PROFESSORS AND GUESTS OF 14. INTERNATIONAL YOUNG COMPOSERS ACADEMY IN TCHAIKOVSKY-CITY
Hannes Seidl, composer (Germany)
Hannes Seidl was born in Bremen, Germany in 1977. Between 1998 and 2003 he studied composition at the Folkwang- Hochschule Essen with Nicolas A. Huber, Th. Neuhaus and in 2003/2004 with Beat Furrer in Graz. He received different scholarships for his work including from the Darmstadt Summer Courses, Akademie der Künste Berlin, and the DAAD. He has won prizes e.g at Impuls Graz (2004), Landesmusikrat Bremen (2006) and Best Experimental Film for “Film für übers Sofa” (together with Daniel Kötter) at the Bolzano Short Film Festival (2010). Hannes Seidl has worked with Ensemble Modern, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Ensemble Mosaik, Sebastian Berweck, Klangforum Wien, Andrea Neumann, Christina Kubisch and many others. His compositions have been performed internationally at festivals like Ultraschall Berlin, Ultima Oslo, Steirischer Herbst Graz, ECLAT, or Warshaw Autumn. He has worked in several electronic music studios including IRCAM (Paris), ZKM (Karlsruhe), C.S.C (Padova), Akademie der Künste (Berlin) and IEM (Graz). His works include sound installations, music theatre, short Films and concert music. His focus lies on mixed media works such as his radio-concerts “You Are Here” (2020) or “Good Morning Deutschland” (2016) or the scenic concert “Salims Salon”(2017). Since 2008 he is has been working on different projects with video artist Daniel Kötter mainly music theatre, including the trilogy “Stadt Land Fluss” (2017 – 2019). Hannes Seidl lives in Frankfurt/Main.
Stefano Gervasoni, composer (France)
Born in Bergamo in 1962, Stefano Gervasoni began studying composition in 1980 on the advice of Luigi Nono: this encounter, as well as others with Brian Ferneyhough, Peter Eötvös and Helmut Lachenmann, turned out to be decisive for his career. After attending the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where he studied with Luca Lombardi, Niccolò Castiglioni and Azio Corghi, Stefano Gervasoni met György Ligeti in Hungary in 1990, and then, in 1992, he attended the IRCAM Course in Composition and in Computer Music in Paris. The first three years in France launched Gervasoni’s international career that eventually led him to be artist-in-residence at Villa Medici in Rome for the biennium1995-1996. With commissions from prestigious institutions such the WDR, the SWR, the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, the Münchner Kammerorchester, the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Radio France, IRCAM, the Casa da Musica in Porto, the Festival Archipel in Geneva, the Divertimento Ensemble in Milan, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Ensemble Modern, the Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, the Maerzmusik festival in Berlin, the Ars Musica Bruxelles, the Festival Musica in Strasbourg, the French Ministry of Culture, Milan Teatro alla Scala and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Stefano Gervasoni has established himself as one of the most important Italian composers of his generation. His catalogue – which includes chamber and vocal music, concertos, works for orchestra, for ensemble and an opera (Limbus-Limbo) – is published by Ricordi and by Suvini Zerboni.
Winner of numerous prizes, including the recent “Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award” (2018) and Premio della Critica Musicale “Franco Abbiati” (2010), his work has allowed him to be a grant-holder at the Fondation des Treilles in Paris (1994) and at the DAAD in Berlin (2006) and composer-in-residence at Villa Médicis in Rome as fellow at the Académie de France for the years 1995-96 and at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec during the period 2008-2010. He has also been invited to teach at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, on the courses organised by the Fondation Royaumont (Paris), at Toho University in Tokyo, at the Festival International de Campos do Jordão in Brazil, at the Conservatory in Shanghai, at Columbia University (New York), at Harvard University (Boston) and at Takefu International Music Festival. He has been composer-in-residence at Lausanne Conservatoire (2005) and at Yellow Barn Summer Academy (Vermont, 2016). Moreover, he has been visiting professor at ESMUC in Barcelona for the 2012-13 academic year. Since 2006 Stefano Gervasoni has held a regular teaching position as professor of composition at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris.
