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), Philippe Coutelen (secretary), Mathilde Maurel (accountant)
Artistic Director Anton Safronov
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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MEET THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION
VLADIMIR JUROWSKI
Honorary President
Jurowski is General Music Director of Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper since 2021, and Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. 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
Anton Safronov
Artistic Director
Russian composer, born in Moscow, student of Edison Denisov
Winner of several composition competitions
Lives and works both in Moscow and Berlin
Assistant Professor of the Dept. of Composition at the
Moscow State Conservatory P. Tchaikovsky
Assistant Professor at the Berlin University of Arts (UdK),
Dept. of Music (Composition, Music Theory & Analysis)
Co-redactor and Author at the magazine
"The Contemporary Music Tribune", Moscow (Russia)
Author at the magazine "The Music Life", Moscow (Russia)
members of the office
NICOLAS MIZEN
Accountant
Born in Die, Nicolas has long combined his passion for the saxophone, performance and cultural entrepreneurship in his native region and abroad. A graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris (teaching) and the prestigious Sibelius Academy in Helsinki (Master's degree in saxophone). He studied saxophone with Alexandre Doisy, Gilles Tressos, Christophe Bois, Lars Mlekusch, Michael Krenn and Joonatan Rautiola in France, Austria and Finland. Nicolas has performed in all three countries, at the Philharmonie de Paris, the Music Center in Helsinki, the Schönberg Center in Vienna, in the auditorium of the Musée du Quai Branly, the Auditorium de Lyon, the Opéra de Reims, the Salle Cortot, the auditorium of the Musée de Grenoble... An active chamber musician in duo with clarinettist Matthieu Gaillard, as well as with soprano Manon Gleizes, he plays regularly with the Trio Kern, the Trio Suomenlahti, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, the Orchestre Pasdeloup, the Orchestre Les Métamorphoses and the Secession Orchestra. Currently director of the Orchestre de Chambre de la Drôme, he teaches saxophone at the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental d'Aulnay-sous-Bois and at the Académie Internationale Habanera. Nicolas receives support from the Tarrazi Fund, the Safran Foundation, the Meyer Foundation, the Tokyo Foundation and the Société Générale Foundation.
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)
Niki Ellinidou (theater and opera directing, Berlin)
Rauf Farkhadov (Musicologist, Doctor of Art Criticism, Moscow)
Alexei Lubimov (pianist, Moscow/Paris)
Nicolas Mizen (saxophonist, Paris)
Thierry Pécou (composer, Paris)
Fedor Rudin (violinist, conductor, Vienna)
Vladimir Tarnopolsky (composer, Moscow)