Revisité (2020) for quintet

Из фильма "Message across the sea"
2022
режиссер - Арина Аджу

Message across the sea (movie soundtrack)

Из спектакля "Говорит Москва" (2018-2022)
МХТ им. Чехова

Кантата О Сталине Минус (спектакль "Говорит Москва")

4 Сказала Какая - То Девочка (спектакль "Говорит Москва")

Recorded by Xoán-Xil López.
Mixed and composed by Mitya Burtsev.
Commissioned by Curtocircuíto – Festival Internacional de Cine.
Produced and performed by Playtronica and passing by people from Santiago de Compostela. 2018

symphony.playtronica.com/

Symphony for Urbanites: Santiago de Compostela (2018)

for ensemble & electronics
performed by MCME 11.12.2017

Tape reality (2017) for ensemble and electronics

An interactive musical experiment by composer Mitya Burtsev and studio Playtronica based on audience and performer interactions, resulting in a symphony made up of the sounds of a megacity.

Commisioned by Moscow Urban Forum, 2018.

"My task was to create a sound image of Moscow, to find the "Moscow" sound. I experimented for a long time with different recordings until I realized that the most recognizable sound of Moscow is noise".

Symphony For Urbanites. Moscow (2018)

Trockene Rinde (2022) for ensemble and electronics

Dmitry Burtsev

Die Luft / der Grund (2013)

Sonnenstaub (2024) for string quartet
Violin I - Umid Mustafazade
Violin II - Fatima Nasirli
Viola - Humay Hajizada
Cello - Arol Rzayev
Recording, mastering - Said Gani
16.07.2024

Sonnenstaub (2024) for string quartet

Body my traitor (2016) for accordion solo
Sergej Tchirkov, accordion
Baku Contemporary Music Days Festival, May 2024


Body my traitor (2016) for accordion solo

Durch die Luftwand (die Studie) (2015-2023) for flute solo

Atabala Manafzadeh (piano)
Farhad Musaev - recording, mastering
2024

NO (2023) for piano

Sketch 03.25 (harpsichord+el. guitar)

fragment from soundtrack of spectacle Считалка (Counting) 
based on novel by Tamta Melashvili
The action takes place during Georgian-Abkhazian war in 1992-1993
recording of old Tushetian folk song was used here
Director - Zhenya Berkovich, 2018
http://www.bpstd.ru/proektyi/spektakli/schitalka

Считалка (Counting) - soundtrack 2018

solo impro 090619

Portrait of a black cat in motion

Version for VST instruments.
This piece was created with the funds of the Aksenov Family foundation as the part of the Russian Music 2.0 project.

Cover: A Rose and Five Insects, Christoffel van den Berghe, 1618

Revisité

Version for VST instruments.
The third part of the neo-Baroque suite "Revisité", inspired by works by Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745).

Cover by Jan Goedart (1617 - 1668) from book "Metamorphosis Naturalis".

Revisité: Modéré.

Dmitry Burtsev (b. 1992) is a composer, sound artist, and improviser.
His artistic research unfolds between two complementary poles. The first is personal, exploring memory and forgetting, subjective topographies of place, and the oscillation between speech and silence. The second pole is collective, focused on culture and language, critically rethinking traditions and their clichés. At the intersection of these areas, Burtsev develops a distinctive approach to music. Composing becomes both a form of self-expression and an encounter with the material as the "other."

Dmitry’s music consistently highlights the social aspect of sound. For him, composition is not only the creation of autonomous works, but also a question: How can sound express the pressing issues of society? This approach has resulted in projects in the fields of chamber music, sound art, performative works, and theatre.

Dmitry graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2017, where he studied composition under Vladimir Tarnopolsky. Since then, he has worked as an assistant to composer Sergej Newski, gaining valuable professional experience. At the same time, he was active as an accordionist in Moscow’s free improvisation scene, performing at experimental festivals such as RichterFest and Noise and Fury.

The environments in which Burtsev lived have played a central role in his music. For over a decade, he resided on the grounds of a former forestry estate outside Moscow, moving between the urban soundscape and the forest. This duality sharpened his reflection on how environments shape perception, leading to several works with field recordings. Among them are the performative composition “Symphony for Urbanites” (Moscow Urban Forum, 2019) and the performance “Personal Experience” (Sidur Museum, 2019). In the latter, Burtsev improvised with his own archival recordings in a Max/MSP patch.

From 2018, he collaborated with politically engaged theatre, composing for works addressing collective trauma, such as “Schitalka” (on the Georgian-Abkhaz War of 1991, longlisted for the Golden Mask Award) and “Govorit Moskva” (on Stalinist terror, premiered in 2022).

Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Burtsev emigrated to Azerbaijan, where he became active in the Baku Contemporary Music Society and engaged with local traditions. In 2024, he began the master’s program at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf under José María Sánchez-Verdú.

His music has been performed by ensembles such as Studio for New Music, MCME, and Kymatic, and by soloists including Sergey Tchirkov, Natalia Pshenichnikova, Pavlos Antoniadis, and Leonard Dering. It has been featured at festivals such as Another Space, Territory, Moscow Forum, ISCM PAN Music Festival in Seoul, ReMusik, Baku Contemporary Music Days, and Voices Berlin. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Open Space Laboratory (2017, Grand Prix), Russian Music 2.0 (2020, laureate), and the DAAD Scholarship (2025).

Dmitry Burtsev

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