Students of 14. International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city

COMPOSER-STUDENTS (NEW COMPOSITIONS FOR MCME)

Farhad Bakhtiyari (Russian Federation, Tatarstan) – laureate of international and all-Russian composition competitions, member of the Russian Composers Union, a teacher of the composition at the Central Music School of the Academy of Arts. In 2013, he graduated from the Kazan Music College in the Music Theory Department, studied with Elmir Nizamov and S. Zoryukova. In 2022, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in the class of M. I. Karatygina and O. E. Bochikhina, entered the graduate school of the Moscow Conservatory in the classes of M. I. Karatygina and Yu. S. Kasparov. The center of his creative and scientific interests is the vocal and vocal-instrumental traditions of the Tatars and Bashkirs and their embodiment in the context of contemporary music. The music of Farhad Bakhtiyari has repeatedly performed at the Small Hall and the Rachmaninov Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, in the Small Hall of the St. Petersburg Chapel, on the stage of the National Theatre of the Altai Republic, in the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics, in the Great and Chamber Halls of the Kazan College of Music, in the Tatarstan Composers Union Hall, etc.

Ilia Bogomolov (Russia) born in 2000 in Kaluga. Studied at the Music school in the String Department (violin). After graduating from school, in 2017, he entered the Taneyev Music College in the String Department (viola). At the same time, he took several private lessons from the composer G. V. Azatov. After graduating from college, he entered the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory, also in viola, but after completing the first year, he transferred to the Composition and Musicology Department, where he studies at the composer class of Mark Buloshnikov.

Alireza Gholamian (Iran) born in 1999, Alireza Gholamian is an Iranian composer and Tar performer based in Tehran. He started his career as a musician by playing Tar and studying Iranian classical music at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tehran University. Alireza continued his studies in composition with Karen Keyhani and Ardavan Vossughi, and he participated in many workshops and masterclasses. In November 2023, he was accepted into the Horizon Étendu composition academy and won a full scholarship. There, he worked with renowned Polish composer Lidia Zielinska. His works have been performed both in his country and abroad. He is following his sonic imagination to define his approach to time.

Alexandre David (Canada) born in 1989; Montréal. He is a French-Canadian composer, performer, producer and teacher. Through collaborations with artists of various musical and extramusical cultures, his work revolves on constant research on the creation process through transdisciplinarity. Fascinated by the translation and transformation of extra-musical sources to a musical form, he is interested in the listener’s perception towards musical objects and the meaning they can convey. His compositional practice involve works for contemporary concert music, electroacoustic music, film music, progressive rock and metal and balinese gamelan.

Rui LIU (China) is a young composer and teacher of Shaanxi Normal University School of Music. She obtained the PhD. degree (composition) from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she studied composition with Prof. WEN Deqing. She awarded the Scholarship of Chinese Scholarship Council in jointly training PhD subject and studied composition with Prof. Dr. Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf in HMT_Leipzig. During the period of learning composition, she was also under the guidance of Belgium composer Claude Ledoux, Chinese German composer CHEN Xiaoyong, Australia composer Liza Lim, Tai composer Narong Prangcharoen, Chinese American composer DU Yun and French composer Tristain Murail. Her works was performed at Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China), Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival (China), Hangzhou Grand Theatre (China), Festival Musiques Démesurées (France), ZfGM Leipzig (Germany), Schimnitz Art Festival (Germany), Roadrunner Trio Academy (Netherlands) and Janáček Academy of Music and Perfoming (Czech). She was selected to participate Ircam ManiFeste Academic (French) and the Darmstadt Music Festival (Germany).

