Arsentiy Kharitonov On Postmodernism, Academia, and Music Composition | EP. 1

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Arsentiy Kharitonov is the first-prize winner of the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition (US). After also winning the Rachmaninov Competition (Russia), he began his concert career with engagements throughout Europe including appearances at the Philharmonic Hall, and the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, at the Royal Conservatory, Stockholm, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, followed by Asian tours with performances in the major halls of, among others, Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul.

In the Americas, he has appeared—among others—at the Music and Beyond Festival in Ottawa, at the National Gallery of Art and Catholic University of Washington, DC, in Dallas, Los Angeles, with orchestra at the Tabernacle at Temple in the Square, Salt Lake City, at St. John’s Cathedral, Steinway Hall, the Frick Collection, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in NYC.

Arsentiy's Website: https://www.arsentiykharitonov.com/

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• TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Arsentiy's Background
2:57 How Arsentiy Became a Musician
5:49 The Role of Composition in Music
8:49 Music in Academia
11:41 The Search for Meaning in Music
15:02 Success and Narcissism
18:52 Building an Audience in Good Taste
21:02 How to Make a Living in Music
30:06 The Nature of Modern Composition
36:38 Fake Degrees and Fake Music
45:49 Why So Many People Only Talk About Art
47:45 Postmodernism in Music
59:02 Bridging the Gap between Academia and Culture
01:07:06 Arsentiy's Compositions
01:16:38 Narrative in Composition
01:23:59 A Positive Vision for the Future