Dominic G. Joutsen

About Dominic G. Joutsen

My name is Dominic G. Joutsen and I’m a composer for concert hall, film, TV and media. Primarily a symphonist, I work in a multitude of genres and styles, trying to break down the boundaries between classical, ethnic, pop and electronic music. Yet the one thing I always strive to preserve is emotional resonance, richness and beauty, which I believe are the corner stones of any work of art.

I was born Cyril Ioutsen (that remains my legal name) in Moscow, Russia, to Russian-Scandinavian parents and I had had neither much interest, nor formal training in music until my late teens, when finally I managed to find the former, although not the latter. I taught myself the basics of theory and orchestration and afterwards have learned by experience, listening and writing (which is pretty much the essence of training in music composition). Apart from classical music my sympathy lies with early, traditional (including non-European), avant-garde and film music (all of which might be evident in my own work).

Composing non-stop since the early 2000-s, I also managed to graduate from the State University for Humanities (then functioning within the Russian Academy of Sciences) with an (expired link). i