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Sergej Newski

Country of origin: Russia
Birthday: October 10, 1972

About Sergej Newski

Sergej Newski was born on 10th October 1972 in Moscow. He majored in Composition at the Dresden Music Academy (HfM Dresden) under Jörg Herchet and at Berlin’s University of Arts (UdK) under Friedrich Goldmann. He also studied Music Theory there, under Hartmut Fladt.

He has already written compositions for (among others) the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, the Ruhr Triennale, the Bolshoi Theatre / Opera Group, the Vienna Klangforum, the Neue Vocalsolisten from Stuttgart, the Berlin Concert House (Konzerthaus), the Academy of Arts and the broadcasting stations SWR, SR and Deutschlandradio Kultur.

At the same time, his works were played at numerous festivals such as the Donaueschingen Music Festival, Wien Modern (Vienna), the Gaudeamus Music Week, Musica Viva in Munich, the World New Music Days, TRANSIT Leuven, the Berlin Festival Weeks (Festwochen), MaerzMusik, ECLAT and Ultraschall. Sergej Newski is cooperating with ensembles such as the Kairos Quartet, the ensemble mosaik, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Ensemble musikFabrik, VocaalLAB, the Nieuw Ensemble, and with soloists such as Natalia Pshenitshnikova, Daniel Gloger, Teodoro Anzellotti, Jakob Diehl and with conductors such as Johannes Kalitzke, Titus Engel, Philipp Chizhevsky and Teodor Currentzis.

September 2012 saw the premiere of the chamber opera “Franziskus”at the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre.

From 2011 to 2013, Sergej Newski was curator of the concert series “Project Platform” and the festival “Lost in Translation” in Moscow. Since 2013 he has been working as a visiting lecturer for Composition at the St. Petersburg State University. He worked at the Berlin Comic Opera as a dramatic advisor for the world premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s “American Lulu”.

In 2006 he was awarded the Composition Prize of the City of Stuttgart. In addition, he was awarded residency fellowships at the German Academy in Rome (Casa Baldi), the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the Villa Serpentara of the Academy of Arts, as well as scholarships from the Wilfried Steinbrenner Foundation, the Künstlerhof Schreyahn and the Berlin Senate.

Sergej Newski lives in Berlin.

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