Dear friend,

My name is Boris Zhilinskiy, music theater stage director, producer, author.

I was born in 1991 in Moscow. I graduated from Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (cello, class of prof. Evgeniy Rumyantsev) and Lomonosov Moscow State University (bach. in physics, mag. in linguistics). 

Since 2011 I have been organizing classical music concerts in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Perm, Novosibirsk with Russian renowned musicians Ekaterina Mechetina, Alexey Utkin,  Nikita Borisoglebskiy, Haik Kazazyan, Alexander Ramm, Julia Igonina and others; open-talks with Theodor Currentzis, Vladimir Jurowski, Vasiliy Barkhatov. 

In 2012 was my first experience of organizing concert in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory. New Year was coming, a very expressive soloists Elena Korzhenevich was playing "Winter" by Antonio Vivaldi. It was this very moment when I started to see the scenes and the action where were no words, but only solo monologues and tutti answers. Some very dramatic story was behind those notes. Since then I started to dechifre the partition to unravel its secret - the plot  concealed behind it. 

Six years later the work was done. Each note became the voice of some particular character, the whole cycle of concerts The Four Seasons became one inseperable fairy story of eternal love with happy ending. 

The question came to the point - what can replace words in this theater staging? The answer came very clear - movement and contemporary dance. I was very lucky to meet a wonderful choreographer Alexandra Rudik who was my first guide into the world of contemporary dance. 

Since then I started to explore the possibilities of musicians in terms of movement. The more I was diving into it the more infintie it was getting. 

The Four Seasons was staged in June 12, 2018 in Moscow Performing Arts Center. After that it was staged 10 times in the Great Hall of Moscow State Conservatory.

In 2021 another staging was made - Quartet №8 by Dmitry Shostakovich with the great choreographer Alexander Frolov. 

In 2022 we staged the third piece - Der Tod und das Madchen by Franz Schubert (2nd mvt. of Quartet №14) - together with one of the most famous Russian choreographer Vladimir Varnava and the world-known artist Ulduss Bakhtiozina as costume designer and hair styler. 

Each staging has its own stylistics, own physical and musical language. Many more stagings are up to come. 

I strongly believe that such union of music and contemporary dance is the future of classical music in XXI century. We discover the whole new continent of artistic possibilities which become opened to musicians. They start to feel the space, their body and the music itself - in a completely different way - with much more freedom, inspiration and certainty. 

Our dream is to bring this idea to every musician on our planet - to show what infinite source they posses and can use. Their body and movement.