LABORATORY
of young composers and playwrights
Lecturers 2018

Jim Shaeffer
chief director and artistic director of Center for Contemporary Opera in New York
(USA)

Roman Reeger
Dramaturge of Staatsoper Berlin and guest dramaturge of festivals for contemporary music Easter Festival Baden-Baden and the Munich Biennale and Infektion!
(Germany)

Dmitry Kurlyandsky
Composer, musical director of the "Electrotheatre Stanislavsky"

Natalia Pshenichnikova
avant-garde singer, composer, performance artist, artistic director of the theater of voice "La Gol"

Andrey Ustinov
Soviet and Russian musicologist, journalist, music critic, publisher. The artistic director and producer of a number of cultural projects, the editor-in-chief of the “Musical Review” national newspaper.

Feodor Elutin
Impresario, entrepreneur, theatrical producer of such experimental projects and productions as "Your Game", "Remote Moscow", "Black Russian", "Cops on Fire", "Candidate".

Scharlotte Zeither
Composer, guest at international festivals like ISCM World Music Days Tongyeong, Gaudeamus Amsterdam, Wien Modern, Encuentros Santiago de Chile, Biennale di Venezia or BBC Proms
(Germany)

Alexander Zurbin
Soviet and Russian composer, Honored Artist of Russia.

Denis Kargaev
Culture marketing expert, co-founder of the
"TEAM + 1" production company

Aya Makarova
Opera critic and a specialist in directing Opera theatre

Vladimir Rannev
Composer, music critic

Eugeny Kazachkov
Scriptwriter, playwright, teacher. One of the Theatre.Doc contributors. The Lubimovka Young Russian Playwrights Festival artistic director.

Alexander Arefiev
Theatre, screen and performance Set Designer

Vladislav Tarnopolsky
Musicologist, curator of cultural projects

Yaroslav Frantsev
Director, choreographer, dance performer, founder of the RADI SVETA theater company

Vera Martynov
Artist, director, curator of theater project

Igor Kholopov
Composer, Moscow Composers Union member