Matteo Cenerini (Italy) from 2021 to 2024 he is studying classical/contemporary composition at Civica Scuola di Musica C. Abbado in Milano. From 2017 to 2020 he is studying classical/contemporary composition with Nicola Evangelist at Rovigo Conservatory “Francesco Venezze”. From 2011 to 2017 he studied jazz composition and arrangement with Mauro Grossi, Massimo Morganti and Stefano Franceschini. In 2014 he earned the Jazz Guitar degree at ISSM “Pietro Mascagni” Livorno. He is also active as a performer in musical free improvisation, working and playing, with various groups and projects that involve also mixed arts and media. Still, as a performer and improviser he is also member of Conserere Ensemble (Milano), Collettivo Crisis (Venezia). In April 2023 was published the LP “Fauci” recorded with Collettivo Crisis Ensemble edited by Chiærichetti Editore Recordings (Torino). He attended compostion courses and masterclasses with Yan Maresz, James Dillon, Philippe Manoury, Claudio Ambrosini, Luca Francesconi, Marco Momi, Andrea Agostini, Daniele Ghisi, Paolo Aralla, Matteo Marson, etc. His composition and arrangement, ranging from jazz to contemporary music, were performed by various performer as Anna D’Errico, MDI Ensamble, Moto Contrario Ensamble, Paolo Fresu, and they have been awarded in various events and competitions, such as Ragazze e Ragazzi. Salvemini 1990, Fabbrica del Vapore, Mixtur, Accademia Chigiana, Barga Jazz, Premio Nicola Paoli, Rovigo “Musica e Poesia”, Concorso Adriatic Lng ed altri.

Sergei Shestakov (Russia) in 2020 he graduated from the Hvorostovsky Siberian State Institute of Arts (Krasnoyarsk) with a degree in composition. In 2022 he completed an assistant internship at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music. Participated in projects of the Russian Union of Composers as well as in the Gnesin Contemporary Music Week festival – not only as a composer, but also as a researcher of contemporary music, a speaker at the “Anti-Conference”, a performer in the FIBEM performance ensemble. He was engaged in musical design for intellectual projects of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music: “The Glass Bead Game”, “Debates”. Laureate of the Russian Union of Composers program “Notes and Quotas” (commissioned by the Reheard ensemble), 2022. Laureate of All-Russian composer competitions. The music was performed at the festivals: reMusik.org (Saint Petersburg), Five Evenings (Moscow), Sound59 (Perm), Gnesin Contemporary Music Week (Moscow), Siberian Festival of Contemporary Music (Krasnoyarsk), Sounding House of Sofia (Kazan). Among the performers: MCME, N’Caged, Reheard, Just-ensemble, Intertext ensemble, Nizhny Novgorod orchestra of button accordions and accordions, Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony Orchestra.

Anton Shukov (Belarus) in 2021 he graduated from the Grodno College of Music, specializing in piano. He also studied composition there. In 2022 he entered the Belarusian Academy of Music, specializing in composition, and simultaneously studied organ playing. In 2023 he received the Prize of the President of the Republic of Belarus for the support of talented youth. At the same time, he takes the private composition lessons from Bernhard Lang (Austria).

COMPOSERS-STUDENTS (NEW COMPOSITIONS FOR CEAM-ARTISTS)

Anzhelika Gabibova (Russia) born in 1992. Composer, pianist, vocalist, member of the Russian Union of Composers. In 2017 she graduated with honors from the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory (composition class of Evgeny Petrov). Her compositions have been performed at various venues in Russia: the Academic Capella, the Sheremetev Palace, the Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall, the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, the House of Radio, the Lendoc studio, the Stanislavsky Actor’s House, as well as abroad (Vienna, Istanbul, Lübeck, Dublin, Berlin, Krakow). Resident of the Classic Electric project (New Music, Multimedia & Gesamtkunstwerk). The project was nominated for the Kuryokhin Prize in 2020. Diploma winner of the all-Russian competition “Choral Laboratory XXI century” (2013). Winner of the musical laboratory “TT RESIDENCE” (Perm Academic Theater-Theater, July 2022). Laureate of the first all-Russian competition of media compositions “Sound Environment of Modernity” in the nomination “Music for Theatrical Productions” (organizer of the competition is the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, 2022) Participant of the 13th International Academy of Young Composers in Tchaikovsky. Participant of the festival “Inspired by Space” 24. Participant of the composer’s workshop “Voice as an Instrument” within the framework of the 3rd festival “Before and After” (2024).

