Tetiana Zhuravel graduated from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (class of Ye.V. Kolesnyk). She is a prize winner at numerous competitions, including I Éva Marton International Singing Competition (Budapest, 2014), VI A. Solovianenko International Competition of Young Opera Singers (Donetsk, 2013), I International V. Noreika Competition for Singers (Vilnius, 2017), IX Grandi Voci Opera Singers Competition (Salzburg, 2018).

In 2018 she sang the part of Queen of the Night in the performance of a famous opera director Graham Vick staged in the Queen Sophia Palace of the Arts in Valencia (Spain) and the Sferisterio Arena in Macerata (Italy).

In 2017 T. Zhuravel performed solo soprano in Ligeti's "Requiem" with the Belgian National Orchestra and the Hungarian National Choir in Brussels.

Since 2016 she has collaborated with the Hungarian State Opera (parts of Queen of the Night ("The Magic Flute" by Mozart), Sierva María ("Of Love and Other Demons" by P. Eötvös), Violetta Valéry ("La Traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi), Lviv National Opera, Open Opera Ukraine, etc.

Tetiana is a participant of numerous music festivals, including LvivMozArt, Macerata Opera Festival (Italy), Pažaislis Music Festival (Lithuania), Hungarian Festival in Budapest, Oper im Berg Festival in Salzburg (Austria), OperaFest Tulchin, etc.

Tetiana Homon was born in 1978 in Bila Tserkva. In 2003 she graduated from the Piano Faculty of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, in 2008 she completed an assistant-trainee programme at the Chamber Ensemble Department of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music under professor pianist I.S. Tsarevych (a niece and the first keeper of composer B.M. Lyatoshinsky's archive).

Tetiana studies the life and works of Borys Lyatoshinsky. She plays with chamber-instrumental ensembles, performing, in particular, the chamber works of Borys Lyatoshinsky.

In 2017 T. Homon got a PhD. Her dissertation is entitled "The early period in Borys Lyatoshinsky's career: a scientific reconstruction based on the materials of the unknown and little known sources of the 1910s".

PhD in Art History, associate professor at R.Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music, a keeper of B. Lyatoshinsky Study-Museum.

Susanna Chakhoian, Ukrainian lirico-coloratura soprano with Armenian roots through her father, was born in Bila Zerkva and grew up in Odessa.

She started her musical education at the age of five, studying piano at the famous Stoliarsky School. After finishing school, she enrolled at the piano department of the Odessa State Musical Academy, where she studied with the highly esteemed Professor Ludmila Ginzburg. The young pianist was offered post-graduate education scholarships in Western Europe, she decided, however, to enter a singing career.

Susanna started to study singing with the legendary opera singer Eugenia Miroshnichenko at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kiev.

Still being a student, the young singer was invited for Juliette's role in a new production of Gounod's "Romeo and Juliette" at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kiev. Since then she has belonged to the ensemble as a preeminent soloist. In 2009 President Viktor Yushchenko awarded her the title "Honored Artist of Ukraine".

Participating in several international singing competitions, she won prizes in Budapest, 2002 (Second Prize), at Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna, 2004 (Audience Prize and Special Prize for the best stage personality), in Alcamo, Sicilia, 2008 (Second Prize and Best Verdi interpretation).

She has performed at all opera houses of Ukraine, in Tatarstanopera, Kazan, and has been on numerous opera tours to, among others, France, the Netherlands, and Italy. Her operatic repertoire comprises besides Juliette, just to name a few, Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia Di Lammermoor, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Oscar in Verdi's UnBallo in Maschera, Leila in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Pamina in Mozart's Zauberflöte, Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème and Serpina in Pergolesi's La Serva-Padrona.

Besides opera, Susanna Chakhoian devotes an important part of her activity to giving solo recitals and performing chamber repertoire as well as Ukrainian folk music. Last season she gave series of concerts with authentic Ukrainian music in cooperation with the National Bandura Capella of Ukraine. She is a regular guest at the National Philharmonic. In concert the artist appeared in K. Orff's Carmina Burana, Britten's Les Illuminations, Mahler's 8th Symphony, Haydn's Die Schӧpfung, Vier Letzte Lieder by R. Strauss, to name a few.

In 2008 Susanna Chakhoian initiated the idea of creating "Vienna Soirées", an international cultural cooperation program between Austria and Ukraine, developing the art concept of the project. The initiative continues today in Vienna in a format of regular chamber concerts with top Austrian singers Clemens Unterreiner, Mehrzad Montazeri, Sebastian Reinthaller.

Over the years she has established herself as a guest star in numerous radio and TV productions. Beyond singing the artist is passing on her professional experience to students of Kyiv Music Academy named after R. Gliere.

The National Ensemble of Soloists "Kyivska Kamerata" is a leading performer of chamber music of various styles and genres within the scope of Ukrainian musical culture. The artistic repertoire of the ensemble is extremely diversified – from the Early Baroque music to the latest works by the XXI century composers. Still, the major sphere of the ensemble's artistic activities from the moment of its foundation till nowadays has been performance and promotion of music written by Ukrainian composers as well as representation of their work abroad.

"Kyivska Kamerata" commenced its activity on conditions of a single-show company in 1977, it was founded by Valerii Oleksandrovych Matiukhin, a famous pianist, a soloist of the Kyiv Philarmonic. The ensemble has immediately established a reputation as a performer of a serious Ukrainian contemporary repertoire, since the main objective of "Kamerata's" foundation was an attempt to join actively in the process of Ukrainian music creation and provide the contemporary Ukrainian composers with an opportunity to hear live performances of their own works and the pieces written by their colleagues.

