Sergey Berinsky’s “Creative Workshop” as a semantic phenomenon of the russian musical culture at the turn of the 20th – 21st centuries

This article attempts to conceptualize the teaching activities of Sergei Berinsky, director of the All-Russian Seminar for Young Composers, by analyzing the work of his students. Factual material about the seminar’s participants allows us to identify the continuity of Berinsky’s followers in their creative expression. The object of this study is a panorama of vocal works by members of the informal “Creative Workshop” group, founded by Berinsky in the late 1990s. The subject of this study is the semantic phenomenon of contemporary vocal music, projected by the author onto cultural processes and their transformations within the context of a new paradigm - the semantization of musical culture. After Berinsky’ s death, a group of young seminar students from various Russian cities remained in touch with each other, even after moving abroad. For composer Galina Grigorieva, moving to Estonia, her husband’s homeland, became a second home. A number of national awards and collaborations with leading choirmasters across the country testify to the high recognition of her work. In his article in memory of his teacher, Boris Filanovsky, a recipient of the Berlin Fellowship Program for Artists, argues that neither professionalism nor education can create a living connection with the listener without an honest and sincere dialogue with the present. This ideological approach to creativity is reflected in the composer herself - a polyglot, music critic, writer, journalist, a man of broad encyclopedic knowledge, and a laureate of the most prestigious international composition competitions. After moving to Canada, composer Tatyana Gordeeva sought to refine her skills in line with modern technology and graduated from the Boston College of Music, specializing in Film and TV Music Orchestration. Currently, T. Gordeeva works extensively with virtual instruments and collaborates with renowned companies that produce sample libraries. Respect for the Teacher’s memory and the personal friendship of the Berinsky Creative Workshop are the foundation for mutual understanding and respect for Russian culture in various corners of our planet through contemporary art, through the cultural codes that composers infuse into their music. The author declares no conflict of interests.

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