The Sixteenth International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city
The 16th International Young Composers Academy will take place in Tchaikovsky-city, Perm Krai, from 1 to 15 September 2026 (director – Victoria Korshunova). Closing concerts will be held on 13-14 September in Tchaikovsky-city and 16-17 September in Moscow.
2026 Academy tracks:
– Main composition course
– Special course for young musicologists and music producers (curators – Irina Sevastyanova and Tatiana Yakovleva)
– Improvisation workshop (curator – Alexei Sysoev).
Lectures, individual lessons and masterclasses will be given by composers François Sarhan (France), Aaron Cassidy (Germany/USA), Vera Ivanova (USA/Russia), Anton Svetlichny, Vladimir Rannev and Anna Pospelova (Russia), musicologists Yaroslav Timofeev and Anna Sokolskaya, improvising pianist Dmitry Shubin, the art group KVEF, dancer and performer Vladimir Ermachenkov, producer Sergei Ivanov and others. All events take place both in person and online.
The 16th Academy will feature concerts, performances and presentations. The closing concerts will premiere new works by the student composers, written for the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME), the vocal quartet N’Caged and Vacuum string quartet.
The 16th Academy received 151 applications from 25 countries. We are pleased to announce the names of the students
COMPOSITION:
Students
Nikolas Agrafiotis (Greece)
Luis Miguel Delgado Grande (Colombia)
Parker Callister (USA)
Milica Modra (Serbia)
Vyacheslav Morgunov (Russia)
Alexandra Nesnova (Russia)
Daniel Satanovski (Germany)
Anna Serova (Russia)
Giulio Soldo (Italy)
Yuncong Cai (China)
Artem Tsios (Belarus/Russia)
Kristina Yanova (Russia)
Trainees
Dmitry Lyagin (Russia)
Sofia Filianina (Russia)
Iliya Shahbazi (Iran)
Free auditors
Tamaga Yegorova (Russia)
Bogdan Kaluzhin (Russia)
Dmitry Kuznetsov (Russia)
Natalia Prilukova (Russia)
Konstantin Stepanov (Russia)
Saveliy Tyutin (Russia)
Hu Chuhan (China)
MUSICOLOGY:
Arina Bryukhanova (Tchaikovsky, Russia)
Nina Vitkovskaya (Pskov, Russia)
Anastasia Volobueva (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Vasily Gorbunov (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Victoria Kozhevnikova (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
Anatoly Malinkin (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
Vladimir Pechetov (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Dmitry Tokarev (Krasnoyarsk, Russia)
Alexandra Tretyakova (Moscow, Russia)
IMPROVISATION:
Alina Yezhakova (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
Katarina Kommer (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Yury Temnikov (Moscow, Russia)
Maria Shilina (Moscow, Russia)
Nikolai Yaushev (Moscow, Russia)
For selected students, meals, accommodation and travel between Moscow and Tchaikovsky are covered by the Academy.
We also invite free auditors to take part in the 16th International Young Composers Academy. For inquiries, please contact:
moscowensemble.academy@gmail.com
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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 VK: https://vk.com/academia_chaykovskiy?from=search
Academy at the Telegram: https://web.telegram.org/a/#-1002213862832