A graduate of the Kiev State Conservatory, Sergey started as an oboe player before moving on to other genres, including electronic music and Rock 'n roll. He made a decisive break from this style of music in 2005 to exclusively concentrate on orchestral and chamber music.
Sergey Akhunov's music is distributed by Apartè music, Alfa classics, Fancymusic, Onyx and Glossa.
Since 2003 lives in Moscow.
The art of light touches
Suite for 2 violins.
G. Dontsov, M. Terteryan
Date of release April 25. 2025
Aparte music
At the beginning of 2024, I was commissioned by two exceptional violinists based in China, Gleb Dontsov and Marianna Terteryan, to compose a piece for two solo violins. At that time, I didn’t feel ready to write music for such a duet—it seemed too ascetic. Moreover, it is well known that the smaller the number of musicians in a composition, the more difficult it is to write. I pondered this task for quite some time, until the title The Art of Light Touches emerged. I borrowed it from the works of Victor Pelevin—naturally, with the author’s kind permission. Thus, the audience is presented with a 7-part suite.
Sergey Akhunov
Nov. 29. 2024
Mosfilm studio. Moscow
Recording session of LITURGIYA. (THE LITURGY)
OpensoundOrchestra, INTRADA vocal ensemble.
Maira Soboleva - sound engineer.
music by Sergey Akhunov
PRAYER FOR PEACE
New release. Apartè music Nov. 1. 2024.
At the end of February 2022, Sergey Akhunov began composing an Adagio ‘Prayer for Peace’, echoing Samuel Barber's Adagio for strings. Built around the interplay of instrumental textures, the work was quickly completed and recorded by the OpensoundOrchestra, conducted by Stanislav Malyshev.
Three other compositions for solo choir revolve around this core, performed by the Intrada ensemble under the direction of Ekaterina Antonenko. These include the Concerto ‘Exegi monumentum’, based on Horace's ode and dedicated to the Armenian sculptor and painter Nikolai Nikogosyan, as well as Two Latin Psalms and Psalm 83.
Sergey Akhunov. Ballet LITURGIYA
Choreography by Olga Tsvetkova, OpensoundOrchestra, Intrada Vocal Ensemble, Kanon dance company.
Nov. 25 2024 Alexandrinski theatre, Saint -Petersburg
Nov. 27 2024 Zaryadye hall, Moscow
Photo by Rustam Nerustam, Eugeniya Matvienko
Concerto CHACONNE from Crossroads by Ksenija Sidorova & Sinfonietta Riga
The Concerto Chaconne finds Sergey Akhunov fashioning a large-scale piece whose five movements range across the emotional spectrum from the sombrely elegiac, eerily atmospheric or warmly impulsive to the bracingly insistent or evocatively expressive: always emphasising the seamlessly renewing process of variation that defines chaconne form.
"- Gramophone Magazine, December 2024"
Date of release Oct. 18. 2024 Alfa classics
CELLO MUSIC
Cello concerto Actus Tragicus by Sergey Akhunov T.S.D. by Giya Kancheli.
Both works are performed by cellist Boris Andrianov and State Academic Symphony orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov".
T.S.D. is one of the last work of great Georgian composer and It was recorded and released for the first time.
Date of release Oct. 2. 2024 Apartè music
The music is fantastic, compact, versatile, modern, full of emotions. Akhunov succeeds in reducing and compressing the music and its expressiveness to an essential, so that each note has an enormous importance and presence.
" - Pizzicato.lu 06.07.2023"
Sergey Akhunov SONGS & POEMS
'Songs & Poems' sounds gentle, suitable for the masses, without a precise assignment to a style and reveals fascinating worlds of sound.
" - Klassik.com 13.01.2022"
Very atmospheric music, without any overt intellectual demands, cleverly designed for singing voices.
" - Deutschlandfunk. 24.10.2021"
