Alexander Motovilov & Max Viner
Biography Alexander Motovilov & Max Viner
Max Viner
is a London-based singer-songwriter, musician, and composer who has released various solo projects and collaborated with pop, dance, indie, alternative, and R'n'B musicians. He has also composed music for theatre and film projects in Eastern Europe, America, and England. A classically trained guitarist, Max began writing lyrics and music at the age of 13 after discovering alternative/indie, grunge, and garage rock bands. He taught himself piano and music production in Logic Pro X by the age of 15. His latest neoclassical compositions “rêve subconscient” and “perception” arepowerful introduction to the upcoming debut EP by Alexander Motovilov and Max Viner, highlighting a pure piano arrangement. Both compositions share a beautiful, calming melody that creates an atmospheric foundation for everyday listening. These compositions explore concept of the subconscious dream, capturing the state of mind when one daydreams—feeling both lost and deeply connected to the surroundings, and the way one sees and feels their environment and the world.
Alexander Motovilov
Alexander's aspiration is to create contemporary classical music that stands out by avoiding excessive atonal complexities often associated with avant-garde music and refraining from unnecessary simplifications that are overly present in neoclassical compositions. In his artistic endeavors, he devotes attention to crafting a musical language that exudes beauty, sincerity, and originality, ensuring it resonates with every listener and evokes a profound emotional response.
Drawing from the traditions of Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and considering the modern trends introduced to contemporary classical music by neoclassical artists such as Max Richter, Ólafur Arnalds, Ludovico Einaudi, and others, Alexander has crafted his own recognizable compositional style.This style seamlessly merges the traditions of classical romantic music from the 19th and 20th centuries with neoclassical music principles.
Alexander Motovilov is a pianist and composer based in Tartu, Estonia, describes himself as someone who is absolutely in love with music and his family. It is his family that serves as his primary source of inspiration.
Holding master's degrees in both piano performance and composition, he brings a wealth of experience from his years of working in the drama theater and various musical ensembles as a pianist, composer, and arranger.
In 2019, following the onset of the pandemic when there was suddenly an abundance of free time, Alexander began releasing his piano compositions, which quickly found their way into major editorial playlists on Spotify. Since then, Alexander's compositions often make it into prominent Spotify editorial playlists such as Peaceful Piano, Piano in the Background, Calm Vibes, and others. They also feature in major editorial playlists on Amazon Music and Apple Music. As of today, his music has garnered a substantial global audience, with approximately 40,000,000 streams on streaming platforms.
In his live performances, Alexander plays his piano pieces accompanied by a string trio, which includes violinist Anna Samsonova, also the organizer of all concerts; Alexander's wife, violist Daria Motovilova, and cellist Enno Lepnurm. In the fall of 2023, they had their first tour across cities in Estonia.
