In 2020, the Aksenov Family Foundation initiated “Russian Music 2.0”, a project in the field of contemporary academic music aimed at developing and renewing the traditions of the national composer school and showcasing its best achievements in Russia and abroad.

The first concert of the project, aimed at building an ecosystem with optimal conditions for composers to create new works, was successfully held in 2020.

The first eight premieres of the project’s composers were performed for the first time by the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME) and the Questa Musica ensemble during a concert at the Meyerhold Centre (Moscow).

The second concert, the result of two years of work and an expert analysis of opinions in 2021, was held at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, where the compositions were performed by the MCME and the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of conductor Fyodor Lednev.

The album “Russian Music 2.0 / 2.1” is the logical result of the first two years of the program, capturing the general dynamics of change observed in the recent history of Russian academic music.

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