GAFAROV Bulat Rafaelevich
Biography
(01.02.1982, Moscow, RF) - composer.
He gained secondary specialized and higher education in several specialties in parallel: 1999 - assistant on legal issues (jurisprudence), in 2001 he graduated from the Gnesins Music College in the violin/viola class, in 2002 - the composition department of Moscow Conservatory.
2004 - graduated from the Institute of Oriental Studies on specialty "Oriental Studies".
2005 - received a Diploma from the Faculty of Humanities of MosHU on specialty "Culturology-Ethnography".
Since 2006, he has collaborated with the Government of Moscow, Moscow House of Nationalities in organizing ethnographic expeditions, World Music international festivals, events for the national Diasporas, etc. He is actively engaged in creative activities: gives solo concerts and concerts with his groups around the world, composes music for the films; participates in the International art projects as a composer and musician; is a board member of RUSISME (Russian National Section of ISME at UNESCO).
Among the author's musical projects: the Toke-Cha group (world music, live instrumental show), Bulat PROject (live electronics, musician and DJ), "Bands$" (hip-hop, raga, beatbox), "Bul- bul" (experimental folk, Russian folk and throat singing), the group "Azimut" (ethno-jazz, ethno-rock, ethno-fusion).
He is the author of the music for theatrical performances: "Siege" (UTF Theatre), "Ugaim Sulde"/"Spirit of Ancestors" (Baikal Theatre, Ulan-Ude, Buryatia), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (ethnic part, Little World Theater) , "Hotel of Two Worlds" (GITIS/RATI); music for the performance "Sun Fish" (experimental theater "Pagendarm"), live multimedia show "The Creation of the Universe" (Moscow Experimental Theatre); ballets "Sansara" (RAMT, Moscow Ballet Theatre), "The Little Prince" (CIM), "Russian Patterns" (music show theatre"Premiere", Krasnodar).
He is a co-author of the music for the one-act ballet "Alem" (choreography by Nikita Dmitrievsky) at the "Astana Ballet" Theater, based on the Turkic epic of the same name (2014).