DCV 397 – Dmitri Kourliandski: (ob)version

Dmitri Kourliandski was born in 1976 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and completed post-graduate course led by Leonid Bobylev.

Composer Dmitri Kourliandski has gone into exile in France with his wife and three children. “Contemporary art is a form of political opposition,” he says. A quiet childhood under Brezhnev, in a family of the Russian intelligentsia where “no one talked about war”, where they listened to Shostakovich but also to jazz.

The 6th seasonal programme of ensemble for new music ö! (Switzerland), which will conclude the 22/23 season, once again has a title taken from Paul Celan’s poetic work: “Wild roses, sweet wine” reflects on the past and at the same time cheers you up the upcoming summer.  PROGRAM: Gerard Grisey (1946-1998) – Talea (1986) for flute, […]

The 6th seasonal programme of ensemble for new music ö! (Switzerland), which will conclude the 22/23 season, once again has a title taken from Paul Celan’s poetic work: “Wild roses, sweet wine” reflects on the past and at the same time cheers you up the upcoming summer.

The internationally active composer Dmitri Kourliandski and the writer Nastya Rodionova are working on a work on behalf of the HKB and together with students: In the spring semester, the texts for the work are created in workshops with the HKB Literature Institute, while the musical parts are composed by music students as part of […]

The 8th impuls Festival for Contemporary Music will close with zone expérimentale basel and Ex-Sentia Ensemble, two Swiss ensembles, that originate from the Master’s program for Contemporary Music at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel/Switzerland and now gain additional expertise from working with composers on site at the impuls Academy.

As an extension of the projects carried out with the conservatory’s chamber music class (Jean-Renaud Lhotte), Ensemble Cairn has invited exiled Russian composer Dmitri Kourliandski to compose several pieces and take part in several ongoing projects (Julien Malaussena’s residency, Festival Ensembles 2024 in Bagnolet).

‘Resonant Mass’ by Dmitri Kourliandski on the program of the Musicae civitas concert series by percussion ensemble of the conservatory next to the pieces by Nyman, Ligeti and Liebermann.

Concert at the contemporary and electroacoustic music festival ARTESCIENZ Dmitri Kourliandski – Possible Places 2.1 (deformation of waiting in anticipation of non-return) (2021/22) for trombone and electronics Luigi Nono – Excerpt from Das Atmende Klarsein (II) (1980 – 1983) for bass flute and Halaphone Kelley Sheehan – Harbinger  (2020) for amplified trombone, tape, and live […]

Celia Swart (1994, NL) is a new music composer, saxophone player and visual artist. Growing up playing saxophone and piano, she found her love for composing.

Education Michael has a degree in English Literature from the State University of New York. Despite having no formal music education, he has an active international career in several aspects of the music business.

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin