Arseniy Gusev & Alexander Bolotin: Schubert, Mussorgsky, Mahler, Janáček, Schreker, Gusev

Official website of composer and pianist Arseniy Gusev.

Alexander Bolotin is a pianist and rock/pop artist who appears in New York City through Groupmuse NYC. His program “Early Chopin” centers on Frédéric Chopin’s formative piano works, tracing the young composer’s emerging blend of technique and lyricism.

Franz Schubert is best known as a foundational voice in European art music, with a catalog that ranges from song cycles and chamber works to symphonies and late piano pieces. In New York City, his music appears regularly in programs at Groupmuse NYC and Bargemusic, where it sits alongside composers from Mozart and Beethoven to Bartók and Finzi, and in collaborations associated with artists such as Muriel Oberhofer, Eric Clark, and Alexander Fiterstein.

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

Gustav Mahler was an Austro‑Bohemian composer and a major conductor whose career moved between the opera house and the symphonic stage. His scores extend late‑Romantic orchestral tradition toward early modernist intensity, often using large forces and long spans of musical argument.

Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality, timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.