For a lasting period of time the ensemble has been a specific artistic laboratory of the Union of Composers of Ukraine, due to which a great number of chamber pieces by Ukrainian authors – Yevhen Stankovych, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Ivan Karabyts, Oleh Kiva, Yurii Ishchenko, Yaroslav Vereshchahin, Volodymyr Zubytskyi, Ihor Shcherbakov, Iryna Kyrylina, Volodymyr Zahortsev and a lot of others – have been performed. For the period of its existence the ensemble has walked a torturous part of artistic development. Its artistic destiny has been formed under a continuous organizational support provided by its unchanging director, chief conductor, the People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize – Valerii Matiukhin, with the participation of famous Ukrainian composers, People's Artists of Ukraine – Yevhen Stankovych, Myroslav Skoryk, Ivan Karabyts – who led the ensemble at different times.

"Kyivska Kamerata" is a union of highly professional musicians. Each one of them is a luminous artist and a top-level performer. The professional level of orchestra's members allows each of them to be a soloist, due to which "Kyivska Kamerata" is rightfully considered "the ensemble of soloists". A lot of performers are laureates and award winners of the international and national competitions, including laureates of the international competitions Bohdana Stelmashenko (flute), Vitalii Alfavytskyi (clarinet), laureates of the L. Revutsky Prize Bohdan Halasiuk (oboe), Zoltan Almashi (cello), the Honored Artist of Ukraine Oles Yasko (violin), Oleh Seredynskyi (violin), Lolita Khomlichenko (cello), Liubov Mosiichuk (cello), Dmytro Tavanets (piano).

A distinctive feature of the ensemble is its exceptional mobility in performing. The members of the orchestra perform within versatile musical formats – from the duo of soloists to a small symphony orchestra. Exactly this accounts for the huge and manifold repertoire of "Kyivska Kamerata" offering the works of A.Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, etc., composers of the XIX century – L. Spohr, F. Schubert, R. Wagner, E. Grieg, M. Glinka, P. Chaikovsky and others... it plays the music of M. Ravel, A. Schoenberg, I. Stravinsky, A. Honegger, G. Crumb, R. Shchedrin, Е.Denisov...

Owing to the high level of performance the ensemble has gained prestige in the professional musical circles not only in Ukraine, but also abroad – in Germany, Austria, France, the USA, the PRC, Poland, Greece, Russia, the Baltic states, Armenia, Georgia. The active concert programme of the National Ensemble of Soloists "Kyivska Kamerata", their constant participation in the international and national competitions-festivals confirm a high rating of the ensemble, its image of a subtle interpreter and an unsurpassed performer of chamber music of various styles and genres.

Myroslava Kotorovych was born in Kyiv in the family of a famous violinist Bohodar Kotorovych and a harpist Nataliia Kmet. She finished M. Lysenko Kyiv Specialized Secondary Music Boarding School (classes of Petro Bondas, Yaroslava Rivniak), and graduated from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (post-graduate course and research assistantship in the class of Bohodar Kotorovych). Myroslava Kotorovych has collaborated with Gidon Kremer's "Kremerata Baltica" Chamber Orchestra for many years.

M. Kotorovych performs with the National Ensemble of Soloists "Kyivska kamerata", the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, The National Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine and other leading collectives. Together with the company CFC Consulting she initiated the Ukrainian Culture Days in Singapore first in the history of Ukraine (2006), within the framework of which she performed solo with the National Chamber Ensemble "Kyiv Soloists" in Singapore Esplanade Concert Hall, one of the best concert halls in the world. She was an assistant art-director (2004-2011) and a soloist (2001-2016) of the National Chamber Ensemble "Kyiv Soloists", director of the Kyiv Fantastic Chamber Orchestra (2017-2018).Myroslava Kotorovych is a laureate of the "Glodosy Treasure" Art Prize (2011). She is an Honored Artist of Ukraine, Associate Professor of the Violin Department of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, Chairman of the jury of the B.A. Kotorovych All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Violinists (Luhansk, 2010, 2012), member of the jury of the international competitions, including: Yevhen Stankovych Instrumental Competition (Kyiv); Tibor Varga Junior Competition (Sion, Switzerland). M. Kotorovych is the organizer and a member of the jury of the I Kotorovych All-Ukrainian Competition of Violinists (Kyiv). In 2013, trying to share her own performing experience, Myroslava united young talented musicians into the Art Workshop – the ARTEHATTA Chamber Ensemble. She is the soloist and producer of the audio projects: "Sotvorinnia" (The Creation) (2006), "Kyiv Soloists Performing: From the Romantic Times" (2008), an audio disc of classical music for children "Ferdinand. From the Family Treasury of the Kotorovychs" (2011), "Tango Story" (2015), "Pyotr Chaikovsky. The Seasons" (2016). Myroslava Kotorovych is a participant and a curator of the parallel programme of the ODESSA CLASSICS International Festival of Classical Music. She has performed on the stages of the Odesa and Berlin Philarmonics, the National Opera of Ukraine, Yehudi Menuhin Forum (Bern, Switzerland) in a duo with Oleksii Botvinov.Myroslava Kotorovych's continuous and fruitful collaboration with Dim Master Klass has presented the listeners of the capital with unique, exquisite chamber projects, such as "Tatova lavanda" (Dad's Lavender), "Volna vo sled volne" (Wave After Wave), "Nesvidomyi minimalism" (Unconscious Minimalism).

The choir was founded in 1990. The participants of the choir are professional singers who have graduated from Ukrainian musical academies and universities. The director of the choir, Mykola Hobdych, is an alumnus of the Kyiv Conservatory. Programmes of the choir are comprised of the national and foreign music of the Mediaeval and Baroque periods, Classicism, Romanticism and Contemporary music.

The Kyiv Chamber Choir has given over a thousand and a half concerts on the stages of 21 countries of the world:

The USA, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine.

