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Po Hang Arthur Yuen

Po Hang Yuen (Arthur) is a composer and doctoral candidate in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (supervisors: Julian Anderson, Malcolm Singer, Raymond Yiu). His research-led practice, An Exploration of Chinese Cultural Symbols in a Composer’s Practice, investigates identity, symbolism and cross-cultural encounter in contemporary music. His works have been performed internationally by ensembles including the BBC Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, PHACE and the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble. He has given talks and lecture-recitals at institutions such as the University of Manchester and the University of Hong Kong. Yuen’s awards include the Mendelssohn Scholarship for Composers (2025), MAP-IMC 2023 (3rd Prize) and a top diploma at New Melodies II; his doctoral studies are supported by a Postgraduate Research Fee Bursary. He is a board member of the Asian Young Musicians Alliance (AYMA) and is active as a composition teacher and guitarist.
Wajdi Abou Diab

Wajdi Samir Abou Diab is a Lebanese composer, musicologist, and educator known for bridging Levantine traditions and Western classical music. Born in 1991, his work integrates the intricate maqams of Middle Eastern heritage with contemporary classical structures. His compositions have earned international recognition, including first prize at the IWBC Emerging Composer Competition and honors from the Puccini Chamber Opera Festival.
Abou Diab’s career is defined by high-profile collaborations with renowned ensembles such as the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra, the International Contemporary Ensemble (USA), and the Taipei Civic Symphony Orchestra. As an educator and artistic director, he founded the Beirut Contemporary Ensemble to promote new Arabic contemporary music. Beyond composing, he has authored essential pedagogical resources, including “Arabic Folk Tunes for Piano,” which makes the rich melodies of the Orient accessible to musicians worldwide. He continues to advocate for music as a tool for cultural exchange.
Alisa Kachaikina

Alisa Kachaikina, 09.06.2003. Composer, musician, singer-songwriter.
My first professional instrument is the domra (I gained orchestral experience at a music school from 2011-2014~). I study and practice compositional art (chamber music, techniques of sonorism and timbre-sound textures), drawing inspiration from the works of Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jakob Ullmann, and others.
Since 2017, I have been developing my own indie project, Babooka, where I’m the author of all the lyrics and music (main instruments: vocals, guitar).
I am also engaged in contemporary painting (mixed media, collages), creating independent zines, and collaborating (concept and sketches) on glass art pieces.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree from the Moscow Music School
(“Musicology and Applied Musical Arts”). I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the British Higher School of Art and Design (“Creative Arts Practice”, year 1).
Composing:
My work is centered in contemporary chamber composition, with a dedicated research practice in extended techniques and sonorism. I create pieces that explore synesthetic relationships between color, sound, and complex internal states, treating abstract concepts as foundational compositional material.
Each composition constructs a personified psychological landscape, where instruments embody distinct facets of consciousness — such as thought, emotion, and inner voice — and engage in dynamic, narrative dialogue. The music prioritizes timbre and texture as primary vehicles for emotion, moving beyond traditional melodic development to evoke specific color associations and nuanced psychological environments.
My composition “Blueberry” for clarinet, piano, and cello exemplifies this methodology. It investigates the color blue as a quintessence of fantasy and inner emotion. The clarinet represents the clouds of one’s thoughts, the piano as the heart, and the cello as the inner voice, with their interaction forming a sonic portrait of a scattered, reflective inner world.
The other composition is “In Touch with the Being”. This piece is a meditative and quiet composition for a chamber ensemble. Its central theme is an immersion into an inner dialogue with oneself, a state of reflection, and an attempt to express unvoiced feelings. “In Touch with the Being” is written for three instruments: the cello, representing the inner voice, the piano, representing the heart, and the accordion, representing breath. The number of instruments is not arbitrary; in this context, the number three is a symbol of harmony and completeness. Furthermore, the silence itself serves as an auxiliary element in the dialogue between the instruments — it becomes a framing and essential shade of the sonic canvas, allowing for a deeper and more thoughtful immersion into the musical narrative.
My compositions are contemporary chamber studies that fuse academic research in sound production with a poetic, expressive inquiry into the colors and architectures of the inner self.
Chiang Hsin-Yen
Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, CHIANG Hsin-Yen studies composition in the Department of Music at National Taiwan Normal University. He has a strong interest in interdisciplinary performance and music theory, and excels at integrating his musical expertise with knowledge from other fields. He also places great emphasis on the relationship between artistic works and their social contexts.
Hsin-Yen has presented electronic and multimedia works at the C-LAB Wandering Festival in 2022, 2024, and 2025. In 2024, he participated in “Rice Dragon 360,” an interdisciplinary production at the NTNU Art Museum as part of Nuit Blanche Taipei 2024. In 2025, the instrumental work “Orbit I” premiered at the XII St. Petersburg International New Music Festival. In June, selected as a Young Composer by the Counterpoint Ensemble, the piece “Orbit III” was performed at the Weiwuying Recital Hall.
Karchemkina Veronika

I graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with a degree in bassoon, but I don’t define myself as a bassoonist; I define myself as a musician. I believe I can master any language if my work requires it, and composition has become that language for me.
In 2023, I participated in Vladimir Gorlinsky’s courses at Ground Solyanka and in the contemporary music festival Gnesin Week. As a composer, I also took part in the N`Caged practical workshop “Voice as an Instrument” in 2024, the Composers’ Reading Sessions-Choir, and the International Festival of New Music “Sound Paths” (St. Petersburg). In 2025, I participated in the festival “Inspired by Space” at Ground Solyanka and in the ReMusic.org course. I also took part in the XV International Academy for Young Composers in Tchaikovsky.
I have collaborated with ensembles such as the Reheard Ensemble, N`Caged, the Intrada Chamber Choir, and the ANM.
John Joseph Craven

John Joseph Craven is a composer, pianist and teacher residing in Northeast, USA. He studied piano, flute, and composition as a child and was a winner in the Fourth International Aaron Copland Competition for Young Composers in 1984. He continued piano study at Peabody Conservatory from 1989-1991, then transferred to the University of Iowa from 1992-94, earning a BA in Communication Studies. Besides graduating with honors from SUNY Purchase in music, he earned a MM in Composition from Peabody Conservatory in 2011.
He has recorded new music for piano and voice for Navona Records, in 2021 and 2023, as well as for flute and guitar for Da Vinci Classics. He was Lecturer of Music at Washington College teaching music theory and film music in 2024. He has presented in music festivals in the United States, Europe, and participated in the reMusik.org Online Composition Course in 2025.
Ilia Bogomolov

Born in Kaluga. There, he also graduated from music college as a violist. Afterwards, he enrolled in the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory at the Composition and Musicology Department, where he is currently studying in the classes of M. L. Buloshnikov (composition) and Yu. S. Veksler (musicology).
In 2024, he became a student at the XIV International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city. He is a participant in various composition laboratories, including “Open Space X” and the Kant-Residency. His compositions have been performed at various concerts and festivals in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad, and Krasnogorsk. Performing ensembles include the MCME and the Russian Chamber Orchestra “Usadba”.
As a musicologist, he researches the work of G. F. Haas and the Wandelweiser group. He is a participant in various conferences and a 2nd-degree laureate of the XXXV Competition of Research Projects at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music.
He also continues his performing career, playing the bass guitar and viola in various groups. In 2025, as a member of the “DANKO-QUARTET” ensemble, he became a finalist in the professional competition for youth ensembles “National Collection” (Saint Petersburg).
Maxim Rayev

Student at the Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, majoring in Composition under Professor Nastasya Khrushcheva. In 2023, he graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College in Saint Petersburg as a pianist. He is a participant in the 15th International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky. His experience includes the Composers’ Readings in Moscow (2023), the Anton Rubinstein Laboratory by musicaeterna (2025), the “Non-Existent Music” lab as part of the 8th Gnesin Contemporary Music Week (2025), and the “Sound Ways” festival (2023).
Maxim’s music has been performed at the Chamber Hall of the Moscow Philharmonic, the Praktika Theater, the Dom Radio (Radio House) Concert Hall, the Catherine Assembly Concert Hall, and the Arsenal Hall of the Sheremetev Palace.
Yu Xu

Yu Xu is a composer based in New York City. Her work explores the intersection of acoustic instruments, electronics, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She collaborates with dancers, sculptors, and directors on experimental and site-responsive projects, creating immersive environments that blur the boundaries between sound, image, and movement.
Daniel Satanovski

