Concerts – 2016

Mia Zabelka

Mia Zabelka is an internationally performing sound artist and violinist. Since April 2015 Mia Zabelka is the president of the Society for Free Improvisation and Experimental Music Austria (SFIEMA). She is the artistic director of Klanghaus Untergreith in South-Styria / Austria and Phonofemme Festival in Vienna / Austria. The recent edition of Phonofemme, which took place in October 2015 at the Wiener Konzerthaus.

(photo credit Sasa Felsbach)

Renate Quehenberger

Renate Quehenberger MA, Cand Phil., art researcher, film director, curator and art reviewer, based in Vienna/Austria. Currently she is editing the homonymous book about her art research project “Quantum Cinema – a digital vision” ((funded by FWF, 2010-2013 in collaboration with Peter Weibel). Besides scientific publications in quantum physics, geometry and social sciences she is writing art-reviews published on www.artmagazine.cc. Her contribution to mathematics is the 3D representation of the Penrose Kites and Darts Tilings (named Epitahedra), unit-cells in a 5-dimensional space. As Art-Scie-author Arthur I. Miller puts it, “The fifth element – the quintessence – has its geometrical form as an epitahedron.”

Benjamin Skepper

Benjamin Skepper is multi media artist, classically trained musician, composer, and cultural advocate based between Tokyo and Melbourne. He is a Foreign Representative and Ambassador of the Genetic Music School“, Invited Fellow of the Moscow Conservatory, Brand Ambassador and Endorsed Artist for Yamaha Music. He is also the Australian Ambassador for Culture to Russia and uses art as a vehicle for global diplomacy.
Video: vimeo.com/benjaminskepper
Music: benjaminskepper.bandcamp.com

Ivan Soshinsky

Composer, a member of the Russian Union of Composers. He graduated from the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2012 and he works there now. Musical works by him were performed in the halls of the Moscow Conservatory, at the festival Moscow Autumn, in France, the Netherlands and Austria. Before the Moscow Conservatory he has graduated Moscow M. V. Lomonosov State University as a biophysicist in 2002, and he worked as a biophysicist for the Russian Academy of Sciences. Sphere of interests: compositions of academic music, mathematics, algorithms and computer programming, electronic music. His musical pieces of genetic music were successfully performed in the concert held in Vienna on 4 June 2015.

Sergey V. Petoukhov

Sergey V. Petoukhov, Prof. Dr. Phys.-Math. Sci, Laureate of the State prize of the USSR, head of the Laboratory of Biomechanical Systems at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He is a leading member of the Center of Interdisciplinary Studies of Musical Creativity of the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He is a chairman of the Advisory Board of the International Symmetry Association., co-leader of multi-year scientific cooperation between Russian and Hungarian Academies of Sciences. In 2012, the Chinese government has included Petoukhov in its official List of Outstanding Scientists in the World. He is professor of the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute.

Konstantin Zenkin

Prof. Konstantin Zenkin is Vice Rector for Science in the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He is a professional pianist and musicologist. Dr. Zenkin is the author of 4 books and more than 130 papers on various aspects of music history, music philosophy and history of piano performance, participant in more than 230 international conferences. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled Chopin’s Piano Miniature and its Role in the Historical Artistic Process (1987) and his Doctor of Fine Arts thesis Piano Miniature and the Ways of Musical Romanticism (1996).

Alexander Koblyakov

Prof. Alexander Koblyakov, Dean of the Composition Faculty of the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He is Head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Musical Creativity at the Conservatory where researches of different aspects of genetic music are conducted. He is a Laureate of the International Composers’ Competition. Member of a) the Russian Union of Composers; the Union of Cinematographers; the Board of the Moscow branch of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation; the Admissions Committee of the Composers’ Union of Russia; and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Nika.

Natalia Cherkasova

Natalia Cherkasova (piano) completed her postgraduate studies at the Moscow State Conservatory in 2005. Natalia won a lot of young performers competitions (in Dobrich, Bulgaria, 2001, Krakow, Poland, 2006 and so on). She combines her solo activities with ensemble playing, taking part at such festivals as Moscow Autumn and Moscow Forum. She took part also in different master-classes and workshops of such performers and composers like Beat Furrer, Philippe Hurel, ensemble Recherche and many others. Since 2005 she is a member of Studio for New Music ensemble in the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Marina Rubinstein

Marina Rubinstein (flute) graduated in the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory at the Faculty of Modern Music. She is winner and recipient of prizes of International competitions in Moscow, Vienna, Rome. As a part of a trio, she became the owner of a prize for the best performance of classical work at the competition of chamber music in Caltanissetta (Italy). Marina is soloist of the ensemble Studio of New Music under control of V. Tarnopolski (Conductor I. Dronov) in the Moscow Conservatory. She is playing with the ensemble Academy of ancient music under control of T. Grindenko.

Sergei Zagny

Composer, musicologist and associate professor at the Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Zagny performs his own music, playing piano, organ and nontraditional instruments. His work has been published by Long Arms Records, Dom Records and Fancymusic. In his paper, Imitation: Traditional and Nontraditional Transformations of Melodies, a new theory of imitation and canon is described (first published in English in Perspectives of New Music, Volume 37 Number 2, Summer 1999). He is probably the first composer to work with Magic Stars. First Russian “John Cage Prize” Laureate (1992).