Kuzma Bodrov was born in 1980 in Osh, Kyrgyzstan.
In 2005 he graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where he studied composition with Alexander V. Tchaikovsky.
He currently teaches composition at the Conservatory. Since September 2021 he has headed the Department of Composition at the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music. He is a member of the Council of the Union of Composers of Russia.
The music of Kuzma Bodrov is performed in Russia, Europe, America, Australia, and New Zealand. Among the ensembles that have performed his works are:
- the «Novaya Rossiya» (New Russia) State Symphony Orchestra;
- the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia;
- the Moscow Philharmonic Academic Symphony Orchestra;
- the Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra;
- the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia;
- the «Moscow Soloists» Chamber Orchestra;
- the Moscow Conservatory Chamber Choir;
- the «Altro coro» Choral Music Ensemble;
- the Choir of the Popov Academy of Choral Arts;
- the A. A. Yurlov State Academic Choir;
- the A. V. Sveshnikov State Academic Russian Choir, and many other renowned ensembles.
Kuzma Bodrov has collaborated with leading musicians including Yuri Bashmet, Yuri Simonov, Alexander Sladkovsky, Boris Tevlin, Vladimir Ziva, Nikita Boriso‑Glebsky, Ekaterina Mechetina, Alexander Solovyov, Borja Quintas, Sergei Stadler, Boris Berezovsky, Vadim Repin, Maria Bayo, Sergei Antonov, Alexander Trostiansky, Elena Revich, and Vadym Kholodenko.
He is a member of the creative laboratory of director and designer Dmitry Krymov. In cinema he has worked with directors Andrei Kravchuk, Konstantin Khabensky, and Pavel Lungin. He was Musical Director of the educational animated‑film project «Tales of the Old Piano», which received the Government of the Russian Federation Prize in 2013. He has been awarded a prize from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation for his music for Konstantin Khabensky’s film Sobibor.
Since 2011 Kuzma Bodrov has been composer‑in‑residence with the JMJ Orchestra in Madrid. He is the author of several works written for the Mass of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (2011).
Since 2012 he has been a visiting professor at the Katarina Gurska Higher School of Music in Madrid. He also teaches at the Higher Courses for Directors and Screenwriters in Moscow.
For his works Kuzma Bodrov has received prizes at many All‑Russian and international competitions, including:
- the Sergei Prokofiev Competition (First Prize for the Concerto‑Sonata for Violin and Orchestra);
- the Dmitry Shostakovich Competition (First Prize for the Violin Concerto);
- the Nikolai Myaskovsky Competition (First Prize for a String Quartet).
He is a recipient of the Dmitry Shostakovich Prize of the Moscow Conservatory.
In 2011 he was named «Person of the Year» by the newspaper Musical Review in the category «New Generation – Musician of the Year».
