Alexei Aigui

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Alexei Aigui
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Alexei Aigui in 2021
Background information
Born (1971-07-11) 11 July 1971 (age 53)
OriginRussia
Genresminimalist music
Occupation(s)musician, composer
Instrumentviolin
Years active1994–present
LabelsSoLyd, Music Box, Lakeshore, Leo Records
Member of4'33" Ensemble
Website www.facebook.com/AlexeiAiguimusic/

Aleksey Aygi (stylized as Alexei Aigui, born 11 July 1971) is a Russian composer, violinist, and leader of the 4'33" Ensemble. [1]

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Biography and career

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Aleksey Aygi in 2010

Aigui is ethnically Chuvash and the son of Chuvash national poet Gennadiy Aygi. [2]

A graduate of Moscow's State Music and Pedagogical Institute, [3] Aigui's work has been noted for its minimalist aesthetics. This investment in minimalism led Aigui to name his band after the John Cage composition 4′33″ , the score for which instructs performers to refrain from playing their instruments. In 1994, Aigui debuted his 4'33" Ensemble at the Moscow International Festival of Modern Music, [4] with another early performance taking place at the 1996 "European Days in Samara" festival.

Aigui is a prolific composer who has scored dozens of films and television programs, including Country of the Deaf , which received the Russian Guild of Film Critics Award for Best Score; [5] Wild Field , which received a Nika Award, [6] Golden Eagle Award, [7] and Kinotavr Award for Best Music, as well as the White Elephant Award for Best Composer; and the widely-acclaimed I Am Not Your Negro , which was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score. [8]

Discography

Leader or co-leader

Release yearTitleLabelNotes
2001Musique CyrilliqueSoLydwith Pierre Bastien
2002Aigui & Bonnen Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix: Up From The SkiesSoLydwith Dietmar Bonnen
2003Aigui & Bonnen Play The Music Of Frank Zappa: Black WaterSoLydwith Dietmar Bonnen
2008The CloserSoLydsolo
2009Aigui & Bonnen Play the Music of Kurt Weill: NightshiftSoLydwith Dietmar Bonnen

with Ensemble 4'33"

Release yearTitleLabelNotes
1997Sisters Grimm TalesSoLyd Recordsft. the NeTe
1997FallsLong Arms Records
1998Hearts (Сердца)SoLyd
1999TaxidermySoLyd
1999One Second Hand (Music For Kinetic Theatre)SoLyd
2001EquusSoLyd
2002Happiness, Fame And FortuneSoLyd
2003MixSoLydft. Mina Agossi
2005Live @ LoftSoLyd
2012Hard DiscSoLyd
2016Sergey Kuryokhin: The Spirit LivesLeo Records

Selected filmography

Release yearFilmSoundtrack LabelAwards
1998 Country of the Deaf (soundtrack: Les Silencieuses)Sergent Major Recording Golden Aries Award for best score; Nika Award nominee
1998Retro vtroyom
1998Chastnye kroniki. Monolog
2000Kamenskaya: Chuzhaya maska
2002 The Lover [9] Golden Aries nominee; Nika nominee
2004 My Step Brother Frankenstein
2004Kvartirka (TV series)
2004 Mars
2004 Ragin
2005 The Fall of the Empire (TV series)
2005 The Wedding Chest Golden Aries nominee
2006Charell
2006Mans virs Andrejs Saharovs
2006Made in Paris (Je pense à vous)
2007Sishik Poutilin (TV series)
2008 The Great Alibi [10]
2008Snezhnyy angel
2008 Wild Field Music Box Records Golden Eagle, Nika, and Kinotavr Awards for Best Music; White Elephant Award for Best Composer
2008Ochen russkiy detektiv
2009L'école du pouvoir
2009Can't Say No (Je ne dis pas non)
2009 Moloch Tropical
2011 Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Le petit poucet)
2012 The Horde SoLyd Records
2012Rondo
2012 Looking for Hortense [11]
2014Vychislitel
2015OrleanNika Nominee; White Elephant for Best Composer
2015V dalyokom sorok pyatom... Vstrechi na ElbeNika for Best Music
2015Krasnaya koroleva (TV series)
2016 I Am Not Your Negro Music Box Records / Lakeshore Records Cinema Eye Honors Award Nominee
2016 Mata Hari (TV series)APKiT nominee for Best Music in a TV Movie/Series
2017 The Young Karl Marx
2017André
2017Doktor Rikhter (TV series)
2017Our Little Secret
2018Assia
2019 Good as New
2019The Truth (La vérité)Music Box Records
2022 No Crying

References

  1. ↑ "Alexei Aigui on Scoring the Breakthrough Documentary I am Not Your Negro". Score It Magazine. 24 February 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  2. ↑ France, Peter (24 February 2006). "Gennady Aygi: Avant garde Russian poet and friend of Pasternak, his career blossomed with the advent of perestroika". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "Concert-presentation at the State Musical Pedagogical Institute named after M.M. Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia". European Foundation for Support of Culture. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  4. ↑ "The Jubilee Neoclassism of Alexei Aygi". Erarta Museum. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "1998". KINOPRESSA. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  6. ↑ Hercules, Olia (6 April 2009). "Russian musical Hipsters scoops best film at Nika Awards". Screen International. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  7. ↑ Holdsworth, Nick (26 January 2009). "'Wild Field' wins Russian Eagle". Variety. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  8. ↑ Erbland, Kate (11 January 2017). "Cinema Eye Honors 2017 Winners List". IndieWire. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  9. ↑ Cockrell, Eddie (1 October 2002). "The Lover". Variety. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  10. ↑ Mintzer, Jordan (11 May 2008). "The Great Alibi". Variety. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  11. ↑ van Hoeij, Boyd (31 August 2012). "Cherchez Hortense". Variety. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
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