Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin

Biography

Abdyssagin Rakhat-Bi (born 02.02.1999, Kazakhstan) – is an award-winning distinguished composer, concert pianist, music theorist, researcher, Doctor of Philosophy. He was awarded the Silver Medal 2024 of WCOM London.

Rakhat-Bi, who is called the Kazakh Mozart, from the age of 9 composes music. He is the author of 3 Operas – ‘The Path lit by the Sun’ (2019), ‘The Mysterious Lady’ (2019), ‘The Bruce’ (2023) – and more than 150 music compositions, from chamber to symphonic works, including ‘The Will to Live’, ‘God’s Dwelling’, ‘Beyond the Darkness’, ‘Time Run’, ‘Tears of Silence’, ‘A drop of Eternity’, ‘The Sacred Universe of Particles’, ‘Phantom reflections’, ‘Shadows of the Void’, ‘Serenade of Invisible Stars’, ‘Ghosts of Immortality’, ‘Qubylys’, ‘Quantum reality’, ‘I raggi di Dante’, ‘Chaos and Order’ etc. His scores are published by Verlag Neue Musik Berlin (Germany).

Music of Rakhat-Bi is performed in the prestigious concert halls including Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Konzerthaus, Salzburg Mozarteum, Carnegie Hall NYC, Royal Festival Hall London, etc. At the age of 19 he played a solo recital on the historic piano of Tchaikovsky in his House-Museum in Klin (Russia). Three of Rakhat-Bi’s piano CDs have been released in Germany. In 2024 the world premieres of his Cathedral Opera The Bruce were held in Glasgow Cathedral, St Giles’ Cathedral Edinburgh, St Andrews, Dunfermline Abbey.

At the age of 13 Rakhat-Bi became an undergraduate student of Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory. At 18 he did an internship at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and brilliantly defended master’s dissertation at Kazakh National University of Arts. At 20 he completed three postgraduate degrees (equivalent to doctorate) at Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, Conservatorio Pollini in Padua, and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 2022-2024 he completed PhD at the University of St Andrews & Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

He participated at Impuls Academies in Graz and other festivals. From the age of 13 he lectures internationally. He is an author of scholarly articles and monographs. At 12 he published a collection of his music compositions ‘Facets of Harmony’. At 14 he published a unique work ‘Mathematics and Contemporary Music’. In 2024 Rakhat-Bi’s book ‘Quantum Mechanics and Avant-Garde Music: Shadows of the Void’ was published by Springer Nature, which is known for having published breakthrough works of Einstein, Planck, Pauli, Heisenberg and other legendary scientists. Rakhat-Bi was a visiting scholar at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and UCL.

 

Award: Silver Medal 2024