The closing concert
of the VII International Young
Composers Academy

About the project http://m-c-m-e.ru/ru/academy/

Annual International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city (Perm region) is the unique and only large-scale international young composers’ workshop in Russia. It was set up in 2011 by the leading Russian composer Dmitri Kourliandski (artistic director) together with Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble.

Academy is a creative laboratory for young composers and musicians from all over the world. Visiting professors are well-known composers who hold individual sessions and group lectures. During fortnight workshop the young composers write new compositions which are rehearsed and performed in the final concerts – in Tchaikovsky, Perm and in Moscow at the best concert stage by the leading Russian group – the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME). Within the Academy there are also organized a number of educational concerts, master-classes for young musicians and special training courses for teachers. At the same time the MCME musicians carry out individual and ensemble master-classes for music teachers. Totally every Academy collected around 100 participants.

The Tchaikovsky city is the very nice place for the Academy. Privacy and rest, remoteness from noise and big cities, wonderful landscapes dispose to fruitful creative concentration. The unique city in the world, called in honor of the composer, apparently, is created to be a cradle of musical creativity.

Among the professors-teachers of the Academy were the well-known composers such as Beat Furrer (Austria/Switzerland), Franc Bedrossian, Philippe Leroux, Jean-Luc Herve, Mark Andre, Raphael Cendo, Fabien Levy (France), Pierluigi Billone, Francesco Filidei (Italy), Carola Bauckholt (Germany), Peter Ablinger, Klaus Lang (Austria), Oscar Bianchi (Switzerland), Antoine Beuger (the Netherlands/Germany).

The Academy in Tchaikovsky city is one of the leading educational music forums in the world. The number of applications is increasing every year. For participation in the Seventh International Young Composers Academy 164 applications from 49 countries were arrived!

The 7th International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city goes from 28 of August to 12 of September 2017 in Tchaikovsky, Perm and Moscow. As the professors of the Academy are Yannis Kyriakides (Cylrus/the Netherlands), Jérôme Combier (France), Dmitri Kourliandski (Russia) and Elzbieta Sikora (Poland). 10 students compose new pieces for 1-5 instruments to be performed by the soloists of Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble.

PROFESSORS

Yannis Kyriakides was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1969 and in 1975 emigrated with his family to Britain. After travelling for a year with his violin in the near east, learning traditional music, he returned to England to study musicology at York University, later being drawn by the music of Louis Andriessen to move to The Netherlands, with whom he studied under at the Hague Conservatory. As a composer and sound artist he strives to create new forms and hybrids of media, synthesizing disparate sound sources and exploring spatial and temporal experience. He has focused in the majority of his work on ways of combining traditional performance practices with digital media. His has written over ninety compositions: Memoryscape (35') for video and ensemble (musikfabrik, WDR) ; Satellites (50') ensemble and electronics (Seattle Chamber Players); Disco Debris (interactieve installatie, Amiens Maison de la Culture). Ocean of Rain (80') opened the Aldeburgh Music Festival in 2008. Two sound installations will be shown at the Dutch pavillion of the Venice Bienalle 2011. He has been featured composer at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007 and will be in November Music Festival 2011. He has released about 10 CD's of his music of which the most recent is 'Antichamber', a double CD collection of electroacoustic chamber music, which won a French Qwartz electronic music award. In September 2000 he won the Gaudeamus composition prize. The CD 'Wordless' received an honorary mention in the Prix Ars Electronica 2006. He is artistic director of Ensemble MAE, and teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague.

Jérôme Combier studied composition, style, analysis, and orchestration with Hacène Larbi, and then later, in 1997, at the Paris Conservatory with Emmanuel Nunes and Michaël Lévinas. In addition, his university studies lead to a master's degree on Anton Webern with mentor Antoine Bonnet ("Le principe de variation chez Anton Webern"). In 1995 he was a finalist in the Griegselskalpet competition in Oslo. In 1997, he founded the Cairn Ensemble, and is now the artistic director. Jérôme Combier received the "Vocation" Prize (awarded by the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation) and the Pierre Cardin prize. In September 1998, he participated in the composition session at the Fondation Royaumont, and as part of a cultural exchange, was in residence in Japan for two months. In 2001-2002, he was chosen to

participate in the composition and musical computing cursus at IRCAM. For two years, between 2002 and 2004, he developed composition and conducting programs in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan with support from the Paris Conservatory for the conservatories in Tashkent and Almaty, and then the following year was in residence at the Villa Medicis. Jérôme Combier was quest composer at the Why Note festival in Dijon, Tage für Neue Musik in Zurich, the festival of Aix-en-Provence, the Adelburgh Festival, and the Witten Festival. His compositions for Ensemble Recherche and Ensemble Intercontemporain were part of the Autumn Festival in Paris. In collaboration with Pierre Nouvel, he created the installation Noir Gris for the Beckett exposition organised by the Centre Georges Pompidou.

