LATEST NEWS
Very excited for the UK debut of my newly formed GBRL PRKFV Ensemble on 24th November at the 2024 EFG London Jazz Festival…
HUGE thank you to everyone involved in Saturday’s ‘nonclassical X LSO’ gig. A beautiful & unforgettable way to celebrate our 20th birthday.
Nonclassical is celebrating its 20th Birthday on 26th October with its biggest event yet…
Proud to have shared the stage with the phenomenal Lukas Geniušas in the historic Sala dei Giganti in Padova…
Not to be missed this Friday 12th July - a unique night of Live Contemporary Percussion & Abstract Electronic Dance Music…
This special Nonclassical 20th anniversary event will celebrate beat-driven music for Percussion Ensemble & prepared Clavichord in a club-night that brings together Footwork, EDM, Techno, Contemporary Classical & more at Unit 58 (a really nice warehouse rave venue in Tottenham)
Excited to announce ‘Penombra’ - my first ever interactive installation work. Currently on show at the Royal College of Art, Battersea. Seven Curators on the RCA Curation MA course, commissioned me to create a new interactive, multi-speaker version of my composition: ‘HOWL!’. it explores our sense of identity in the context of contemporary digital life.
Just back from one of the most exciting orchestral gigs I’ve ever performed in, at the incredible Toradze International Music Festival…
A rare duo show from world renown Serbian Violist: Saša Mirković and Hackney-based Electronic classical composer: Gabriel Prokofiev, presenting an intimate pop-up performance in the Hackney furniture, design (and wine) boutique: Mad Atelier.
So happy to be back performing with Jonghwa Park (Piano) & Yoonjeong Heo (Geomungo) for our unusual trio: Project ‘tHinG’. Intense rehearsing last few days at the Korean Culture Centre in Paris…
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'…
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.