Deqing Wen, composer (China)
Deqing Wen, a Chinese Swiss composer, studied composition at Fujian Normal University (China) with Guo Zu-Rong, the China Conservatory of Music with Shi Wan-Chun and Luo Zhong-Rong, le Conservatoire de Musique de Genève (Switzerland) with Jean Balissat, le Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon (France) with Gilbert Amy, and Columbia University (US) as a visiting scholar under Tristan Murail. He has been listed in Who’s Who in the World of Music by Cambridge Biographic Center. He is currently a professor of Composition at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Artistic Director of New Music Week of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is also a member of the Societé Suisse pour les Droits des Auteurs d’Oeuvres and vice-chairman of the China-ASEAN musicians union. Deqing Wen has been honored with concerts portrait, as well as master classes, dedicated to his compositions in China, Switzerland, France, Denmark, the United States, Germany and Israel. His works are published by Swiss Musical Edition, Bärenreiter-Verlag (Germany), Shanghai Conservatory of Music Press, Beijing People’s Music Publishing House. His albums are released by Stradivarius Records (Italy), Grammont Portrait Contemporary SWISS, Naxos Records, Shanghai Music Publishing house and Fujian Audio and Video Publishing House. Wen is a chosen composer of the Prize of the State of Geneva 1993, the Prix Cultura 1999 of the Foundation Kiwanis and the Composer Prize 2001 of the Foundation Leenaards of Switzerland.
Anton Svetlichny, composer (Russia)
Anton Svetlichny graduated from the Rostov Conservatory (2004) in the class of prof. V. Khodosh. Participant of the All-Russian Seminar of Young Composers under the direction of Victor Ekimovsky (Moscow, 2004-2006), the All-Russian Seminar on Non-Traditional Performance Techniques at the Moscow Conservatory (2014, 2015). Participated in master classes of Louis Andriessen, Martijn Padding, Roderik de Man (Netherlands), Philippe Hurel (France), Beat Furrer (Austria), Vladimir Tarnopolsky (Russia). He also trained under the guidance of Franc Bedrossian (France), Pierlouigi Billone (Italy), Raphael Cendo (France) and Peter Ablinger (Austria) within the framework of the International Young Composers Academy of MCME (2011, 2015). The music was performed in many cities of Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Georgia, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Argentina, the USA, Japan, Hong Kong. Among the performers are the ensembles MCME, Studio for New Music, GAM-Ensemble (Moscow), eNsemble, MolOt-ensemble, {instead} ensemble (Saint Petersburg), Nostri Temporis, Ricochet (Ukraine), Hong Kong Camerata (Hong Kong), Synchromy (USA), ums’n’jip (Switzerland), Platypus and Shallfeld (Austria), Motocontrario (Italy), dissonArt (Greece), Espai Sonor (Spain), Construction Site Contemporary Music Ensemble (Serbia), as well as Ricardo Descalzo (Spain, piano), Peter Katina (Slovakia, accordion), Sergey Chirkov (bayan), Natalia Pshenichnikova (voice), various Russian orchestras and chamber ensembles. Winner of the Pythian Games composers’ competition (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2007). In 2016, he was shortlisted for the Sobaka magazine award “Top 35. The Most Famous People of Rostov-on-Don”. In 2017 he received II and III prizes at the Resonance music critics competition as part of the Diaghilev Festival (Perm). Lives in Rostov-on-Don. In addition to composition, he is engaged in teaching, gives lectures on contemporary music at various venues in Rostov and in the South of Russia, is published in periodicals, and performs as a keyboard player in the contemporary music ensemble InEnsemble
Anton Safronov, composer (Russia / Germany)
Composer, music docent and publicist. Born in Moscow, graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (Composition with Edison Denisov), post-graduated studies in Germany with Wolfgang Riem (Karlsruhe) and Walter Zimmermann (Berlin). He lives and teaches in Moscow and Berlin, gives master classes in Russia and abroad. Among the performers of his works are the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra “Evgeny Svetlanov”, the St. Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, the Orchestre National de Lille (France), the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME), the GAMEnsemble, the Studio of Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Mark Pekarsky Ensemble (Moscow), the eNsemble (St. Petersburg), the Laboratory of New Music (Novosibirsk), the London Sinfonietta, the ASKO / Schoenberg Ensemble (Amsterdam), the Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt), the Scharoun Ensemble and the Ensemble UnitedBerlin (Berlin), der/gelbe/klang (Munich), the Ensemble SurPlus (Freiburg), the Neue Vocalsolisten (Stuttgart), the Ensemble Divertimento (Milan), the Eegeru Ensemble (Alma-Ata), the Sonar-Quartett (Berlin), the NeoQuartet (Gdansk), the Quadra (Riga), conductors Vladimir Jurowski, Andrey Boreyko, Theodor Currentzis, Fedor Lednev, Reinbert de Leeuw, Constantin Trinks, Matthias Pinscher. In addition to his own compositions, Anton Safronov is the author of “hypothetical reconstructions” of unfinished or lost works by Mozart and Schubert, performed by the Russian National Orchestra (RNO), the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (London), the musicAeterna (Novosibirsk / Perm), the Belgian National Orchestra, the Darmstadt State Orchestra (Germany), etc. Participant of the ISCM (International Society of Contemporary Music) World Days (2006), the Year of Russia in France (2010) and the Year of Russia in Germany (2013). Winner of the International Composers Competition in Besançon (France, 1997), the First International P. I. Jurgenson Young Composers Competition (Moscow, 2001). Fellow of the Union of Moscow Composers, of the Berlin Senate for Culture, of the Accademia Villa Massimo in Rome, of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. The author of essays on music (published in the magazines «Muzykalnaya Zhizn» / “The Musical Life”, «Muzykalnaya Akademiya» / “The Musical Academy”, «Tribuna Sovremennoy Muzyki» / “The Contemporary Music Tribune”). Initiator and organizer of musical projects, including “Russia – Europe: Windows into modern music” with MCME (2009-2011), “GAMEnsemble: New Russia – New Europe” (2012-2013). Composer-in-residence of the Festival «Ajassa!» (Helsinki, 2010) and of the NeoQuartet project “Baltic Spectrum of New Music” (2016).
Turkar Gasimzada, composer (Azerbaijan)
Originally from Azerbaijan, Gasimzada’s music won numerous awards in international competitions and has been performed in festivals and conferences of contemporary music including International Computer Music Conference 2021 (Chile), 8th Saint-Petersburg International New Music Festival (Russia), 31st Music Biennale Zagreb (Croatia), SCI National Online Conference (USA), Bang on a Can Summer Festival (USA), Örebro Contemporary Music Festival (Sweden), Unerhörte Musik Festival (Germany), Charlotte New Music Festival (USA), Etchings (France, 2014), Cortona Sessions for New Music (Italy, 2014), “tonArt” (Germany, 2014), “Up Close With Music” Festival (Ireland, 2014), “Computer Music Space” (Bulgaria), Tonlagen (Germany, 2012), 4th Kara Karayev International Contemporary Music Festival (Azerbaijan, 2011), Druskomanija (Lithuania, 2010), “Culturescapes” (Switzerland, 2009). Recent collaborations and commissions have included works for Schallfeld Ensemble (Austria), Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music (Russia), ECCE Ensemble (USA/France), Ensemble Courage (Germany), Ensemble Sans Maitre (New York, USA), Contemporary Music Ensemble of Boston University (USA), Ecoute Ensemble (Switzerland), Frontiers New Music Ensemble (Oklahoma, USA), CNM Ensemble (Iowa, USA), Noise-Bridge duo (Stuttgart, Germany), Cochlea Freedom Ensemble (New York, USA), Cafe Momus, CCM Percussion Ensemble (Cincinnati, USA), Contempo Ensemble (Baku, Azerbaijan), OnePlusOne Ensemble (Lithuania), orchestras as Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra (NY, USA), Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra (Azerbaijan), Azerbaijan State Chamber Orchestra (Azerbaijan), and soloists such as Allen Otte (OH), Szilard Benes (Hungary), Avital Cohen (Switzerland), Erica Dicker (NY), Errin Lesser (NY), Sergej Tchirkov (Norway), Daniel Vaczi (Hungary). Gasimzada holds a Doctorate degree in composition from University of Cincinnati, Conservatory of Music (CCM) where he studied with Mara Helmuth, Michael Fiday. He also holds a Masters degree in composition from the Manhattan School of Music (MSM), New York. He studied at MSM with Reiko Fueting. A committed teacher, Gasimzada has taught courses on music composition, theory, history, orchestration, electronic music techniques in such universities as the American University of the Middle East (Kuwait), University of Cincinnati (USA), the ADA University (Azerbaijan) and the National Conservatory of Azerbaijan. Having received numerous certifications of appreciation for his teaching and service in the past, Gasimzada has been awarded the Faculty Award of the American University of the Middle East for outstanding service contribution. Gasimzada is recently appointed as a Dean of the School of Music and Visual Arts at the Karabakh University of Azerbaijan. In addition to teaching and composing, Gasimzada enjoys utilizing his organizational skills for concert production, program advising and recording services for new music. Gasimzada is currently serving as Artistic Director of the Cadenza Contemporary Orchestra and Director of the Baku Contemporary Music Days Festival based in Baku, Azerbaijan. Gasimzada’s scores are published by Babel Scores (France).
