Performance by the Studio for New Music ensemble in a concert from the series “To the 160th Anniversary of the Alma Mater” The ensemble’s part of the program: Alexander Scriabin Sonata No. 10 for piano, arranged for chamber ensemble by Faraj Karaev (1913) Yuri Vorontsov Winter Path 1941 for ensemble (2021) Yuri Kasparov Time Has Stopped! A sound fresco for 12 singers and 16 instrumentalists to poems by Zinaida Gippius (2024) Performers: Soloists of the Studio for New Music ensemble…
READ MOREFor the 450th anniversary of Lutheranism in Russia Program: Johann Sebastian Bach Chorale prelude Christ lag in Todesbanden (“Christ Lay in Death’s Bonds”) for organ (1716) Sofia Gubaidulina Reflections on the Theme BACH for string quartet (2002) Yuri Kasparov Recitative and Chorale for oboe and cello (2023) Helmut Lachenmann Third Voice to J. S. Bach’s Invention in D minor for three instruments (1985) Erik Satie Things Seen Right and Left (Without Glasses) for piano and violin (1914) I. Hypocritical Chorale…
READ MOREFrom 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…
READ MOREProgram: Helmut Lachenmann Sakura-Variationen for alto saxophone, piano and percussion (2000) Tristan Murail Treize couleurs du soleil couchant for chamber ensemble (1978) George Crumb Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for flute, cello and piano (1971) David Lang Sweet Air for ensemble (1999) Georg Friedrich Haas Tria ex uno, sextet after Josquin des Prez (2001) Performers: Marina Rubinstein, flute Ignat Krasikov, clarinet Natalia Cherkasova, piano Marina Katarzhnova, flute Daria Lutsenko, cello
READ MOREPart of the Moscow Philharmonic subscription series “Tuning Fork of Space” A concert-lecture with musicologist Fyodor Sofronov and photographer Yuri Palmin Program: Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet (1940; I. Prelude and II. Fugue) Kurt Weill Selected cabaret songs (1925–1943) Alfredo Casella Five Pieces for String Quartet (1920) Hanns Eisler Fourteen Ways of Describing Rain for ensemble (1941) Performers: Soloists of the Studio for New Music ensemble
READ MOREProgram: Nikifor Yakovlev Permafrost for ensemble (2026) Written within the Union of Composers of Russia program “Notes and Quotas” George Crumb Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for flute, cello and piano (1971) Pekka Jalkanen Sun Wedding for flute and piano (2003) Alexander Knaifel Ostinato for violin and cello (1964) Henry Cowell Ostinato Pianissimo for percussion ensemble (1934) Performers: Soloists of the Studio for New Music ensemble
READ MOREDEPARTMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC RESEARCH AND CREATIVE CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC OF THE MOSCOW CONSERVATORY are holding an academic conference The “Echo” of Eco (1932 – 2027): on the 95th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding scholar The conference will take place on 25 February 2027 in the Conference Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (13/6 Bolshaya Nikitskaya St., Moscow). The name of Umberto Eco brings to mind a towering mountain peak: over the course of a prolific…
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