Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin (Kazakh: Рахат-Би Төлегенұлы Әбдісағин, born February 2, 1999) is a composer and pianist[1][2] who received the Honorary Badge for Merits in the Development of Culture and Arts from the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the CIS).[3][4][5]
Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin was born in Almaty on February 2, 1999. His father Tolegen Kozhamkulov is a theoretical physicist; his mother Gülmira Esimbaeva is a politician, educator and lawyer.[6] Rakhat-Bi started composing music at the age of 10.[7] He completed the regular 7-year course at the music academy in 3 years while also studying at an Almaty gymnasium.[8]
In 2022, Verlag Neue Musik Berlin released his Selected Solo Works (Sammelband), a collection of solo scores written specifically for every symphony orchestra instrument. Rakhat-Bi is the second composer in the world to have completed such a large-scale project (he is preceded by the great Luciano Berio (1925-2003) with his cycle of sequenzas).[12][13][14][15]
Rakhat-Bi's compositions are featured in South Illinois University's Global Discography of Music for Piano and Orchestra alongside the classic masterpieces.[16]
Childhood Pieces and Sketches (about 30 compositions, several of them published in the author's collection of creative works Edges of Harmony, Almaty 2011). (2008—2010)
Fantasia (2011)
Starlight Variations (2011)
Winter-Qys (2011)
Petrogliff (2011)
Tabulatura Nova (2012)
Landscape (2012)
Klavierstück (2012)
Snowflakes in the Starry Sky (2012)
Messenetique (2012)
Multiphonarium for flute (2012)
Brightness (2012)
Fantasia Murakami (2012)
Light Through Fog (2012)
Aqqu (2012)
Light at the End of the Tunnel (2012)
Tunneling of Quantum (2013)
Plateau at Night (2013)
Bulbul (2013)
Aurora Polaris (2013)
Nostalgya (2013)
Óleń-Poem (2013)
Suite Aport pour Satie (2013)
Rondine Piangente (2013)
Aftersounds of Eternity (2014)
Thunderbolt (episode from Grand Opera) transcription (2015)