MAY 23 — JUNE 7, 2025

12TH ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL

MAY 23 — JUNE 7, 2025

12TH ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL

Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall

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Saint Petersburg
May 23 to June 7, 2025
The annual St. Petersburg International New Music Festival is a unique event in Russia’s musical culture which has no analogues. The program of the two-week festival includes more than 70 different events. Concerts will be held at the best music venues throughout St. Petersburg, such as the Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall, the Manege, the Kamenny Island Theatre, New Holland, Radio House, the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater and other venues in the city.
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Concert Program

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The festival program will include concerts featuring outstanding Russian and international musicians and groups performing new music. It encompasses various aspects of modern academic and experimental music.
The concert program includes various musical genres such as electroacoustic, electronic music, multimedia projects, free improvisations, as well as performances and innovative shows.
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Educational Program

Courses Programs
Online & Offline Learning
In addition to concerts, the festival will feature an extensive educational program, including round table discussions, creative meetings with composers and music critics. Young authors from all over the world will take part in the educational program VII “Composer Courses” with daily master classes, practical classes, and readings. The IV Laboratory of Improvisational and Experimental Music, dedicated to the graphic representation of sound will also be presented.

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

DATETIME (GMT+3)EVENTS
FRIDAY / 23.05 19:00 The Mariinsky Theatre Concert Hall
The Répons Ensemble
SATURDAY / 24.0514:00Online
Presentations by participants of the 7th reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Daniele Di Virgilio (Italy), Daiwei Lu (China), Alexander
Perov (Russia), Stephen Morris (USA)
15:00 Saint Petersburg Sound Museum
Laboratory of Experimental Music and Improvisation Composer
Vladimir Gorlinsky. Lecture and workshop
17:00 Sevkabel Port (Studio 42)
Daria Lutsenko, cello
19:30 Sevkabel Port (Studio 42)
Festino Chamber Choir
SUNDAY / 25.0515:00Online
Composer meet-and-greet: Fernando Garnero (Argentina)
16:00 New Holland (Community)
Roundtable Discussion «New music and Literary language»
18:00 New Holland (Community)
Maria Sadurdinova, piano
20:00 Sevkabel Port (Studio 42)
(Pro)Stranstvo: Multichannel Electronic Music
MONDAY / 26.0514:00 Saint Petersburg Sound Museum
Laboratory of Experimental Music and Improvisation Composer
meet-and-greet: Vladimir Rannev
16:00New Holland (Community)
Roundtable Discussion «New music and artificial intelligence»
19:30New Holland (Community)
The Gallery of Actual Music Ensemble (GAMEnsemble)
TUESDAY / 27.05 14:15Online
Presentations by participants of the 7th reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Ana Gnjatovic (Serbia), Liu Boya (China), William Wright
(USA)
17:00Online
Composer meet-and-greet: Lucia Ronchetti (Italy)
18:00The New stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater
Roundtable Discussion “Sound mimesis in New Music: Noise and
Real-World Soundscapes”
19:30 The New stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater
Gerard Costes, trombone (Spain)
WEDNESDAY / 28.05 14:15Online
Presentations by participants of the 7th reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Tamara Egorova (Russia), Charles Gai-Ho Lee (Hong
Kong)
15:00Online
Composer meet-and-greet: Vladimir Tarnopolski
19:00Dom Radio
Roundtable Discussion «Russian New Music in the mirror of Social
Changes»
21:00 Dom Radio
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
THURSDAY / 29.05 14:00Online
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME)
Reading sessions
14:00 Saint Petersburg Sound Museum
Laboratory of Experimental Music and Improvisation Composer Oleg
Makarov. Lecture and workshop
16:00 New Holland (Community)
Roundtable Discussion «New Music Festivals from the Darmstadt
Summer Course to reMusik.org: Music and Society»
19:30 New Holland (Community)
Shanghai New Music Ensemble
FRIDAY / 30.0516:00Online
Composer meet-and-greet: Vladimir Gorlinsky
19:30 Masterskaya M. K. Anikushina
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
22:30 Salavat Safiullin. Music for two electroacoustic modules
Salavat Safiullin. Music for two electroacoustic modules
SATURDAY / 31.0513:30Online
Presentations by participants of the 7th reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Angelika Gabibova (Russia), Yuhao Jin (China), Giovanni
Porfirio (Brazil)
16:00Online
Composer meet-and-greet: Stefano Gervasoni (Italy)
19:00 Dom Radio
Vacuum Quartet
22:30 Saint Petersburg Sound Museum
Graphic Sound. concert performance of graphic scores
SUNDAY / 01.0613:30Online
Presentations by participants of the VII reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Xiaowen Lei (China), Harry Lucas (UK), Veronika
Karchemkina (Russia), Zhishu Chang (China)
17:00 Sheremetev Palace (Museum of Music)
Gleb Khokhlov, violin
18:45Online
Presentations by participants of the VII reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Demi Adetona (USA), Yifan Shao (China), Jee Won
Kim(South Korea), Áhzi Kharmóna (USA)
19:30 Masterskaya M. K. Anikushina
Chamber Choir “Fortis”
MONDAY / 02.0613:30Online
Presentations by participants of the 7th reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Mengyong Luo (China), Kristina Yanova (Russia), Justyna
Tobera (Poland), John Craven (USA)
16:00 New Holland (Community)
Roundtable Discussion «The end of the time of great compositional
techniques»
17:00Online Roundtable Discussion. Participants of the 7th reMusik.org
Composition Courses: Stefano Gervasoni (Italy), Panayiotis Kokoras
(Greece), Alexander Khubeev, Elena Rykova (Russia), Deqing Wen
(China/Switzerland).
19:30 New Holland (Community)
Studio for New Music Ensemble
TUESDAY / 03.0613:30Online
Presentations by participants of the 7th reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Xunze Zhou (China), Kyujung Lim (South Korea), Xinglan
Deng (China)
15:00 Saint Petersburg Sound Museum
Laboratory of Experimental Music and Improvisation Dmitry Shubin.
Lecture and workshop
19:30 Workshop of M.K. Anikushin
Reheard Ensemble
WEDNESDAY / 04.0613:30Online
Presentations by participants of the VII reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Yexuan Liu (China), Mariano Mauro (Italy), Ekaterina
Khmelevskaya (Russia), Jane Wong (Hong Kong/ USA)
20:00 Levashovskiy Khlebozavod
St.Petersburg Improvisers Orchestra
THURSDAY / 05.0613:15Online
Presentations by participants of the VII reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Artur Szczepkowski (Poland), Mingjie Bi (China)
18:00 Saint Petersburg Sound Museum
Serafima Verkholat (saxophone)
20:00New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre
Graphic Sound.
The final concert of the 4th Laboratory of Experimental Music and
Improvisation
FRIDAY / 06.0613:30Online
Presentations by participants of the VII reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Hsin-Yen Chiang (Taiwan), J. Benjamín Falces (Spain),
Edwin Ng (Canada), Quanzhong Deng (USA)
17:00Online
Composer meet-and-greet: Panayiotis Kokoras (Greece)
20:00 Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”
Electrozvuk
Open-air concert of experimental electronic music
SATURDAY / 07.0616:00Online
Presentations by participants of the VII reMusik.org Composition
Courses: Rodrigo Valente Pascale (Brazil), Shupeng Cao (China),
Nolan Hildebrand (Canada)
16:00 Saint Petersburg Sound Museum
Sound Theater Project
19:00 Kamenny Island Theatre
CEAM Artists
Мехди Хоссейни

