LATEST NEWS
My collaborative project with choreographer Andris Plucis will be commencing this year, with our premiere performances at the Eisenach Theatre on 30th & 31st March. Written for the Thuringia Bach Festival and the Eisenach Theatre, the ballet combines chamber orchestra, piano, and electronics to offer a contemporary response to the sonic world of Bach, subtitled ‘The Obstruction of Lightness of Thought'.
NEW Album Alert! - After a tour in Switzerland, gigs at COP26 in Glasgow, and in London: Pastoral 21 the album is finally out on Signum Records. In short, it’s a contemporary exploration on what the concept of ‘Pastoral’ means to us in this time of climate crisis.
Very excited to be debuting my brand new group: The Gabriel Prokofiev Ensemble (GBRL PRKFV ENS) at two gigs this weekend…
I’m thrilled to be back in Belgrade to perform at the closing concert of this year’s MetaWorld Contemporary Art Festival in Belgrade on Friday 15th December. I will be performing a live set with the Metamorphosis Ensemble and Fashion Designer Dragana Ognjenović.
Really looking forward to being part of the new 'The Social Canvas' project - which brings together political discussion and music. I'll be performing HOWL! live alongside clarinettist Nikolai Yaushev. Then I'll take part in the panel discussion on Art Politics in light of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Honoured that my composition 'Strange Blooms' will be opening the final concert of the 'Prix Annelie de Man' festival in Amsterdam this Sunday 3rd Dec. The brilliant Jane Chapman will be performing live harpsichord alongside my electroacoustic re-composition of her performing 'La Complaignant'
WORLD PREMIER ALERT – This Thursday 30th Nov my new work 'Goya Images: 'Yo Sólo Veo Luces y Sombras' will be premiered as a part of my 2023 collaborations with La Fil. It's inspired by the paintings & engravings of Goya's late period - the darkness, personal criticism, humour & sadness...
LONDON GIG ALERT... Friday 3rd Nov 2023. - Just added an important Fund-raising concert to my schedule, joining 4 other talented musicians from Ukraine & Russia performing MUSIC for PEACE - something we should do whenever we can…
Great to be coming back to Lisbon for the first time in 10 years, and the first time I'm performing live electronics with strings here…
#ThrowbackThursday - Back in February this year I went to the FAME Institute in Skopje, North Macedonia, one of the newest and most progressive orchestral recording studios in Europe (and in constant use recording international films scores)…
Memories of the intense & very special recent collaboration in Korea still strong… Sending much love & gratitude to the PROJECT tHinG team for conceiving of this project, and then inviting me to be part of the it…
Excited to announce a new full-length stage work by Gabriel Prokofiev coming in 2024, in collaboration with choreographer: Andris Plucis. As part of the Bach Festival 2024…
Gabriel has been invited to stage a concert in collaboration with the Guimarães Orchestra, to mark the CCVF’s 18th anniversary…
Very excited to announce a new collaboration with two remarkable Korea Musicians:
Pianist: Jongh-Wa PARK and Geomungo player: Yoon-Jeong HEO…
YES! - Coming back to Birmingham for my first gig in over 20 years at my alma mater: University of Birmingham this Thursday 29 June, 7:30pm…
Join me this Tuesday 30th May at IKLECTIK for a concert of immersive multi-speaker ambisonic electronic music: ‘PROGRESSIVE LIVE AMBIENT’ I’ll be diffusing ‘Strange Blooms’ from my new CD…
SURREALISM STUDY nr2: Premier of a really enjoyable collaboration with La Fil In the fantastic MUDEC in Milan last night: My ‘Surrealist Study Nr.2’ - a short collage-dream-piece for clarinet (or viola) & musique concrete, that will be performed every half hour every afternoon & evening in the middle of the current Surrealist exhibition…
Counter Chamber 21st June - really looking forward to performing at this very 2020s, ‘post-classical’ approach chamber music. Not sure I meet all the genres on the poster (neo-classical? 🫨-moi?😂), but I will be performing some tracks from my #Litvinenko ‘soundtrack’, as well as some more angular ‘electronic’s meets strings works. More details soon…
I have to share a few words (and photos) about my recent composition lab at the The Stauffer Center, Cremona in April. Four very intense days, with six very talented young composers. As well as sharing ideas and approaches on being a composer in the 2020s, I set two composition tasks each day…
What a special night CSBO have created with their 'Symphonic Sessions' at the Hockley Social Club! Thank you for inviting me to perform with you..
Really happy to being going back to the city of my alma mater, Birmingham, to perform electronics alongside musicians from the brilliant CBSO - at the Hockley Social Club as part of their 'Symphonic Sessions'…
Happy to announce the next Oscillations gig: Saturday 15th April 2023, in Leicester - Alongside the brilliant Louise Rossiter launching her new electroacoustic EP 'Der Industriepalast - Part 1', I will be presenting pieces from my recent releases 'HOWL!' and 'Strange Blooms' in an immersive multi-speaker, surround sound diffusion at St Andrews, Leicester…
Just back from one of the most powerful opera experiences I’ve ever had: Bayerische Staatsoper politically charged new production of War & Peace. The intensity of the night was further increased by several unexpected personal coincidences…
Announcement for students and emerging composers: I am teaching a 4 day composition masterclass at The Stauffer Center in the historical Italian city of Cremona from 18th-21st April 2023…
My first 'Piano Trio', premiered last week by the remarkable Van Baerle Trio, was recorded live at Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam - It will be broadcast on NPO Radio 4 tonight at 19:00 GMT / 20:00 CET...
A massive thank you to @musi.fee for this in-depth interview.
"Gabriel Prokofiev on heritage and music’s universal unspoken powers."
You can read it now over on their website: LINK…
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Yes, very happy to be back in The Netherlands - rehearsing with the super talented Van Baerle Trio for the world premier concert of my first Piano Trio tonight at the TivoliVredenburg (TICKETS) in Utrecht…
Huge thank you to everyone at FAMES institute in Skopje, North Macedonia. What an inspiring experience. 5 days of intensive orchestral rehearsals & then recordings in the state-of-the-art FAMES studios…
EMMA for Peace, or the Euro Mediterranean Music Academy, is a non-profit global organization for the promotion of peace and cooperation for development through music diplomacy and education in Europe, the Mediterranean region, Middle East and beyond…
Inspired by the true story of the former Russian security officer Alexander “Sasha” Litvinenko who was poisoned to death in 2006, ITVX will premier Litvinenko (starring David Tennant, Mark Bonnar, Margarita Levieva & Neil Maskell) in December 2022…
Music for the Imagination. Music for the Modern Age.
Over the last decade Gabriel Prokofiev has become a significant voice in the contemporary classical music of his generation.
Uniquely positioned at the intersection of the past and future of contemporary music creation, Gabriel combines a wide breadth of experience in classical and symphonic compositions; scores for film, dance and opera; and electronic music to create evocative musical journeys that traverse genres and heighten emotions.