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Academic readings within the “Studio | Science” project The concept of the “Studio | Science” project echoes the key ideas of the anniversary year: it takes stock of thirty years and delves into the theme of new performance practices. Over three days, spread between the festival concerts, the Conference Hall of the Moscow Conservatory will host presentations of new publications and useful resources, as well as three sections of academic readings: Scientific and Theoretical Section “30 Years of New Music”…

Conversations. Recollections. Readings. With the participation of Tatiana Grindenko, Larisa Kirillina and Anton Karetnikov Conference Hall, 16:00

The conference will take place in the Conference Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (13/6 Bolshaya Nikitskaya St., Moscow) on 9–10 October 2024.

Boulez.doc is a popular-science project of the Centre for Contemporary Music and the almanac “Time to Hear / Hear the Time”. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pierre Boulez, it continues a series of meetings in which the legacy of avant-garde composers is explored through readings of reminiscences, press coverage and articles about them. The Boulez.doc readings will open with a lecture by Doctor of Arts and musicologist Tatiana Tsaregradskaya, “Boulez: How We See Him Today”. The…

The Department of the History of Russian Music and the Research and Creative Centre for Contemporary Music of the Moscow Conservatory are holding a round table marking the 125th anniversary of Alexander Mosolov. Participants: Irina Skvortsova — Doctor of Arts, Professor, Head of the Department of the History of Russian Music, Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory Igor Vorobyov — Doctor of Arts, Professor at the Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory Yuri Kasparov — Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation, Professor…

DEPARTMENT OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC SCIENTIFIC AND CREATIVE CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC OF THE MOSCOW CONSERVATORY announce an academic conference “Boulez, Berio and Musical Culture between 1925 and 2025: From Structuralism to Postmodernism” The conference will take place in the Conference Hall of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (Moscow, B. Nikitskaya St., 13/6) on 15‒16 October 2025. 1925 was the year of birth of two composers whose work had an enormous influence on the world of musical culture: Pierre Boulez (1925‒2016)…

Concert marking the composer’s 100th anniversary

20 March 2026 The Department of Contemporary Music holds an Open Session for the anniversary of the Department’s professor, Doctor of Arts Svetlana Ilyinichna SAVENKO An outstanding musicologist of world renown and a singer who introduced Russian audiences to masterpieces of vocal music of the past and present centuries (including music written specially for her), Svetlana Ilyinichna Savenko is a unique example of a scholar in whom theory and practice are united: a deep interest in the most complex music-theoretical…