Alexander Khubeev
composer

Alexander Khubeev was born in 1986 in city Perm (Russia). He graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2011 (class of composition of Yuri Kasparov, class of electronic composition of Igor Kefalidis), he finished his post-graduate course in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2014. Since 2019 co-founder and curator of Composition Course reMusik.org in Saint Petersburg, since 2021 he is artistic director of International Academy of Young Composers in Tchaikovsky city. Co-founder and co-director (together with Nikolay Popov) of multimedia festival "Biomechanics" held in Moscow Conservatory.

In 2015 he won prestigious Gaudeamus Prize (Utrecht, Netherlands), received scholarship of Darmstadt Summer Courses (2014), Berlin Academy of Arts (2018), residency Prix CIME (2019), Europäischer Komponistenpreis (Berlin, 2021).

Alexander Khubeev also won awards in Italy, USA, Argentina, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan on such competitions as: 

  • "Connecting music" (2009, Kiev, Ukraine, diploma)

  • 5th International Jurgenson young composers' competition (2009, Moscow, Russia, diploma)

  • 3rd Young composers' competition "Step to the left" (2010, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2nd prize winner)

  • The International Composers Competition (for composing mandatory work for the 2nd round of the 2nd Moscow Conservatory International Competition for Winds and Percussion) (2010, Moscow, Russia, 1st prize winner)

  • International composers competition "Le note ritrovate" (2010, Avellino, Italy, 1st prize winner)

  • "Pythian games" (2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Grand prize winner)

  • Open international composers competition of site reMusik.org (2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2nd prize winner)

  • 7th International Jurgenson young composers' competition (2013, Moscow, Russia, diploma)

  • Salvatore Martirano Award (2013, Urbana, USA, 3rd prize winner)

  • International Call for Composers conDiT (2014, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1st prize winner) 

  • The Gaudeamus International Composers Award (2015, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1st prize winner)

  • 2nd Open composers' competition "Prokofiev's time" (2017, Moscow, Russia, 2nd prize winner)

  • 3rd International composers laboratory "Open space" (2018, Moscow, Russia, 2nd prize winner)

  • 1st International Composers Competition "New Generation" (2019, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, 1st prize winner)

  • II Moscow Art-Prize (2022, Moscow, Russia, 2nd place in "Music" nomination)

His music is played in concerts held in more than 30 countries around Europe, Asia, South and North America at such festivals as “Venice Biennale”, “Darmstadt Ferienkurse”, “Gaudeamus Musicweek”, “MATA”, “Gergiev Festival”, “Quantensprunge”, “Ultima”, “Transit Festival”, “Mixtur”, “SPOR”, “Pharos International Contemporary Music Festival”, “Moscow Forum”, “Diaghilev Festival”, ”reMusik.org”, ”Moscow Autumn” and many others.

Khubeev worked with such conductors as Reinbert de Leeuw, Lucas Vis, Bas Wiegers, Lucie Leguay, Thomas Moore, his compositions were played by such ensembles as Asko|Schoenberg, Nadar, Contreschamps, Schallfeld, Slagwerk den Haag, Blackpage Orchestra, L'Arsenale, Insomnio, Uusinta, dissonArt, Vortex, Aleph, ExNovo, Vertixe Sonora, IEMA, Gageego, United Instruments of Lucillin, Lemniscate, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, The Studio for New Music Ensemble, Percussion ensemble of Mark Pekarsky, GAM-ensemble, eNsemble.

His music is broadcasted on radio France Musique, DeutchlandRadioKultur, ARTxFM (USA), WDR (Germany), Ö1 (Austria), Concertzender (Netherlands), RTP (Portugal), Radio of Russia, Radio “Orpheus” (Russia) and others.

Composer in residence of GAM-ensemble in 2011. Member of Russian Composer's Union. Since 2017 his compositions are published by Donemus.