International Young Composers Academy
in Tchaikovsky city (Perm Region)

Annual International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city (Perm region) is a unique project in Russia's contemporary music culture scene – the first and only large-scale international composer workshop in the country. Artistic director is a composer Dmitri Kourliandski.

Academy is a creative laboratory for young composers and musicians from around the world, including different Russian regions. Visiting professors are well-known composers who hold individual sessions and group lectures. During fortnight workshop the young composers write new compositions which are rehearsed and performed in a series of final concerts – in Tchaikovsky, in Perm and in Moscow by the leading Russian group – the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME). At the same time the MCME musicians carry out individual and ensemble master-classes for young Russian performers from Perm and Perm region.

Privacy and rest, remoteness from noise and big cities, wonderful landscapes dispose to fruitful creative concentration. Tchaikovsky is the unique city in the world, called in honor of the composer, apparently, is created to be a cradle of musical creativity.

54 applications from 26 countries were received for the First  International Young Composers Academy (September, 2011). 15 young composers (12 students, 3 stagers) from 7 countries were selected for participation. Pierluigi Billone (Italy) and Franck Bedrossian (France) were invited as visiting professors of Academy-2011.

110 applications from 39 countries were received for the Second International Young Composers Academy (September, 2012). 16 young composers (12 students, 3 stagers and the special mention participant) from 9 countries were selected for participation. Mark Andre (France/Germany) and Klaus Lang (Austria) were invited as visiting professors of Academy-2012.

The Third Academy will take place September 16 – 30, 2013
 in Tchaikovsky city (Perm region) and in Perm.

Professors:

Antoine Beuger, composer (Netherlands/Germany)
Jean-Luc Herve, composer (France)

Musicians: 

Soloists of the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble

Ivan Bushuev, flutes
Oleg Tantsov, clarinets
Sergej Tchirkov, accordion
Michail Doubov, piano
Vlad Pessin, violin
Oleg Vedernikov, cello

The project organizers:

Administration of Tchaikovsky Municipal Aria
Composers Union of Perm
Centre for New Music Initiatives
Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
 

The Academy will take place with the support from:

Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation
Ministry of Culture, Youth Policy and Mass Communication of Perm Region
Administration of Tchaikovsky Municipal Aria
French Embassy and French Institute in Moscow
Perm State Pedagogical University
Year The Netherlands - Russia


Our partners
Young Composers Meeting (the Netherlands) http://www.ereprijs.nl/YCM.aspx
The European Musical Creation Workshop (Spain) http://www.emcw.eu/es/
COURSE (Ukraine) http://entmusic.org/articles/course-2012-pres-relise-ta-kalendar
Gaudeamus Muziekweek (the Netherlands) http://www.muziekweek.nl/index.php