Victoria Korshunova, musicologist, general manager of the Academy, general manager of MCME
Victoria Korshunova was born in Volgograd, Russia. In 1986 graduated from Theory-Composition faculty of Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, in 1989 graduated from post-graduated course of Moscow Conservatory (dissertation is “The Heuristic problems of the Russian contemporary music).In 1990 – 1994 she was an assistant of Edison Denisov and scientific secretary of the Russian Association for Contemporary Music – ACM (president was Edison Denisov) and worked at the Russian Composers Union. Since 1991 till the present time she is a general manager and director of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble – MCME. Since 2004 she is a director of the ISCM – Russian section. She is also a founder and a general director of Centre for New Music Initiatives (from 2009). Since 2010 Victoria Korshunova together with Russian composers Dmitry Kourliandski founded the International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city (Ural, Russia), being its general manager. In 1994 Victoria Korshunova received a Grant from Japan Foundation of Ministry of Foreign Affairs for cycle of lectures dedicated to the Russian contemporary music. She has written a lot of scientist researches and articles as well as a critics, interview and announcements devoted to the international and Russian contemporary music (more than 200 items). Her main activity is a promotion of contemporary music in Russia and abroad. She organized a lot of international contemporary music projects, among which are “All-Russian concert series CONTEMPORARY MUSIC” which took place in 85 Russian cities, Finnish-Russian festivals “Together!” (10 Russian cities), “Russia – the Netherlands. Music parallels” (20 Russian cities) , “California Contemporary” (Moscow), “Premieres by young Russian composers abroad” (the Netherlands, Germany, Cyprus, Macedonia, Italy, etc), multimedia project “Light – Symbol – Sound” (Moscow), “RE:Construction” (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg) and many others. Each year together with the partner from many countries she organizes more than 30 international music project.
Alexander Khubeev, composer, curator of the General Course for composers
Alexander Khubeev was born in 1986 in city Perm (Russia). He graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2011 (class of composition of Yuri Kasparov, class of electronic composition of Igor Kefalidis), he finished his post-graduate course in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2014. At the present time he is an artistic director of International Academy of Young Composers in Tchaikovsky city, since 2019 he is a co-founder and curator of Composition Course reMusik.org in Saint-Petersburg. Alexander Khubeev won awards in Argentina, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine, USA including prestigious Gaudeamus Prize (Utrecht, 2015). He received scholarship of Darmstadt Summer Courses (2014), Berlin Academy of Arts (2018), residency Prix CIME (2019). His music is played in concerts held in more than 25 countries around Europe, Asia, South and North America on such festivals as “Venice Biennale”, “Darmstadt Ferienkurse”, “Gaudeamus Musicweek”, “MATA”, “Gergiev Festival”, “Quantensprunge”, “Ultima”, “Transit Festival”, “Mixtur”, “SPOR”, “Klara Festival”, “Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik”, “reMusik.org”, “Moscow Forum”, “Diaghilev Festival” and many others. Khubeev worked with such conductors as Reinbert de Leeuw, Lucas Vis, Bas Wiegers, Thomas Moore, his compositions were played by such ensembles as Asko|Schoenberg, Nadar, Slagwerk den Haag, Schallfeld, Blackpage Orchestra, L’Arsenale, Insomnio, Uusinta, dissonArt, Vortex, Aleph, Vertixe Sonora, IEMA, Gageego, Lemniscate, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, The Studio for New Music Ensemble, GAM-ensemble.
Olga Sinitskaya, director of “The Tchaikovsky Centre for Culture Development”, executive director of the Academy
Olga Sinitskaya graduated from Perm State Culture Institute. Since 2007 she is a head of “The Tchaikovsky Municipal Centre for Developing Art”. She organized lot of the projects, among them are “The Amateur Orchestra Competition”, “Kabalevsky Youth and Children Art Festival”, “Our Perm Region”, “All-Russia’s Children Festival-Contest”, International Competition “Dedication to Piotr Tchaikovsky”, International Young Composers Academy and others. Olga Sinitskaya promotes the new technologies in culture, the new social initiatives, new educational projects. One of the latest interesting and perspective ideas is organizing of the Art-Centre “Composer Box”, a place of different cultural events in Tchaikovsky-city. In 2018 “The Tchaikovsky Municipal Centre for Developing Art” won a grant from Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation for a project “Tchaikovsky is a City for Composers. Olga initiates several international projects, she headed a delegation of pupils and teachers of the Tchaikovsky musical schools for participation at the musical-educational camps in Laxti (Finland, 2016). She has several prizes and got a medal “Honorary worker of culture”.
