Mark Buloshnikov (b. 1990) — is a composer, musicologist, pianist, and Ph.D. in art history. He graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Glinka Conservatory (class of composition led by Boris Getselev, class of musicology led by Tamara Levaya) and completed an assistantshipinternship course under the guidance of Getselev.
Currently, he chairs the Nizhny Novgorod regional organization of the Union of Composers of Russia and works as a senior lecturer at the Department of Composition and Instrumentation of the Nizhny Novgorod Conservatory. He received the scholarship of the government of the Russian Federation for young cultural and art workers (2021), the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gorky Prize in Arts (2020), the Russian Music 2.0 grant from the Aksenov Family Foundation (2020), and the prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Nizhny Novgorod Region (2019).
The composer has written for musical theatre (the opera Haze and vaudeville The Marriage of Balzaminov) and drama theatre. Haze, created jointly with Kirill Shirokov, was awarded and shown at the Golden Mask Festival. He has also composed a number of symphonic, chamber and vocal opuses.
