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Sergej Newski

Sergej Newski

Sergej Newski – Contemporary Composer and Opera Innovator

Sergej Newski, born in Moscow in 1972, is an internationally acclaimed contemporary composer known for his distinctive voice in modern classical music and for his bold contributions to contemporary opera. He studied at the Tchaikovsky Academic Music College of the Moscow State Conservatory before continuing his composition studies with Jörg Herchet at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden and with Friedrich Goldmann at the Universität der Künste Berlin. He also studied music theory and education with Hartmut Fladt at the UdK Berlin.

Since 1994, Newski’s works have been performed at leading international new music festivals, including:

Newski has received commissions from institutions such as:

His opera Secondhand-Zeit, based on Second-Hand Time by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, premiered in 2020 at the Stuttgart Opera under conductor Titus Engel. In 2021, his documentary opera Die Einfachen (The Simple Ones) about the LGBT+ subculture of 1920s Leningrad debuted at the Venice Biennale in a production directed by Ilya Shagalov.

His orchestral piece “Göttin der Geschichte”, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, was co-commissioned by the Basel Sinfonietta, WDR Symphony Orchestra, and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Interpreters of Newski’s work include:

He has collaborated with soloists such as Christian Tetzlaff, Sarah Maria Sun, Marcus Weiss, Daniel Gloger and Jakob Diehl, and with conductors including Titus Engel, Teodor Currentzis, Vladimir Jurowski, Bas Wiegers, Susanne Blumenthal, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Emilio Pomàrico, Johannes Kalitzke, Peter Rundel, and Enno Poppe.

Newski has received numerous honors including 1st Prize in the Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Composition Competition (2006) and the Berlin Art Prize in 2014. He has held fellowships at Villa Massimo_