Elzbieta Sikora born in Lwow, Poland, Elzbieta Sikora studied electronic music with Pierre Schaeffer and Francois Bayle in Paris and music composition with Tadeusz Baird and Zbigniew Rudzinski in Warszaw, Poland and with Betsy Jolas in Paris. In 1973 she founded, with W.Michniewski and K.Knittel the Group of Composers KEW. Scholarships from the French Government at IRCAM, Paris, the City of Mannheim, and the Kosciuszko Foundation at CCRMA (Computer Center for Research in Music and Acoustics), Stanford, have enriched the composer’s international outlook. Elzbieta Sikora has received among others: II Prize for her opera "Ariadna", at the Composers Competition in Dresden, Germany, Prix Magistère for "Aquamarina" in Bourges, France. She has been awarded by SACEM, received the SACD Prize Nouveau Talent Musique for her opera “L’Arrache-coeur”, in Paris, France and Künstlerinnenpreise in Heidelberg, Germany. She was awarded by l’Académie du Disque Lyrique in Paris and received the French Distinction, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. Elzbieta Sikora lives and works in Paris, France. Her catalog includes more than thirty major works among which two operas, three ballets, several symphonic works, chamber music works , electroacoustic and mixed musics. She has received numerous prizes.

STUDENTS

Louis Bona (1990), French young composer, lives in Paris. He begins his musical education studying viola with Carole Dauphine at the Paris conservatory. After obtaining his diploma in musical studies, he begins his master studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Heisler in Berlin where he discovers a new approach to instrumental and sound technique through his professor Walter Küssner and the study of contemporary music by being an active member of the contemporary ensemble Echo, under the direction of Manuel Nauwri. These new accomplishments push him to return to his compositional work. He then studies avec Jean-Luc Hervé at the Boulogne Billancourt conservatory while continuing his work as multifunctional musician with the Lwosky –Kronfort-Musik-Theate- Kolectiv where he plays and arrange within the Lulu Nana project. In september 2017, he will join the National superior Conservatory in the composor Frédérique Durieux's class

Valentín Pelisch was born in 1983. His works explores the visual and sonic matter of chamber music. Different ensembles presented his works in spaces of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Ukraine, Austria, Spain, Italy, Holland and U.S.A. In 2015 participated as resident composer of KulturKontakt - Austria, as resident composer of the Goethe-Institut International Platform for Music – theatre (BsAs), and as guest composer of the Contemporary Music Festival of Panama. He studied composition with Gerardo Gandini and Marcelo Delgado in Buenos Aires. He participated in different kind of courses and workshops with very different composers and artists. He also studied electroacoustic composition at the University of Quilmes

Daniil Pilchen was born in 1995, Odessa, Ukraine. From 2013 studying composition in Moscow conservatory with professor Yury Kasparov. In 2014 took a part in a festival ‘Lost in Translation’ in Moscow. In 2015 was a selected scholar at ‘Course’, International Composers Academy in Kyiv and International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city. He took a part at ‘Contrast’, a festival for new music in Lviv, Ukraine; collaborated with canders and performers of the Dina Khuseyn’s ‘SoTa’, contemporary dance project. In 2016 he took a part in ‘Open Space’, composers laboratory with musicians of the ‘Russia’ ensemble of folk instruments

Anna Pospelova was born in Moscow, Russia in 1986. Pianist and composer. Graduated from Moscow State Conservatory, where have been studied composition and also electronic composition. Took part at some international festivals, academies and workshops.

Mikhail Puchkov (born 5 september 1984 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian composer. Has been writing music since 1993. Studied composition at the Moscow State Conservatory with K. Batashov. Finalist of the V International Young Composers Competition of the Orpheus radio. Finalist of the II contest of Composers them. N.Y. Myaskovsky. Stipendium of the VI International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city. Participant of I International Laboratory of composers "Open Space" by Dmitry Kourliandski. Participant of the festival "Exposition-XXI" in 2017 (Nizhny Novgorod). Attended lectures and masterclasses of Ensemble Recherche, Klangforum ensemble, Enno Poppe, Chaya Czernowin, Philippe Hurel, Pierluigi Billone, Helmut Lachenmann. The music of Mikhail Puchkov was performed in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Kiev.

Dmitry Remezov graduated the Ural Conservatory in 2014 and in 2016 has finished the assistant-trainee degree under O.V. Viktorova. He has won an International and several all-Russian competitions. Dmitry is a member of the Russian Composers’ Union. Since 2010 he has been a co-founder, an artistic director and a soloist of the InterText-Ensemble (Yekaterinburg). Since 2014 - a co-founder, an director and a member of the KYMATIC ensemble (Moscow). He organized and took part in several festivals, concerts and master-classes. He participated in the V and VI International Young Composers’ Academy (Tchaikovsky, 2015, 2016), seminars of the Studio for New Music ensemble (Moscow, 2014, 2015), V All-Russian open festival for the young music «Exposition XXI» (Nizhny Novgorod, 2015), III Ural Industrial Biennale for the Contemporary Art (Yekaterinburg, 2015), a festival of the Sverdlovsk philharmonic «New Russian Robert Burns» (Yekaterinburg, 2010-2014) and others. He participated in master-classes of such composers, as Beat Furrer, Yannis Kyriakides, Marko Ciciliani, Raphael Cendo and others.

