

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