Dmitry Timofeev is a Russian composer-autodidact.

He was born in St. Petersburg in 1983.

At 15 years he began studying music. During this period of time he studied musical notation, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and playing musical instruments by himself.

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He was a student of Dmitry Gridnev (12.04.1981-02.09.2021)

Class of bass-guitar (St. Petersburg 1999-2001)

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Dmitry was a student of drummer Anton Matashev

Class of rhythm (St. Petersburg, 2002)

 

His work "Angel" was selected to be in the finals of the composer’s competition "Step aleft" (St. Petersburg, 2008)

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Dmitry was a participant of the First, Second and Sixth International Academies of the Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music

in Tchaikovsky city under professors: Pierluigi Billone,

Franck Bedrossian, Klaus Lang, Mark Andre, 

Dmitri Kourliandski, Oscar Bianchi, Fabien Lévy, 

Sergej Newski, Michael Smetanin and Carola Bauckholt

(Tchaikovsky city, 2011-2012-2016)

 

Dmitry won the online competition of scores and signed a contract with the Internet publishing Babelscores: contemporary music online. (St. Petersburg, 2012)

 

He received a commission from the curator of the Moscow Festival

of Contemporary Music "Platform" composer Sergej Newski,

artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov (Moscow, 2012)

 

In the same year Dmitry visited the master classes of professors:

Enno Poppe, Vladimir Tarnopolski and Yuri Kasparov

(Moscow, 2012)

 

He was invited as a composer to "Junge Solisten. Siemens Stiftung" manager of Culture Jens Cording (Munich, 2012)

 

Dmitry received a commission from the Danish Cultural Institute in

St. Petersburg, director Rikke Helms, and under the project:

"Listening to Architecture, Composing Spaces" of 

PRO ARTE Foundation, director Elena Kolovskaya, coordinator Catherine Puzankova, he studied contemporary music of Denmark (Copenhagen, 2013)

 

Dmitry was a participant in the 10th competition of composers "Pythian Games," organized by composer Boris Filanovsky

(St. Petersburg, 2014)

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He visited the master classes of professors:

Beat Furrer, Clemens Gadenstätter (Graz, 2014)

 

Dmitry was selected by the ISCM (International Society of Contemporary Music), director Izabela Duchnowska, 

where for his piece "Contrabass Duo" was awarded the

"Special Mention prize" (Wroclaw, 2014)

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Dmitry visited the solfeggio master class by professor

Lyudmila Maslenkova (St. Petersburg, 2015)

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He is a finalist of MATA Festival (New York, 2016-2017)

 

Dmitry became a student of Petr Troschenkov

Class of drum set (St. Petersburg, 2016)

 

He is a finalist of ISCM (Beijing, 2018)

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Dmitry is the winner of the Spanish "ETHE Composition contest 2022" 

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He is also the author of the online video about Extended techniques for contrabass

 

His music has been performed by eNsemble, MCME (Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble), director Victoria Korshunova; Russia-ensemble and sounded in

Russia, Poland, Germany, Kazakhstan, Spain and the USA

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Dmitry cooperated with musicians:

Alexey Bogorad, Vladislav Pesin, Sergej Tchirkov, Eugene Krivoshein, Ivan Bushuev, Yuri Uschapovsky, Argina Stepanian, Taras Trepel, Alexander Ivanov, Alexander Oskolkov, Denis Nesterov,

Vsevolod Mitello, Daria Zinovieva, George Dolgov, Oleg Gudachev,

Igor Denisov, Alexey Popov, Elizaveta Akbalkan, Natalia Soloveva, Victor Irshai, Dmitry Klemenok, Alexey Davydov, Fedor Sofronov,

Oleg Krohalev, Alexandra Gorskaya, Jan Kotula, Lukasz Beblot, Stephan Lanius, Pawel Dudys, Masumi Iwashita, Han Fei,

Jan Trost, Sanzhar Baiterekov, Damir Butrkitbayev,

Albert Ahmetov, Sabina Atageldiyeva, Mira Tulenova,

Guzel Baiuzakova, Togzhan Karatai, Aidar Kuspanov,

Elene Gvritishvili, Anna Kochetova, Kira Malevskaya,

Tatiana Babatieva, Ivan Mitrevich, Serge Rachkov, Egor Sorokin,

Vlad Motorny, Demyan Gorodnichin

 

With conductors:

Fedor Lednev, Vera Slasnaya,

Dmitry Dmitrienko, Szymon Bywalec,

Scott Jarrett, Anna Korsun

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