BIOGRAPHY

 

Simon Bokman graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music, St.-Petersburg, Russia (then Leningrad) majoring in Composition under guidance of Galina Ustvolskaya. He also studied piano with Gennady Baumsteyn. Mr. Bokman teaches piano, composes music and writes poetry and prose. A collection of his poems in Russian On the Edge of the Universe was published in Baltimore, MD in 2006. His book Variations On the Theme Galina Ustvolskaya  was published in English by Verlag Ernst Kuhn - Berlin in January 2007. His music has been performed in England, Russia and in the United States. His creative Credo is Romanticism, as in warmth and depth of feelings and senses. Romanticism is the driving force behind Universal, Cosmic Creativity.