Concert of the laureates of the 6th All-Russian Avanti Composers’ Competition Valeria Kukhta Winding river for vibraphone and marimba Ivan Kolovanov Concerto barbaro for xylophone, marimba and drum kit Alexey Pavlyuchuk Labyrinth for vibraphone
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Performers: Studio for New Music, Tatiana Efremova (Kazan) Programme: Caio de Azevedo (Brazil), Ricardo Durán Barney (Mexico), Mehdi Hosseini (Iran), Alina Mukhametrakhimova (Ufa, world premiere), Dan Yuhas (Israel, Russian premiere), Jin Wenchen (China)
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A concert within the Moscow Philharmonic subscription series Zaum. The aesthetics and palette of styles in the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. A series of lecture-concerts. Author and host – Fyodor Sofronov Programme: A. Lourié, B. Ferneyhough, M. Finnissy, M. Nyman, A. Pärt Performers: Studio for New Music soloists ensemble
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Composer: Isao Matsushita Performers: Tokyo Novyi Art Theatre (Japan) and Studio for New Music Conductor — Honoured Artist of Russia Igor Dronov A separate day of the festival (5 April) will be devoted to Japanese culture. The programme includes the presentation of a new translation from Ad Marginem Press, a public talk on Japanese culture, literature and theatre with art historians and theatre scholars, and a concert and staged performance by the Tokyo Novyi Art Theatre and Studio for New…
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9 April, Conference Hall of the Moscow Conservatory The Department of Contemporary Music and the Centre for Contemporary Music of the Moscow Conservatory will hold the academic conference “Music and Its Surroundings: Walks with Erik Satie and Morton Feldman”. 2026 is an anniversary year for Erik Satie (1866–1925) and Morton Feldman (1926–1987), composers distinguished not only by their extravagant characters but also by broad horizons and the ability to think on a grand scale, embracing different ideas and fields of…
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Dom Cultural Centre (Address: Moscow, 24 Bolshoy Ovchinnikovsky Lane, bldg 4) Composer: Nikifor Yakovlev (Sakha Republic, Yakutia) Performers: Sergey Malinin (tenor) and the Studio for New Music Nikifor Yakovlev’s mono-opera is based on the Yakut epic Olonkho, which is traditionally performed by a single performer — the olonkhosut. The narrative lasts for several days, since the number of characters can run into dozens, even hundreds. The storyteller masterfully embodies each character through a distinct manner of speech, intonation and individual…
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HAZINA is a unique ethnic ensemble from the Republic of Bashkortostan. Its members master the art of folk singing, including throat singing, and play national instruments (kurai, dumbyra, kyl-kubyz and others). The ensemble performs ethnic music and original compositions in which Bashkir folklore meets the present day. At the concert the HAZINA ensemble will present an original composition, “Дала ауазы” (“Voice of the Steppe”), and arrangements of folk songs: • «Ҡуңыр буға» • «Ишбирҙе ҡасҡын» • «Бала ҡарға» • «Ҡырҡты…
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Concert for the 160th anniversary of the Moscow Conservatory Pavel Polyakov Motherless Child (world premiere) Alexander Mosolov The Tractor Column Enters the Collective Farm Alfred Schnittke Dead Souls (excerpt) Viktor Sumarokov Faces of Farewell Nikolai Roslavets Nocturne Andrei Volkonsky Was noch lebt Edison Denisov Ode Danya Fisko Marusya Klimova Performers: Studio for New Music soloists ensemble Conductor – Sergey Akimov
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The title of the experimental programme “Five Minutes of Pure Cinema” refers to Henri Chomette’s film of the same name, which became a manifesto of the directors of “pure cinema”. Soloists of the Studio for New Music ensemble will perform music by young Russian composers written especially for selected films. The concert is a kind of exploration of how music changes the sense of time in a film, and of the metamorphoses music itself undergoes as it interacts with on-screen…
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Programme: Vladimir TARNOPOLSKY (*1955) An Old Casket from Georgia (2022) for flute and piano Svetlana LAVROVA (*1970) Stasis, In Memory of György Ligeti (2023) for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello Daniel SATANOVSKY (*2002) From Outside (World premiere, 2026) for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello Danya FISKO Diaries (2024) Maxim RAEV (*2001) Bleached to White (World premiere, 2026) for violin, cello and piano Roman PARKHOMENKO (*1993) Fog and Light (2020) for flute, clarinet, piano and cello Performers: Marina Rubinstein,…
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