The choir has performed in Carnegie Hall (New York), Washington National Cathedral, Concert Hall of George Mason University (Washington); Roy Thompson Hall and George Weston Recital Hall (Toronto); ВВС Concert Hall (London); in Notre-Dame and other cathedrals in the cities of France (Paris, Rouen, Reims, Amiens, Strasbourg, Chartres, Nancy, Le Havre, Lille, Dieppe, Metz); The Church of the Holy Cross (Warsaw); The Philharmonic Societies of Utrecht, Rotterdam, Amsterdam (Сoncertgebouw), Berlin, Minsk, Moscow (Chaikovsky Concert Hall), Kyiv; Berliner Dom; Tivoli Concert Hall, Marmorkirke and Domkirke (Copenhagen); Oscars Church (Stockholm); opera theatres of Minsk and Kyiv.

Reviews of The Kyiv Chamber Choir performances were published in "The New York Times", "The Washington Post", "The Glasgow News", "Normandie", "Der Tages Spiegel Berlin", "Műnchener Merkur", "Copenhagen Post" (Denmark), "Holos Ukrainy" (The Voice of Ukraine), etc.

The choir has released 50 CDs with recordings of national and foreign music, the majority of which was recorded for the first time.

The Kyiv Chamber Choir Library was created on the basis of the choir, with a collection of sheet music – national choral music scores from the Mediaeval period till modern times. The library catalogue numbers over two hundred titles, including twelve full collections of works by Ukrainian composers, published for the first time.

"AVE" Сhamber Choir is a universal vocal and choral sphere, capable of taking in all possible forms of choral singing: female, male, mixed vocal ensembles, choirs. Oksana Nikitiuk is an artistic and ideological leader of the choir, its conductor, soloist and ensemble member.

"AVE" is an alternative to a classical choir. In it each singer is an individual performer, open to the search of new vocal techniques and methods of phonation. Members of the choir are professional conductors-chorus masters and singers, alumni of the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy of Ukraine, laureates of the international competitions.Conductor of the "AVE" Choir embodies an alternative idea of a universal conductor, whose performance goes beyond the academic forms of choral conducting. The objective of the "AVE" Chamber Choir is performing the pieces composed by Ukrainian and European composers of the ХХ – ХХІ centuries.

Oksana Nikitiuk:"The artistic idea of the choir is finding and hearing not only intricate compositional structures, but also the Heart of the composer in the contemporary choral music."

In 2013 Myroslava Kotorovych made her long-term dream come true and united young talented performers into a modern musical group. Myroslava Kotorovych has transformed the experience of professional communication with her father, a famous Ukrainian violinist Bohodar Kotorovych, a collaboration of many years with Gidon Kremer, one of the best violinists in the world, and his Chamber Orchestra "Kremerata Baltica", her own pedagogical ideas and principles into a project of the ARTEHATTA Art Workshop, which is unusual for Ukraine. The ARTEHATTA Chamber Ensemble has become a brilliant, well-integrated community of young performers, embodying the best practices and traditions of the European chamber performing.

The Art Workshop's projects give the listeners an opportunity to immerse in the world of music – well- or not so well-known, classical or avant-garde one. Still, distinctive features of the ensemble – an original artistic outlook and musical programmes, arranged in a unique way – always remain unchanged. The début performance of the ensemble took place at the iconic contemporary art festival "GOGOLFEST".Since then the collective has led an active concert life. The musicians have already presented over 30 original projects on the stages of many Ukrainian cities and abroad, during the concert tours in Italy, the Czech Republic, Lithuania and Estonia. In 2015 the ensemble released a CD "TANGO STORY" with recordings of the works of Ástor Piazzolla, S. Barberі and R. Galliano (soloist – Ihor Saienko); made a studio recording of the series "The Seasons" by P. Chaikovsky, a suite "Peer Gynt" by E. Grieg for the Ukrainian Radio; created a TV version of the concert programme "Cinema: Sound Pictures" for the "Kultura" TV channel. A première of the programme "Vokaliz v instrumentalnomu merezhyvi" (Vocalization in the Instrumental Embroidery) (in collaboration with Susanna Chakhoian, the Honoured Artist of Ukraine) took place in 2015 in the Kyiv and Lviv Philarmonics.

Композитор, піаніст, педагог, громадський діяч. Член Національної спілки композиторів України (з 1994). Секретар правління Національної Спілки композиторів України (з 2005).

Лауреат Премії ім. Л.М.Ревуцького (1999), Лауреат Премії ім. М.В.Лисенка (2011), Лауреат Всеукраїнського конкурсу імені С.С.Прокоф'єва (Донецьк, 1991); володар Гран-Прі V Благодійного фестивалю "Regina-Vladimir Horowitz in Memoriam" (фортепіано та камерна музика, Київ, 1998). Нагороджений "Почесною відзнакою" Київського міського голови "За вагомий особистий внесок у розвитку культури і мистецтва" (травень, 2002). Архієрейською грамотою "В благословіння за труди во славу Святої Православної Церкви" архієпіскопа Артемія, Гродненського і Волковиського (Гродненська єпархія Білоруського екзархату – лютий, 2014).

З 2000 року декан факультету музичного мистецтва, а з 2003 – директор Центру фестивалів та конкурсів Київської дитячої Академії мистецтв, з 2005 викладач-методист з основ композиції та імпровізації. З 1999 – викладач кафедри композиції Національної музичної академії України ім. П.І.Чайковського.

Учасник фестивалів "Київ Музик Фест", "Музичні прем`єри сезону", "Осінній джазовий марафон", „Київ-Травень-Джаз", міжнародних форумів музики молодих (Київ), Міжнародного Раба-фестивалю (м. Сонь, Угорщина), ХХІ Міжнародного фестивалю у м. Анкара (Туреччина), 2004 р., Міжнародного фестивалю електроакустичної музики "Musica Electronica Nova" (м. Вроцлав, Польща).

Твори композитора звучали в концертних залах Польщі, Росії, Туреччини, Угорщини, Німеччини, Франції, Ізраїлю, США, Канади та постійно виконуються в Україні. Як виконавець виступає з сольною програмою власних творів та імпровізацій в Україні і за кордоном.