Maria Sadurdinova, pianist, Executive Producer of the Academy
Graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory (2012), the Faculty of historical and contemporary performing arts (piano), principal teacher Mikhail Dubov, (teacher by harpsichord and hammerklavier Alexey Shevchenko). Also, completed postgraduate studies at the contemporary music department of the Moscow State Conservatory (2015). In 2016 defended postgraduate work «Henry Cowell and his book New Musical Resources». 2013 – participant of the «International Ensemble Modern Academy» at Klangspuren Schwaz, Austria. 2014 – participant of the ensemble «Bang on a Can» (USA), the Institute of Contemporary Academic Music in Moscow. 2018 – participant of the Darmstadt Summer Course (Piano studio by Nicolas Hodges and workshop Composing for piano by Brian Ferneyhough & Nicolas Hodges). Since 2011 Maria participates and performes at the International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city, also as a soloist of MCME (Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble). She participated at the festivals: «Russian-France-Musical Dialogue» (2013), Diagilev Festival (Perm) the Vladimir Jurowski’s Festival «Another Space» (2016), and others. Winner of 15th Piano Competition «Piano in Jazz» (nomination of contemporary music), 2018. Rarticipant of 13th Concours International Piano d’Orleans, 2018. Cooperated with the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME), «Opus-Post» (2013, 2018). «Questa Musica». She is the first performer of several works by Russian and foreign composers (Yoav Levy, A.Khubeev, B.Filanovsky and others). Maria is a participant of MCME projects from 2013 to now days.
Alexey Sysoev was born in in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow College of Improvised Music, and after participated in various jazz, electronic and experimental projects as pianist and keyboardist for a long time. He also studied composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (). In — Post-graduate student. Candidate of art criticism.
Works of Alexey Sysoev have been performed at festivals: “Moscow Autumn”, “Moscow Forum”, “Pythian Games” (St. Petersburg), “Another Space” (Moscow), ” Europe through the eyes of Russians. Russia through the eyes of Europeans” (Moscow), “Re-music” (St. Petersburg), “Territory” (Sochi, Kazan, Moscow), “World Music Days 2008” (Vilnius), “Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival” (Kiel), “45′ Internationale Ferienkurse Fur Neue Musik” (Darmstadt), “Schumannfest” (Düsseldorf), “Klangspuren festival” (Schwaz), “Transart festival” (Bolzano), “Venice Biennale”, “La Folle Journee” (Nantes, Tokyo), “Festival Ljubljana”, “KlaraFestival” (Brussels), Culturescapes (Basel), “Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2014” (Utrecht), “Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival” (Groningen).
Alexey cooperated with the collectives: “Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble” (Moscow), “N’Caged ensemble” (Moscow), “Studio for New Music Ebsemble” (Moscow), “IIntrada Vocal Ensemble” (Moscow), “N’Caged” (Moscow), “Questa Musica” (Moscow), “eNsemble” (St. Petersburg), “NoName Ensemble” (Nizhny Novgorod), “Mark Pekarsky Ensemble of Percussion Instruments” (Moscow), “The 20th Century Ensemble” (Moscow), “FX String Quartet” (Moscow), “Nostri Temporis” (Kiev, Ukraine), “Ereprijs” (Apeldoorn, Netherlands), “Amstel Quartet” (Amsterdam, Netherlands), “Slovenski Tolkalni Projekt” (Ljubljana, Slovenia), “BL!NDMAN” (Brussels, Belgium), “Belgrade Percussionists” (Belgrade, Serbia), “Ensemble This, Ensemble That” (Basel, Switzerland), “Phoenix Basel” (Basel, Switzerland), “Ensemble 2e2m” (Paris, France) etc. Alexey is active the musician improvisator. He cooperated with such musicians as Vladimir Tarasov (Lithuania), Sachiko M (Japan), Toshimaru Nakamura (Japan), Boris Baltschun and “The Pitch Quartet”, Burkhard Beins, Andrea Neumann, Boris Baltschun, Liz Allbee (Germany) etc.
Alexey’s music was released on labels: “Creative Sources”, “FancyMusic”, “Melody”, “ТОПОТ”, “Spina! Rec”, “Intonema”, “Moscow Conservatory Records”.
Tatiana Iakovleva, musicologist, curator of Special Course for musicologists and musical producers
Iakovleva Tatiana is a musicologist, senior teacher of the Russian Gnesin Academy of Music, specialist of the Scientific and Creative Center for Contemporary Music, lecturer, curator, music journalist. She graduated from the graduate school of the Gnesin Academy.
Co-curator of the Gnesin Contemporary Music Week project, a website about contemporary music Stravinsky.online. Published in various scientific and journalistic journals. Participant of all-Russian and international scientific conferences. The main area of research is contemporary music, theatrical and musical genres, intermediality.
Irina Sevastyanova, musicologist, curator of Special Course for musicologists and musical producers
Irina Sevastyanova is a researcher, curator and journalist. She works at the Moscow Conservatory’s Electroacoustic Music Centre. As a music critic, she regularly writes for several Russian magazines and websites. She co-hosts the podcast on contemporary music “violet snow”. Co-curator of the Gnesin Contemporary Music Week festival. She studied “Curatorial Practices in Music”’ course at the ArtEZ University of the Arts (2021, Zwolle, Netherlands). Graduated from the Gnesin Academy of Music as a music journalist (2020).
