A lecture by Marianna Vysotskaya 4 October, Saturday | 16:00 What is the musical avant-garde, and how does it fit into the broader artistic processes of the 20th century? What are its criteria, features and aesthetic programme? Does it intersect with the tendencies and language of related arts? Was the avant-garde in music a single monolithic movement with a style of its own, or is it more accurate to speak of a phenomenon of “many colours” – a multitude of…
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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)…
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Fyodor Sofronov’s concert-lecture series “The Gaze of Our Hearing”
Concert-lecture No. 5 “A New European Mythology”
Composer evening of Wang Chenxu (China)
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Festival of the Union of Composers of Russia “Five Evenings” Evening No. 3 “Fragments of Faded Time” Programme — music by Andrey Besogonov, Natalia Prokopenko, Evgenia Bril, Ivan Naborshchikov, Alexey Pavlyuchuk, Ekaterina Khmelevskaya, Olga Ivanova, Tamara Egorova, Elena Shipova Performers: Studio for New Music soloists ensemble Vocal ensemble N’Caged Vocal trio NOĒSIS Alyona Taran (flute) Maria Koryakina (flute) Sergey Poltavsky (viola d’amore) Elena Shipova (video)
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Concert for the 95th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Karetnikov
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Lecture by Marianna Vysotskaya In Search of a New Sound: Sonoric Composition How It Is Made In the second half of the twentieth century the sonoric technique of composition came to the fore. The newest music displays manifold embodiments of the sonoric idea: from a timbral treatment of serial structures to musical stochastics, from prepared piano to extended piano, from “composing” timbre by revealing the spectral characteristics of sound to timbral synthesis within mixed-type composition. Innovative composers, with varying degrees…
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Fyodor Sofronov’s authored series of lecture-concerts “Zaum”
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