Mehdi Hosseini, composer (Iran / Russia)
Mehdi Hosseini was born in Tehran, Iran, and received his master’s degree and Doctor of Music degree (DMA) in Composition from Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory. His major teachers include Fahrad Fakhreddini, Prof. Alexander Minatsakanian, Prof. Nigel Osborne and Prof. Sergei Slonimsky in composition, and Professor Tatiana Bershadskaya in Musicology. His early musical experiences included from 1998–2001, where he studying music theory, Persian music and composition with Farhad Fakhreddini [4] in Tehran. Hosseini then entered the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory in 2001 where he under the guidance of Prof. Tatiana Bershadskaya studied musicology and composition with Prof. Mnatsakanian and continued postgraduate course with the composer Sergei Slonimsky. Mehdi Hosseini completed a composition course from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna in 2007 during the summer courses at Muerzzuschlag, Austria where he studied with Nigel Osborne. Hosseini’s compositions include works for large orchestra, chamber orchestra, and various ensembles and has been performed and recorded by orchestras and ensembles such as the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Opera and Ballet Theatre of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, North-Ossetian State Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Namascae Lemanic Modern Ensemble, PluralEnsemble, Ensemble Proton Bern, Studio for New Music Ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, GAMEnsemble and more. His works have been published by the Compozitor Publishing House (Russia), and the Donemus (Netherlands). In the last few years, He was the focus of attention in Russia as a composer and his works are performed during such festivals as St. Petersburg Musical Spring, Contemporary East and West, Contemporary Past, A Reverse Perspective, Trajectories of Petersburg Avant-Garde, Sound Ways, Moscow Autumn, Moscow Actual Music Festival “Another Space” and others. His music is played in Mariinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories, Saint Petersburg and Moscow Philharmonics. Mehdi Hosseini made an invaluable contribution to the development of the St. Petersburg cultural scene in 2011 when he opened the Saint Petersburg Contemporary Music Center “reMusik.org” and in 2013, he founded the St. Petersburg International New Music Festival.
Do Hong Quan , composer (Vietnam)
Prof. Dr. Composer Do Hong Quan born in 1956 is a conductor and educator. He began his studies on piano at the age of 7 at Vietnam National Conservatory and graduated piano in 1971. Then he studied composition at Vietnam National Conservatory, and he continued his studies composition with Prof. Albert Leman and conducting with Leonid Nicolaev at the Moscow State Conservatory in Russia as well as did his senior internship at Paris National Conservatory. His works have been performed in Moscow, Uzbekistan, Bonn, Paris, Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, Manila, Kazan, and Vietnam with renowned conductors from Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Russia, US, Vietnam, etc. He has directly conducted and arranged many opera works. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Vietnam Musicians’ Association.
