21 May — 2 June
2021

8TH ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL

21 May — 2 June
2021

8TH ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL

DATETIME (GMT+3)EVENT
FRIDAY / 21.0520:00Quatuor Diotima (France)
SATURDAY / 22.0517:00Mikhail Krutik, violin (Russia)
20:00Studio for New Music (Russia)
SUNDAY / 23.0514:00Composer meet-and-greet: Vladimir Tarnopolski (Russia)
17:00FACTION
20:00The Gallery of Actual Music Ensemble (Russia)
MONDAY / 24.0511:00Composer meet-and-greet: Raphaël Cendo (France)
14:00Composer meet-and-greet: Oscar Bianchi (Switzerland)
20:00Alexey Potapov, electric guitar (Russia)
TUESDAY / 25.0511:00Composer meet-and-greet: Sergej Newski (Russia)
17:00Sergej Tchirkov (accordionist), Alex Nadzharov (video) and Nikolay Popov (electronics) (Russia)
19:30Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Russia)
WEDNESDAY / 26.0511:00Composer meet-and-greet: Dmitri Kourliandski (Russia)
21:00Konus Quartett (Switzerland) and Klaus Lang (Austria)
THURSDAY / 27.0511:00Composer meet-and-greet: Sarah Nemtsov (Germany)
18:00Vacuum Quartet (Russia)
21:00Konus Quartett (Switzerland)
FRIDAY / 28.0511:00Composer meet-and-greet: Klaus Lang (Austria)
17:00Christian Kobi, saxophone (Switzerland) and St. Petersburg Improvisers Orchestra (Russia)
20:00Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Russia)
SATURDAY / 29.0520:00Schallfeld Ensemble (Austria)
SUNDAY / 30.0511:00Composer meet-and-greet: Alexander Radvilovich (Russia)
17:00Ivan Bushuev, flute (Russia)
20:00Ensemble SEV (Israel)
MONDAY / 31.0517:00Composer meet-and-greet: Stefan Prins (Belgium)
20:00Ensemble C Barré (France)
TUESDAY / 01.0617:00Serafima Verkholat, saxophone (Russia)
20:00Alexey Glazkov, piano (Russia)
WEDNESDAY / 02.0620:00ensemble recherche (Germany)
Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall

What's happening?

Saint Petersburg
21 May – 2 June
In its 8th year, the two-week ‘New Music International Festival’ is taking place from May 21st — June 02nd at various and beautiful concert venues throughout the magical city of Saint Petersburg.
This renowned annual celebration of contemporary music will feature young musicians and composers, as well as established artists from Europe and around the World, who will showcase diverse musical explorations known for their creativity and quality.
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Educational Program

Online and Offline
21 May – 2 June
The festival program with its numerous highlights has also a wide variety of opportunities for students of contemporary music to get involved in reMusik.org Educational Program; Master Classes, Composers Workshop, Music Reading Sessions, Lectures, and Round Table Discussions are offered. Some of the very best composers and music artists provide the invaluable opportunity to learn about compositional extended technique, and communication about music.
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Quatuor Diotima

Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall
19:00
The Quatuor Diotima is one of the most in-demand chamber ensembles in the world today. The quartet regularly commissions new works from the most brilliant composers of our time, including Toshio Hosokawa, Miroslav Srnka, Alberto Posadas, Mauro Lanza, Gérard Pesson, Rebecca Saunders and Tristan Murail.
The program: Sarah Nemtsov, Oscar Bianchi, Sergej Newski and Bruno Mantovani.
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The music world and the live music scene in particular with its creative community have faced the biggest challenge ever with the appearance of COVID-19. In response to this unprecedented situation, reMusik.org organized for the first time ever a highly successful online music festival in July of last year with many streamed concerts and composers conducting online educational master classes. Despite the many logistical difficulties we are still encountering in 2021 due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, I am delighted that this year the audience and the performing music artists of the International Festival will meet not online, but in person, and  so experiencing the concerts ‘live’ together at the most historical and cultural venues in St. Petersburg.

Мехди Хоссейни

Mehdi Hosseini

Composer, Artistic Director
of the St. Petersburg International
New Music Festival

This year reMusik.org has indeed much to celebrate. The St. Petersburg International Festival has become a feature event for ‘New Music’ in Russia and as a whole in the world of contemporary music. While the 2021 music event is the 8th festival, reMusik.org is celebrating its 10-year anniversary by offering a wide variety of contemporary classical music to its audience. The beautiful concert halls will host many renowned music artists, ensembles, and celebrated composers from Europe and around the world.

Мехди Хоссейни

Mehdi Hosseini

Composer, Artistic Director
of the St. Petersburg International
New Music Festival

The music world and the live music scene in particular with its creative community have faced the biggest challenge ever with the appearance of COVID-19. In response to this unprecedented situation, reMusik.org organized for the first time ever a highly successful online music festival in July of last year with many streamed concerts and composers conducting online educational master classes. Despite the many logistical difficulties we are still encountering in 2021 due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, I am delighted that this year the audience and the performing music artists of the International Festival will meet not online, but in person, and  so experiencing the concerts ‘live’ together at the most historical and cultural venues in St. Petersburg.

EDUCATION

LECTURES

Each year the festival invites prominent people to drive debate on new music topics. Lectures are important event on the festival’s calendar, and encourages people to enter into dialogue – often about difficult subjects – in order to address the challenges we face today.

COMPOSER MEET-AND-GREET

The project offers the opportunity to look at new music through the eyes of the music’s authors and to hold a discussion with them – not only about the internal musical structures and compositional tools of their works, but about the very process of composing itself.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Music Talks are exploring music will centre on what is «new» in art music, and what means can be used to attain it. What characterises the language of now, and how far can we say that what is generally perceived as «new» is in fact new?

MASTER CLASSES

Conduct workshops and master classes in collaboration with practicing composers, musicians and artists.

GENERAL PARTNERS

Pro Helvetia

Ambassade de France en Russie

SPONSORS & PARTNERS

GENERAL MEDIA PARTNERS

MEDIA PARTNERS