EDISON DENISOV
Edison Denisov (1929-1996) is one of the leading figures in 20th century Russian music. A leading figure of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1960s, he took on at the time of the stagnation of the ruling regime in Russia. Rebellious, incorruptible, conscientious and persevering, he remained true to himself through storms and challenges. A rare, almost mystical force inhabited him and differentiated him from so many others. Denisov taught orchestration and composition at the Moscow Conservatory for almost forty years, from 1959 to 1996, and was the only one of his generation to form a real composition school in Russia, a role in which he is comparable to Olivier Messiaen in France.
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CUrrent PROJECTs of the Association
The “EDISON DENISOV SOCIETY PARIS"
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
The International Association EDISON DENISOV SOCIETY PARIS (law of 1st July 1901 - art. 5) was created in 2020 in Paris.
The purpose of this association is to promote the memory and work of the composer Edison Denisov by publishing and translating existing books, to contribute to the organization of events, concerts, festivals and competitions referring to his work.
The association is composed of:
Founding members Ekaterina Desgraupes-Denisov, Anton Safronov and Philippe Coutelen
Active members (office) Ekaterina Desgraupes-Denisov (president), Mathilde Maurel (secretary), Nicolas Mizen (accountant)
Artistic Director Vladimir Tarnopolski
Honorary President Vladimir Jurowski
Honorary Committee
Ladies Galina Grigorieva and Ekaterina Kouprovskaia-Bruggeman
Gentlemen Pierre Boulez*, Aurèle Nicolet*, Guennady Rozhdestvensky*,
Yuri Bashmet, Claude Delangle, Heinz Holliger, Gidon Kremer, Alexander Rudin, Joel Spiegelman*
Anyone who has a special interest in Edison Denisov's music and its interpretation, who wishes to receive regular information on the Association's activities and to pay an annual membership fee, may become a member of the association. Members of the Association can join the active participants, financially supporting its activities, allowing it to be productive and systematic. Members of the Association can also benefit from certain activities and services of the association. Members of the group of benefactors (donors, patrons) who pay a higher annual fee or a one-off fee may receive a tax notification.
By joining our project "EDISON DENISOV SOCIETY", (annual fee of 20 euros), you receive regular information about the activities we sponsor and organize and you are invited to preview our events.
You can also choose to give us a more important support and allow us to reinforce the means that we use for the influence of the composer's work: organization of concerts, festivals, publishing and translation of books and catalogues. With this support, you have the status of a privileged member, your name will appear on the site if you wish, you benefit from reserved seats for free at our events, and many other advantages.
Support our association today and help us to perpetuate the memory of Edison Denisov and his work.
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OUR BENEFACTORS
Lubimov Alexeï
Maurel Mathilde
Rüdiger Jürgen
Rüdiger Gerhard
Rudin Fédor
Sinany Hélène
Smekhov Veniamin
Solopova Natalya
Tarnopolski Vladimir
Turnovsky Stepan
Yusipey Roman
Blaum Bernd-Wolfgang
Blaum Ulrike
Bruggeman-Denissova Ekaterina
Coutelen Philippe
Denisov Nick
Desgraupes-Denisov Ekaterina
Deubner Maacha
Höerter -Volf Waltraud
Khanukaev Sergey
Krivopalova Veronika
Lobanov Alexandre
MEET THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION
VLADIMIR JUROWSKI
Honorary President
One of today’s most sought-after conductors, acclaimed worldwide for his incisive musicianship and adventurous artistic commitment, Vladimir Jurowski was born in Moscow in 1972, and completed the first part of his musical studies at the Music College of the Moscow Conservatory. In 1990 he relocated with his family to Germany, continuing his studies at the Musikhochschule of Dresden and Berlin, studying conducting with Rolf Reuter and vocal coaching with Semion Skigin. Jurowski is General Music Director of Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper since 2021, and Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2017. In 2021 he stepped down from his highly-acclaimed fifteen year tenure as Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, to become their Conductor Emeritus. In addition, he is Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and has held the positions of Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera (2001-2013), Artistic Director of the Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra (2010-2020), Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian National Orchestra (2005-2009) and Artistic Director of the George Enescu International Festival, Bucharest (2017-2021). He also previously held the positions of First Kapellmeister of the Komische Oper Berlin (1997-2000), and Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (2000-2003).