Mehdi Hosseini

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

The reMusik.org Festival has now for over a decade offered extraordinary open performance platforms for a new generation of composers and musicians from around the world. Additionally,  it has also provides a space for cultural dialogue and discourse in which new ideas and unexpected paths to contemporary art are born.

During the 11 years of its existence, our reMusik.org Festival has become a central point on the map of new music, not only in Russia, but throughout the world, – a festival that presents listeners annually with the widest varieties of new music.

The festival’s multiple events will also include an interactive audio exhibit that shows how new music can connect with the phenomena around us, – with the objects and sounds we encounter and interact with every day. The expansion of the festival was largely made possible thanks to the enormous success of our interactive educational programs, in which young talented performers and composers collaborated in a creative exchange as teachers and learners. Through the reMusik.org Lab, they find their own voice, create meaningful compositions, and enrich their musical experiences.

PARTICIPANTS

Ensemble Répons

Répons Ensemble

Studio for New Music Ensemble

Studio for New Music Ensemble

mcme

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Shanghai New Music Ensemble

Shanghai New Music Ensemble

ceam

CEAM Artists

Vacuum quartet

Vacuum Quartet

St. Petersburg Improvisation Orchestra

St. Petersburg Improvisation Orchestra

Festino

Festino Chamber Choir

The Gallery of Actual Music Ensemble

The Gallery of Actual Music Ensemble

Gerard Costes

Gerard Costes

reheard_ensemble

Reheard Ensemble

Gleb Khokhlov

Gleb Khokhlov

Maria Sadurdinova

Maria Sadurdinova

Oleg Makarov

Oleg Makarov

Dmitry Shubin

Dmitri Shubin

Symphocat-Ilia-Pucheglazov

Ilya Symphocat

Serafima Verkholat

Serafima Verkholat

Daria Lutsenko

Daria Lutsenko

ONLINE LEARNING

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.

MEDIA

Oscar Bianchi:
«For me Russia is still a big mystery»

In his interview with the reMusik.org composer Oscar Bianchi spoke about the music piece Aqba, nel soffio tuo dolce, which performed by Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the children’s perception of his works, and what problems he sees in the field of Russian contemporary music.

Joanna Bailie:
«Photographs form the basis for many of my works»

In an interview with reMusik.org, composer Joanna Bailie answered questions concerning her participation as a teacher in the Online Сomposition Courses and also talked about her love of jazz and working on short films.

GENERAL PARTNERS

PARTNERS

MEDIA PARTNERS