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(2025, Ph: Jeewon Kim)
Alexey Logunov draws inspiration from a wide array of musical styles, ranging from the emotional depth of late romanticism to the dynamic energy of progressive rock and heavy metal. In his recent work, he explores cross-genre relationships that bridge the gap between contemporary classical and popular music. His music features dense textures, complex timbres, and the integration of acoustic and electronic media.
Logunov’s music has been presented at numerous festivals and conferences in Russia and internationally, including MISE-EN, ICMC 2025 Boston, RED NOTE, Synesthesia Lab, Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend, Performing Media Festival 2024, SEAMUS@40, reMusik.org, Sound Ways, Midwest Composers Symposium 2019, From Avantgarde to Present Days, Children’s Earth, Musica Futura (Minsk, Belarus), New Music–New Reality (Ekaterinburg), and Composer 2.0 (Yaroslavl). From 2010 to 2011, he collaborated with the artistic groups Musica Futura and Dialectic of Sound. In 2016, he participated in the Roche Continents program in Salzburg, Austria, and in 2017, toured France’s Atlantic coast as part of the Dinard Réunit les Jeunes Virtuoses festival. In March 2018, as part of the Second International Festival The World of Art. Contrasts, he gave the premiere of Piano Sonata No. 1 by Mikhail Quadri, a composer whose life and work were erased from the official history of Soviet music after his execution in 1929. In 2022-2024, Alexey performed as a member of the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, directed by David Dzubay. Among his recent activities, he took part in a 2025 Midwest music tour with composer, guitarist, and improviser Jessica Ackerley, and co-founded Overtuned Fest, set to take place in February 2026.
His compositions has been performed by the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Indiana University Concert Symphony Orchestra, the Krasnoyarsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Yaroslavl Academic Governor’s Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the Indiana University Concert Wind Band, young St. Petersburg ensembles Orchestra 1703 and Tempora Orchestra, Saint-Petersburg MolOt ensemble, as well as by ensembles Unheard-of//Ensemble (New York, USA), C Barré (France), NoName (Nizhny Novgorod), Dialog (Petrozavodsk), and MCME (Moscow). Selected works are published by BabelScores (Paris, France).
Alexey Logunov & Billie Howard at Elastic Arts, Chicago (2025, Ph: Tim Schmoll)
Alexey is a laureate of the IV International Competition of Performing Musicians and Composers Romanticism: Sources and Horizons – Franz Schubert In Memoriam (2013, Moscow), as well as the VI and VII Young Composer Competitions at the International Festival Three Centuries of Classical Romance (2016, 2018, Saint Petersburg). He also received awards at the II Young Composers Competition Siberia Symphony (2017, Krasnoyarsk) and is a finalist & diploma recipient of the XVI Open Composers Competition named after Andrey Petrov (2022, Saint Petersburg). He was awarded the 2023 Georgina Joshi Composition Commission at the Jacobs School of Music and was nominated for a 2024 American Academy of Arts and Letters music award.
Born in Leningrad, Russia, Alexey graduated in 2014 from the Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory, where he studied composition with Vladimir Tsitovich and Gennady Banshchikov and later served as assistant to Sergei Slonimsky. From 2016 to 2018, he studied piano performance under Ekaterina Murina. In 2020, he earned a Master of Music degree in Composition from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with P. Q. Phan, Eugene O’Brien, and Tansy Davies. He is currently a doctoral student and fellowship recipient in the Composition Department at Jacobs School of Music, where he previously served as Associate Instructor in Composition.
Alexey has taken part in workshops and masterclasses with Matti Kovler, Klaus Lang, Peep Lassmann, Xak Bjerken, Robert Paterson, Jeffrey Mumford, Georg Friedrich Haas, Alexey Sysoev, Raphaël Cendo, Sergej Newski, Blaise Ubaldini, Oliver Schneller, Mark Andre, Kay He, Zosha Di Castri, Mara Helmuth, Kyong Mee Choi, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Felipe Lara, Colin Matthews, and the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME). Logunov was a scholar and student of the X and XI International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city, participant of 2023 and 2024 SPLICE Institute (Kalamazoo, Michigan) and 2025 ACO Earshot Workshop (Bloomington, Indiana).