Yifan Guo (China) is a Chinese composer, performer, and multimedia artist who specializes in the innovative exploration of multidimensional music perception experiences, employing both sonic and non-sonic elements in performance. Embracing a range of compositional practices from music theater to electro-acoustic and intermedia performance, Guo seeks to contribute to the innovative landscape of stage works. Supported by prestigious institutions such as Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Opera House, Parkland Foundation, and AEP-CHINA Guo’s artistic endeavors have graced renowned festivals and venues across over 10 countries. Highlights include performances at the Beijing Music Festival, Festival Mixtur (Spain), Le Domaine Forget de Charlevoix (Canada), David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall (New York City), Château de Fontainebleau (France), Qualcomm Institute Theater (San Diego), and the Guangzhou Opera House (Guangzhou), amongst others. Earned degrees from Mannes School of Music (B.M. with honors) and New England Conservatory of Music (M.M.), Yifan Guo is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego.

Alexander Perov (Russia) is a composer, guitarist, bell ringer. Born in 1993 in Novosibirsk. Graduated from the Murov Novosibirsk College of Music in classical guitar, laureate of international competitions. Received the qualification of bell ringer at the Siberian Center for Bell Art of the Novosibirsk Metropolitanate. From 2016 to 2020, he studied at the Novosibirsk Conservatory (class of Yuri Yukechev), was the chairman of the student composers’ club. Since 2020, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory, graduated in 2023. Currently, he is an assistant intern at the Moscow Conservatory (class of Yuri Kasparov). Organizer of contemporary music concerts, lectures and creative meetings. Member of the RussianUnion of Composers. Laureate of the International Competition “New Generation of Music” (Kazakhstan, 2023), 2nd prize. Participant of the projects: Composers’ Readings in Novosibirsk (2020) and Krasnoyarsk (2021); Micromusical Laboratory (2020); annual philharmonic project Bells of Russia in Novosibirsk (since 2015); Re:FormersLAB (2021); intern at the International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky (2021); Gnessin Contemporary Music Week (2021, 2022); Biomechanics Festival (2022, 2023); Open Space (2022); III All-Russian Seminars of New Music (2022); Inspired by Space (2024); Voice as an Instrument (2024).

Charles Champi (Mexico) His compositional work is rooted in research within the field of the philosophy of music, particularly in the relationship between music and language. Starting in 2017, he began experimenting with intersectionality and the possibility of composing “metamusic” (i.e., music about musical events, concert situations, or itself). Since 2018, he has been investigating the possibility of politically engaged music that serves the community in which he resides. This theme is addressed in his opera “La Fosa,” and he explores it during his master’s program, delving into compositional techniques that could be useful for music following the social consequences of climate change. He completed a Master’s in Musical Composition at the Faculty of Music at UNAM under the guidance of Pablo Silva, focusing on the creation and production of electronic and electroacoustic music. His music is currently published by Diaphonia Edizione Musicali and Babel Scores

COMPOSERS – TRAINEES 

Laila Arafah (Great Britain) is a first-year undergraduate composer at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Her works are often interdisciplinary, centering on intimacy, temporality, phenomena of resonance and decay, self-guided explorations of unstable sonic objects, and warping historical materials. Recent commissions have come from London Symphony Orchestra, Explore Ensemble (music about absurdity for LCMF), Aldeburgh Festival, Purcell Symphony Orchestra, and Westminster Abbey’s Commonwealth Service. Laila’s piece ‘CONCRETE’ for soloists and 70+ phones was published in a book on Pauline Oliveros, and CoMA’s catalogue. As the youngest appointment in the LSO Panufnik Scheme’s history, she’s received numerous accolades and residencies, including Dartington Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival Composition Fellow, SaM, Tim Stevenson Award for Outstanding Composition, Abell Young Composer Award, NLF Composition Prize, Samuel-Coleridge Taylor Prize’s youngest finalist, and Junior Trinity Composition prizes. She has written for London Sinfonietta, Carducci Quartet, London Mozart Players, Roadrunner Trio, Quatuor Bozzini, CoMA Orchestra, and others

Nikita Kostikov (Russia) born in Nakhodka (Primorsky Krai). Graduated with honors from the Musical College under the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. Currently, currently he is a student at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in the clarinet class (Associate Professor is Yury Babiy) and at the composition class (Professor is Yury Kasparov. Twice winner of the grant of the President of the Russian Federation, member of the Russian Musical Union. Laureate of all-Russian and international competitions. Participant of the “Composer Readings”, student of the “MOLOT-seminar for young composers”, participant of the residence for choreographers, composers and improvisers “Context.Diana Vishneva”, participant of the CEAM laboratory “Improschema”. Works were performed in the halls of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, the Sheremetev Palace. Among the performers: Natalia Sokolovskaya, MCME and the MOLOT-ensemble.