Ekaterina Desgraupes-Denisov
President
Edison Denisov's daughter, who has been living in Paris since 1995, studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow where she graduated as a choral conductor. She then also studied in Italy and France as a sound engineer and worked at the publishing house "Saisons Russes" in Moscow as an artistic assistant for recordings. Currently she teaches music theory at the CMA*19 in Paris and at the CRR** (Aubervilliers).
*Municipal district conservatory
**Regional conservatory
Vladimir Tarnopolsky
Artistic Director
Vladimir Tarnopolski, composer (1955, Dnipro, Ukraine). Since 1973 until 2022 he studied and worked in Moscow, since April 2022 he lives in Munich. Tarnopolski studied composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Edison Denisov and Nikolai Sidelnikov. Tarnopolski is one of the most active reformers of the musical life of Moscow in the post-Soviet period. He was one of the initiators of ACM, the Association of Contemporary Music in Moscow (1989), which represented a group of composers, who reacted against the official Soviet cultural philosophy of "socialist realism". In 1993 he founded the Centre for Contemporary Music, the first of its kind in Russia, and the Studio for New Music Ensemble. Since 1992 until February 2022 Tarnopolski was a professor of composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 2003, he founded the Department of Contemporary Music and became its first head.Tarnopolski is currently a visiting professor at the Hochschule Munich. He is a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts (since 2011).
members of the office
ANTONINO MOLLICA
Accountant
Born in Messina (Sicily), where he obtained a first-class diploma in saxophone at the A. Corelli State Conservatory in 2001.
At the same institution he also studied composition, counterpoint and elements of ethnomusicology. Attracted to France by the reputation of the French saxophone school, he was accepted at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP) in 2006. At the CNSMDP he has studied with the following pedagogues: Gilles Tressot, Claude Delangl, Sylvain Malezier and Laszlo Hadadi. Antonino Mollica regularly gives concerts and masterclasses in France and abroad (Belgium, Holland, Germany, Spain, Malta, Italy, China, Japan, Korea, Argentina), in venues such as the Auditorium of the Musée d'Orsay, the Zenith in Paris, the Greek Theatre in Taormina, the Cité de la Musique, the Salle Pleyel in Paris and the Philharmonie de Paris. Antonino Mollica teaches his instrument at the Jack Ralit Regional Conservatoire CRR'93 in Aubervilliers/La Courneuve and at the Conservatory of the XIX District in Paris, and regularly collaborates with the CNSM on study programmes and with the Pôle Alienor in Poitiers/Tour.
Mathilde Maurel
Secretary
Mathilde Maurel is an economist, Director of Research at the CNRS* and Professor at the Sorbonne. Her work focuses in part on the economics of culture. She is a member of several associations whose aim is to promote classical and contemporary music, by supporting young soloists and to present in a renewed way, through them, the classical repertory and contemporary creations as well.
*The National Centre for Scientific Research.
ARTISTIC COMMITTEE
Andreas Bräutigam (CEO and Project manager of Ensemble Unitedberlin, Berlin)
Claude Delangle (saxophonist, Paris)
Niki Ellinidou (theater and opera directing, Berlin)
Rauf Farkhadov (Musicologist, Doctor of Art Criticism, Moscow)
Alexei Lubimov (pianist, Moscow/Paris)
Nicolas Mizen (saxophonist, Paris)
Fedor Rudin (violinist, conductor, Vienna)
Iassen Vodenitcharov (composer, Paris)