Nikolay Khrust (1982, Moscow) has graduated Moscow State Conservatoire (2007) and Conservatoire post graduate classes (2010)

as a composer (professor Vladimir Tarnopolski). In present time Nikolay works in the Conservatoire as a teacher (Chair for Contemporary Music), also worked as a research associate (Centre for Electroacoustic Music, 2007–2014) and as a journalist.

Last time he also appears as an electronics performer and sound designer. In this quality Nikolay took part in several Russian and world premiers.

He attended Summer Courses for new music in Darmstadt (twice: in 2004, thanks to Goethe-Institute, and in 2010) and Impuls courses in Graz (2009; Austria).

Nikolay visited master-classes of known composers and interpreters (such as Beat Furrer). In 2007 Nikolay was invited for collective musical theater project ‘Boxing Pushkin’ (director

Andrea Boll); the performance have been shown in five cities including Amsterdam (Muziekgebouw) and the Hague (Korzo theater).

In 2010 year Nikolay Khrust was a composer in residence in electronic centres CIRM (Nice) and GRAME (Lyon), which commissioned a work Fluting point for flute, percussion and live electronics.

In 2013–2014 years in Meyerhold Centre Moscow there was a premiere of sound mystery ‘Creation of the World’ by N. Anastasieva, N. Khrust and A. Koleychuk (music by N. Khrust, direction by Natalia Anastasieva). Totally it has been shown eight times.

Nikolay Khrust is a laureate of international and all-Russian contests including III and IV Yurgenson International Young Composers Competition, 6th International Forum for Young Composers of Ensemble Aleph, Young Composers Competition of Orpheus Radio etc.

Works of Nikolay Khrust have been performed by Studio for New Music Moscow, eNsemble, de Ereprijs, Reconsil Wien, Aleph, MCME, Nostri Temporis ensembles, musicians of Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (Fabrice Junger, Yi-Ping Yang) and MusikFabrik (Helen Bledsoe), as well as Russian Philharmonic and Orpheus Radio symphony orchestras (Moscow), Smolny Cathedral choir (S.-Petersburg) and been presented at festivals:

• ‘Klang und Raum’ (Dresden, 2005), • ‘Moscow Autumn’ (2005, 2006, 2008, 2010), • ‘Moscow Forum’ (2007, 2008, 2010), • ‘Musical Olympus’, • ‘Pythian games’ (S.-Petersburg, 2008), • Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival (Kiel, 2008), • ‘Other Space’ (Moscow, 2009, 2010), • ‘Young Euro Classic’ (Berlin, Konzerthaus, 2009), • Biennale ‘Musique en scéne’ (Lyon, 2010), • 45th Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music (2010), • ‘Tax free’ (S.-Petersburg, 2010), • MANCA (Nice, 2010), • ISCM World New Music Days — Musički Biennale Zagreb (2011), • Biennale di Venezia (2011), • EstOvest (Turin, 2011), • ‘Platform’ — ‘Transcriptions’ (Moscow, Winzavod, 2012), • ‘World of Sound. Microtonal Innovations’ (Saint-Petersburg, 2012), • ‘Re:Musik’ (Saint-Petersburg, 2013), • ‘Goulf Stream III’ (Kyiv, 2013) • Black Box (Creative laboratory of Meyerhold Centre Moscow, 2013–2014) • NET (New European Theatre; Moscow, 2014) etc. Also Nikolay takes parts in multimedia and multiart projects. One of them is a sound program for

interactive installation ‘Coming into the topic’ by an artist Dmitry Kawarga (Pop/off/art gallery, Moscow, 2009 — ISCM World New Music Days, Zagreb, 2011), which was selected for presenting in ISCM World New Music Days 2011.

Nikolay Khrust is a participant of ‘Sound Plasticity’ group (www.sound-p.ru).

Main works (with approximate duration)

Quarks’ flavors for flute, harp, viola and percussion (2004) — 8:30 Cleavages for clarinet or bass clarinet solo (2004, vers. 2011) — 9:10 Prometheus. Sliding time (on the rhyme of Ralf Gunter Mohnnau) for soprano and ensemble

(2004, vers. 2005, 2009) — 4:50 Quivering (Huivering / Трепет) for flute and ensemble (2005, vers. 2007) — 14:00 Prospettiva inversa col piano e forte for four musicians (2005) — 11:40 Sprawling street for baritone and large ensemble (2006, vers. 2007) — 3:30 Boxing Pushkin: scenes from the collective opera (I, II, XI, XII) (2007) — full opera is about 1:30:00 A music for symphony orchestra (2007) — 10:00 Eckharts Blick (on words from propagation of ‘Meister’ Eckhart von Hochheim)

for soprano, two violins and violoncello (2007) — 8:20 Alien Grace for ensemble and electronic processing (2008) — 8:35 Fragile for choir and percussion (2008) — 2:35 l’Air en formes for ensemble (2008) — 2:35 Coming into the topic, interactive sound program for the interactive installation by Dmitry Kawarga

(2009, vers. 2011) — no duration (permanently) Eugenica I. Italian concerto for ensemble and live electronics (2009, vers. 2010) — 9:20 Fluting point for flute, percussion and live electronics (2010), computer music design — Max Bruckert;

production of centres for electroacoustic music CIRM (Nice) and GRAME (Lyon)) — 20:00 Interferenzen for organ and three assistants (2010) — 6:45 Unanswered flashes for solo flute (2010) — 2:00 Emancipation Manifesto or How It Was in Actual Fact for reciter, basset horn and string quartet

(2011) — 25:10 Substitutions for alto recorder, countertenor and tape (2011) — 5:55 Eugenica II. Hauptweg und Nebenwege for ensemble and electronics (2012) — 13:10 Microsonetto (on Petrarch’s rhymes) for soprano, ensemble and electronics (2012) — 10:40 DJ Khrust for oboe, violin, cello and piano (2012) — 6:50 Tip of the Horn of a Nanny Goat which Inclined its Head to See Musingly at Splashes Produced

by a Pebble Dropped into Water near Moulin d’Andé for ensemble (2013) — 0:55 Attention! for ensemble (2013) — 1:10 Creation of the World, sound mystery: actors, ensemble, live electronics, space, video, light etc.

(2013–2014), in collaboration with Natalia Anastasieva (director), Anna Koleychuk (visual concept), Vyacheslav Koleychuk (sound & visual objects), Mariam Nagaychuk-El-Abdalla (choreography); production of Meyerhold Center Moscow. — 1:00:00

Small Creation of the World for violin and live electronics improvisation (2013) — 5:00 OF for microtonal electronic organ and bayan (2014) — 5:30

internet: http://sound-p.ru/khrust-2/ e-mail: nikolaykhrust@gmail.com

phone: +7 903 584 56 41 address: Povarskaya str. 23a, fl. 10, 121069 Moscow, Russia