У 1996 році створив джазовий колектив "МузКлуб І.Тараненка", з яким концертує як композитор і піаніст. Виступав з відомими виконавцями (Н.Матвієнко, Р.Гриньків, Е.Ізмайлов (та його тріо), С.Хмєльов, К.Шифрін (США), М.Кочетов, С.Охрімчук, В.Копоть, О.Герман, Ю.Василевич, Назар Вачевський та з оркестрами: Національний камерний ансамбль "Київські солісти", Національний ансамбль солістів "Київська камерата", Національного академічного оркестру народних інструментів, Академічного оркестру народної та популярної музики НРКУ.

Є засновником щорічного Міжнародного фестивалю академічної та сучасної музики "Фарботони" у м. Каневі (від 1998 р.). З квітня 1999 року – музичний директор Міжнародного фестивалю академічної та сучасної музики "Фарботони", президент Фонду МФАСМ "Фарботони", з червня 2003 р. – генеральний директор Міжнародного фестивалю-конкурсу академічної та сучасної музики "Фарботони". Також є співзасновником, художнім керівником та головним режисером щорічного Шевченківського мистецького фестивалю хорового співу "Чернеча гора" у м. Каневі (від 2012 р.).

Viktor Rekalo started play cello in the age of 7 at the Kharkiv Specialized Music School in class of Larysa Nikulina, than was studied at the Kharkiv National University of Arts in class of prof. Olena Shelkanovtseva.

Multiple laureate and diploma winner of different cello competitions.

The most interesting is the Special Prize for the best interpretation of the modern composer's work at the2nd F.Dotzauer International Competition (Dresden, Germany) when Viktor was 15.

Viktor is The Scolarship Holder of International Association of Wagner Societies for his own transcriptions of the works by Richard Wagner for cello and piano

In 2015 held the Scholarship of the Ministry of culture of Poland «Gaude Polonia» and worked with his own music project in ic (Katowice, Poland).

In 2007-2012 Viktor was successfully leads the cello class of the Kharkiv Specialized Music School. Also since 2018 he became the invited professor of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine.

Since 2017 he is the cellist of the "Kyiv Soloists" chamber orchestra.

Also he participates in the project "Open Opera" (Kyiv) as a performer on baroque cello.

Viktor Rekalo is the premier performer of many works by 20th and 21st centuries composers. He has recorded several albums including the first CD-recording in the world of "Ukrainian Quintet" by famous ukrainian composer B. Lyatoshynsky.

Австрійський композитор і митець, який досліджує теми трансформації звуків та їхньої граничності й зосереджується на внутрішньому поєднанні та взаємодії звуків у контексті особливостей їхнього сприйняття. Штефан веде електроакустичний діалог з різними інструментами, сутностями та силами по інший бік природи та культури. Він досліджує втілене у звуці розуміння надприродного й розповідає у своїх творах про час, матерію, пам'ять і перетворення.

Розуміння музики як звукової мови, що нею розмовляють речі, мови, яка пов'язує фізичну сутність і внутрішній план буття, покладено в основу його дослідження маргінального та уявного в пізнанні істот/неістот, матеріального/духовного.

Фраунбергер отримав ступінь у галузі електроакустичної музики й диплом з арабської мови, сходознавства та європейської філософії у Віденському університеті. Одним із основних робочих музичних інструментів для Штефана є цимбали, популярні у його рідних Альпах, а також у Східній Європі та Центральній Азії – і цей факт відображає варіювання сфери його інтересів між традиціями та сучасністю. Засобами музики він засвідчує реальність, яка нас оточує, і, ніби відсторонюється від неї в процесі такого пізнання.

Штефан постійно проживає у Відні, але він також жив і працював у Алеппо, Сані, Тегерані, Сібіу, Варанасі, Брюсселі та інших місцях, де займався соціальною роботою, музичними проєктами, проводив дослідження і навчався. Штефан вивчив декілька мов і діалектів. Починаючи з 2008 р., він здійснював акустичне дослідження у віддалених церквах-фортецях Центральної Трансильванії, реалізуючи довгостроковий проєкт "Quellgeister", присвячений впливу неантропогенних факторів на звучання наземних органів. Третя LP платівка з проєкту Quellgeister вийшла у 2019 р. на студії Morphine Records.

Фраунбергер часто грає на цимбалах наживо, створює інсталяції та композиційні концепції для різних матеріалів, інструментів і середовищ, пише музику для різних фільмів, радіоп'эс та вистав.

У 2017 р. він брав участь у платформі інноваційної музики та аудіовізуального мистецтва в Європі "SHAPE", його твори були представлені на таких фестивалях, як Donaufestival, Кремс / CTM Festival, Берлін / Musikprotokoll, Ґрац / Outernational Days, Бухарест / Irtijal Festival, Бейрут / UH-Fest, Будапешт / Radical Tehran, Тегеран / Les Brigittines, Брюссель / Imago Dei.

Це формація молодих українських митців, мета якої - пошук нових шляхів розвитку музичного театру. Основною діяльністю колектива є створення нових синтетичних жанрів (опера-реквієм, опера-цирк, сонОпера, опера-балет) та експерименти з нетиповими музичними та сценічними рішеннями. Формація була заснована режисером Владом Троїцьким у 2014 році.

Музична мова вистав не має естетичних обмежень, вільно поєднуючи авангард та рок, григоріанський хорал та тріп-хоп, необарокко та фольклорні імпровізації. Вокально-існтрументальний ансамбль Нової Опери досліджує можливості людського голосу (від класичного та джазового вокалу до хрипу, крику та шепоту) та приміняє неакадемічні засоби гри на музичних і немузичних існтрументах, як наприклад препарований рояль, розлаштовано фортепіано, біт-бокс, боді-перкусія та ін.

