In 2024, Individuum publishing house reissued Alexey Munipov's book "Fermata. Conversations with Composers" - a large-scale collection of conversations with composers of the post-Soviet space. At the Berlin Book Fair, Munipov will again meet with one of the book's heroes, composer Sergei Nevsky, to discuss what is happening with contemporary music now, what it is capable of - and where its boundaries are.
Alexey Munipov has been writing about music since 1996. Critic, curator, independent researcher, founder of the School of Careful Listening (www.fermatalab.ru) and the musical society "Fermata". Author of an experimental music textbook for secondary schools, courses and workshops on music and listening (HSE, Inliberty, VAC, Hats (Tromsø)). Curated music festivals, concerts, theater performances in Moscow, London, Tel Aviv. Author of the book "Fermata. Conversations with Composers" (Non/Fiction "Book of the Year" award) and the Telegram channel of the same name about contemporary music. In the past - editor-in-chief of the magazine "Big City", editorial director of Arzamas.
Sergey Nevsky Born in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Conservatory named after Tchaikovsky in theory and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in composition (Prof. Friedrich Goldman).
He has received commissions from the Stuttgart State Opera, the Berlin State Opera, the SWR Symphonieorchester, the Basel Sinfonietta, the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Ruhrtriennale, the Eclat, the Wien Modern, the Maerzmusik festivals and others. The premiere of the opera Francis took place at the Bolshoi Theater (2012), the premiere of the opera Secondhand -Zeit (Boris) based on texts by Svetlana Alexievich took place at the Stuttgart Opera in February 2020. The premiere of the musical theater "Simple" took place at the Venice Biennale in 2021.
He was the curator of the music section of the Platform project (2011-2012) and the music program of the exhibition Underground and Improvisation — Alternative Art in Eastern Europe 1968–1994 at the Academy of Arts in Berlin (2018), and is currently the curator of the Voices Berlin festival. Member of the Academy of Arts of Saxony (Dresden), laureate of the Kunstpreis Berlin 2014.
The works are published by Ricordi Universal Music Publshing