15th International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city
The Fifteenth International Young Composers Academy will take place from September 1 to 15, 2025 in Tchaikovsky-city (Perm Krai, Russia) with the final concerts in Tchaikovsky-city (September 12, 13, 14) and in Moscow (September 16, 17). The Academy will host concerts, lectures, meetings, individual and group lessons, master-classes and presentations.
The main directions of 15th Academy are:
- the General course for composers (curator – Alexander Khubeev)
- the Laboratory of electroacoustic music (curator – Nikolai Popov)
- the Special Course for musicologists and musical producers (curators: Irina Sevastianova and Tatiana Yakovleva)
- the Workshop for Improvisation (curator – Oleg Makarov)
- the Practical Course for sound technicians (curators – the specialists of CEAM)
This year’s faculty includes Johannes Kreidler (Germany), Martin Matalon (France), and Vladimir Rannev (Russia). Lectures and masterclasses will also be given by invited musicians and specialists: Alexey Sysoev, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Svetlana Lavrova, Dmitry Renansky, Elina Andrianova, Natalia Surnina, Dmitry Shubin, Vlad Kreimer, Danil Akimov, and others.
The musical ensembles participating in the Academy are MCME, CEAM Artists and N’Caged.
A total of 229 applications from 27 countries were submitted. We are pleased to announce the names of the 2025 Academy participants.
Students (composers):
Di Virgilio Daniele (Italy)
Kim Hyun-su (South Korea)
Nesteruk Karina (Russia)
Raev Maxim (Russia)
Selvaggi Michele (Canada)
Farhat Seare Ahmad (USA)
Yakovlev Nikifor (Russia)
Students (composers, Laboratory of electroacoustic music):
Li Bin (China)
Bezdetko Valentin (Russia)
Vinskaya Rigel (Russia)
Golova Nina (Russia)
You Ruitao (China)
Trainees (composers):
Karchemkina Veronika (Russia)
Rogozyanskaya Lyudmila (Russia)
Setoudeh Mehdi (Iran)
Free auditors (composers):
Biryukova Vasya (Russia)
Gavrilova Yulia (Russia)
Leonardini Guillermo Daniel (Bolivia)
Maraeva Daria (Russia)
Mohammadi Mohammadmehdi (Iran)
Murgin Dmitry (Russia)
Students (musicologists and music producers):
Esaulkova Vera (Russia)
Vyatkina Stanislava (Russia)
Konivets Anna (Russia)
Orchenko Varvara (Russia)
Pechetov Vladimir (Russia)
Sosnovenko Maksim (Russia)
Students (improvisers):
Gazizov Erkin (Russia)
Grebenchikov Ivan (Russia)
Mezinova Magulya (Russia)
Smorodnikova Anna (Russia)
Students (sound engineers):
Zheleznova Svetlana (Russia)
Pryakhina Anna (Russia)
Seliverstov Roman (Russia)
Surkov Pavel (Russia)
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Annual International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city (Perm region) is the unique and the biggest large-scale international young composers’ workshop in Russia. It is a creative laboratory for young composers and musicians from all over the world. Visiting professors are well-known composers who hold individual sessions and group lectures. During fortnight workshop the young composers write new compositions which are rehearsed and performed by the leading Russian group, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME) in the final concerts in Tchaikovsky, Perm and in Moscow. Within the Academy there are also organized a number of educational concerts, master-classes for young musicians and refresher courses for teachers. Totally every Academy collected around 100 participants.
Over the years of the Academy a lot of international projects were organized, more than 180 young composers from Russia and 45 countries of the world were trained, more than 250 music teachers improved their skills, more than 100 concerts of contemporary music and lectures, hundreds of music presentations of young composers took place.
Among the professors-teachers of the Academy were the well-known composers such as Beat Furrer (Austria/Switzerland), Franc Bedrossian, Philippe Leroux, Jean-Luc Herve, Mark Andre, Raphael Cendo, Fabien Levy, Jerome Combier, Colin Roche (France), Chaya Czernowin (Israel), Pierluigi Billone, Francesco Filidei (Italy), Carola Bauckholt (Germany), Peter Ablinger, Klaus Lang (Austria), Oscar Bianchi, Santiago Diez-Fischer (Switzerland), Yannis Kyriakides (the Netherlands), Antoine Beuger (the Netherlands/Germany), Elzbieta Sikora (Poland), etc.
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