Daniel Satanovski is a composer and conductor, born in Darmstadt in 2002. He is studying both Bacher of Arts in Composition at the HfMDK Frankfurt with Prof. Orm Finnendahl and Prof. Ulrich Kreppein and Orchestra Conducting at the HMTM in Munich. His works have been performed by numerous ensembles such as the IEMA, the Trio Radial, the Meitar Ensemble and others. He has participated in the Darmstadt Summer Courses 2025 and was a scholarship holder at the artist residency Schloss Wiepersdorf. In 2020, Daniel was a finalist at the International Bartok Composition Competition. Additional compositional impulses followed from Simon Steen-Andersen, Steven Takasugi, Malin Bang, Liza Lim and others.
Olga Vedenkina

Olga Vedenkina (b. 1981, Nizhny Novgorod) — composer, member of the Union of Composers of Russia, and graduate of the Nizhny Novgorod State Glinka Conservatory (studied under Prof. B.S. Gezelev and Prof. D.O. Prisyazhnyuk).
The composer works across a wide range of genres — from symphonic and chamber music to children’s songs and folk-rock compositions. Her areas of interest include the interaction between academic and popular musical styles, electroacoustics, music for theatre, and research into the work of Haya Chernowin. Central to her artistic focus are the themes of memory, the dialogue between past and present, and beauty disappearing within the digital flow.
Olga is a participant in contemporary music festivals, including: “Pictures from an Exhibition” (Nizhny Novgorod, 2022, 2024); and “Music of the Volga Banks” (Tver, 2022, 2024). She has taken part in projects such as “The Sound Palette of Contemporaries” (Samara, 2024); “Modern Accordion,” “Spaces of the Audible,” “Between Times” (Nizhny Novgorod, 2025); as well as in laboratories: “The Sounding House of Sofia” (Kazan, 2025); “The Voice as an Instrument” (Moscow, 2025); and “Musical Laboratory” (Perm, 2025).
She is engaged in pedagogical work and serves as the organizer of the project “Kasyanov-Fest: Nizhny Novgorod Composers for Children.”
Jilai Fu

Jilai Fu is a music producer and composer based in Shanghai, China. His musical interests are diverse, ranging from concert music and soundtracks to underground EDM, J-Pop, Vocaloid, and Metal. Personal experience and contemporary social life are the primary catalysts for his creativity. Besides works from the ‘concert music’ repertoire, he also draws significant inspiration from EDM and popular music artists. Through this multidisciplinary approach, he reinforces melodic expression with timbral effects, integrating raw materials from the ‘civil society’ into his music within a logical and formal framework.
A largely self-taught composer, Jilai is currently studying privately under Dr. Mathew Fuerst. He is now completing his Bachelor’s degree in Marxism at Fudan University while preparing for further studies in Composition. In addition to concert music, he is also an accomplished game music and EDM producer.
Lukas Hövelmann-Köper

Lukas Hövelmann-Köper is a German composer and doctoral student in composition at the Royal College of Music, London. His works have received numerous international awards and have been performed by orchestras and ensembles including the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Adjudicated by Unsuk Chin, his orchestral work Quantum Vacuum won Second Prize at the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award (2018). Further distinctions include prizes at the German Music Competition (DMW), the Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition in Graz, and the Indonesia Orchestra and Ensemble Competition. From 2017 to 2018 he was artist-in-residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai.
His research investigates how authority, legitimacy, and temporal binding emerge across philosophy, music theory, and compositional practice. Engaging Kant’s critical philosophy, harmonic theory, and the institutional processes through which musical norms gain force, he examines how systems of judgement function prior to the establishment of their own foundations. Drawing on thinkers including Deleuze, Badiou, Klossowski, and German Idealism, his work explores how musical and philosophical worlds are constituted, sustained, and contested.
Xunze Zhou / (Alan)

Xunze Zhou / (Alan) was born on January 27 / 1994. Most of his compositions are for chamber music based on acoustic sound. He also composed for vocal, wind ensemble, orchestral music, and electronic music. He can also arrange simple music production for accompaniments of pop-style songs. Now, he is also teaching music theory.
Sometimes, his music compositions have been influenced by Western music theory and classical and romantic styles, while sometimes he also composes music that reflects the cultural diversity of Asian musical styles that relate to Chinese and other concepts of Eastern aesthetics. His mind is open to new musical ideas. Recently, he invented an instrument that is a patented prototype for new timbres in his composition.
His representative pieces of compositions include Nocturne No.1 (Piano Solo), Signal From Space (electronic music), “Natural of the Light and Shadows” (orchestral music), “Twilight Shrouded The Teton Range” (orchestral music), “Autumn Bugs Buzzing”, and so on.
Jenya Belousova

