# Alexei Aigui

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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.[1]

## Biography and career

Aigui is ethnically [Chuvash](/source/Chuvash_people) and the son of Chuvash national poet [Gennadiy Aygi](/source/Gennadiy_Aygi).[2]

A graduate of Moscow's State Music and Pedagogical Institute,[3] Aigui's work has been noted for its [minimalist](/source/Minimalist_music) aesthetics. This investment in minimalism led Aigui to name his band after the [John Cage](/source/John_Cage) composition *[4′33″](/source/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3)*, 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,[4] 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](/source/Country_of_the_Deaf)*, which received the [Russian Guild of Film Critics](/source/Russian_Guild_of_Film_Critics) Award for Best Score;[5] *[Wild Field](/source/Wild_Field)*, which received a [Nika Award](/source/Nika_Award),[6] [Golden Eagle](/source/Golden_Eagle_Award_(Russia)) Award,[7] and [Kinotavr](/source/Kinotavr) Award for Best Music, as well as the [White Elephant Award](/source/Russian_Guild_of_Film_Critics) for Best Composer; and the widely-acclaimed *[I Am Not Your Negro](/source/I_Am_Not_Your_Negro)*, which was nominated for a [Cinema Eye Honors](/source/Cinema_Eye_Honors) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score.[8]

## Discography

### Leader or co-leader

Release year Title Label Notes 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

### with Ensemble 4'33"

Release year Title Label Notes 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

Release year Film Soundtrack Label Awards 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[9] Golden Aries nominee; Nika nominee 2004 My Step Brother Frankenstein 2004 Kvartirka (TV series) 2004 Mars 2004 Ragin 2005 The Fall of the Empire (TV series) 2005 The Wedding Chest 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[10] 2008 Snezhnyy angel 2008 Wild Field 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 Moloch Tropical 2011 Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Le petit poucet) 2012 The Horde SoLyd Records 2012 Rondo 2012 Looking for Hortense[11] 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 I Am Not Your Negro 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 The Young Karl Marx 2017 André 2017 Doktor Rikhter (TV series) 2017 Our Little Secret 2018 Assia 2019 Good as New 2019 The Truth (La vérité) Music Box Records 2022 No Crying 2026 Maigret and the Dead Lover

## External links

- [Alexei Aigui](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014531/) at IMDb

## References

1. ["Alexei Aigui on Scoring the Breakthrough Documentary I am Not Your Negro"](http://magazine.scoreit.org/interview-alexei-aigui-not-negro/). *Score It Magazine*. 24 February 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. France, Peter (24 February 2006). ["Gennady Aygi: Avant garde Russian poet and friend of Pasternak, his career blossomed with the advent of perestroika"](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/feb/25/guardianobituaries.books). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. ["Concert-presentation at the State Musical Pedagogical Institute named after M.M. Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia"](http://eufsc.eu/concert-presentation-at-the-state-musical-pedagogical-institute-named-after-m-m-ippolitov-ivanov-russia/). *European Foundation for Support of Culture*. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. ["The Jubilee Neoclassism of Alexei Aygi"](https://www.erarta.com/en/museum/news/detail/news-02075/). *Erarta Museum*. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. ["1998"](http://kinopressa.ru/white-elephant/httpkinopressa-rupage_id377). *KINOPRESSA*. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. Hercules, Olia (6 April 2009). ["Russian musical Hipsters scoops best film at Nika Awards"](https://www.screendaily.com/russian-musical-hipsters-scoops-best-film-at-nika-awards/4043925.article). *Screen International*. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. Holdsworth, Nick (26 January 2009). ["'Wild Field' wins Russian Eagle"](https://variety.com/2009/film/awards/wild-field-wins-russian-eagle-1117999063/). *Variety*. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. Erbland, Kate (11 January 2017). ["Cinema Eye Honors 2017 Winners List"](https://www.indiewire.com/2017/01/cinema-eye-honors-2017-winners-1201767077/). *IndieWire*. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. Cockrell, Eddie (1 October 2002). ["The Lover"](https://variety.com/2002/film/reviews/the-lover-2-1200545728/). *Variety*. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. Mintzer, Jordan (11 May 2008). ["The Great Alibi"](https://variety.com/2008/film/reviews/the-great-alibi-1200522556/). *Variety*. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

1. van Hoeij, Boyd (31 August 2012). ["Cherchez Hortense"](https://variety.com/2012/film/reviews/cherchez-hortense-1117948146/). *Variety*. Retrieved 6 January 2021.

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