From 7 to 11 November 2026, the 6th All-Russian Seminars on New Music will take place in Krasnoyarsk for the first time. The largest educational project of the Center for Contemporary Music at the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory is travelling beyond the capital and will be held at, and with the official support of, the Dmitri Hvorostovsky Siberian State Institute of Arts.
The Studio for New Music ensemble and the Scientific and Creative Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) of the Moscow Conservatory regularly run educational projects for young performers, composers and conductors. Over 32 years, the ensemble’s soloists and the center’s staff have given numerous master classes in Russia and abroad. Among the regular educational projects of the Studio and the CCM are the All-Russian Seminars on New Music. The seminars held in previous years (2014, 2015, 2022, 2023, 2025) were attended by more than 100 young musicians from across Russia: Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Yelets, Kazan, Krasnodar, Magnitogorsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Ufa and other cities. During the program, students studied the latest performance techniques, explored the most notable trends in contemporary composition, mastered unconventional practices, and created and performed electroacoustic compositions.
About the theme of the seminars
The sixth seminars are devoted to the changing concept of sound in new music and, as a consequence, to extended performance techniques of the 20th and 21st centuries (non-traditional ways of producing sound, preparation, new principles of notation). The aim of the project is to give young musicians from the regions a unique theoretical and practical foundation for working with current contemporary repertoire.
Eligibility and tracks
Young musicians, performers, musicologists and music journalists aged 35 and under are invited to take part.
The program has two tracks:
Performance track
Specialties: violin, cello, piano, flute, clarinet.
Hands-on work on a pre-agreed repertoire under the guidance of soloists of the Studio for New Music.
Theory track
Specialties: musicology and music journalism.
An academic and journalistic workshop on writing articles, followed by review and critique by the curators.
Participation formats:
- Active participants (seminar students): selected individually; attend all closed master classes and practical sessions.
- Auditors: invited to all open lectures, public talks and round tables.
Master classes by specialty:
Department of String Instruments – violin
Department of String Instruments – cello
Department of Special Piano – piano
Department of Wind Instruments – flute
Department of Wind Instruments – clarinet
Musicology – academic and journalistic workshop
Track curators:
Evgenia Izotova – director of the Studio for New Music ensemble of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Associate Professor, PhD in Art History
Fyodor Sofronov – composer, musicologist, senior researcher at the Center for Contemporary Music of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory
Daria Lutsenko – cellist, soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble, co-founder and soloist of the Independent Musicians Ensemble, researcher of 20th–21st-century music
Marina Katarzhnova – violinist, soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble, Associate Professor at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, artistic director of the Rosarium chamber orchestra
Ignat Krasikov – clarinetist, soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble, composer, multi-instrumentalist
Marina Rubinstein – flutist, soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble, laureate of international competitions
Natalia Cherkasova – pianist, soloist of the Studio for New Music ensemble, laureate of international competitions
Seminar schedule:
| Time | 7 Nov, Sat | 8 Nov, Sun | 9 Nov, Mon | 10 Nov, Tue | 11 Nov, Wed |
| 9:00 | Body and voice practice
D. Lutsenko |
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| 11:00 | Opening of the seminars – meeting the curators | Lecture “Contemporary Notation”
E. Izotova |
Lecture
F. Sofronov |
Round table “The 21st Century” | |
| 13:00 | Curator sessions: meeting the participants | Curator sessions by department | Curator sessions by department | Curator sessions by department | |
| 15:00 | Lecture “New Music”
F. Sofronov |
Curator sessions by department | Curator sessions by department | ||
| 17:00 | Public talk at the “In the Center of the World” gallery | Dress rehearsal | |||
| 19:00 | Studio for New Music concert at the Museum Night at the “Ploshchad Mira” center | Studio for New Music ensemble concert at the Philharmonic | Concert by the seminar participants |
How to apply and selection process
Application deadline: until 18 October 2026 inclusive.
Selection results will be announced no later than 26 October 2026.
Participation in the seminar sessions is free of charge. Travel and accommodation for participants from other cities are covered by the sending party. All participants who successfully complete the program will receive certificates of completion of the 6th All-Russian Seminars on New Music.
