Organisers — the Union of Composers of Russia, the Sofia Gubaidulina Centre for Contemporary Music and the Synesthesia team The main theme of Synesthesia Lab – 2025 is synchronisation. The festival programme places the emphasis on interdisciplinarity and unusual formats, on the intersection of music, visual art and performance, cinema, science and digital technologies. Artistic director of Synesthesia Lab — composer and conductor Roman Parkhomenko. Programme: Angelika Gabibova (Russia) These intrusive thoughts (2025, world premiere) Pablo Rubino Lindner (Argentina) El…
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F. M. Sofronov From Noise to Electronic Composition A System of Coordinates Unlike the music of past centuries, contemporary music does not use “ready-made” schemes of composition and its elements. Each composer develops his own musical language from peculiar “formants” that he invents himself. The sound designer, who selects and processes sounds for a future soundscape, does something similar. The essential differences between the soundscape and opus music have recently been blurring under the powerful influence of multimedia and now…
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Concert for the 130th anniversary of the birth of Paul Hindemith By the beginning of the twentieth century, with the end of the Romantic era, the three-century reign of classical harmony had also come to an end. Seeking to free themselves from the weight of nineteenth-century clichés, artists of different individualities embarked on new searches, taking as their stimulus the art and traditions of pre-Romantic eras. In that pivotal century, an awareness of the crisis of European music and attempts…
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One of the most striking figures of the post-war musical scene, Helmut Lachenmann is an idol of several generations of contemporary composers, “untouchable” among performers and a disturber of the peace among audiences. His aesthetic of renouncing the beautiful (which in the modern world has become a synonym of kitsch) has for several decades provoked musicologists, philosophers and art theorists to search for a new definition of the “musical”. Lachenmann’s language is harsh and uncomfortable. Its phonemes are knocks, rustles,…
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Concert and presentation of the almanac on new music “Time to Hear / Hear the Time” Programme: music by H. Lachenmann, V. Genin, A. Khasanshin, Yu. Vinogradov Performers: Natalia Cherkasova, Daria Lutsenko, Valeria Dolgushina, Yuri Vinogradov, Farkhad Bakhtiyari In 2023 the Centre for Contemporary Music of the Moscow Conservatory and the Studio for New Music ensemble, jointly with the Union of Composers of Russia and with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, published the first…
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Programme — music by F. Schubert, A. Schoenberg, Yu Tianran, S. Rachmaninoff, S. Gubaidulina, R. Shchedrin, Yu. Vorontsov, I. Sokolov Performers: Nino Barkalaya (piano) Ivan Sokolov (piano) Olga Ivanova (piano) Alexey Kudryashov (piano) Mikhail Kovalev (piano) Dmitry Bereznyak (piano) Arseny Lapin (piano) Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory Conductor — Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation, Honoured Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia Alexander Solovyov Studio for New Music soloists ensemble Artistic director and chief conductor — Honoured Artist…
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Programme — music by G. Sviridov: the cantata “Kursk Songs”, the poem “Petersburg”, songs to words by R. Burns, A. Pushkin, S. Yesenin, A. Prokofiev and M. Isakovsky Performers: Dmitry Grigoriev (bass) Konstantin Suchkov (baritone) Nikolai Erokhin (tenor) Marina Ruseishvili (mezzo-soprano) Vladimir Skomorokhov (organ) Polina Zheliba (piano) Elena Savelyeva (piano) Studio for New Music soloists ensemble Moscow Conservatory Student Choir Conductor — Artistic Director of the Moscow Conservatory Student Choir, Professor Alexey Rudnevsky
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Programme: Olga Ozerskaya Ice Patterns for ensemble (2017) Pavel Karmanov Seven Minutes to Christmas for flute, string quintet and tape (2013) Boris Getselev Winter Capriccio for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion (2004) Anonymous of the 21st century When Time Runs Backwards for chamber orchestra (2025, world premiere) Edison Denisov On the Film of the Frozen Pond… for nine instruments and magnetic tape (1991) Alexey Sysoev Kolyadka (Christmas Carol) for female voice and ensemble (2013) Alfred Schnittke Stille…
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Performers: Boyarynya Morozova — People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Larisa Kostyuk (mezzo-soprano) Princess Urusova — Maria Chelmakina (soprano) The Tsar — Mikhail Davydov (baritone) Archpriest Avvakum — Vasily Efimov (tenor) Morozova’s Son — Savely Rodin (treble) Kirill Soldatov (trumpet) Soloists of the Studio for New Music ensemble: Andrey Vinnitsky (timpani) Andrey Nikitin (percussion) Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory Founder of the choir — Professor Boris Tevlin Conductor — Honoured Art Worker of the Russian Federation, Professor Alexander Solovyov
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