Nigar Suleyman (Azerbaijan)  (Nigarkhanim Suleymanova) – graduated from Baku Music Academy as a classical composer, her graduate work “Tryptich-symphony” was performed by Azerbaijan State Symphonic Orchestra on 02.02.24. She also did her Erasmus education in Estonia by learning electroacoustical composition. She is the laureate of “Stars project”(Russia), Baku Jazz Festival, the CaspiArt competition (Turkey), etc. Participated in the festival named after U.Hajibeyli (Baku), “Uudislooming” (Estonia), had been in the seminars held by Alexander Khubeev, Szilard Benes, Malle Maltis, Tammo Summera, Anders Flodin, Yulia Migunova, Nikolai Popov, etc. Her works performed by Baku Chamber Orchestra named after Gara Garaev, Cadenza Contemporary Orchestra, Azerbaijan State Symphonic Orchestra. She has several electroacoustic works for tape and ensembles, classical works for piano-trio, string quartet, pieces for violin and piano, piano-sonata, etc. My last work “a very loud silence” dedicated to A.Schnittke was performed by the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, contains quotes from Shcnittke’s music, inspired from his gravestone which has fermata and rest bar on it.

COMPOSERS – OBSERVERS

Fati Besolti (Russia) is a composer, vocalist, performer. Graduated from the Gnessin Academy of Music in 2017. Since 2016 she is a member of the “Lagol” Voice Theater under the direction of Natalia Pshenichnikova. Has been studying advanced vocal techniques since 2016. In 2023 she was an auditor on Vladimir Gorlinsky’s course in composition at Ground Solyanka. In May 2024 she participated in the composition workshop “Voice as an Instrument” at Ground Solyanka. As a composer, she participated in the laboratory “THEATRUM 2019” of the Golden Mask Theater Institute (Yaroslavl); author of the performance “For a bunch of greenery and fish …” at Ground Solyanka (Moscow, 2019); performance “Mukti” at the Theater of Generations (St. Petersburg, 2021); performance “Removing Damage” in the GES-2 space (Moscow, 2022); the spectacle “Forrest” at the Ermolova Theater (Moscow, 2022); the spectacle “Cave Mothers” at the Fomenko Theater (Moscow, 2024), etc. She conducted master classes on voice practices as part of the Synesthesia laboratories (Peredelkino, 2021), at the “Sovremennik” Theater (Moscow, 2021), at the “Transformation festival” (Zheleznogorsk, 2023). As a vocalist and performer, she participated in the Voice laboratory (Institute of Theater, project of the Golden Mask theater award, 2016); the Acoustic Reading laboratory (artistic director Vladimir Pankov, Moscow 2017); the “Archstoyanie” festival 2018 and 2019; the Moscow Autumn contemporary music festival (2019), etc.

Andrey Gitsman (Moldova) was born in 2003 in Tiraspol (PMR). He began studying music in 2014, first as an accordionist, then as a pianist. In 2017 he entered the Chisinau Rachmaninov Music Lyceum, in the same specialty, but after 3 years, in 2020, he switched to composition in the class of Professor Gennady Ciobanu. Laureate of various competitions in Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, China and Moldova. He was a participant in many forums held by the Molot Guild. In 2021 the symphonic piece “The Great Beauty” was performed by the Moldovan Television and Radio Orchestra. The author of more than 40 compositions of various genres: from solo, chamber, vocal music to symphonic. The author of one ballet. Currently studying at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory in the composition class of Professor Yuri Kasparov.

Kirill Zuzenkov (Russia) was born in Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk region, graduated with honors from the Ippolitov-Ivanov College of the State Musical Pedagogical Institute in 2019. In the same year he entered the Composition Department of the M. M. Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical Pedagogical Institute in the class of Efrem Podgayets. Author of a number of chamber works, participant in the Composers’ Readings in Nizhny Novgorod and the creative laboratory for composers “Re:formers lab”. He believes that the main thing in music is sincerity and spontaneity, and any artistic means should be subordinate to the artistic idea, but in no case vice versa.