Born in Russia, Jenya Belousova is a PhD student in evolutionary biology at Harvard University who is beginning to explore composition. Her scientific training and research have led to interests in fundamental mechanisms of evolution, universality of evolutionary processes, and evolution of sequences, in particular, evolution of music. Informed by these interests, she now approaches composition as an artistic practice.
Victor Tswei

Composer Victor Tswei writes music that is visceral, boisterous, and raw, ritualistically tapping into the internal drama of sounds. He tries to always create complex sonic tapestries that bring out extreme expressions, oftentimes through unconventional instrument combos. Victor is especially fascinated by contemporary happenings and stories of individuals, and always strives to bring to the foreground personal/philosophical/socio-cultural ramifications of these happenings and stories through a direct, brutalistic approach in music. His other sources of inspiration include literature, languages, history, politics, zoology, singing, and soundscapes in nature (because of his upbringing in the suburbs of Beijing – a perfect mixture of the subtle polyphony of the mountain and the equally intricate cacophony of an Asian megapolis).
Praised as “fundamentally musical” by the Olga and Paul Menn Foundation at the University of Chicago, Victor has collaborated with many prestigious ensembles around the world, including Ensemble Modern, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Musikfrabrik, and ~Nois. Victor’s music has been featured in Fontainbleau School of Music and Fine Arts, TUTTI Festival, Barcelona Modern, Valencia International Performance Academy, Lake George Music Festival, etc. He is the 2025 2nd prize winner of the Abell Young Composer Award at the University of Louisville.
Victor is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University on a full tuition scholarship. He holds a Master of Music (MM) in composition from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor and Master of Arts (BA/MA) joint degree in Music and the Humanities from the University of Chicago. Victor has studied composition with Anthony Brandt, Shih-hui Chen, Ashkan Behzadi, Felipe Lara, Sky Macklay, Augusta Read Thomas, Hans Thomalla, and Courtney Bryan.
As a professional choral and solo singer (tenor-baritone), Victor participated in many premieres and performances of contemporary choral music, including Tyshawn Sorey’s Monochromatic Light, and works by James MacMillan, Tim Watts, David Lang, Craig Hella Johnson, Jonathan Dove, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
Tian Xia

Tian Xia is a 2023 undergraduate student majoring in Music Composition at the Department of Composition and Conducting, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, studying under Associate Professor Ying Zhang. She excels in core courses such as compositional theory, ranking first in her cohort with an outstanding GPA. She has received multiple honors including the Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship, First-Class and Second-Class Excellent Student Scholarships, and Second/Third-Class Professional Scholarships. In 2024, her works won the Third Prize of the 3rd Dunhuang Award for Ethnic Chamber Music, the Excellent Award of the “Huashan Cup” Choral Works Competition, and the Third Prize of the 10th “Huichuang Qingchun” Shanghai College Students’ Creative Works Competition.
Ruoyi Shao

Ruoyi Shao,a 2024 undergraduate student in the Department of Composition and Conducting, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, studies under Associate Professor Zhang Ying.
Justin Wells

