Alexander Chernyshkov - Austrian Music Export

Chernyshkhov, Alexander © Alexander Chernyshkhov

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Genre(s): Contemporary Music
From: Vienna, Austria
Contact: 3ALEXANDER3@GMAIL.COM
Website: alexanderchernyshkov.com
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BIOGRAPHY

Alexander Chernyshkov is a composer, performer and improviser. Born in Russia, he grew up in Verona, Italy. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Chaya Czernowin and Karlheinz Essl, and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz with Clemens Gadenstätter.

Alexander Chernyshkov has attended numereous academies and workshops, including the Darmstadt Ferienkurse for Contemporary Music from 2008-2010, Tzlil Meudcan (Tel Aviv) and the Tchaikovsky Summer Academy. Composers who have influenced him, with whom he has studied, or with whom he has been in contact include Pierluigi Billone, Georges Aperghis, Sergej Newski, Dmitrij Kourljandskij, Steven Kazuo-Takasugi. Chernyshkov’s music is regularly performed throughout Europe and Russia and broadcast (Ö1, BBC, TOPOT). His works have been commissioned and programmed in festivals such as Wien Modern 2008 (Vienna), Donaueschinger Musiktage 2010 (Off-Programm), Gaudeamus 2015 (Utrecht), Biennale di Venezia Musica 2016-2017, Bludenzer Musiktage (Bludenz), Platforma (Moscow), NEW_Air (Vienna), Tzlil Meudcan (Tel Aviv), Izlog Festival (Zagreb), Lost in translation (Moscow), Unsafe and sounds (Vienna), Pythian Games (St. Petersburg), Transit Festival (Leuven), Maggio Fiorentino (Florence), Musiktheatertage Wien 2018.

He experiments actively in building new instruments of strictly acoustical and mechanical origin, using long tubes to transform wind instruments or using motors, relays and electromagnets as vibrating sources.