In the fall, Kazan city, Russia will host the international new music festival and laboratory Synesthesia lab (Artistic director - composer Roman Parkhomenko).


This large-scale event will be held for the third time and will combine concerts with world premieres, multimedia performances and film screenings, public talks, lectures and master classes from foreign and Russian composers, experts from the world of contemporary music. The theme of this season is synchronization, the combination of music with contemporary visual art and the world of cinema.

From a sketch to a finished score and its premiere - this is the goal of Synesthesia lab. In 2024, 146 applications were received from composers from 30 countries, 30 world premieres were performed.
This year, composers who have passed the selection will be able to create new works for such ensembles and orchestras as the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Studio for New Music, CEAM Artists, the Orchestra of the Sofia Gubaidulina Center for Contemporary Music, the Kamal Theater Orchestra, the Ensemble Creative, , as well as multi-instrumentalist Ignat Krasikov. The new pieces will be performed in the fall at the main venues of Kazan.

An extensive lecture program is planned within the framework of Synesthesia Lab (the curator of the educational program - musicologist and journalist Vladimir Zhalnin).

Doctor of Art History and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Musical Life" Evgenia Krivitskaya, candidate of art history, cultural scientist and head of the Film Music Center of the Moscow Conservatory Sergei Uvarov, music critic, assistant to the artistic director of the ballet and editor of the Ural Opera Ballet theater Bogdan Korolek, teacher of the Moscow Conservatory and music journalist Nadezhda Travina will take part in lectures, master classes and public talks.