Використання сучасних досягнень в області театрального мистецтва, статуарна драматургія, фізичний театр мікшуються із сучасними технологіями - віджеїнгом та live-електронікою. В репертуарі колективу трилогія за біблійними текстами (режисер: Влад Троїцький, музика: Роман Григорів, Ілля Разумейко): опера-реквієм "IYOV" за книгою Йова, опера-цирк "BABYLON" за участі акторів цирку та лялькарів, опера-балет "ARK", а також колабораційні проекти: сонОпера "непрОсті" за романом Тараса Прохаська, треп-опера "Wozzeck" за текстами Юрка Іздрика, жах-опера "Hamlet" (у перекладі Юрія Андруховича). 2018 року Nova Opera взяла участь у відкритті Французької весни спільно з Національним президентським оркестром, Dakh Daughters. Музику до шоу "AIR" написав французький композитор П'єр Тійуа. Оперою "AEROPHONIA" колектив відкрив фестиваль Porto Franko 2018.

Особливіcтю твору стало використання літака у якості музичного інструмента. Упродовж останніх сезонів перформанси формації неодноразово побачили в Австрії, Данії, Польщі, Македонії, Нідерландах, США і не лише. Першою виставою формації Nova Opera стала імпровізаційна опера "Коріолан" за Шекспіром, створена на фестивалі ГогольФест 2014 року.

New Era Orchestra was created in 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine by Tatiana Kalinichenko, who has been a co-founder, an Artistic director and a conductor of the orchestra ever since.

Bringing together talented Ukrainian musicians of a New Generation, Tatiana Kalinichenko has gathered the real stars, capable of feeling and delivering finesse of their unique style and manner of performance.

New Era Orchestra has worked with the world's most renowned soloists including Joshua Bell (violin, USA), Sarah Chang (violin, USA), Kit Armstrong (piano, USA), Avi Avital (mandolin, Israel-Germany), Christoph Sietzen (percussia, Austria), Andrej Bielow (violin, Ukraine-Germany), Dino Saluzzi (bandoneon, Argentine), Danjulo Ishizaka (cello, Germany), etc.

At the same time New Era Orchestra actively promotes the extraordinary Ukrainian Soloists of New Generation – Kirill Sharapov (violin), Andrii Pavlov (violin), Artem Poludennyi (cello), Susanna Karpenko (folk singer).

New Era Orchestra reveals to Ukrainian audience the names of the composers who have become benchmarks for the world music stage. New Era Orchestra was the first in Ukraine to perform the music of such composers as: John Adams (USA), Philip Glass (USA), Michael Nyman, John Tavener, Max Richter (Great Britain), Avner Dorman (Israel), Iannis Xenakis (France), Takashi Yoshimatsu (Japan), Arturs Maskats (Latvia), etc.

Besides, the orchestra has premiered pieces by Giya Kancheli (Georgia-Belgium), Joaquin Rodrigo (Spain), Yasushi Akutagawa (Japan), Giovanni Sollima (Italy), Vitold Lutoslawsky and Krzysztof Penderecki (Poland), Dobrinka Tabakova (Bulgaria), Peter Breiner (Slovakia) and others.

New Era Orchestra were first to perform at Switzerland's internationally acclaimed festival "September Musical" in 2018, a breakthrough achieved by Ukrainian musicians for the first time for 73 years of the festival's existence.

As a logical continuation of New Era Orchestra's international collaboration the Musical Bridges project has appeared in 2019 under support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, the Austrian Embassy in Ukraine, the Austrian Cultural Forum in Kyiv and "Believe in Yourself Foundation. The "Musical Bridges" project is working on creating prosperous connections between talented Ukrainian and foreign musicians to make Ukraine a part of the global musical space.

In 2019 on the Kyiv Bouquet Stage Festival at the territory of ancient St. Sophia Cathedral of Kyiv was premiered a unique mature project "Ukrainian Seasons" created by Tatiana Kalinichenko at the junction of both classical and Ukrainian folk music.

Their music inspires, breaks down boundaries and stereotypes, expands horizons and awakes vibes of crazy energy for life and creativity.

He has been celebrated as the "the Paganini of the recorder" by music critics and been succinctly described as "the world's leading recorder virtuoso" (the Independent) – today Maurice Steger is one of the most fascinating recorder players, conductors and musical professors working in the sphere of Early music. In these different capacities, he thrills audiences around the world with a variety of concert formats.

Maurice Steger is an incredibly charismatic musician: spontaneous, captivating and full of energy. With his vibrant manner, intense and full instrumental sound and amazing technique, this "recorder wizard" has managed to bring to prominence the recorder as an instrument in all its fascinating forms. The 2015 ECHO Classic Award which he received as "Instrumentalist of the Year" is testimony to his success.

In his concerts, Maurice Steger takes listeners on a spellbinding musical journey, with every piece of music offering something to discover. As a soloist, conductor or both at once, he regularly performs with the top period instrument ensembles, such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, the Venice Baroque Orchestra, the English Concert, La Cetra, the Lautten Compagney and I Barocchisti. He also performs with leading modern orchestras such as the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt, the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Berlin Baroque Soloists (Berlin Philharmonic), the Canadian Violons du Roy, the Chamber Orchestra Basel or the NDR Radiophilharmonie.

Chamber music plays a notable role in the richly varied spectrum of Maurice Steger's artistic endeavours. With fellow musicians and friends such as Hille Perl, Marco Postinghel, Xenia Löffler, Daniele Caminiti, Naoki Kitaya, Mauro Valli, Sebastian Wienand and Fiorenza de Donatis, he dedicates himself to a continuously updated repertoire of Early music. He also performs with artist colleagues such as Cecilia Bartoli, Andreas Scholl, Pablo Heras-Casado, Laurence Cummings, Nuria Rial, Bernard Labadie, Sandrine Piau, Diego Fasolis and Sol Gabetta. Along with early music, Maurice Steger also engages with new concert formats and contemporary compositions.

Tours of Asia and Australia have led to performances with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra, the Taipei Symphony among others. He was the first recorder player from the West to perform with the Traditional Taipei Chinese Orchestra. He also regularly performs in North and South America.