Justin Wells is a musician living in Los Angeles.
Galina Krasnokutskaya

Galina Krasnokutskaya is a composer, musicologist, improviser, sound artist, and PhD in art history.
She studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory under Prof. Yu. S. Kasparov (refresher course, 2025) and at the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory under Prof. D. O. Prisyazhnyuk and O. M. Zarodnyuk. She previously graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory and completed her postgraduate studies in musicology under Prof. Yu. S. Veksler (2007) and defended her PhD dissertation on “György Kurtág: On the Problem of Superopus Composition.” She has taught harmony, polyphony, solfeggio, and composition at music colleges and children’s music schools in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod. She is currently a student in the Technological Arts program at the A. Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. Participant of composer’s laboratories, festivals, and residencies in 2024-25: “Voice as an Instrument” (with the N’Caged ensemble), “Improscheme” (CEAM), XIV International Academy of Young Composers in Tchaikovsky (scholarship recipient), “T-T Residence” (Perm Academic Theater-Theater), “ImproComp” (with V. Gorlinsky), “Inspired by Space” (GROUND Solyanka), “Sophia’s Sounding House” (S. Gubaidulina Center in Kazan), “Psychogeography” (Moscow Conservatory).
Participant in exhibitions of sound art objects at the Krasnokholmskaya Gallery, Yandex Museum, and the Rodchenko School.
His works have been performed in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, and the Tchaikovsky Palace by the ensembles Reheard, N’Caged, A. Izgagin, and others.
As an improviser, he performs with prepared objects and electronics at the Artemyev Space, Improvdom, and the Krasnokholmskaya Gallery.
Edwin H. Ng
A native of Montreal, Edwin H. Ng (b. 1994) is a Canadian composer and data scientist. His artistic research focuses on approaching ecological awareness through the medium of instrumental music, raising technical and aesthethic implications of instrumental soundscape compositions.
Edwin’s music has been the result of numerous collaborations. He has worked with ensembles such as the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Reheard Ensemble and the Vancouver Chamber Choir. His music has been performed and read in Austria, Canada, Finland, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Awards include the international 2025 Txistu Composition Competition EHTE, and two prizes in the Canadian SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers (2025, 2nd; 2022, 1st). He was also among the finalists in the 2022 ROSL Composition Award in UK. Edwin has received additional funding from SOCAN and the CALQ.
Edwin H. Ng is currently pursuing his Doctor of Music in Composition at the Université de Montréal with Jimmie LeBlanc and Ana Sokolović. He formerly completed his Master of Music in Composition at McGill University under the supervision of Sean Ferguson. Through festivals, he attended private lessons with world-renowned composers such as Carola Bauckholt, Oscar Bianchi, Pierluigi Billone, Clemens Gadenstätter, Stefano Gervasoni, Yuri Kasparov, Jean-Luc Hervé, Philippe Leroux, Hèctor Parra, Jukka Tiensuu.
Rafael Motomochi

Rafael Motomochi (1991) is a Mexican composer and professor of composition at the Facultad de Música of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and at Tecnológico de Monterrey. His work focuses on musical gesture as a structural element, exploring tension, movement, and the physical qualities of sound. He studied composition under Dr. Ricardo Martínez Leal and holds a Master’s degree in Composition and Arranging from Universidad Tito Puente. Motomochi has received several international awards, including the first prize at the Remus Georgescu International Composition Competition (Romania, 2025) and the International Competition of Creativity “Music and Electronics” (Moscow, 2022 and 2024). His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Sinfonietta of the UANL, the Q-Sión Percussion Ensemble, and the Cromano String Quartet. He has also participated in masterclasses with composers including Panayiotis Kokoras, Philip Grange, Joao Pedro Oliveira, and Julio Estrada. Alongside his creative work, he is active as a teacher and mentor for young composers in Mexico.
Juan Sebastián Vassallo

Juan Sebastián Vassallo is an Argentinian composer and live-electronics performer based in Bergen, Norway. He holds a Ph.D. in Artistic Research from the University of Bergen. His artistic practice explores forms of human–computer interaction in creative processes, working at the intersection of computer-assisted composition, artificial intelligence, algorithmic text, generative visuals, and live electronics.
His music has been performed internationally by ensembles and soloists such as Projecto RED (Argentina), Quasar Saxophone Quartet (Canada), Hinge Quartet (USA), New Earth Ensemble (USA), .abeceda Ensemble (Slovenia), Vocal Ensemble Tabula Rasa (Norway), Edvard Grieg Kor (Norway), JÓR Saxophone Quartet (Scandinavia), Zone Experimental Basel (Switzerland), Dimitrios Polisoidis (Greece), Sergej Tchirkov (Russia), and Lucas Fels (Germany), among many others. His work has also been presented at contemporary music festivals including Samtida Musik, Impuls, New Music Montreal, Festspillene i Bergen, H&K Festival, and outHEAR Contemporary Music Week.
His work has received several international recognitions, including first prize in the AI-based composition contest at the IEEE Conference on Big Data (Washington, D.C.) for Oscillations (iii). Other distinctions include selections and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (Argentina), the Chengdu River Sun Prize (ISCM/Sichuan Conservatory), and contemporary art competitions in Argentina.
He has received international grants and residencies from organizations such as UNESCO-Aschberg and the IBERMÚSICAS program of the Organization of Ibero-American States. He has undertaken artistic residencies at institutions such as the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (USA), the Movement Research Center (New York), Festival precept.concept.percept (Slovenia), the H&K Festival (Stavanger), and Bergen Senter for Elektronisk Kunst (BEK). Alongside his experimental work, he maintains an active career as a tango pianist and arranger, touring internationally with the orchestra Sanluistango.
Luo Mengyong

