Aleksey Potapov is a classical and electric guitarist born in the Volgograd region. He graduated from the College of the Serebryakov Volgograd State Conservatory (class of Associate Professor Sergey Matokhin), the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music (class of Professor Alexander Frauchi and Dmitry Illarionov), and completed his post-graduate assistantship at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory (specializing in Contemporary Music Ensemble, under the direction of Professor Vladimir Tarnopolsky).

A laureate of international competitions, Potapov has performed with such distinguished ensembles as the Studio for New Music, the Gallery of Actual Music (GAM-Ensemble), the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia, the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, and the Moscow Operetta Theatre Orchestra, among others.

He has been a featured guest at numerous contemporary music festivals, including Moscow Forum, Another Space, reMusik.org, Opus 52, and the Tabula Rasa guitar festival. A dedicated advocate for new music, he frequently collaborates with contemporary composers and has participated in many Russian and world premieres.

In addition to his concert career, Aleksey is active in experimental projects and theatrical productions. He has performed in the plays Mama, It’s All Her, and Alena Chizhuk’s Diary at the Center for Dramaturgy and Direction (CDR), as well as the production of Norma at the Theatre on Bronnaya (featuring music by Alexey Retinsky).

Dmitry Shubin is a musician and artist based in St.Petersburg, Russia. His activities covers various areas of new music: contemporary piano music, electroacoustics, new improvised music, conducted improvisation, and graphic notations.

Dmitry Shubin is pianist and improviser, performing live improvised music. He also creates sound installations and audio-video projects with emphasis on the integration of sound and image. He is a conductor of St.Petersburg Improvisers Orchestra, as well as St.Petersburg Improvisers Choir; a founder of Sound Theater; curator of the School for Improvised Music (St.Petersburg). He is the laureate of the Grand Prix of The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (2016).

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