His commitment to musical education is also extremely important to him: in order to encourage young children to playfully engage with classical music, he invented the character of "Tino Flautino", and has performed hundreds of children's concerts in this role. For his latest musical fairytale, he invented "Pinocchio and the recorder player". Maurice Steger also gives various master classes each year, and in 2013 took over the directorship of the Gstaad Baroque Academy at the Menuhin Festival Gstaad.

'Mr. Corelli in London', 'Una Follia di Napoli', 'Vivaldi: Concerti per flauto' and 'Telemann: Recorder Works' with The English Concert, I Barocchisti and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin: numerous award-winning CD recordings published by harmonia mundi, most of them with highly imaginative thematic concepts, are a long-standing testament to the unique prominence achieved by this artist.

The current music project "Souvenirs d'Italie" with exciting new discoveries from the Naples of the early 18th century has already won many of the most important international record awards.

KMQuartet was founded by the like-minded musicians, sharing love to chamber music – Olha Sheleshkova (violin), Pavlo Khmara (violin), Andrii Makii (viola) and Serhii Kazakov (cello). Each of them has an extensive experience of chamber performances including work with such famous musicians as Gérard Caussé, Мarcin Sieniawski, Valerii Sokolov. In March 2019 they decided to create their own string quartet. In the same spring the quartet gave a series of concerts in Kyiv (Atrium Hall, House of the Actor), Dnipro (House of the Organ and Chamber Music), Mariupol (the Chamber Philarmonic). These concerts included not only compositions for a string quartet, but also for the ensemble with a clarinet and a piano (Oleh Moroz – clarinet, Kateryna Shamanauri – piano). In addition, a famous violinist Valerii Sokolov was invited to take part in the Kyiv concert. He played String Quartet No. 8 of Shostakovich and String Sextet No. 2 of Brahms with the ensemble.

In the summer the quartet received a series of master classes from Sergei Bresler, a violinist of the legendary Jerusalem Quartet.Since September 2019 KMQuartet has actively collaborated with one of the best pianists of Ukraine – Antonii Baryshevskyi. Compositions of Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Lyatoshinsky were played in joint concerts with him which took place in the period from September till February 2020 in Kyiv and at the festival Mariupol Classic in Mariupol. During an incomplete year of its existence the quartet has demonstrated several concert programmes comprised of the quartets of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Ravel, Shostakovich to the general public.

Створений у грудні 1996 року у Каневі відомим композитором і виконавцем Іваном Тараненком. Склад сесійних музикантів змінюється в залежності від створення різних музичних проектів. Колектив виступав в престижних концертних залах Києва – Колонному залі ім. М.В.Лисенка Національної філармонії України, Українському Домі, Великому залі Національної музичної академії ім..П.Чайковського, МЦКМ "Жовтневий палац", Велика концертна студія Будинку звукозапису, Концертна зала будинку архітектора, Київській дитячій Академії мистецтв, Університету технології та дизайну та брав участь у ряді відомих фестивалів – "Осінній джазовий марафон", "Київ.Травень.Джаз", "Фарботони", "Київ Музик Фест", Київ етно мюзік фест "Віртуози фолку" .

Синтез фольклору, різних стильових зрізів джазової та рок музики, класики та пост авангарду є характерною ознакою усіх авторськіх проектів І. Тараненка з його "МузКлубом". Серед них: "Музика Української Землі" (2000, 2002); "Музика Української Землі…Симфонія відлуння" (2005, 2008). "Музика Української Землі…Пори року – пори життя…" – 2016 рік. Тут, крім втілених елементів вищезазначених напрямків і течій, ще й відбувається поєднання різних по тембровій, а також стилістичній ознаці колективів та виконавців.

У проекті "МузКлубу" – ф'южн-феєрії "Майстер снів" на вірші Валентини Давиденко, роботу над яким було розпочато у 2004 і завершено випуском CD у 2012 році, лідер гурту Іван Тараненко, крім традиційного авторського реноме виступає перш за все у ролі виконавця-вокаліста, хоча до певної міри не відкидає своєї участі і як виконавця-інструменталіста.

Іван Тараненко провадить активну виконавську діяльність, зокрема, виступає з сольною програмою власних творів та імпровізацій.

«Музика Української Землі» - авторська концертна серія сучасного українського композитора Івана Тараненка. Програми всіх проектів циклу складають виключно композиції у ф'южн-стилі. У мікст-стилі джазу, року, електроніки, академічної музики та автентичного фольклору.

Три роки тому, 15 березня 2017 року, відбулась знакова подія, презентація головного концерту серії. Ф'южн-феєрія «У Снах Різдвяних Ночей» – це проект, в якому звучав осучаснений, модернізовано переосмислений Іваном Тараненком букет українського зимового фольклору разом із оригінальною авторською музикою композитора. Подія з успіхом відбулась у Національному будинку органної та камерної музики України

До проекту були залучені різні, полярні за складом та стилістичним спрямуванням колективи: IvanTaranenkoMUSCLUB; камерний ансамбль «Київ-Брасс», фольк-гурт «Многая лєта» (художній керівник Анна Коропниченко) та хор хлопчиків та юнаків школи джазового і естрадного мистецтв «Caritas» (художній керівник Тетяна Веріч), Ансамбль класичної музики ім. Бориса Лятошинського (диригент Ігор Андрієвський).

У концерті брали участь відомі солісти сучасності: Роман Гриньків /бандура/, Оксана Нікітюк /спів/, Богдана Півненко, Мирослава Которович, Сергій Охрімчук /скрипка/, Максим Бережнюк /народні духові, спів/, Назар Стець /контрабас/, Алік Фантаєв /перкусія/, Назар Вачевський /саксофони/, Антон Самутін /труба/, Олекса Кабанов /ліра, цитра, кобза, перкусія/, Олексій Коломоєць /баян/, Наталія Пренделас /спів/, Олена Тараненко /рояль, синтезатор/ та автор музики, ідейний натхненник й продюсер проекту Іван Тараненко /рояль, спів/.

