[1][2][3] Evgueni Galperine was born in Chelyabinsk, in the Urals, where he spent his early childhood before moving to Kyiv with his parents and his brother Sacha, who was barely one year old at the time.

[citation needed] If some compositions reflect, by the choice of instrumentation and rhythms, their Slavic roots (as in La Famille Bélier, The Family or Nine Lives), others are detached from them to feed themselves in an autonomous way.

[4][5] In addition to European cinema where Evgueni has collaborated with directors such as Andrey Zvyagintsev, François Ozon, Marjane Satrapi, Asghar Farhadi, Luc Besson, he has also collaborated with American directors such as Barry Sonnenfeld (The Addams Family and Men in Black) or Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Sleepers and Wag The Dog).

In 2017, when Galperine was ready to recommit to contemporary composition – and to begin work on Theory of Becoming (finally realized and released in 2022) – Andrey Zvyagintsev asked him to contribute music for the film Loveless.

[3] Among his "emotional influences", Galperine cites Modest Mussorgsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Claude Debussy and, among more recent composers, Arvo Pärt, György Ligeti and Steve Reich.