14. International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city
The 14th International Young Composers Academy will take place in offline and online fashions from August 30 to September 13 in Tchaikovsky-city. The final concerts will take place in Tchaikovsky (September 11 and 12) and in Moscow (September 14 and 15).
The main directions of 14th 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)
Professors and Guests of the Academy: composers Hannes Seidl (Germany), Stefano Gervasoni (France), Wen Deqing (China), Anton Safronov (Germany/Russia), Anton Svetlichny (Russia), Mehdi Hosseini (Iran/Russia), Do Hong Quan (Vietnam), Turkar Gasimzada (Azerbaijan), musicologists and journalists Bogdan Korolyok, Marina Gaikovich, Anna Fefelova, art criticts Yulia Bolshakova, pianist and improvisator Dmitry Shubin, etc.
Performers of the Academy: ensembles MCME, CEAM-Artists, N’Caged, young musicians from Russian regions.
This year we received 200 applications from 31 countries. We’re glad to announce 36 selected participants:
Students (composers, general course):
Farkhad Bakhtiyari (Russia)
Ilya Bogomolov (Russia)
Matteo Cenerini (Italy)
Alexandre David (Canada)
Alireza Gholamian (Iran)
Rui Liu (China)
Sergey Shestakov (Russia)
Anton Shukau (Belarus)
Students (composers, electroacoustic lab):
Charles Champi (Mexico)
Anzhelika Gabibova (Russia)
Yifan Guo (China)
Alexander Perov (Russia)
Trainees (composers):
Laila Arafah (UK)
Nikita Kostikov (Russia)
Nigar Suleyman (Azerbaijan)
Free auditors (composers):
Fati Besolti (Russia)
Artyom Ces (Russia)
Andrey Gitsman (Moldova)
Galina Krasnokutskaya (Russia)
Nikifor Yakovlev (Russia)
Kirill Zuzenkov (Russia)
Students (musicologists and music producers):
Alexander Bedin
Vladislava Beskorovainaya
Ulyana Garibzyanova
Victoria Kozhevnikova
Roman Malyavkin
Yulia Nabrodova
Elena Pererva
Anna Peshkova
Ekaterina Prokhorova
Alina Radjabova
Ksenia Statsura
Students (improvisers):
Ekaterina Kuznetsova
Roman Seliverstov
Anton Yatmanov
Svetlana Zheleznova
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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.
Academy at the Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IYCAinTchaikovsky/