Нещодавно, 4 жовтня 2019 року в рамках ХХХ Міжнародного фестивалю "Київ Музик Фест" відбувся унікальний міжнародний концертний проект «@Experience&». Акустично звучання було реалізовано у квадрофонічній системі. Аудіоколонки були розташовані в чотирьох кутах залу, що дозволяло електронному саунду «мігрувати» в просторі. Тож, в програмі концерту були задіяні: Ґюнтер «Бебі» Зоммер (Німеччина, перкусія), Станіслав Круповіч та Марчин Рупочинський (Польща, комп'ютери), Іван Тараненко (фортепіано + синтезатор), Роман Гриньків (бандура), Олексій Корчагін (етнодухові), Григорій Паршин (саксофони), Антон Самутін (труба), Саїд Сагітов (тромбон), Назар Стець (контрабас).

DUO SONORO: Andrii Pavlov (violin) / Valeriia Shulga (piano)

Duo's concert geography includes Monteleon Сhamber Music Festival in Spain, Zeist Music Days and Grachtenfestival in the Netherlands, Randspiele in Germany, concerts in Italy, Poland, Austria, Great Britain, numerous concerts in Ukraine.

Duo Sonoro is a laureate and winner of special prizes of multiple international competitions, including Plovdiv International Chamber Music Competition (Bulgaria), Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition (Italy), Johannes Brahms International Competition (Austria), Stasys Vainiunas International Chamber Music Competition (Lithuania).

In 2019 the duo took part in one of the most prestigious European Summer Music Academies – ISA of the MDW – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where the musicians perfected their mastery under the renowned professors including Johannes Meissl, Hatto Beyerle, Avedis Kouyomdjian, Marta Gulyas, Peter Schuhmayer.

A Ukrainian pianist, the laureate of L. Revutskyi Prize (1998), "StART" Prize (2003). Contemporary Ukrainian and foreign music is predominant in the pianist's repertoire. Ye. Hromov combines his performances with educating activity – thus, in 2002–2004 he delivered a course of lectures on "XX century Music" (Union of Composers of Ukraine) together with a composer S. Piliutykov. He conducted a performing and analytical master-class entitled "Controlled aleatoric music and the principles of its performance exemplified by Piano Sonata No.3 by Pierre Boulez (France)" on December 7^th, 2005 at P.I. Chaikovsky National Music Academy. On February 27^th – March 3^rd 2006 he conducted a series of creative workshops "Kyiv Avant-garde of the 1960s" (B.M. Liatoshynskyi school) in P.I. Chaikovsky National Music Academy. Yevhen Hromov accomplished over 70 world and Ukrainian premières. He cooperated with many Ukrainian composers. He made compact disc recordings of piano works of R. Wagner, А. Schoenberg, А. Berg, А. Webern, L. Revutskyi, L. Hrabovskyi, V. Hodziatskyi, V. Silvestrov, V. Huba, Ye. Stankovych, P. Solovkin, V. Zahortsev, S. Krutykov, A. Knaifel, P. Boulez (TNC Recording, USA). Since 1993 he has performed at the festivals "Kyiv Music Fest", "Muzychni Premiery Sezonu" (Musical Premières of the Season), "Forum muzyky molodykh" (Youth Music Forum), etc. He gives concerts in Poland, Belarus, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France.

Singer Nazgul Shukaieva is one of the most extraordinary figures on the Ukrainian jazz, academic and underground stage. Nazgul was born in Kazakhstan and she is in love with Ukraine where she has been living for 17 years already.

Nazgul Shukaieva has a rare voice range: from the throat singing to soprano, which allows her to perform authentic folk, jazz and contemporary academic music alike. At present she is the only woman in Ukraine and Kazakhstan who has mastered "kai" – an ancient throat singing technique – combining it with a modern mode of phonation.

Viktoriia Poliova is a Ukrainian composer, member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, and Shevchenko National Prize laureate (2018).

She works in symphonic, choral, and chamber-instrumental genres. The early period of Viktoriia Poliova's creativity is associated with the avant-garde aesthetics and polystylistics (ballet "Gagaku", "The Transform" for symphony orchestra, "The Anthem" for chamber orchestra, "Epiphany" for chamber ensemble, cantatas "Horace's Ode" and "The Gentle Light"). Since the late 1990s, her music has been stylistically linked with the so-called 'sacred minimalism' (Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki, PēterisVasks, and John Tavener). A significant period of Viktoriia Poliova's creativity is associated with the study and embodiment of the liturgical texts in music.

Viktoriia Poliova's works are performed at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn (Germany), the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival (Austria), the Yuri Bashmet International Music Festival in Minsk (Belarus), the Valery Gergiev Moscow Easter Festival (Russia), the festival "The Chamber Music Connects the World" (Kronberg, Germany), the Dresden Music Festival, the Berlin and Cologne Philharmonic Halls (Germany), the Théâtredu Châtelet (Paris, France), the Rudolfinum-Dvořák Hall (Prague, the Czech Republic), the Concert Auditorio Nacional de España (Madrid, Spain), George Weston Recital Hall (Toronto, Canada), Yerba Buena Theater (San Francisco, the USA), Oriental Art Center (Shanghai, China), Seoul Art Center (Korea), Esplanade Concert Hall (Singapore), as well as festivals of contemporary music in Ukraine, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, France, Poland, the UAE, the USA, Peru, and Chile.

In 2010, along with such composers as Giya Kancheli, Valentin Silvestrov, Leonid Desyatnikov, Aleksander Raskatov, Alexander Wustin, Victor Kissine, and Georg Pelecis, Viktoriia Poliova took part in the international project of Gidon Kremer – "The Art of Instrumentation" dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach and Glenn Gould.

In 2011, Viktoriia Poliova became a composer-in-residence of the XXX Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival (Austria) by the invitation of Gidon Kremer.

