Biography

SELENUS was founded by composer Oleg Troyanovsky together with a team of designers, artists, and cultural historians. The project renews the tradition of encoding meaning in music — a thread running through the work of great composers across centuries.

We treat music as language — a way to express what words cannot, giving shape to the inexpressible.

Oleg Troyanovsky

Composer

 

Based in New York and trained at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Troyanovsky writes concert, film, theater, and interactive music performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, Helikon-Opera, and others. In 2015 he received the Prix Italia Grand Prix for Encrypted in Music, a documentary exploring hidden codes in musical works from the sixteenth century to the present, and the Prix Europa for a radio-symphony project the same year. In 2020 he was among the winners of the HBO / Warner Bros. Westworld Scoring Competition.

Troyanovsky’s interest in musical cryptography has shaped much of his work — from large symphonic compositions to sound installations, including From the Dead House, presented at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst college (Amherst, MA) in 2025. This exploration of meaning embedded in sound ultimately led to SELENUS, which began as a one-of-a-kind wedding gift: an original piano single encoding two names and a commemorative date.

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