“If music is mystical healing, then it was undoubtedly present here”
Zorica Kojić, music critic
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.
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.
TABULA RASA Team
Direction, stage design
Marina Khudykh
Marina Khudykh
Producer
Pavel Vilenkin
Pavel Vilenkin
Orchestra
Muzikon
Muzikon
Conductor
Ivan Marković
Ivan Marković
Soloists
Marina Khudykh, piano
Mikhail Andruscenko, violin
(Utopia Orchestra by T.Currentzis)
Marija Tunić, violin
(Belgrade Philarmonic Orchestra)
Marina Khudykh, piano
Mikhail Andruscenko, violin
(Utopia Orchestra by T.Currentzis)
Marija Tunić, violin
(Belgrade Philarmonic Orchestra)
Performers
Svetlana Smirnova
Philipp Pisarev
Sasha Lukyanchenkova
Svetlana Smirnova
Philipp Pisarev
Sasha Lukyanchenkova
Media artist
Misha Aizek
Misha Aizek
Lightning, sound engineers:
Sergey Zaluzhniy
Yan Lemskiy
Argishty Pogosyan
Sergey Zaluzhniy
Yan Lemskiy
Argishty Pogosyan
In media
In media
“The concert Tabula Rasa
(named after Pärt’s work of the same title, but also carrying its own meaning of the term “blank slate”)
exceeded all expectations!”
(named after Pärt’s work of the same title, but also carrying its own meaning of the term “blank slate”)
exceeded all expectations!”
Read the review of the well-known Serbian music critic
Zorica Kojić in full version
Zorica Kojić in full version
Marinakhudykh.com/tabularasa