Kirill Chernegin is a young Russian composer born June 7th 1986 in Saint-Petersburg. He studied in Saint-Petersburg's Conservatory and Belorussian Academy of Music as a composer and musicologist (bachelor of arts, 2010). Then he continued his postgraduate education at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris (music theory and composition, master of arts, 2012).

Chernegin is the author of two operas, ballet and chamber music. His music has been performed in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Paris, Tel-Aviv, Bonn, Milano and New-York by several ensembles such AJO (Oslo), Moscow Ensemble of Contemporary Music (MECM, Moscow), Aleph (France), Kontakt (Germany).

Kirill Chernegin is actively working as a composer in theatres (Stanislavsky theatre, Meyerhold’s theatre, Moscow) and works as a lecturer since 2012.