Dmitri Kourliandski (b. 1976) — is a Russian composer, graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and completed a postgraduate course under the guidance of Leonid Bobylev. He is a winner of the Gaudeamus Competition in the Netherlands (2003). His opera Asteroid 62 won the Johann Josef Fux Opera Composition Competition in Austria, in 2011. Dmitri is a winner of the Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Award (Switzerland, 2010) and the Franco Abbiati Prize of Italy’s National Association of Music Critics (2017). In 2008, he was a guest of the Artist-in-Berlin Program. In 2013, he entered the shortlist of the Sergei Kuryokhin Prize.
Among the composer’s works are the operas Asteroid 62, Sverliytsy. Overture. Beginning, Nosferatu, and Octavia. Trepanation. He also co-wrote the opera Galileo. Opera for Violin and Scientist. His installation performance Commedia delle arti was presented at the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2017. Dmitri Kourliandski is a visiting Professor of composition courses Impuls in Graz, Austria, Sound of Wander in Milan, Italy, in Royaumont, France, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, COURSE in Ukraine, Tzlil Meudcan in Israel, at the conservatories of Amsterdam, Milan, San Sebastian and others. His music is regularly performed at some of the leading international festivals. Among the performers of Kourliandski’s works are the SWR Symphonieorchester, MusicAeterna, the Moscow Symphony, the Klangforum Wien, Schoenberg Ensemble, Ensemble intercontemporain, MCME, Recherche, 2e2m, Contrechamps, Quatour Diotima, eNsemble, The Studio for New Music, N’Caged and Questa Musica. His works have been published by Donemus, Editions Jobert and Le Chant du Monde. The composer’s albums have been released by FANCYMUSIC and Col Legno.
Dmitri is one of the founders of the group of composers “Resistance of Material”. He is a member of the Union of Composers of Russia, artistic director of the International Academy of Young Composers in the town of Tchaikovsky, Russia. He has been musical Director of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre since 2013.