Galina Krasnokutskaya (Russia) was born in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod). Graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Glinka State Conservatory and completed postgraduate studies in the specialty “Musicology” (class of prof. Yuri Veksler), optionally studied composition in the classes of teachers Oksana Zarodnyuk. In 2011 she defended her PhD thesis 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 Yuri Kasparov. Participant of the 2nd composer’s workshop “Voice as an Instrument” (2024), improvisation laboratory “Improscheme” (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-2222. Architecture and Music” (2010), the All-Russian Olympiad in Theory and History of Music under the patronage of Valentina Kholopova, All-Russian competitions in musicology (Moscow, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod), a scholarship for postgraduate students named after Academician G.A. Razuvaev.

Artyom Ces (Belarus) was born on July 17, 1999 in the Republic of Belarus, Brest. Graduated from the Grodno State Musical College (musicology, 2015-2019) Since 2022, he has been studying at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory (composition, class of Professor Alexander Tchaikovsky).
– VIII COMPETITION OF YOUNG COMPOSERS IN MEMORY OF ALFRED SCHNITTKE AND SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (Sochi, Russian Federation. 1st place, 2022)
– ESCAPADESS (Brussels, Belgium. 1st place, 2022).

Nikifor Yakovlev (Russian Federation, Sakha-Yakutia) is 4th year student of the Faculty of Science and Composition of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory (class of Prof. Yuri Kasparov). Born in 2002 in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Graduate of the Higher School of Music of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (2020) / Author of various genres: chamber music, symphonic music, choral music, music for the spectacle “Kulun Kullustuur” (with the support of the Grant of Cultural Initiatives of the Russian Federation). Laureate of international and all-Russian composition competitions. Among them:

• VII International Competition of Young Composers “Samal” (First Degree Laureate, 2024)
• Participant of the laboratory of the Studio of New Music “Call for scores” (“Sakharga” for wind instruments and double bass, Ensemble of the Studio of New Music, 2022)
• I International Far Eastern Composers Competition “International MolOt composers competition” (Laureate, 2018)
• International Music Competition named after I. F. Stravinsky (Laureate of the 2nd degree) and others.

He is also a participant in numerous forums and seminars for young composers of the “InternationalMolot” / Participated in the master-classes: Tarnopolsky V. G., Kasparov Yu. S., Bochikhina O. E., Sudzilovsky Ya. S., Zobnin A. A., Naborshchikova S. V., Pyslar S. I., Chudova T. A., Jiri Bezdek.

STUDENTS – MUSICOLOGISTS

Vladislava Beskorovainaya is a musicologist. Student at the Music History department of the Saratov State Conservatory. Studied the flute. Member of the student media space ‘Media TON’, where I’m active as a photographer and a content maker. Also, I write reviews for the magazines of the Conservatorie. Besides, I sing in the ensemble of the early music ‘Alienor’.  My research interests include French music of the second half of the 20th century.

Ulyana Garibzyanova is a musicologist, a 1st year student of the Ural State Conservatory named after M. P. Mussorgsky. She was born in 2004 in the city of Tchaikovsky. In 2024, she graduated from the Tchaikovsky Music College with honors in Music Theory, having written a thesis on the topic «Alfred Schnittke «Moz-Art à la Haydn»: on the issue of musical reconstruction». During her studies, she became the Pride of the Perm Region twice (2021 and 2023), the winner of numerous All-Russian competitions (including «Young Talents of Russia»), was a participant in musicological conferences (for example, the XIII All-Russian Competition for Musical Analysis named after Ruchevskoy St. Petersburg, where she presented a work on the topic «Forms and genres in the music of Rodion Shchedrin using the example of some pieces from „The Notebook for Youth“»). In 2024 she entered the Ural State Conservatory named after M. P. Mussorgsky. His research and journalistic interests are related to contemporary music.