Aidan Charles Rosa is a Sydney-based composer and music theorist currently undertaking a Master of Music degree at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. With a focus on ‘music as geometry,’ Aidan presents his research regularly during local graduate symposiums and seminars. In 2015, he completed his Bachelor of Music with First Class honours and was the recipient of the Horace Keats Memorial Award for composition. In 2014, Aidan Charles Rosa was a Composition Mentor for the MAKE project, hosted by The Arts Unit, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Sydney Opera House. Earlier in 2014, he was a Composer Fellow of Trinity Grammar. In February 2013, he was artist in residence in Kuranda rainforest in far-northern Queensland.

Nazar Skrypnik was born in the Ternopil region, Ukraine. In 2016 he graduated composition faculty of Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Academy of Music (studied composition with V. Kaminsky). Nazar is winner of the V International Master-Classes of New Music COURSE (Lviv, 2016). Also he took part in master-classes with famous composers from

Germany, Austria, France, USA, Russia, Poland and Czech Republic. His pieces were performed at such festivals: «Musical meeting of Polish and Ukrainian Youth», «VOX ELECTRONICA», «Contrasts International Contemporary Music Festival», «Two Days and Two Nights of New Music» (Ukraine), «aXes - Triduum Muzyki Nowej» (Poland), «SAX16 International Saxophone Festival Amsterdam» (Netherlands).

Zach Thomas (1988) is a composer and media artist working within a mathematical aesthetic sabotaged by impulse and restlessness. His current projects are concerned with the use of appropriated technologies and networked performance environments. Zach is a PhD candidate at the University of North Texas where he works as a teaching fellow at the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia and as a researcher at the xREZ Art/Science Lab. He is a director of the new music non-profit, ScoreFollower.

Lorenzo Troiani is an Italian composer (Rome, 1989) living in Graz, Austria. He studied composition with Rosario Mirigliano, Salvatore Sciarrino and Clemens Gadenstätter. He attended lessons, masterclasses and courses with musicians and composers who helped him to find a personal way of thinking, among them: B.Furrer, M.Andre, J.Schöllhorn, M.Trojahn, P.Manoury, B.Ferneyhough, J.Manuel, Lopez Lopez, C.Czernowin, P.Billone, I.Mundry, S.Takasugi, D.Kourliandski and F.Filidei. His music has been perfermed by different ensembles (Klangforum Wien, Neue Vocalsolisten, Quatour Diotima, Quartetto Prometeo, Quatuor Tana, OENM Salzburg etc.), and in different parts of the world. He graduated in Philosophy at the University Uniroma3 of Rome with Paolo D’Angelo and Elio Matassi with a thesis on ontological thinking of Paul Klee.

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME):

www.m-c-m-e.ru

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME) was founded in 1990 by Yuri Kasparov, under the patronage of the famous Russian composer Edison Denisov. The ensemble focuses on promoting 20th and 21st century music. It is Russia’s foremost contemporary chamber ensemble and consists of some of the best Russian musicians specializing in modern music.

MCME has strong educational goals and works closely with both Russian and international cultural foundations to bring contemporary music to a wide range of audiences. As part of this goal, MCME has organized the annual fortnight International Young Composers Academy (Tchaikovsky City, Ural) to bring together both young composers and internationally recognized composers in workshops.

The ensemble’s repertoire is quite extensive and has included the premiere of almost 1000 different works. Particularly, they champion the music of Russian composers of the 1920’s such as Nikolai Roslavets and Alexander Mosolov. Additionally, they regularly perform music by “Shestidesyatniki” (1960’s Russian) composers (Edison Denisov, Alfred Schnitke, Sofia Gubaidulina, etc). MCME regularly performs in many diverse locales across Russia (80 cities) and elsewhere in the world (28 countries). MCME performed on the best concert stages, took part in the biggest international festivals such as “Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art”, “DiaghilevFest” (Russia, Perm), “Radio-France presences” (Paris), “FrankfurtFest”, “Maerzmusik-Berlinerfesrspiele” (Germany), “Gaudeamus music week”, “The Night of the Unexpected” (the Netherlands), “Warsaw Autumn” (Poland), “Klangspuren” (Austria), “Tranasrt” (Italy) and other.

MCME has collaborated with the leasing composers of the world, Iannis Xenakis, György Kurtág, Frederic Rzewski, Louis Andriessen, Beat Furrer, Klaus Lang, Philippe Leroix, Mark Andre, Enno Poppe are among them. MCME has recorded more than 50 CDs for leading CD labels, including Olympia (UK), Harmonia Mundi (France), Triton (Japan), Donemus (The Netherlands), Fancymusic (Russia), etc.

Each season MCME gives around 70 concerts in Russia and abroad. The special place in repertoire is allocated for music of young Russian and foreign composers. The ensemble also takes active part in the international multimedia and theatrical projects. In 2009 MCME became the winner of the Award ACTION in support of theatrical initiatives. In 2013 MCME got the Award GOLDEN MASK.