Ilia Viazov
Composer and sound-artist
| Address | Germany, Lübeck, 23562, Anschützstraße 7A, 304 |
| Citizenship | Russia (citizen), Germany (resident) |
| Phone | +491748904929 ; +79999823251 |
| Telegram | @ilya_composer |
| iliaviazov@gmail.com, ilia.viazov@stud.mh-luebeck.de | |
| YouTube | link |
| Soundcloud | link |
Links to the recent Activities and to the List of works
General
Composer, sound-artist, performer.
Born in Voronezh, Russia in 1999.
When I reached age of 16, I’ve started my professional musical education in Voronezh Musical College as a bassoon player, and then continued it in Music College after Gnesin family, Moscow. After I entered the Moscow Conservatory and studied composition with Vladimir Tarnopolsky (first year of study) and Yuri Kasparov (second year of study).
Since the actions of the Russian government and the war with Ukraine, I was forced to depart my homeland for conscience and life safety in October 2022. Starting from the end of 2022 to the beginning of 2024, I’ve lived and worked in Yerevan as a school teacher of music and a tutor for kids with autism spectrum disorder.
Then I moved to Germany in 2024 and continued my Bachelor Studies in Musikhochschule Lübeck, where I’m also working as an assistant by the composition department and a technical assistant by the electronic studio.
Honors
- Performed by: Lund Contemporary Festival (Sweden), Bashmet Youth Symphony Orchestra, Studio for New Music Ensemble, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ensemble of Russian folk instruments “Russia”, soloists of Musica Aeterna, musicians of Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra
- My anti-war installation “Nursery” was presented in “GROUND Solyanka” Gallery in Moscow
- Winner: Lübecker Kompositionswettbewerb, Possehlpreis Open Space (1st prize), International Competition/Laboratory “Open Space” (Grand Prix), MCME Call for Scores, Musica Aeterna soloists Call for scores, Score Follower Call for scores.
- Scholarships: DAAD-Stipendium (2024-2025), Stibet I (2024), Scholarship of Moscow Composer’s Union (2022 & 2023).
Skills
| Instruments | Whistle-flutes, Synthesizers, Objects, DIY |
| Audio | Reaper, Ableton Live, Pure Data, Max 8, Jitter, gen~, RNBO, SuperCollider, Modalys |
| Software | C/C++ for Embedded Systems, Python, JS, Github, HTML, CSS, Sibelius, Finale, Graphics editing for music notation, Video editing |
| Other | Concert sound engineering, Soldering electrical components, Making DIY instruments |
Language
| Russian | Native |
| English | Upper-Intermediate (B2) |
| German | Upper-Intermediate (B2) |
Education
- 04/2024 - aktuell - Musikhochshule Lübeck, Deutschland. Komposition und Elektronische Musik (Bachelor).
- Composition — Milica, Djordjevic, Marisol Jiménez Becerra, Nicola Hein
- Electroacoustics — Nicola Hein, Louis Goldford
- 10/2023 - 03/2024 - Musikhochshule Lübeck, Deutschland. Komposition (Kontaktstudium).
- Composition— Katharina Rosenberger
- Electroacoustics— Nicola Hein, Louis Goldford
- 09/2020 - 10/2022 - Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia. Composer. (Bachelor, didn’t finish due to the war)
- Composition — Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Yuri Kasparov.
- Electroacoustics — Nikolay Khrust, Alexey Nadzharov.
- Instrumentation — Valery Kikta, Faradzh Karaev, Olga Bochikhina.
- Counterpoint — Kuzma Bodrov, Sergei Zagny.
- 09/2016 - 08/2020 - Gnesin Russian Music Academy, Moscow, Russia. Bassoon player (Secondary vocational education, graduated)
- 09/2015 - 08/2016 - Rostropovich Music College, Voronezh, Russia. Bassoon player
Work experience
- 04/2024 - now
- Assistant by the composition department and technical assistan by the electronic studio
- Musikhochschule Lübeck, Germany
- 10/2022 - 02/2024
- Tutor and Music Teacher
- Aregnazan Waldorf School, Yerevan, Armenia
- 09/2020 - 09/2022
- Arranger
- Chamber orchestra “Moscow Soloists” (Y. Bashmet), Moscow, Russia
- 09/2017 - now
- Music Teacher (Music theory, Instrumentation, Programming)
- Self-employed
- 05/2017 - 09/2022
- Arranger
- Choir of the Sretensky Monastery, Moscow, Russia