Russia:Today (2020) returns to the stage after two years as part of the INTO THE OPEN festival at the Kühlhaus, Berlin, with EXAUDI conducted by James Weeks performing the landmark score.
A composer of music of "high drama" and "intense emotion" BBC, "at once, ingenious, hypnotic, brave, and beautiful” Festival Internazionale A.F. Lavagnino, Eugene Birman b. 1987 has written for symphony orchestras Berliner Philharmoniker, London Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, choirs Theatre of Voices, BBC Singers, Latvian Radio Choir, and leading ensembles and soloists Maxim Vengerov, Maurizio Ben Omar, etc. across four continents in venues ranging from London's Southbank Centre to Carnegie Hall to above the Arctic Circle.