Sergej Tchirkov

music performance, co-creation, contemporary music
Norway (residence) °1980
research interests: artistic research, contemporary music, collaborative spaces, Shared Space
affiliation: University of Bergen
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Sergej Tchirkov is accordionist, curator and PhD research fellow based in Bergen.

Tchirkov has been guest-lecturer at the universities across Europe and taught contemporary music at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory until 2021. He performs with major European ensembles for contemporary music and has premiered more than 350 works for7with accordion.

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  • I am Fine, but I am Trembling (2025) author(s): Sergej Tchirkov published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    The concept of non-hierarchical collaboration in score-based music offers a new perspective on the score and the instrument as distinct agents within the creative process. This case study, based on my co-creative collaboration with composer Francisco Corthey, explores how my relationship with the instrument – and other experiential factors – shaped the development of the composition, addressed ethical questions surrounding collaboration, and contributed to the production of musical meaning in a work presented to me as a notated score. By sharing control over musical parameters with my instrument and body – and by deliberately unlearning aspects of my instrumental technique – I aimed to cultivate a practice specific to this work, one that treats the musical composition as a site- and context-responsive event. This approach led me to examine how elements such as performance context, venue, and audience affect the emergence of meaning and inform my evolving performance strategies, through processes of responsiveness and an awareness of fragility as a generative force. Several of these reflections are gathered in the Shared Space model – an ongoing artistic experiment that explores inclusive, responsive practices within concert settings. Download Accessible PDF
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