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Marina Khudykh is a pianist, scenographer, and a director of concert programs. She is a multifaceted phenomenon that can be described with one word – The Artist.
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Marina Khudykh can be seen as a priestess of a visionary artistic cult.
A remarkable pianist with profound inner strength, she transcends genre boundaries, thoughtfully reinterpreting art and offering it back to the world with an almost sacred devotion.
If music can serve as mystical healing, then her performances embody that truth to the fullest.
A remarkable pianist with profound inner strength, she transcends genre boundaries, thoughtfully reinterpreting art and offering it back to the world with an almost sacred devotion.
If music can serve as mystical healing, then her performances embody that truth to the fullest.
Concerts | Projects
TRIVIUM.TRILOGIA
dedication to all women in art
Часть 1. Musica Sacra
Часть 1. Musica Sacra
Часть 2. Musica Ricercata
TRIVIUM.TRILOGIA is the large concert trilogy, which was conceived and realized
in Belgrade (Serbia) in 2023.
A dedication to all women in art, performed by women, girls and female artists.
Team of 50+ people
3 locations
Project duration — 2,5 months
The works of Heiner Goebbels, Henryk Góretsky, Nikolai Korndorf, Arvo Pärt, Arne Mellnäs, John Corigliano and György Ligeti were performed.
Author of the idea, director, pianist, producer - Marina Khudykh
in Belgrade (Serbia) in 2023.
A dedication to all women in art, performed by women, girls and female artists.
Team of 50+ people
3 locations
Project duration — 2,5 months
The works of Heiner Goebbels, Henryk Góretsky, Nikolai Korndorf, Arvo Pärt, Arne Mellnäs, John Corigliano and György Ligeti were performed.
Author of the idea, director, pianist, producer - Marina Khudykh
| Trivium website |
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You think like a rock musician, and I like that.
Marina Khudykh encompasses music, art, and production.
Each new program is always an extraordinary concept creating additional meanings through a precisely calibrated choice of musical compositions, unique scenography and the director's idea. The listener enters "a space within a space", becoming a co-creator, a musician, a performer. But, at the same time, they can remain a mere observer, not taking part in the experiments with perception.
Each new program is always an extraordinary concept creating additional meanings through a precisely calibrated choice of musical compositions, unique scenography and the director's idea. The listener enters "a space within a space", becoming a co-creator, a musician, a performer. But, at the same time, they can remain a mere observer, not taking part in the experiments with perception.
TABULA RASA
Interdisciplinary project
The premiere of the TABULA RASA project took place in December 2024
in Belgrade and Novi Sad (Serbia).
As a synthesis of the arts—music, stage design, theatrical performance, and sculpture—the performance aimed to remind the audience that every crisis has an inevitable resolution and that darkness is never endless. Throughout the performance, a dark and heavy chapter was replaced by a bright one filled with hope. The audience was offered a blank slate—a symbol of a new stage in life after a crisis.
The concert program was structured like a puzzle and featured works by great composers of the same generation: Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, and Sofia Gubaidulina.
Author of the idea, director, pianist, producer:
Marina Khudykh
Producer: Pavel Vilenkin
Orchestra: Muzikon Belgrade
Conductor: Aleksander Markovic
Violin: Mikhail Andruschenko, Member of the Utopia Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis
Violin: Marija Tunić, Member of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
in Belgrade and Novi Sad (Serbia).
As a synthesis of the arts—music, stage design, theatrical performance, and sculpture—the performance aimed to remind the audience that every crisis has an inevitable resolution and that darkness is never endless. Throughout the performance, a dark and heavy chapter was replaced by a bright one filled with hope. The audience was offered a blank slate—a symbol of a new stage in life after a crisis.
The concert program was structured like a puzzle and featured works by great composers of the same generation: Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, and Sofia Gubaidulina.
Author of the idea, director, pianist, producer:
Marina Khudykh
Producer: Pavel Vilenkin
Orchestra: Muzikon Belgrade
Conductor: Aleksander Markovic
Violin: Mikhail Andruschenko, Member of the Utopia Orchestra conducted by Teodor Currentzis
Violin: Marija Tunić, Member of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
| Tabula rasa website |
ОМ
multimedia performance
The OM multimedia performance was held in October 2018 at Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg. Principal performers: Zarina Shimanskaya, Vasily Khoroshev, Marina Khudykh (3:25)
Conductor: Fedor Lednev
Art Director: Oleg Kulik
Producers: Alexey Trifonov, Liza Savina
Performed musical compositions by Galina Ustvolskaya, Giacinto Scelsi, and Philipp Glass
SILENT MUSIC
Silent Music, a concert & a performance art event. Minimalism and sacred minimalism.
After the first wave of the pandemic, all of us desperately needed to be at peace, to hide from the surrounding chaos, to just stand and stare. To help people achieve that, a program called Silent Music was created to be performed every Friday in a former house church on the Fontanka River Embankment in St. Petersburg for an entire year.
After the first wave of the pandemic, all of us desperately needed to be at peace, to hide from the surrounding chaos, to just stand and stare. To help people achieve that, a program called Silent Music was created to be performed every Friday in a former house church on the Fontanka River Embankment in St. Petersburg for an entire year.
YARILO
Yarilo — symbolic pagan ritual performed by the light symbol of the monad.
An exploration of static time through Morton Feldman's piece "Palais de Mari." Feldman's works, akin to pointillist paintings, are composed of points.
Following this, the piece "Yarilo" for prepared piano and electronics by Nikolai Korndorf. Yarilo, the ancient Slavic deity, whose name symbolizes swiftness, strength, light, and the rising sun.
Thus, the monad serves as the central unifying symbol of the visual concept.
A dot, light, the absolute.
An exploration of static time through Morton Feldman's piece "Palais de Mari." Feldman's works, akin to pointillist paintings, are composed of points.
Following this, the piece "Yarilo" for prepared piano and electronics by Nikolai Korndorf. Yarilo, the ancient Slavic deity, whose name symbolizes swiftness, strength, light, and the rising sun.
Thus, the monad serves as the central unifying symbol of the visual concept.
A dot, light, the absolute.
Marina Khudykh focuses on contemporary classical music, sometimes convincingly diluted with the traditional "classical" music created by Bach, Rachmaninov, and Scriabin, which, by the way, Marina performs at the highest level. This is not only thanks to her exceptional talent and virtuoso technique, but also because of the training she received both in Russia and in Europe:
• Graduated from the Serge Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Paris, France (where Marina was invited by count Pierre Cheremetieff),
• Attended a series of workshops by Sofya Gulyak in the Royal College of Music in London,
• Received further training from Mikhail Dubov, Head of the Department of Contemporary and Historically Informed Performance (Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble),
• Was invited for PhD studies to Manhattan School of Music (NY)
• Having moved to Serbia in 2022, enrolled in the Belgrade Academy of Arts, at the UNESCO Chair program in Cultural Policy and Arts Management.
A prize-winner at numerous international contests
An artist at the Sarah Vinitz Foundation
Collaborates with contemporary composers: Vladimir Rannev, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Aleksey Sysoev, Arvo Pärt, Anton Batagov, Heiner Goebbels
Directors: Vera Martynov, Semen Alexandrovsky, Tanya Weinstein, Cyrus Gabrysch (UK)
Conductors: Fedor Lednev, Philipp Chizevsky, Teodor Currentzis
Artists: Oleg Kulik, Stas Bags, Filipp Firsov, Tigran Malkhasyan
• Graduated from the Serge Rachmaninoff Conservatory in Paris, France (where Marina was invited by count Pierre Cheremetieff),
• Attended a series of workshops by Sofya Gulyak in the Royal College of Music in London,
• Received further training from Mikhail Dubov, Head of the Department of Contemporary and Historically Informed Performance (Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble),
• Was invited for PhD studies to Manhattan School of Music (NY)
• Having moved to Serbia in 2022, enrolled in the Belgrade Academy of Arts, at the UNESCO Chair program in Cultural Policy and Arts Management.
A prize-winner at numerous international contests
An artist at the Sarah Vinitz Foundation
Collaborates with contemporary composers: Vladimir Rannev, Vladimir Gorlinsky, Aleksey Sysoev, Arvo Pärt, Anton Batagov, Heiner Goebbels
Directors: Vera Martynov, Semen Alexandrovsky, Tanya Weinstein, Cyrus Gabrysch (UK)
Conductors: Fedor Lednev, Philipp Chizevsky, Teodor Currentzis
Artists: Oleg Kulik, Stas Bags, Filipp Firsov, Tigran Malkhasyan
Cultural & educational projects:
The Traveling Yellow Piano
Educational project
Piano lessons for adults
Interviews and publications:
Interview with legendary Seva Novgorodtsev