About Scriabin Club

Who we are

We consist of a constantly growing group of Scriabin enthusiasts, who come from a wide range of backgrounds. It is fair to say, that we have been united by Scriabin.

Founding

Scriabin Club was founded by professional pianist and music educator Martin Kaptein in November 2020 in the Netherlands. Our core member group was from the Netherlands and Germany, but since then we have grown to include members all over the globe.

Why Scriabin?

Scriabin Club is dedicated to and inspired by the visionary composer and pianist Alexander Scriabin. We have noticed that Scriabin's music tends to attract people with great ideas. Scriabin Club is uniting those people, so that we can meet, share ideas and organize concerts together!

Scriabin Museum

The Scriabin Club isn't a totally new concept: After Scriabin's death in 1915, his Moscow apartment became a museum and a meeting place for composers and artists with revolutionary ideas. This lead to the development of the first Soviet synthesizer, named ANS after Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin.

Scriabin Club or Scriabin Society?

At the time of the founding of the Scriabin Club there was already a Scriabin Society in the Netherlands so we decided to go another route: We wanted to be more than just a Society which promotes the music and ideas of Scriabin. Rather, we wanted to focus on bringing people together around the personality that is Alexander Scriabin. We believe Scriabin's innovative spirit continues to inspire and ignite creativity in others.

What we do

The tasks of the Scriabin Club can be summarized in the following points:

We promote Scriabin's music and ideas through concerts and publications.
We bring people together for a deeper discourse about art and brainstorming new ideas.

In order to do that we have found the perfect way to practically achieve that: Adapting the classical salon music tradition to the 21st century.

Scriabin Salon Events

Classical salon performances are a type of musical gathering that originated in 19th-century Europe. These events bring together musicians, composers, and music enthusiasts in an intimate setting, often in a private residence or a small, exclusive venue.

Salon performances take place in small, cozy spaces, allowing for a direct connection between the musicians and the audience. These events are as much about socializing as they are about music. Hosts and guests mingle, discuss music, and enjoy refreshments. The salon music format is the perfect vehicle to experience Scriabin's (and not only his) music firsthand and meet like-minded people.

Embracing the internet

We have adapted the Classical salon performance format to the 21st-century by utilizing modern technologies: Next to "offline" events we rely on online events to appeal to a global community organizing online meetings, concerts and presentations. We value it highly to be a very open and inclusive Club, all people from all ages, backgrounds and nationalities are welcome.

Research and publications

Next to the social tasks of the Scriabin Club we also want make Scriabin more widely known. There is an extraordinary treasure of interesting insights that are touched by Scriabin and that are worth exploring: Harmonic, historical discoveries, cross-over with other art forms, synaesthesia, acoustical phenomena and much more. These and many more topics have the potential to be explored from many different perspectives: Theoretical analyses, historical research, artistic projects - the possibilities to explore and present the ideas of Scriabin and his time are seemingly endless.

We would like to support and encourage research into any of those topics because we are convinced that those discoveries can be for the greater good. That's why we plan on releasing a section of our website dedicated to serious research. Take a look at our current publications for a preview.

See joining Scriabin Club for information how to become a member or contact Scriabin Club directly.