Victoria Kozhevnikova was born in Sovetsk (Kirov area). She graduated from music school as a pianist. Then she’ve been studying at the Kirov College of Musical Art named after Igor Kazenin (faculty of music theory) from 2016 to 2020 and has finished it. Currently Victoria is a fifth-year student at the Nizhny Novgorod Glinka State Conservatory (specialty – «Musicology», Tamara Levaya’s class). Victoria explores the issue of post-irony in Russian music of the 20th-21st centuries and also she is fond of modern art.  She made reports at the Scientific readings, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of The Studio for New Music ensemble (The Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory; 2023), at the Forum of young researchers of art and culture «Scientific Spring» (The State Institute for Art Studies; 2023, 2024), at the conference «Music in the modern world: culture, art, education» (Gnesin Russian Academy of Music; 2023) and so on. She’s taken part in the educational program of Diaghilev festival (Perm; 2023) and in the educational intensive course «Talk about music» (The Union of Russian Composers; 2023), where she’ve been studying how to tell about music.  Victoria is a winner of the All-Russian competition «Lecturers’ League». She also gave lectures on music and was the host of different concerts in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Vladimir, Ulyanovsk and Kirov.

Yulia Kuntsova I received my secondary professional education at the Kirov College of Musical Art named after I. V. Kazenin in the department of Music Theory (2016-2020, diploma with honors). During this time, I took part in various Olympiads and competitions, among the most significant achievements is the Diploma of the first degree of the All–Russian Olympiad of Music College Students in Theory and History of Music (M. I. Glinka National Music University, 2020), as well as the victory in the nomination “Oral Word of a musicologist”. Now I am a fifth-year student of the Department of Music History of the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory (class of M. L. Buloshnikov). The field of research interests is the transformation of the requiem genre in the music of the XXI century. One of the first major works of Libera me by Gia Kancheli. The problems of genre and embodiment were presented at the XXXIII International Competition of Students’ research papers in the field of musical art (the Gnessin Academy, 2023. Winner of the II degree in the nomination “Musical art XX-XXI”). The topic of the second study, related to the problems of the genre and style of the symphonic performance “Requiem” by Alexei Syumak, was revealed from different angles on Anti-conferences within the framework of the VI Gnesin Contemporary Music Week Festival (31.10-3.11.2023), International Scientific Conference “Modern Music as a scientific problem” (28-30.11.2023), XVII All-Russian Scientific Conference “Research of Young Musicologists” (8-9.04.2024), as well as an article on the topic “Requiem by Alexey Syumak. Towards the problem of Polystylistics” was presented at the XXXIV International Competition of Students’ Research papers in the field of musical art at the Gnessin Academy, 2024. Winner of the III degree in the nomination “The latest compositional techniques”).

Roman Malyavkin graduated from the Russian Academy of Music. Currently a graduate student. Guest musician of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Studio of new music. The participant of the “Geometry of Sound” project (the main projects is: a site-specific opera at the Voronezh railway station “Hometown Residents”, an opera in the memory garden of the Gulag History Museum “Your father is alive, just don’t talk about it” “and others. Participated in various contemporary projects: performances,, installations, ballets, operas. Author of music and co-author of the dance performance “Fractional step” (Project of Tatyana Chizhikova), nominated for the Golden Mask. Performer of music by many contemporary Russian composers D. Posazhennikov, V. Gorlinsky, K. Arkhipov, D. Mazurov, V. Rannev, A. Svetlichny, etc. Participant of the festivals “ImpulsTanz” in Vienna, “Antigel” in Geneva, “Voices” in Berlin, as well as “Gnesin Contemporary Music Week”, “Diaghilev Festival”, “Five Evenings”, “Sound 59”, “Platonov Arts Festival”, “Access Point”, etc.

Alexander Bedin is an engineer, media artist, curator, student of the Moscow Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, workshops of Oleg Makarov and Vladislav Efimov.
A. Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, workshops of Oleg Makarov and Vladislav Efimov. Author of multimedia and kinetic installations, audiovisual objects, assistant engineer of Moscow exhibition projects. Participated in many exhibitions of contemporary art, including “I will avenge the world with love” (GRAUND Solyanka, 2023); “ It Sounds” (Gallery Krasnokholmskaya, 2023); “Observations and Illusions” (exhibition of Vladislav Efimov’s Workshop, 2023); “Order of Observation” (exhibition of Vladislav Efimov’s Workshop, 2022); “Electric Dreams” (art space Artemiev, 2024).