Yulia Bolshakova, art critic (Russia)
Yulia Bolshakova is a honored cultural manager, associate professor, theatre researcher and creative curator of international and projects in the field of culture and art. In 1979, she was invited to teach at the Department of Producing of the Russian Institute of Theater Art. She developed a number of original special courses on the organization of theatre business for the theatre studies, directing, acting (including the musical theatre department), producing, and variety departments. She developed a second-year internship program for producers, a source studies program, and a number of other programs. At the same time, for a number of years she has been an associate professor at the Moscow Academy of Choreography, as well as a visiting professor at the sociology department of Moscow State University. Author of several published programs. For many years, Yulia Bolshakova is an expert of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, deputy chairman of the expert council of the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region. Since 1974, she has been carrying out expert, consulting and research work commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Roscons and other departments and organizations. Head and/or co-author of about thirty scientific and practical studies in the theater and concert sphere, implemented in practice. For this work, she received the title of Honored Manager of Culture of the Russian Federation in 2000. She has a number of government awards. In different years, she was an expert of the Golden Mask, Nail of the Season, Open Stage and other awards, as well as a jury member and expert of a number of international competitions and festivals. For several years, she was an expert of the international Vaslav Nijinsky Award (Monaco). Creative creator and moderator of joint International Cultural Forums in Italy, Germany, Spain. She participated in the creation and implementation of the International Cultural Centers of the Russian Ministry of Culture project in the Russian regions as a creative curator and expert from the beginning of its implementation in 2014 to the present.
Bogdan Korolyok, music critic (Russia)
Graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Choreographic School (class of Ivan Karnaukhov), bachelor’s degree in “Arts and Humanities” of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, master’s degree in “Musical Criticism” of the St. Petersburg State University. In 2010-2015, he waa a ballet dancer at the Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In the 2015-16 season, he worked in the Publishing Department of the Mariinsky Theater. Since August 2016, he has been an assistant to the head of the ballet and editor of publications at the Ural Opera Ballet Theater. Scriptwriter for the ballets The King’s Divertissement at the Mariinsky Theatre (choreographer Maxim Petrov), The King’s Order and The Little Humpbacked Horse at the Ural Opera (together with choreographer Vyacheslav Samodurov), and A Guide to Ballet at the Perm Opera (choreographer Anton Pimanov). Co-editor and compiler of the anthology New Russian Music Criticism (in three volumes; Moscow: New Literary Review, 2014-2016). Author of texts in Russian periodicals, publications of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, collections How to Watch Opera (Moscow: Kraft+, 2018) and The Most Famous Opera Performances (Moscow: Agraf, 2020). Laureate of the All-Russian Prize for Young Music Critics Resonance (2015)
Marina Gaikovich, musicologist, music critic (Russia)
Musicologist, music critic, head of the culture department of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta Graduated from the historical and theoretical department and postgraduate study at the Moscow Conservatory. Candidate of Art History. Member of the expert council (twice – chairman) and member of the jury of the Golden Mask festival Member of the jury of Russian theater festivals and awards – Casta Diva, Onegin, Mirror of the Scene and others. Member of the expert council under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. In 2018/2020, she taught her own master’s course in Music Criticism at GITIS Participant (as a teacher and lecturer) in the projects of the Union of Composers of Russia “School of Music Criticism”, “Journalistic Readings”, the “Institute of Opera” project.
Dmitry Shubin, pianist, impfroviser, sound artist (Russia)
Musician, artist, founder and conductor of the St. Petersburg Improvisation Orchestra, pianist. Main areas of musical interests are the improvised music, graphic notation, electroacoustics, piano and electronics, conducted and structural improvisation.
He is also known as the ideologist and organizer of various projects in contemporary improvised music (St. Petersburg Improvisers Orchestra, School of Improvised Music, Improvisation Choir, “Graphics of Sound” as an exhibition project of graphic notation, etc.) He organized the personal concerts in Russia, Austria, Germany. Participant of international festivals CYBERFEST, SKIF, ArtbatFest and others.
Anna Fefelova, musicologist, music critic (Russia)
Anna Fefelova is a musicologist and PhD in art history. Since 2016, she has been the curator of the educational program of the Diaghilev Arts Festival. She was in charge of the Literary Department of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, the Perm Theater-Theater, and worked as a full-time lecturer and art critic at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater. She has been collaborating with musicAeterna since 2005. Since 2021, she has been the curator of educational programs at musicAeterna and the House of Radio, including the author of the different projects, “Laboratory of the Modern Spectator”, and curator of creative residences in Moscow and Krasnoyarsk.