Biography
Her work operates at the intersection of social structures, cultural taboos, and collective and individual psychodynamics. Viewing art as a cognitive and psychological tool, Gerasimenok investigates the limits of the human mind and physical endurance, dissolving the boundary between artistic gesture and research process. Drawing on deathcore, industrial rap, contemporary classical music, and social and cognitive sciences, she constructs environments where primal energy collides with the cold, mechanical logic of the future.
Occupying the tension between the avant-garde and the mainstream, the primordial and the post-human, her works blur the line between performer and audience, exposing structural, psychological, and hierarchical constraints embedded in systems of participation. Through intense, multisensory formats, Gerasimenok’s practice subjects all participants within the performative system to cognitive and sensory threshold conditions, producing immersive and uncompromising artistic situations.
Born in Shklov, Belarus, Tatiana studied musicology at the Mogilev Rimsky-Korsakov Music College and composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Yuri Kasparov. She has also participated in masterclasses and workshops with renowned composers, including Brian Ferneyhough, Pierluigi Billone, Beat Furrer, Alvin Lucier, Tristan Murail, Heinz Holliger, Peter Ablinger, Mark Andre, and Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf.
Her work has been featured at festivals and events worldwide, including MATA Festival (New York) and Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt), and 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 (Germany), Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf (Germany), EBMF International Summer Academy for Young Composers (New York, USA), Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (Germany), Künstlerhaus Lukas (Germany), Künstlerstadt Kalbe (Germany), Kunsthof Dahrenstedt (Germany), Künstlerhaus Salzwedel (Germany), and 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.
She regularly gives lectures, masterclasses, and workshops internationally. Her work extends beyond music into contemporary cultural, philosophical, and psychological inquiry.
Through her practice of Existential and Creative Guidance, Gerasimenok works with individuals and groups engaged in complex creative and intellectual processes, exploring creativity as a structural force that shapes perception, decision-making, and systems of thought.