The ensemble Studio for New Music is one of the leading Russian ensembles performing modern academic music. It was founded in 1993 at the Moscow Conservatory by composer Vladimir Tarnopolsky (artistic director from 1993 to 2022), conductor Igor Dronov and musicologist Alexander Sokolov. The band’s repertoire includes almost all chamber and chamber-orchestral music of the XX-XXI centuries, ranging from early Russian avant-garde and Western modernism to compositions written in recent years.

Studio of New Musiс exists on the basis of the scientific platform – the Center for Contemporary Music of the Moscow Conservatory. Every year, the ensemble and the Center for Contemporary Music hold seminars for young professionals, scientific conferences, as well as public educational projects, including a series of documentary readings for the anniversaries of composers, lectures at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and many concert lectures from the Studio for New Music and the leading researcher of the Center for Contemporary Music, musicologist and composer Fyodor Sofronov. Since 2024, the flagship project of the Center for Contemporary Music has been the online almanac Time to Hear/Hear Time, four issues of which were published with the support of the Union of Composers of Russia.

From 1993 to 2021, Studio for New Music was the base ensemble of the Moscow Forum International Festival (artistic director – Vladimir Tarnopolsky). In 2023, the ensemble continued the festival path with the StudioFest project, the first season of which was dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the band, and the second will be held under the name Oikumena. XXI century and will turn to modern non-European academic music (2026).

At the moment, concerts of the Studio for New Music can be heard on the ensemble’s home venue, the Rachmaninoff Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, as well as on the leading stages of Moscow and St. Petersburg: the MGAF Chamber Hall, the Zotov Center, the AZ/art Gallery, the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and many others. In the period from 1993 to 2022, the band conducted no less active concert activities abroad, performing at such venues as the Berlin Philharmonic, Konzerthaus, Paris Cite de la Musique, the Venetian Malibran Theater and in many other major halls of the world. The ensemble has repeatedly performed in joint concerts with Ensemble Modern, played music with the Schoenberg Ensemble and Klangforum Wien, conducted master classes at conservatories, organized special projects at universities, including such famous ones as Oxford, Boston and Harvard. The studio became the first and currently the only Russian ensemble invited to the International Courses of New Music in Darmstadt.

Such composers as Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Alexander Vustin, Roman Ledenev, Faraj Karaev, Yuri Kasparov, Yuri Vorontsov, Alexey Sysoev, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Olga Bochikhina, Georgy Dorokhov, Alexey Siumak, Anton Safronov, Alexander Hubeev, Igor Kefalidi, Nikolai Popov, Kuzma Bodrov, Mark Buloshnikov, Azamat Khasanshin wrote especially for the Studio., Ekaterina Prokopenko, Lilia Iskhakova, Andrey Besogonov, Oleg Payberdin, Nikolai Khrust, Alina Podzorova, Vadim Genin, Dmitry Kurlandsky, Arman Gushchyan, Anna Romashkova, Anna Pospelova, Danya Fisko, Evgenia Bril, Dmitry Burtsev, Sanzhar Bayterekov, Enno Poppe, Luca Francesconi, Ivan Fedele, Maarten Altena, Martin Padding, Louis Nahon, Roger Retgate, Nikolaus Huber, Gerard Zinnstag and many others.

The chief conductor is Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Igor Dronov.

Assistant Conductor – Andrey Serov

The director of the ensemble is Evgenia Izotova.