Kuzma Bodrov

Kuzma Bodrov graduated at the Moscow State Conservatory, where now he teaches polyphony, musical form, harmony, instrumentation and reading scores. Currently he is associate professor here, organizer and co-chairman of Club of the Young Composers of the conservatory, and also a member of Laboratory of director and artist Dmitry Krymov. He is a professor of the Higher Courses of script writers and directors in Moscow. Since 2012 he has been guest professor at the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska in Madrid.

Kuzma Bodrov has won numerous national and international competitions, including the Shostakovich Competition and the 2006 Pythian Games competition in St. Petersburg, the 2012 Mayakovsky Competition in Moscow and the 2012 Prokofiev Competition in St. Petersburg.

He is the musical director of “Tales of the Old Piano” educational animated films. Kuzma took part in “Youth Russian Academy” festival (2002, 2003), Beethoven Festival in Bonn (Caprice for violin and the orchestra, comissioned by Deutsche Welle, 2008), Musik an der Eth (Switzerland, 2008), Aspekte Salzburg (2010). The composer has collaborated with well-known musicians, including conductors Yuri Bashmet, Yuri Simonov, Boris Tevlin, soloists like Boris Berezovsky, María  Bayo, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky. He was “Person of the Year” in the ranking for “New Generation–musician of the Year”of the newspaper “Musical Review” (2011). In the movie business he is better known for his score for Sobibor (2018), a historical film based on real events during WWII.