Elena Pererva is a violinist, a graduate of the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory. Participant of the fourth MASM performing workshop, Gnesin Contemporary Music Week festival, as a guest performer of the XIII Academy of Young Composers in Tchaikovsky. Soloist and co-founder of the modern music ensemble «again ensemble» in Nizhny Novgorod.

Anna Peshkova graduated from the Department of Germanic Philology of the Russian State University of Humanities in 2023. During her studies she started working at the Chekhov International Theater Festival. At the moment she is a 2nd year student of the Master’s program of the Russian State University for Theatre and Film Criticism. Research interests: Russian and European musical theater of the XXI century; history of opera genre; research of performing traditions. Participated in the VI International Scientific Conference “Opera in Musical Theater: History and Modernity” with the report “Nadezhda Pavlova: methodology of actor-vocal embodiment of the image in the proposed directorial circumstances”. Twice participant of the “Opera Criticism” laboratory under the direction of Sergei Bulanov. Press secretary of the Elena Obraztsova Charitable Foundation.

Ekaterina Prokhorova I am a 4th-year student at the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in the direction of “Management of musical Art”. I participated in the organization of various pop music concerts, now I am interning at the Helikon Opera Theater and together with them I managed to work at the premiere of the film version of the opera Aida for a joint project with the Kultura TV channel, at the premiere of the opera Madame Butterfly and the competition of young opera directors Nano-Opera. In the near future, I plan to develop in producing projects related to the opera theaters.

Alina Radjabova in 2022, she graduated from the Kazan State Conservatory named after N.G. Zhiganov with a degree in Music Journalism and Editorial Detail in the Media. Between 2020 and 2023 she worked at the Tatar Academic State Opera and Ballet Theater named after Musa Jalil as press secretary and SMM manager, from December 2023 to June 2024 only as SMM manager. Between March 2024 and June 2024 she worked as a leading public relations specialist at the Kazan State Conservatory named after N.G. Zhiganov. Author of the podcast “Faces of the Theater” for the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Jalil.

Ksenia Statsura is a musicologist, lecturer, and teacher. I graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Institute of Arts, majoring in Musicology in 2016. Currently, I teach music theory subjects at the College of Arts of the Tyumen State Institute of Culture. I host author’s concerts at the Tyumen Philharmonic. My interests include journalism, music producing, and music education projects. I am a graduate of the School of Cultural Journalism and the winner of the Artful Verb competition from the Proarte Foundation. I write texts for the press service of the Tyumen Philharmonic

STUDENTS – IMPROVISERS

Svetlana Zheleznova (lit::tle) is a developer, indi musician, improvisation beginner. Interests: issues of subjective perception of time and space, neurobiology, hearing disorders. Prefers to use analog synthesizers and acoustic instruments in her works.

Katerina Kuznetsova is a vocalist, improviser and performer of contemporary academic music. Member of improvisation ensemble “tsarapina” (Ekaterinburg). Participated in laboratories of contemporary academic music (Practicum for Contemporary Performing Arts MCME, Gnesin Contemporary Music Week) and vocal performances (“Chorevanie”, GES-2; “Phantom Testimony”, Metenkov House). Interests: contemporary academic music, improvisation and exploration of noise and sound-imitative possibilities of the voice, comprehension of folklore in new music. Main instruments: voice, percussion and noise instruments.

Roman Seliverstov is a musician, improviser, EdTech product manager. Participant in sound studies laboratory from Kotä records, free-improvisation lab at GES-2 and laboratory as part of the Improschema festival at Moscow Conservatory. Uses prepared guitar with sound processing in Max/Msp as main instrument.

Anton (Antonii) Yatmanov.  is a composer, improviser. Education: music theory (Cheboksary Music College named after F.P. Pavlov), composition (St. Petersburg State Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov). Participant of the laboratory of improvisational and experimental music (Museum of Sound, St. Petersburg).
Interests: experimental music, sacred singing, folklore, free improvisation, collecting field recordings, interaction with dance artists. In my work I prefer electroacoustic improvisation, study sound.