KM

Russia

MAXIM KOSHEVAROV - Composer, orchestrator, conductor. Born on 22 June 1978 in Leningrad. He began to study music at the age of 7. After graduating from the Glinka Choir School, in 1996 he entered the St Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. In 1996 he entered the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire in the class of conducting an academic choir. He studied symphony conducting as an elective, which later gave him the opportunity to perform as a conductor on recordings of his music for films. After completing his studies at the Conservatoire, he became interested in film work. As an orchestrator he collaborated with Igor Vdovin on the film Sword Bearer and Finnish composer Tuomas Kantelinen on the film Mongol. He made his debut as a composer in the animated series The Adventures of Luntik and his Friends. He has composed music for more than 200 television series, films and cartoons. Among which are: "Private Pioneer", "Mentovye Wars", "Young Guard", "Grigory R", "Wings of Empire", "Velikaya", "Ghost", "Rzhev", "Sky", "Golden Bronze" and many others. From theatre works it is possible to note the music to the children's play "Svetka", successfully going in the theatre "Lycedei". ALEXANDER MAEV - Composer Born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg). He received a musical education in piano and clarinet. Later, having changed his professional direction, he graduated from the Baltic State Technical University. In 1998 he released his first album as a member of the band "Aurora", recorded at Melodiya studio.Maev is described by his colleagues as a musician of a western way of thinking: combining and developing different creative directions, he is engaged in sound production, writes music for theatrical productions and films. Intensio and Jan are the first one-act ballets created in close collaboration with choreographer Yuri Smekalov. Intensio was performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2013, while Dzhan was presented as part of the Vladimir Vasiliev Creative Workshop project "Andrei Platonov and Ballet" (Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theatre, 2013). In August 2013, the two-act ballet Infinita Frida to music by Alexander Mayev (choreography by Yuri Smekalov) premiered at the Elisa Cabrera Theatre and Concert Hall in Texcoco (Mexico). In 2013 and 2014 Forest's music from the symphonic suite Intensio was performed at the finale of the Kremlin Gala in Moscow. In March 2014 the Mariinsky Theatre premiered the one-act ballet Camera Obscura to music by Alexander Mayev. In 2014 he took part in writing the music for the musical Master and Margarita. Since 2012 has written music for more than 90 feature films and TV series. Recent film works: Sky, GOLDEN BRONZA, THE FIRST DISTRICT, RUSALKA - THE LAKE OF THE DEAD, RZHEV.