El Lukijanov (*1983 in Bender/Tighina, today Transnistria) is a composer with Moldovan, Russian and Frisian roots. Lukijanov's works often refer to visual art, own lyrical works, texts by other authors and philosophical works. Lukijanov concerned with textures as well as processes of physical creation and invention - be it self invented instruments, microtonal tunings, or ideas of digital and recursive environments. 

In 2021, Lukijanov had been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Artists' Residence Villa Concordia.

El Lukijanov has had the opportunity to collaborate with renowned ensembles, performers and institutions, including accordionist Eva Zöllner, Ensemble TEMA, Ensemble Aventure, Klangforum Heidelberg, ZKM, Kunsthaus Bregenz and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.

As a self-taught instrument maker, Lukijanov built, among other things, a further development of the historical nail violin from the 19th century and worked out new playing techniques on it - layered into sound sculptures with a loop station or as raw single notes.

El Lukijanov also developed and built the brass cello, with the motivation of realizing purely acoustic reverb effects on a low string and plucked instrument.

In 2018, Lukijanov won the DELTA Composition Prize of Klangforum Heidelberg and was a recipient of the Wolfgang Rihm Scholarship, sponsored by the Hoepfner Foundation.

As a student, El Lukijanov participated in numerous master classes with Chaya Czernowin, Zeynep Gedizlioğlu and Rebecca Saunders, among others. 

At an early age, El Lukijanov enjoyed the privilege of classical training on piano and violin. The unusual biography kept shaping Lukijanov's self-motivation, autodidacticism and inventiveness, so that in Lukijanov's resume, besides studying music technology and songwriting at a pop academy in Enschede, the Netherlands, there are other activities such as assisting various artists*, self-study in microtonality, writing poetry and secluded explorations of electronics and programming.

El Lukijanov received private lessons from various professors and lecturers and only at the age of 32 accepted a place at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe with Prof. Wolfgang Rihm and Prof. Markus Hechtle, whilst parallel studies in music informatics with Prof. Thomas Troge and Prof. Christoph Seibert.

In the winter of 2022/2023, Lukijanov completed the master's degree in composition with distinction.

El Lukijanov is openly transmasculine.