Hrachya Yessayan, composer, coordinator of the Academy
a composer, viola player, conductor and free improviser. 2008-2013 studying composition at Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky at prof. Yury Vorontsov’s class. 2013-2015 studying there assistant-internship course at Moscow conservatory with concert program and research work about music of Mark Andre. Founder, artistic director and main conductor of chamber orchestra “Grosso”. He participated as free listener, student, scholarship-member and trainee (as composer and free improviser) in various new music courses, such as: 46 International Summer course for new music (Darmstadt), Impuls (Graz), several academies of MCME (Chaykovsky). Had visited lessons, lectures and master-classes of Helmut Lachenmann, Brian Ferneyhough, Mathias Spahlinger, Mark Andre, Klaus Lang, Clemens Gadenstätter, Manon-Liu Winter, Frank Gratkowski, Antoine Beuger, Jean-Luc Herve, Philipp Leroux, Francesco Filidei, Sergej Newski, Dmitri Kourliandski, O. Bianchi, C. Bauckholt and F. Levi. Co-founder (with contrabass player Dmitry Khramtsov) of the free improvisation entreprise „CHTO“. At this time works on dissertation (Mark Andre: poetics of musical composition), works as composer, performer and teacher. As composer, conductor and performer is involved in various projects such as („KLANGRAUM“ (Düsseldorf), „Nobles et sentimentales“ (Moscow, N. Novgorod, S.-Petersburg), „Imaginary folklore“, „Psychogeography (N. Novgorod), „Moscow autumn“ (Moscow), „Agafonnikovs evenings“ (Podolsk) etc.)
Lukas Sukharev, composer, coordinator of the Academy
Lukas Sukharev was born in Syktyvkar in 2000. He graduated from the Gymnasium of Arts under the Head of the Komi Republic and the College of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan with a degree in orchestral percussion instruments with honors. In this specialty, he became a laureate of many regional, all-Russian and international competitions in orchestral, ensemble and solo nominations. In 2021 he entered the Moscow State Conservatory at the Faculty of Science and Composition in the composition class of A. S. Sioumak. Laureate of interregional, All-Russian and international composer competitions, a participant in such projects as “Composers’ Readings” in St. Petersburg, the Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky, the workshop “Voice as an Instrument” in Moscow, Synesthesia Composition Workshop in Kazan. Recipient of a Grant from the President of the Russian Federation, Fellow of the Union of Composers of Russia.
Alina Mukhametrakhimova, composer, coordinator of the Academy
Alina Mukhametrakhimova (1990) graduated from the Musical College at the Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky (2009), and then the Gnesins Music Academy in piano (2014). She entered the second faculty – computer music and arrangement, where she studied composition in the class of Professor Victor Ulyanich (2011-2015). Laureate (1st prize) of the Khramov competition in the nomination “Young composer” (2015) Resident of the “Tolstoy Weekend” festival in Yasnaya Polyana (2017). Laureate ( II Prize) of the Grand Music Art Competition (2019). Member of the International Creative Laboratory for Young Composers and Directors “Acoustic Reading” (2019). Laureate (III prize) at the All-Russian Sergey Prokofiev competition (2020). Laureate (III Prize) of the 1st International Competition of Composers “Winterreise” (2020) Member of the Laboratory “Composer Readings” (2021) and the Laboratory “Moscow. Sounds of the City” (2023). A student of the 12. International Young Composers Academy.
Galina Krasnokutskaya, composer, coordinator of the Academy
Born in Gorky. Graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod State Conservatory and completed postgraduate studies in the specialty “Musicology” (class of prof. Yu.S. Veksler), optionally studied composition in the classes of teachers O.M. Zarodnyuk and D.O. Prisyazhnyuk. In 2011, she defended her PhD dissertation on the topic “György Kurtág: on the problem of superopus composition”. Currently, she is a 1st-year student of the faculty of professional retraining in the specialty “Composition” of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in the class of professor Yu.S. Kasparov. Participant of the 2nd composer’s workshop “Voice as an Instrument” (2024), improvisation laboratory “Improschema” (2024), auditor of “Composer’s Readings”. During her student years, she was a laureate of the All-Russian competition “Young Composer” (2002), the International Arts Competition “Pure Childhood” in the nomination “Composition” (2005), the II student festival-competition “Nizhny Novgorod-2022. Architecture and Music” (2010), the All-Russian Olympiad in Theory and History of Music under the patronage of V.N. Kholopova, All-Russian competitions in musicology (Moscow, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod), a scholarship for postgraduate students named after Academician G.A. Razuvaev
Ruslan Zaipold, sound-engineer
Ruslan Zaipold is a sound engineer and producer with 16 years of experience in classical, contemporary, and experimental music.
He graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music with a degree in Music Sound Engineering and completed an internship at Bayerischer Rundfunk.
He works with leading Russian musicians, composers, and ensembles.
He collaborates with the music labels Fancymusic, Artbeat, and Melodiya, has participated in concert and stage projects at GES-2, and has been the sound director at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre for many years.
Polina Beletskaya, sound-engineer
Polina Beletskaya is a sound engineer working with contemporary classical music, theater, and concert projects.
She graduated from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music with a degree in Music Sound Engineering.
Her work includes recordings of contemporary composers for the Fancymusic label, concert projects at GES-2, and sound engineering for musical performances that have won the Golden Mask Award.
She is a winner of the first Pure Sound Award. She is a sound engineer at the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre.