Biography

Tatiana Gerasimenok (born May 5, 1992) is a Belarusian-Polish conceptual artist, classical composer, and experimental music theatre director, as well as a cognitive analyst and interdisciplinary researcher based in Germany. Working at the intersection of cognitive science, psychology, and sonic architecture, Gerasimenok has established a visionary practice that deconstructs the fundamental frameworks of contemporary culture and human behavior.

Her work exists as a strategic intervention into social structures and cultural taboos. By treating art as a precise psychological tool, she investigates the extreme conditions of the human mind and physical endurance, dissolving the boundary between artistic gesture and research process. In her sonic environments, primal energy is synthesized with the cold, mechanical logic of a post-human future — fusing intricate compositional depth with raw, visceral intensity.

Occupying the tension between the primordial and the technological, Gerasimenok’s practice reveals the hidden hierarchical and psychological structures embedded within systems of participation. Her multisensory formats intensify perception and activate cognitive processes, placing participants in situations that unsettle habitual patterns of thought, thereby redefining the relationship between observer and system.



 Born in Shklov, Belarus, Tatiana studied musicology at the Mogilev Rimsky-Korsakov Music College and composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Yuri Kasparov. Her artistic development was further shaped by private study with renowned composers including Brian Ferneyhough, Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer, Alvin Lucier, Tristan Murail, Heinz Holliger, Peter Ablinger, Mark Andre, and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, among others.



Her work has been featured at festivals and events worldwide, including the MATA Festival (New York) and the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt), and has been performed by ensembles and soloists such as the JACK Quartet, Ensemble Multilatérale, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Ine Vanoeveren, Dejana Sekulić, Michiko Saiki, and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonia.



Tatiana has participated in residencies and academies worldwide, including Académie Voix Nouvelles (France), Akademie Schloss Solitude, Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Künstlerstadt Kalbe, and Künstlerhaus Salzwedel (all Germany), EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers (New York, USA), and the Pyrenees-Mediterranean Creation Residence (Spain).

She has received numerous awards at composers’ competitions, including First Prize at the Seventh International Composers' Competition of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory (Russia); the 18th A. Petrov Open Composers Competition (Symphonic Music, St. Petersburg, Russia); the I International Composition Competition New Music Generation 2019 (Kazakhstan); and the Ad Libitum Composition Competition (Germany).



Tatiana Gerasimenok has taught composition and music theory at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Building on a rigorous academic foundation, Gerasimenok has extended her practice toward exploring the evolutionary transition to Homo superior. Alongside her ongoing creative work, she leads international lectures and masterclasses that transcend traditional aesthetics, using the integration of art, science, and philosophy as a catalyst for cognitive transformation.

Through her practice of Existential & Creative Guidance, she works with forward-thinking individuals and collectives to reprogram creativity as a structural force, shaping the future of perception, decision-making, and higher-order cognitive systems.




Curriculum Vitae


Education
  • Specialist in Composition
    Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Russia
    Mentor: Yuri Kasparov
  • Diploma in Musicology
    Mogilev Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, Belarus

Private Study, Masterclasses & Workshops
  • Brian Ferneyhough, Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer, Alvin Lucier, Tristan Murail, Mark Andre, Peter Ablinger, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Heinz Holliger, and others

Courses & Academies
  • Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
  • EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers, New York, USA
  • Fifth & Sixth International Young Composers Academy, Tchaikovsky City, Russia
  • First International Master-Courses for Young Composers, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Russian Seminar on Contemporary Performing Techniques, Moscow, Russia

Residencies & Fellowships
  • Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany
  • Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Académie Voix Nouvelles, Royaumont Abbey, France
  • Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
  • Künstlerhaus Lukas, Germany
  • Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Germany
  • Kunsthof Dahrenstedt, Germany
  • Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Kloster Bergesche Stiftung, Germany
  • Künstlerhaus Salzwedel, Germany
  • Pyrenees-Mediterranean Creation Residence, Spain

Festivals & Events
  • Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
  • MATA Festival — “Future Perfect” Night, New York, USA
  • Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Virginia Tech, USA
  • New Music Festival, Netzwerk Neue Musik Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • KlangART Vision Festival, Magdeburg, Germany
  • DARK WEB Music-Theatre, ZiMMT, Leipzig, Germany
  • Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival, Leipzig, Germany
  • Chapman University, California, USA
  • 18th A. Petrov Open Composers Competition (Symphonic Music), St. Petersburg Philharmonia, Russia
  • Exhibition of graphic scores Sound Graphics, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • Radio broadcast about Tatiana Gerasimenok, Pulsar CISM Radio, Montreal, Canada
  • Radio broadcast about Tatiana Gerasimenok, No Pigeonholes Radio, California, USA

Competitions & Awards
  • First Prize at the Seventh International Composers' Competition, Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory, Russia
  • Winner of the International Composition Competition Samal, Kazakhstan
  • Winner of the I International Composition Competition New Music Generation 2019, Kazakhstan
  • Winner of the Ad Libitum Composition Competition — commissioned to create a piece for brass sextet, Germany
  • Winner of the JACK Studio Call — commissioned to create a piece for JACK Quartet, New York, USA
  • Winner of the Morphosis Ensemble Call — commissioned to create a piece for Morphosis Ensemble, Barcelona, Spain
  • Winner of the No Medici project at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik — commissioned to create a piece for Ine Vanoeveren, Belgium
  • Winner of the Temporality of the Impossible Composition Competition — commissioned to create a piece for Dejana Sekulic, Belgium/UK
  • Winner of the 18th A. Petrov Open Composers Competition (Symphonic Music), Russia — selected composer to work with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Fedor Lednev
  • Winner of the New Music, New Paths project — commissioned to create a piece for Roberto Alonso Trillo, Spain
  • Winner of the DARK WEB project — commissioned to create a piece for Michiko Saiki and Frauke Aulbert, Leipzig, Germany

Performers
  • JACK Quartet, USA
  • Ensemble Multilatérale, France
  • Morphosis Ensemble, Spain
  • Studio for New Music, Russia
  • Ine Vanoeveren, Belgium
  • Dejana Sekulić, Serbia
  • Roberto Alonso Trillo, Spain
  • Michiko Saiki, Japan
  • Frauke Aulbert, Germany
  • Academic Symphony Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Fedor Lednev, Russia
  • Ensemble BRuCH, Germany
  • And others

Teaching, Masterclasses & Workshops
Composition and Music Theory (Teaching)
  • Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moscow, Russia
  • Mogilev Rimsky-Korsakov Music College, Mogilev, Belarus
Invited Artist and Educator (Lectures, Masterclasses, Workshops)
  • Künstlerhaus Lukas, Germany
  • Künstlerstadt Kalbe, Germany
  • Kunsthof Dahrenstedt, Germany
  • KlangART Vision Festival, Magdeburg, Germany
  • Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany
  • Künstlerhaus Salzwedel, Germany
  • La Unió Social de Flix, Spain
  • Musikschule Offenburg, Germany
  • Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
  • Meeting of the Union of Composers of Russia, Moscow, Russia
  • Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany
  • First Russian Symposium of Young Composers, Moscow, Russia
  • Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
  • Académie Voix Nouvelles, Royaumont Abbey, France
  • Fifth and Sixth International Young Composers Academy, Tchaikovsky City, Russia
  • And others

Consultancy & Mentorship
  • Principal Advisor to public figures and media performance coach
  • Consulting high-performance innovators and visionary networks




Yuri Kasparov,
Russian composer and professor at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, 
Tatiana’s composition teacher, 

speaks about Tatiana:

“During her years of study at the conservatory, she composed a wide range of works. Most of them are written in a complex, deeply individual modern musical language and bear the imprint of an outstanding intellect. In addition to her musical expertise, she has gained substantial knowledge in the sciences, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and other arts. In my view, Tatiana Gerasimenok is one of the most profound, interesting, and promising young composers, capable of bringing a fresh voice to the art of composition.”


“I shall start the conversation about Tatiana Gerasimenok with the quote of doctor Breed from 'Cat's Cradle'. On the question whether he was the Head of laboratory where famous scientist Felix Hoenikker worked, Asa Breed answered: 'If I actually supervised Felix, I'm ready now to take charge of volcanoes, the ties, and the motions of birds and lemmings. The man was a force of nature no mortal could possibly control.' Exactly the same creation of nature is Tatiana! The grade of brightness and originality of Tatiana's creative ideas doesn't concede the brightness and originality of her appearance and behaviour.

If we talk about the music in mathematical terms, the Euclid defined parallel lines as never intersecting. Lobachevsky extended the boundaries of Euclidean geometry, defining parallel lines as those that intersect at infinity. Tatiana, excluding non-Euclidean geometry to have exhausted itself, accepts the postulate that parallel lines intersect infinite number of times in the infinite number of infinities!

Tatiana belongs to the cohort, preferring continuous sounding space and far from academic voices, and I see a deep symbolism that her latest tools scores corresponds exactly to that with which people built houses and other architectural structures. Intellectual work is not just reflected in each of her score, but finds the most unexpected and unusual forms of expression!”




May 27, 2021 — Moscow Philharmonic

Yuri Kasparov:

“Tatiana Gerasimenok is my student. She graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory two years ago. Tatiana comes from the Belarusian city of Mogilev, where she graduated from the Rimsky-Korsakov Music College. After that, she moved to Moscow and entered the Moscow Conservatory.

She now lives in Berlin and holds scholarships from various academies and residencies dedicated to contemporary academic art. These scholarships allowed her to come to Germany, live on full support, and focus entirely on composing. Tatiana has been a scholarship holder at institutions such as the Royaumont Abbey in France and the EBMF International Summer Academy in New York, among others.

Tatiana does not call herself a composer but a multidisciplinary artist. When she was graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, it was truly something remarkable. There are no “alive” sounds in her music.

One day she came to me and said:

“Can I give a concert near the conservatory cafeteria?”
“Why there?” I asked.
“There’s the floor I need. If you slide a chair across it, it makes exactly the sound I’m looking for. I’ve explored every floor in the conservatory — nowhere else has that sound.”

Indeed, Tatiana has an extraordinarily sharp and refined timbral ear. She finds a particular timbre and develops it, creating a unique atmosphere. The effect is absolutely astonishing, and every concert of hers that I have attended has been a success.”



Knife.media on Tatiana Gerasimenok:
Tatiana Gerasimenok, described by the media as a “pop-star-looking contemporary classical composer,” combines primal intensity in her music with uncompromising directness in her texts — qualities that remain rare in the contemporary academic milieu. Her distinctive presence further separates her from the standard visual and cultural expectations of classical composers. According to senior colleagues, she disrupts several conventions at once, establishing herself as one of the most intriguing and provocative figures of her generation.
Roots of Noise
ACADEMIC FLESH

#1: Who was your childhood inspiration for writing music and poetry?
Tatiana Gerasimenok:
Arnold Schoenberg — both directly and indirectly.
For music, "A Survivor from Warsaw" and "Pierrot lunaire";
for poetry, Albert Giraud’s "Pierrot lunaire" and Charles Baudelaire. 

#2: Who would you be if you weren't a composer?
Tatiana Gerasimenok: A forensic pathologist.

#3: Are your relatives musicians too?
Tatiana Gerasimenok: My relatives come from Belarusian-Polish intelligentsia — doctors, scientists, educators in the exact sciences, and businesspeople with a passion for academic art. Here's an example of my dad’s creativity when he was 18.






© TATIANA GERASIMENOK