Luo Mengyong was born in 1991, Guizhou, China.She is doctoral degree holder in Shanghai Conservatory of Music.Her works have performed in several countries including China, USA, German, Russia, Italy and Greece. She has won several prizes include 3rd and 11st Rivers Awards International Composition Competition; 2nd Ise-Shima International Composition Competition and 34th International Music Competition “Città di Barletta”. She also participated in different music projects and festivals including SHCM New Music Week, Shanghai Spring International Music FestivalShe also participated in different music projects and festivals including SHCM New Music Week, Shanghai Spring International Music Festival, Saint Petersburg International New Music Festival, Toyful Music Festival and Synesthesia Lab.An interview and analysis about her work is published on Journal of Music in China. In 2025, she has been selected to BPP2 Project, held by Aktapha Ensemble in Greece and Bled Lake International Music Festival in Slovenia.
Gabibova Anzhelika
Composer, pianist, vocalist, arranger, member of the Union of Composers of St. Petersburg, member of the Union of Composers of Russia. Graduate of the N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg College of Music (composition class of Y. A. Falik – 2008, E. V. Petrov – 2009-2012). In 2017 graduated with honors from the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory of Music (class of composition – Y. A. Falik – 2008). Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (composition class of Evgeny Petrov).Mu Rong Wang

A duet for violin and cello, developed entirely from single tones, based on the Chinese pentatonic scale and integrated with contemporary compositional techniques. The two strings, interwoven in counterpoint, gradually move from minimalism to richness, presenting the musical imagery of ‘one gives rise to two, two give rise to three, three give rise to all things’ with an Eastern linear aesthetic and modern sonority.
Haoyang Ma

Haoyang Aisling Ma (b.2005) is a Chinese composer/guitarist. Her music is often commented as imaginative, saturated, and mysterious. She wanders in her soundscape world, and she loves exploring timbral colors, the transformation of time and space, and textural curating.
Her works have been performed by renowned ensembles and soloist such as Ensemble Modern, Divertimento Ensemble, Ensemble Orbis, Mivos Quartet, Kinetic Ensemble, members of Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and China Philharmonic Orchestra. She has been selected as a composition fellow in major festivals, such as International Workshop for Young Composers (2024), Valencia International Performing Arts Summer Festival (2024), Barcelona Modern(2025).
She is currently based in Houston TX, pursuing her Bachelor of Music degree at Shepherd School of Music in composition.
Ulyana Kuprovskaya

Ulyana Kuprovskaya is a composer, teacher, improviser and designer-decorator. Laureate of international and all-Russian competitions, since 2020 member of the Union of Composers of Russia. Born on May 14, 1983 in Taganrog, Rostov region, RF. In 2018, she graduated from the Rostov State Conservatory named after S.V. Rachmaninoff with a degree in composition, and in 2020, she completed an assistantship/internship in the Art of Composition (class of Professor V.F. Krasnoskulov).
Writes in different genres and styles, including experimental music. She is the author of the ballet “Egyptian Mysteries”, chamber, vocal, symphonic, choral music, as well as electroacoustic compositions and performance music, in which she participates as a performer and improviser. Participated in various festivals, projects and master classes, including: “micromusiclab” (Moscow, Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, 2020), “Academy of Young Composers” (Tchaikovsky, 2022), festival of the Union of Composers of Russia “Five Evenings” (Moscow, Zaryadye, 2023) , “The Sounding House of Sofia” (Kazan, Sofia Gubaidulina Center for Contemporary Music, 2023), Festival “Laboratory of the New Musical Theater “TT Residence” (Perm Academic Theater-Theater, 2025) etc.
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