Peter Theremin

Peter Theremin is a Russian composer and performer on the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

Peter Theremin
Peter Theremin plays theremin
Background information
Born	Peter Theremin (1991-06-19) 19 June 1991 (age 34) Moscow, Russia
Genres	Classical music, electronic music
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Theremin

Life and career

Peter Theremin is the great-grandson of Leon Theremin, and is himself a "Thereminist", a player of the instrument his grandfather invented. He plays classical and contemporary improvised music.

He is organizer of the festival of theremin culture "Thereminology", and the creator of the Russian-language website "Theremin Times". He is the head of Russian Theremin School, and is the author of a series of lectures on the history of electromusic, on the history of the theremin. He create the course "Theremin for 24 hours".

CD

• The Owls Are Not What They Seem: David Lynch Tribute Remixes (2017)
• Varvara Vizbor "Forbidden Fruit" (2015)
• Sergey Babkin "Muzasfera" (2018)
• Panama (Igor Grigoriev) - "Saints" (2018)
• Tatiana Alyoshina "How we flew on a balloon" (2013)

Music for films

• Lessons of Auschwitz (dir. Denis Semionov, Webby Award 2020^[1])
• The Sheep Islands (2015)^[2]
• Sounds of Vladivostok (2017)
• Sounds of Vladivostok (theremin party) (2017)[3] (Russia - Cyprus, directed and composed by Marios Elia)
• VITEBSK ART SCHOOL for at the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Jewish Museum, (New York) (2018)
• Valse de Vladimir (2018) (France, directed by Matthew Martin)
• Lessons of Auschwitz (2020) VR film
• "Participation" (2021)
• Theremin Party for the VR game M1n0t0r (France-Russia) (2021)

Awards

• Laureate of the International Film Festival "Fathers and Children" in the nomination "film music" (2017)
• Special grant for teachers from the television contest "Blue Bird"
• Silver medal of the British award Creativepool for music for the film "Lessons of Auschwitz" (2020)
• Bronze of the American Clio Awards (English) rus. 2021 for the music for the film "Lessons of Auschwitz".