ARTISTIC CAREER  / 1961 — Now

1961

1. First public performances and first pieces for the guitar (“A Mirage”, “A Sad Ballad, “Toccata” and others).

1963 — 1974

1. “Sunrises of F.G.Lorka” a cantata for chorus soloists, a guitar and an orchestra.
2. “Defeat in the Sea” — a symphonic poem (dedicated to E.Hemingway).
3. “A Handful of Sand” — a vocal cycle based on I.Takuboku poems.
4. “A Polyphonic Notebook” — preludes and fugues for a guitar.
5. “Told by the wind”, “Kept by the sands”, “Remembering the Sea” — three poetic legends for a guitar.

1975

1. The first publications in local and foreign musical publishing houses (“Sonatina”, “A Sad Ballad”, “A Prelude and a Fuga” and others).
2. “Clasica”, “Aleatoria", “Flamenca” — three sonatas for a guitar.

1977

1. First concert tours abroad (Poland — Poznan, Lodz, Katovitse).
2. Finished a clean copy of “Indomitable Games of Flamenco” (published in “Guitarist” magazine, №1-4, 1993 — 1999.
3. "Giokosa", "Elegiaca" — two sonatinas for a guitar.
4. “Bahchisaray Palace Fountains” — a guitar cycle.

1978 — 1981

1. The first guitar festivals in the Crimea “Flamenko fiestas” (organizer and artistic director — A.Shevchenko)
2. “Lorkada” — a suite for a guitar.
3. “My Thoughts” — a suite for a guitar.
4. "Transformations" — experimental music for a guitar.
5. “A Kimmerian suite” (dedicated to M.A.Voloshin).

1982

1. Starting work in Odessa Philharmonic Society.
2. “Creating of concept programmes and cycles “Guitar Antology” (“Antique and Middle Ages”, “Reneissance”, “Barocco”, “Classicism”, “Romantisism”, “Avangard in Guitar Playing”), “Geography of Guitar Playing“ (“Spain”, “Italy”, “France”, “England”, “Germany”, “Slavic melodies for a Guitar”), “Etnography of Guitar Playing”, “Ellada Reminiscences”, “Antology of Flamenco” and others.

1987

1. The Second Prize at the International contest “Guitara Microcosmos”, Esterhom.
2. “De natura solaris” — an astronomic suite.
3. Publication of the textbook “Guitar Flamenco" (Kiev).
4. A diploma from Catovitse Festival.

1989 — 1992

1. Participation in the festivals and concert tours in Spain (Cordoba, Astorga, Ponferrada, Linares).
2. A programme “Villa Lobos Guitar”.

1992

1. A "Golden Plate Prize" from Linarez, motherlamd of anfreas Segovia.
2. “Three estamps” — for a guitar and a chamber orchestra.

1991 — 1996

1. Author programmes "Contra viento", “Touchngs”, “My thoughts”, “Guitar Odessica”.
2. An essay “Orpheus Will”.
3. Publishing of collected pieces “Touchings” in the USA )Publisher — M.Offi).
4. Publishing of “Collected Pieces for a Guitar” (Odessa, Astroprint).
5. “Odessica” — a suite ofr a guitar.

1997

1. The first prize at an international contest of composers (Moscow, compositions “Moscow bells”, “Reminiscences”).
2. “A Russsian Suite” for a guitar.
3. “Craonerra” — a piece for a a guitar.
4. “ABC of Tauromahia” — a dictionary of corrida.

1999

1. Successful participation in the X-th International festival of Guitar in Cordoba (Spain).
2. A programme “Nights in Alcatar Gardens”.
3. A prelude and a fuga “Bach”.
4. "Breeze” (“Burlesque serenade” for a flute and a guitar .
5. “Nights in Alcatar Gardens” — a piece for a guitar.

1998 — 2000

1. Creation and performing of new programes “Spiritual Tones of a Guitar”, “Bach and Modern Times”, “Music with a Candle Light”, “Flamenco 2000”, “Lorkada”.
2. “A Cantos dedicated to the 2000 anniversary of Christmas” based on the melody from the theoretical musical text book by Tihon Makarievskiy (XVII c.).
3. “A Clue to Understanding” dedicated to the 20000 anniversary of Christmas.
4. “A Bessarabian Phantasy” — a piece for a guitar.
5. Articles “About Spheres Harmony”, “Cyclical Development of Musucal System”, "Harmonia mundi".

2001

1. Presentation of the programme “A Guitar Miracle”, “Moscow-Odessa again”, “Fiesta of Flamenco”, “Guitar Phantasy” — evolution of the genre.
2. Publication of a musical research “Music of Ellada”, where A. Shevchenko deciphered two antique pieces of IV and V centures, presented a systematised reference book of antique misic and described a theory of cyclic development of music.

2002

1. The first festival of “Odessa Guitar Autumn” (Artistic director — A. Shevchenko).
2. A programme — “Along the deep Roads of Guitar”.
3. “Odessa Mosaica” — for a guitar and a chamber orchestra.

2003

1. A programme “On the Strings of Life”, “Reminiscences of Langeron”.
2. An article “Ecology of Sound”.
3. Composing of “Child’s Album” (“Music for littele Nikita”).

2004

1. The second guitar festival “Odessa Guitar Autumn”.
2. The "first guitar concert" is composed.
3. An article “Etnography of a Guitar”.

2005

1. A Program “East — West”, “Genealogy of a Guitar”.
2. "Passions over Sebastian" — a piece for a guitar.
3. Performance of the "first guitar concert" (Concerto Grosso).
4. An article “There was future at the beginning” (Space and time transformations in some musical structures).
5. The "second guitar concert" is finished (flamenco concert). Premiere — May 2006.
6. An article “Genealogy of a Guitar” — “The place and the role of of guitar pmusic in the development of European music”.

2006

1. Premiere of flamenco concert for a guitar, a oboe, castanets and string instruments (Alegrias, Granadina, Verdiales)
2. An article "On the crossroads of musical traditions"
3. Concerts in New-York and Sun-Francisco
4. Premiere of pieces: "Niagara Falls", "Jewish rhapsody".
5. Composed pieces: "Under the sail of Odyssey", "Fountains of Rome", "Tibet bells"

2007

1. Composed pieces: "Recollections about Scarlatti", "Down the Volga"
2. Premiere of the program "Under sail of Odyssey", in the program sounds of nature (the sea sounds, singing birds etc.) are used:
3. "Odessa promenade concert for guitar and chamber orchestra" is composed.

2008

1. Premiere of "Odessa promenade concert for guitar and chamber orchestra"
2. An article "Development of the guitar within the system of musical instrument development and musical thinking".
3. Composed piece: "Ariadne's thread. Labyrinth".
4. Composed "Richerkar" for a violin and a cello.
5. Work started at the second concert flamenco for a guitar and a chamber orchestra.
6. Working at a research :"Music of ancient Spain".

Anatoliy Shevchenko