Artyom Vasilev

Vasiliev, Artem Mikhailovich is a composer of symphonic, chamber, and electroacoustic music, the author of an opera and four ballets. He serves on the boards of the Moscow Composers’ Union and the Composers’ Guild of the Russian Filmmakers’ Union, is president of the Russian Association for Electroacoustic Music, and a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Music (2018). An award winner and nominee of Golden Eagle, Golden Mask, APKiT, and Icarus, he has scored 40+ films and series, including Sophia, Godunov, Grozny, Flight Crew, Champion of the World, The End of a Beautiful Era, and Weekend. His ballets The Canterville Ghost and The Secret Garden were staged in London, and The Snow Queen (Yekaterinburg, 2016) was Golden Mask nominated and performed at the Bolshoi Theatre. A graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Music (MMus, PhD), with residencies in Bourges, Budapest, and Birmingham, he teaches at the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnesin Academy and previously worked with Yamaha Music Russia and OTR.