Composer from London.

A lot of my newer pieces are not on soundcloud, so please check my website for most recent recordings.

Photo by Michael Carlo 2023

Alex Nikiporenko is a London-based composer and curator of 840.

Alex received his formal education at Chetham's School of Music, King's College London and the Royal College of Music, where his studies were supported by a Leverhulme Postgraduate Studentship and the Derek Hill Foundation. Since 2014, Alex has studied privately with Laurence Crane. He has participated in Cheltenham Composer Academy 2014, Britten–Pears Young Artist Programme 2018, and Wandelweiser Composers Meet Composers 2019. Alex has been invited to present his work to postgraduate students at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.

Named BBC/Guardian Young Composer of the Year in 2008, Alex became a Creative in Residence at The Hospital Club in 2009. Alex's music has been performed throughout Europe by soloists and ensembles including Juliet Fraser, Zubin Kanga, Anton Lukoszevieze, BLOCK4 recorder quartet, Fidelio Trio, RCM Philharmonic Orchestra and Aurora Orchestra, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM. Modus Triplex, for the Tre Voci cello trio, was nominated for the 2016 BASCA British Composer Award and features on Nonclassical's 'Outside the Lines' EP.

In 2015, Alex co-founded 840, an experimental music concert series. Over 22 concerts the series has programmed music by 78 composers, premiering works by Laurence Crane, John Lely, Georgia Rodgers, Leo Chadburn, Lawrence Dunn and Sergei Zagny amongs many others. 840 has been generously supported by the Arts Council England, the Richard Thomas Foundation, the Hinrichsen Foundation and the RVW Trust.

Alex has collaborated with theatre group Arbonauts, creating site-specific performances at Nunhead Cemetery, Latitude Festival and Hengistbury Head, Dorset. He has composed music for fashion brand Aries’ collaboration with Vans and performed with artist Matthew Stone.

Aside from composing, Alex enjoys teaching piano and has published a book of piano pieces for older beginners. He also works as a software developer in the financial sector.

Aleksandr Brusentsev tells abstract stories with sound. Through shifting perspectives, his works articulate spaces and paradoxes that invite listeners to empathetically engage with fundamental questions and draw personal conclusions. His music has been performed internationally by renowned artists such as 

the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the CHROMA Ensemble, and Alexandra Wood and Huw Watkins. 

Brusentsev’s compositions are published exclusively by his company, ‘i do dots music.’

More info at brusenta.com.

Portrait and header images courtesy of Joe Sarah.

Evan (b. 1988) is an opera maker, composer, conductor, based in Philadelphia. His most recent opera – libretto by Aleksandar Hut Kono – Ganymede 5 premiered in the 2019 Philly Fringe Festival. Elevator, a short chamber opera, premiered in March as the first episode of the 2019 Serial Opera Project. His operas Colony and Greenland were performed in London at the Royal Opera House, and Greenland was revived in 2018 in the Philadelphia Fringe in an ENAensemble production. He is the Music Director of ENAensemble and Temple Composers Orchestra and served as President of the Temple graduate employee labor union TUGSA. 

With a background in physics, Evan’s compositions often use science as source material, collaborating with physicists on Heat Death and Turbulence. Since becoming involved in labor organizing, some of his music has taken a more political turn. Cosmos 3 – Or – A Succession of Fascist Clowns and the mock-tone poem Collective Bargaining each are based on his experiences in labor organizing. His recent orchestral works include FS and the flute concerto Blue, written in collaboration with flutist Chelsea Meynig. As co-founder and Music Director of the contemporary music theater group ENAensemble, his recent projects have included the 2019 Serial Opera Project (where ENA premiered six new chamber opera ‘episodes’), a fully-staged production of Pierrot Lunaire, and a serialized musical. As Music Director of the Temple Composers’ Orchestra, a sinfonietta which only premieres new works, he has developed and conducted the premiere of over a dozen new works.

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