Alexei Aigui
{{short description|Russian composer and violinist}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
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| name = Alexei Aigui
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| image = Aleksey Aygi, June 2021.jpg
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| caption = Alexei Aigui in 2021
| native_name =
| native_name_lang = Айги Алексей Геннадьевич
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1971|07|11}}
| origin = Russia
| genre = minimalist music
| occupation = musician, composer
| instrument = violin
| years_active = 1994–present
| label = SoLyd, Music Box, Lakeshore, Leo Records
| current_member_of = 4'33" Ensemble
| website = {{url|www.facebook.com/AlexeiAiguimusic/}}
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Aleksey Aygi (stylized as Alexei Aigui, born 11 July 1971) is a Russian composer, violinist, and leader of the 4'33" Ensemble.{{cite web |title=Alexei Aigui on Scoring the Breakthrough Documentary I am Not Your Negro |url=http://magazine.scoreit.org/interview-alexei-aigui-not-negro/ |website=Score It Magazine |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=24 February 2017}}
Biography and career
Aigui is ethnically Chuvash and the son of Chuvash national poet Gennadiy Aygi.{{cite web |last1=France |first1=Peter |title=Gennady Aygi: Avant garde Russian poet and friend of Pasternak, his career blossomed with the advent of perestroika |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/25/guardianobituaries.books |website=The Guardian |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=24 February 2006}}
A graduate of Moscow's State Music and Pedagogical Institute,{{cite web |title=Concert-presentation at the State Musical Pedagogical Institute named after M.M. Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia |url=http://eufsc.eu/concert-presentation-at-the-state-musical-pedagogical-institute-named-after-m-m-ippolitov-ivanov-russia/ |website=European Foundation for Support of Culture |access-date=6 January 2021}} Aigui's work has been noted for its minimalist aesthetics. This investment in minimalism led Aigui to name his band after the John Cage composition 4′33″, the score for which instructs performers to refrain from playing their instruments. In 1994, Aigui debuted his 4'33" Ensemble at the Moscow International Festival of Modern Music,{{cite web |title=The Jubilee Neoclassism of Alexei Aygi |url=https://www.erarta.com/en/museum/news/detail/news-02075/ |website=Erarta Museum |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=17 August 2014}} with another early performance taking place at the 1996 "European Days in Samara" festival.
Aigui is a prolific composer who has scored dozens of films and television programs, including Country of the Deaf, which received the Russian Guild of Film Critics Award for Best Score;{{cite web |title=1998 |url=http://kinopressa.ru/white-elephant/httpkinopressa-rupage_id377 |website=KINOPRESSA |access-date=6 January 2021}} Wild Field, which received a Nika Award,{{cite web |last1=Hercules |first1=Olia |title=Russian musical Hipsters scoops best film at Nika Awards |url=https://www.screendaily.com/russian-musical-hipsters-scoops-best-film-at-nika-awards/4043925.article |website=Screen International |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=6 April 2009}} Golden Eagle Award,{{cite web |last1=Holdsworth |first1=Nick |title='Wild Field' wins Russian Eagle |url=https://variety.com/2009/film/awards/wild-field-wins-russian-eagle-1117999063/ |website=Variety |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=26 January 2009}} and Kinotavr Award for Best Music, as well as the White Elephant Award for Best Composer; and the widely-acclaimed I Am Not Your Negro, which was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score.{{cite web |last1=Erbland |first1=Kate |title=Cinema Eye Honors 2017 Winners List |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/cinema-eye-honors-2017-winners-1201767077/ |website=IndieWire |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=11 January 2017}}
Discography
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Release year | Title | Label | Notes |
