The Jazz Pilgrim

Evgeniy Grebnev is a composer of electronic music, a church bell ringer, and the founder of The Jazz Pilgrim, an experimental music project from Chelyabinsk that explores the beauty and stillness of the night. His work merges vintage analog equipment with live acoustic instruments, following an “alchemical” method of blending opposites. The Mutt marks his first collaboration with the theater. Over more than a year, he recorded natural sounds, layered live instrumentation, and sculpted percussive and synthesized textures to support the play’s emotional landscape. The resulting score is cinematic, contemplative, and deeply rooted in the physical and spiritual worlds evoked by The Mutt—a work based on Dostoevsky’s final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.