Alexander Khubeev was born in 1986 in city Perm (Russia). He graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2011 (class of composition of Yuri Kasparov, class of electronic composition of Igor Kefalidis), he finished his post-graduate course in Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory in 2014. Since 2014 he is a deputy of artistic director of International Academy of Young Composers in Tchaikovsky city, since 2019 he is cofounder and curator of Composition Course reMusik.org in Saint-Petersburg.
Alexander Khubeev won awards in Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Ukraine, USA including prestigious Gaudeamus Prize (Utrecht, 2015). He received scholarship of Darmstadt Summer Courses (2014), Berlin Academy of Arts (2018). His music is played in concerts held in more than 25 countries around Europe, Asia, South and North America on such festivals as “Venice Biennale”, “Darmstadt Ferienkurse”, “Gaudeamus Musicweek”, “MATA”, “Gergiev Festival”, “Quantensprunge”, “Ultima”, “Transit Festival”, “Mixtur”, “SPOR”, “Klara Festival”, “Moscow Forum”, “Diaghilev Festival” and many others.
Khubeev worked with such conductors as Reinbert de Leeuw, Lucas Vis, Bas Wiegers, Thomas Moore, his compositions were played by such ensembles as Asko|Schoenberg, Nadar, Slagwerk den Haag, Blackpage Orchestra, L’Arsenale, Insomnio, Uusinta, dissonArt, Vortex, Aleph, Vertixe Sonora, IEMA, Gageego, Lemniscate, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, The Studio for New Music Ensemble, GAM-ensemble.
His music is broadcasted on radio France Musique, Deutschlandradiokultur, Concertzender (Netherlands), RTP (Portugal), ARTxFM (USA), Radio of Russia, Radio “Orpheus” (Russia) and others.
Composer in residence of GAM-ensemble in 2011. Member of Russian Composer’s Union. Since 2017 his compositions are published by Donemus.
Cryptocalypse. The piece is inspired by the installation of Dmitry Kawarga “Kawarga. Apocalypse. 21.12”. From the author’s program note to the installation: “Exhibition “Kawarga. Apocalypse. 21.12″ includes a dozen large-scale sculptures, collected in a single installation and represents a long-standing dream of the artist about apocalypse. These sculptures are as much metaphorical as concrete <…> It is the philosophical view of man as the smallest part of nature, inseparable from the land and its resources.” The piece is connected with the same view and the same ideas, but with a slightly different angle: it’s inside of the dream, on behalf of one of the people who stands on the top of one of 12 sculptures. At the same time, like any message from the dream, it’s unclear and somehow encrypted, being a sort of cryptogram. The title combines two key concepts of this piece: “Cryptogramma” and “Apocalypse”.