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2001
|Musique Cyrillique |SoLyd |with Pierre Bastien | |||
2002
|Aigui & Bonnen Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix: Up From The Skies |SoLyd |with Dietmar Bonnen | |||
2003
|Aigui & Bonnen Play The Music Of Frank Zappa: Black Water |SoLyd |with Dietmar Bonnen | |||
2008
|The Closer |SoLyd |solo | |||
2009
|Aigui & Bonnen Play the Music of Kurt Weill: Nightshift |SoLyd |with Dietmar Bonnen |
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Release year | Title | Label | Notes |
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1997
|Sisters Grimm Tales |SoLyd Records |ft. the NeTe | |||
1997
|Falls |Long Arms Records | | |||
1998
|Hearts (Сердца) |SoLyd | | |||
1999
|Taxidermy |SoLyd | | |||
1999
|One Second Hand (Music For Kinetic Theatre) |SoLyd | | |||
2001
|Equus |SoLyd | | |||
2002
|Happiness, Fame And Fortune |SoLyd | | |||
2003
|Mix |SoLyd |ft. Mina Agossi | |||
2005
|Live @ Loft |SoLyd | | |||
2012
|Hard Disc |SoLyd | | |||
2016
|Sergey Kuryokhin: The Spirit Lives |Leo Records | |
Selected filmography
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Release year | Film | Soundtrack Label | Awards |
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1998
|Country of the Deaf (soundtrack: Les Silencieuses) |Sergent Major Recording |Golden Aries Award for best score; Nika Award nominee | |||
1998
|Retro vtroyom | | | |||
1998
|Chastnye kroniki. Monolog | | | |||
2000
|Kamenskaya: Chuzhaya maska | | | |||
2002
|The Lover{{cite web |last1=Cockrell |first1=Eddie |title=The Lover |url=https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/the-lover-2-1200545728/ |website=Variety |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=1 October 2002}} | |Golden Aries nominee; Nika nominee | |||
2004
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2004
|Kvartirka (TV series) | | | |||
2004
|Mars | | | |||
2004
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2005
|The Fall of the Empire (TV series) | | | |||
2005
| |Golden Aries nominee | |||
2006
|Charell | | | |||
2006
|Mans virs Andrejs Saharovs | | | |||
2006
|Made in Paris (Je pense à vous) | | | |||
2007
|Sishik Poutilin (TV series) | | | |||
2008
|The Great Alibi{{cite web |last1=Mintzer |first1=Jordan |title=The Great Alibi |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/reviews/the-great-alibi-1200522556/ |website=Variety |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=11 May 2008}} | | | |||
2008
|Snezhnyy angel | | | |||
2008
|Music Box Records |Golden Eagle, Nika, and Kinotavr Awards for Best Music; White Elephant Award for Best Composer | |||
2008
|Ochen russkiy detektiv | | | |||
2009
|L'école du pouvoir | | | |||
2009
|Can't Say No (Je ne dis pas non) | | | |||
2009
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2011
|Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Le petit poucet) | | | |||
2012
|SoLyd Records | | |||
2012
|Rondo | | | |||
2012
|Looking for Hortense{{cite web |last1=van Hoeij |first1=Boyd |title=Cherchez Hortense |url=https://variety.com/2012/film/reviews/cherchez-hortense-1117948146/ |website=Variety |access-date=6 January 2021 |date=31 August 2012}} | | | |||
2014
|Vychislitel | | | |||
2015
|Orlean | |Nika Nominee; White Elephant for Best Composer | |||
2015
|V dalyokom sorok pyatom... Vstrechi na Elbe | |Nika for Best Music | |||
2015
|Krasnaya koroleva (TV series) | | | |||
2016
|Music Box Records / Lakeshore Records |Cinema Eye Honors Award Nominee | |||
2016
|Mata Hari (TV series) | |APKiT nominee for Best Music in a TV Movie/Series | |||
2017
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2017
|André | | | |||
2017
|Doktor Rikhter (TV series) | | | |||
2017
|Our Little Secret | | | |||
2018
|Assia | | | |||
2019
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2019
|The Truth (La vérité) |Music Box Records | | |||
2022
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Category:20th-century Russian composers
Category:21st-century Russian composers
Category:21st-century Russian violinists
Category:Recipients of the Nika Award
Category:Academicians of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia
Category:Russian film score composers
Category:21st-century Russian male musicians