Maxim Karpets graduated from the Special School of Music at the Leningrad State Conservatory named after N.A.Rimsky-Korsakov in the class of music theory by Sarah Evseevna Belkina
[1],
[2], compositions by
Yevgeny Markovich Irshai and organ by Olga Pavlovna Minkina.
From 1990 to 1995 he studied at the
Saint Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in the composition class of Professor Alexander Derenikovich
Mnatsakanyan.
In 1997 he graduated from the assistant-internship under the guidance of A.D.
Mnatsakanyan. ,
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[4],
[5],
[6]Later he studied at Oxford,
Warnborough College, and also at the
Manhattan School of Music in New York in the composition class of Professor
Richard Danielpour.
He began his teaching career in 1997 at the St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, where he taught at the Ichiro Hatoyama' electronic music studio.
From 1998 to 2013, he taught at the Department of Sound Engineering at the
Saint Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences a number of disciplines related to electronic and computer music technologies.
Currently, he is a senior research scientist at the Russian Institute for the History of Arts of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
As a composer, he works primarily in the field of theater and television music. Author of original music for drama performances on the stages of St. Petersburg, Samara, Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Hamburg, motion pictures, documentaries and TV serials, as well as more than a dozen TV programs and shows on TV channels in St. Petersburg and Moscow, including the TV channel «
Culture», «
5th channel» and others.
As an arranger, he collaborated and continues to collaborate with many St. Petersburg and Russian composers, musicians, performers, including:
Andrei Petrov,
Vladislav Uspensky, Olga Fadeeva,
Sergei Rogozhin,
Zara,
Elena Vorobey,
Alexander Sladkovsky,
Alena Bikkulova and others.
The scientific activity of M.I.Karpets is connected with the study of the phenomenon of electronic audio technologies as an instrumentarium for artistic creativity. In his dissertation "Electronic audio technologies in the composer's avant-garde of the 50s of the XX century"
[7],
[8],
[9],
[10], for the first time in Russian musicology, the author attempts to create a scientific foundation for the study of electronic audio technologies as an instrumentarium for the composer's creative activity. Author of numerous scientific articles, monographs: "The Organum of New Poetics", a member of the editorial board of a number of scientific periodical and non-periodical publications, including: "Comparative Art Studies", "
Issues of Organological Science" , "In the Space of Music",
"The Art of Sound and Light" ,
"Spiritual Values of Athos and the Russian North" ,
"Unity and Diversity of the Slavic World: Science, Culture, Art" , "IV St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum",
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[12],
"Music and Computer Technologies in Education" , Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Annual International Scientific and Practical Conference "Sound Landscapes"
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[15],
[16],
[17], organizer and participant of seminars and round tables
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[19], held by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in conjunction with the Russian Institute for the History of Arts. In May 2021, by a board of Moscow musicians, he was elected an honorary member of the jury of the international competition for young organ music composers "New Classics - Organ Taurida".
PhD, Associate Professor, Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Informatization (UN), Member of the St. Petersburg Union of Scientists, Member of the Bureau of the Educational and Methodological Center for the Development of Education in the Sphere of Culture and Art of the Committee on Culture of the Government of St. Petersburg, Member of the
Russian Authors
' Society (RAO).