Saint Petersburg State Conservatory
13:30

Katharina Rosenberger, born in Zurich, is a Professor at the Department of Music, University of California, San Diego. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from Columbia University, under the mentorship of Tristan Murail.

Rosenberger is a recipient of the 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. In the past, she has been awarded with the Hellman Fellowship, San Francisco, the Sony Scholar Award, and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

Lumiere Hall
16:00

ENMT is a platform to bring about fresh and newly perceived music to new generation of public and professionals. The ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists.

The program: Hans Thomalla, Anton Tanonov, Nadir Vassena, Xavier Dayer and Elis Hallik.

St. Ann’s Church
20:00

Around the Сorner is a duo integrated by Eva-Maria Karbacher (saxophone) and Victor Barceló (percussion). Their music fluctuate between the free improvisation and the multimedia world with big influences of the techno music, electronic and jazz.

The program: Kelley Sheehan, Simon Steen Andersen, Matthias Kranebitter and Around the Сorner.

Saint Petersburg State Conservatory
12:30

Vladimir Tarnopolski is a professor of composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 1993 he founded the Centre for Contemporary Music at the Moscow Conservatory, the first of its kind in Russia, and the Studio for New Music Ensemble. Tarnopolski’s compositions contain a fulminantly charged musical substance fitting into a concisely articulated, well-balanced construction.

Lumiere Hall
16:00

The A&C String Quartet — where A&C stands for “Ancient and Contemporary” — was founded at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2016, when some of the most talented string virtuosi in Russia decided to unite under the flag of sheer authenticity and produce more truthful renditions of contemporary and 18th-century music.

The program: Oscar Bianchi, Alexander Khubeev, Youshin Gim, Amin Sharifi, Oleg Gudachev and Raphaël Cendo.

New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre
19:30

ENMT is a platform to bring about fresh and newly perceived music to new generation of public and professionals. The ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists.

The program: Alexander Schubert, Simon Steen Andersen, Mark Applebaum, Liisa Hirsch, Yair Klartag and Nikolai Popov.

Saint Petersburg State Conservatory
13:00

Alexander Knaifel finished the Secondary Special Music School of the St. Petersburg Conservatory where he studied the cello under Emmanuil Fishman. He continued his cello studies under Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatory (1961-1963) and then his composition studies under Boris Arapov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1963- 1967). Alexander Knaifel was the first Russian musician to become awarded the international DAAD prize (German Academic Exchange Service).

Saint Petersburg State Conservatory
15:00

Oscar Bianchi completed degrees in composition, choir conducting and electronic music at the Giuseppe Verdi conservatory of Milan. He pursued further studies in composition taking part in master programs such as at IRCAM — Centre Pompidou and with a doctoral degree at Columbia University in New York under the guidance of Tristan Murail.

He has been awarded numerous prizes, such as the Gaudeamus first Prize and the Grand Prix de la SACEM. «Partendo» has been awarded with the 2016 IMC International Rostrum of composer’s prize while his first CD Portrait won the German Record Critics’ Award in 2013.

Masterskaya M. K. Anikushina
19:00

The Studio for New Music (SNM) was founded by composer Vladimir Tarnopolski and conductor Igor Dronov in 1993. Their first concert was given in France with Mstislav Rostropovich as conductor. an archive. SNM is the ensemble-in-residence at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. It is the core ensemble for the Moscow Forum Festival for contemporary music. Every year the ensemble performs about 50 programs in Moscow and throughout the country. Studio is a frequent guest at many Western contemporary music festivals.

The program: Alexandra Philonenko, Oscar Bianchi, Simone Cardini, Jug Markovic, Kaito Nakahori, Annette Schmucki, Raphaël Cendo and Vladimir Tarnopolski.

Saint Petersburg State Conservatory
11:00

The distinguishing feature of new media art is digital representation of objects. Irrelevant of whether objects were computer created in the first place or digitized from analog sources, they are represented by numeric codes and are therefore digital representations. Consequently, objects can be described mathematically and subjected to algorithmic manipulations as media become programmable. These and other multiform art transformations of the digital age will be a matter of discussion at the conference.

Saint Petersburg State Conservatory
11:00

Raphaël Cendo’s music tends towards excess and saturation. He sculpts from crude masses and extracts complex sounds. Energy from the performers themselves puts this sound matter into a state of tension through a blending of timbres and a contrast of forms.

He has taught at the Conservatoire de Nanterre, the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya of Barcelona, at the Darmstadt Summer School, at the “New Voices” composition sessions in Royaumont Abbey. He is the director of the University of Altitude, a summer academy of composition that takes place every year in Saint-Martin-Vésubie.

Concert Hall “Jaani Kirik”
19:00

The Makrokosmos Quartet — comprising pianists Ufuk and Bahar Dördüncü and percussionists Sergi Sempere i Ramos and Sébastien Cordier — owes its name to the series of pieces for piano composed by George Crumb: the musicians played part of his cycle, “Music for a Summer Evening”, in their first joint performance.

The Program: Wolfgang Rihm, Oleg Paiberdin, Xavier Dayer, Victor Bayez and Martin Matalon.