Alexey Logunov’s Study of Snowflakes (2025) received its premiere at RED NOTE New Music Festival 2025, performed by Unheard-of//Ensemble. Following its premiere, the work was presented at the EDME New Music Festival 2025 and the FSU Festival of New Music 2026.
Midwest Tour with Jessica Ackerley
In March 2025, Alexey Logunov joined guitarist, composer, and improviser Jessica Ackerley for a five-city Midwest tour exploring the intersections of contemporary composition, free improvisation, and experimental performance.
The tour included performances at Saint Louis University (St. Louis, MO), Elastic Arts (Chicago, IL), Bantha Café (Pittsburgh, PA), Episcopal Church of the Redeemer (Lorain, OH), and Moondog Café (Detroit, MI).
Performing as pianist and keyboardist, Logunov collaborated with Ackerley in programs featuring original compositions, improvisations, and new collaborative works. The tour further expanded his artistic practice at the intersection of contemporary classical music, experimental performance, and improvisation while engaging with audiences across the Midwest.
Doctor of Music Composition Recital at Indiana University
On March 3, 2025, Alexey Logunov presented his Doctor of Music Composition Recital at Auer Hall, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, featuring a program of recent chamber, electroacoustic, and ensemble works.
The recital opened with the world premiere of …soil… (from Four Landscapes | cut at the Horizon Line, 2024) for electric guitar, electric bass guitar, drum set, piano, and electronics, and included performances of Five Preludes for Piano (2023–2024), Ultramarine (2024, Indiana premiere), On the Blue Sea (2023), and non-place (2024, U.S. premiere).
The program brought together more than twenty performers from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, including students, faculty collaborators, and members of the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, under the direction of Jae Hwan Lee.
The recital reflected Logunov’s recent artistic practice, exploring the intersection of contemporary classical music, electroacoustic media, and amplified instruments while bringing together chamber, solo, and large ensemble works within a single program.
non-place
non-place for bass flute and chamber orchestra is written for Synesthesia Lab festival, and premiered at Salikh Saydashev Grand Concert Hall (Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia) on October 25th, 2024 by Orchestra of the Sofia Gubaidulina Center for Contemporary Music, Konstantin Efimov (Bass Flute) and Fyodor Lednev (Conductor)
The Hollow Men
The Hollow Men on the poem by T.S. Eliot for soprano & sinfonietta was commisioned by the Georgina Joshi Foundation as 2023 Indiana University Georgina Joshi Composition Award and premiered on March 7th, 2024. It is written for and first performed by Elizaveta Agladze-Scherschel, David Dzubay, and the IU New Music Ensemble.
Due to Copyright, the recording has a limited access in some contries (mostly UK and EU), otherwise the page can be accessed using this link