Viktoriia Poliova is a laureate of the Art Prize "Kyiv" in honour of Artemy Vedel (2013), the International Competition "Spherical Music" (the USA, 2008), Borys Liatoshynskyi Prize (2005), the All-Ukrainian Composers' Competition "Psalms of The Third Millenium" (the 1^st Prize, 2001), and Levko Revutskyi Prize (1995).

Her works have been published by the Swiss publishing house Sordino Ediziuns Musicalas.

Antonii Baryshevskyi was born in Kiev. At the age of seven he began to learn the piano. In 2007 he entered the Tchaikovsky National Academy of Music of Ukraine (class of Valery Kozlov). He is currently undertaking an assistant traineeship at the National Academy of Music of Ukraine and studying at the École Supérieure de Musique in Paris (class of Marian Rybicki).

He has taken part in master-classes given by Alfred Brendel, Daniel Pollack and Lily Dorfman.
At the age of sixteen he was a prize-winner of the All-Ukrainian programme Man of the Year, and one year after that he took part in a youth concert of Radio Europe in Munich.
Since 2012 he has been a soloist with the National Philharmonic of Ukraine.

Prize-winner at numerous international competitions, among them the competition Performer-Composer in St Petersburg (1stprize, 2004), the International Piano Competition in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev (2nd prize, 2005), the International Piano Competition in Jaén (1st prize, 2009), the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition (2nd prize, 2011) and the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv (1st prize, 2014).

Regularly gives recitals and performs with symphony orchestras in Ukraine and internationally.
Has toured to France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Russia, Belarus, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Spain, Germany, Israel and the USA.

Has produced recordings on radio and TV in Ukraine, Serbia, Italy, Denmark and Spain. Featured in a recording of music for a film produced by the Dovzhenko Film Studios. Naxos has released a solo disc by the pianist.

Ihor Zavhorodnii is a violinist, violist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist.

Being a participant of the Collegium Quartet, he studied at the Netherlands String Quartet Academy (Amsterdam). His teachers were Marc Danel, Stefan Metz, and Peter Cropper.

As a soloist and cameralist, Ihor toured in Austria, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Germany, the Netherlands,
Poland, Switzerland, and Portugal.

Besides, he performed along with the National Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Kyiv Chamber Orchestra, Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, National Chamber Ensemble KYIV SOLOISTS, Academic Symphony Orchestra of Lviv Philharmonic, Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra, New Era Orchestra, National Ensemble of Soloists Kyiv Camerata, Academic Chamber Orchestra Lviv Virtuosos, and Kharkiv Philharmonic Orchestra together with such conductors as Volodymyr Sirenko, Myroslav Skoryk, Winston Dan Vogel (the USA), Dieter Wagner (Switzerland), Rimma Sushanska (England), Roman Rewakowicz (Poland), and others.

Moreover, Ihor Zavhorodnii is a performer of numerous premieres by Ukrainian composers.

A. Kiritchenko has been musically active since 1991, as a member of a rock group. In 1998 he started working with the electronic music. In 2000 Andrey founded Nexsound Records as a platform for promoting experimental music from Ukraine to the global musical stage. In 2002 he was named "The Best Ambient Music Performer" by the internet resource "Das Musik" in Germany.

Up to the present time, Andrey has released over 50 albums, signed with his pseudonyms, on such labels as Staalplaat / the Netherlands, Ad Noiseam / Germany, Zeromoon / the USA, Spekk / Japan, Nexsound / Ukraine. A. Kiritchenko has collaborated with Francisco Lopez, Kim Cascone, Jeff Surak, Martin Brandmayr (Radian), Jason Kahn and others. He has performed live at the festivals Club Transmediale / Germany, Ultrahang / Hungary, Unsound / Poland, RX: TX / Slovenia, RIXC / Latvia, Resistance / Slovakia, and at multiple others. In 2006 the French Qwartz Electronic Music Awards nominated him in two categories: "Discovery" and "Promising Artist", and Andrey won the prize in the "Discovery" category. Andrey's music has been used in documentary and feature films made in France, Germany, Ukraine and Argentina. In 2006-2007 he was the curator of the "Detali Zvuku" festival. In 2007 he took part in the Ukrainian exposition at the 52^nd Venice Biennale. Since 2013 he has been the director of the Next Sound Festival of progressive music and media art in Kyiv.

LAURA MARTI performs at the intersection of styles: jazz, pop, rock, ethno, electronic music. Her love for Brazilian and jazz music, her Armenian roots and Ukrainian heart form a "delicious" mix when she performs her own music. The singer has an original subtle style and an expressive smooth timbre which is easily recognizable.

ELLE Ukraine magazine called LAURA MARTI "The Best Singer of 2017". In 2018 LAURA MARTI was honoured to perform on the central stage of Leopolis Jazz Fest with a Swedish jazz star Lars Danielsson.

LAURA MARTI collaborates with famous jazz musicians: Misha Tsiganov, Hans Peter Salentin, Vadim Neselovskyi, Michael Borstlap and others. In 2018 she created an original capsule collection "JAZZ FACES – '18" together with the OSTEL brand.

LAURA MARTI participates in many projects: - Igor Zakus' jazz Kolo author's project, - Alexei Kogan's Jazz Stories and Jazz in Kiev Band, - a joint project with an Austrian composer, jazz saxophonist, originally from Ukraine, Anton Pivovarov. Lemko Suite.

LAURA MARTI participates in numerous jazz festivals such as: Lotos Jazz Festival Bielska Zadymka Jazzowa, Alfa Jazz Fest, Jazz-Bez (Poland-Ukraine), Jazz Koktebel, Za-Jazz Fest, Art-Jazz Cooperation, Che-Jazz Open, Mek Azg , Mek Mshakujt (Armenia) and others.

She has toured and participated in concerts with famous musicians such as: Michael Borstlap, Hans Peter Salentin, Vadim Neselovsky, Alexei Kogan, Igor Zakus, Natalia Lebedeva.

Bogdana Pivnenko is the Honoured Artist of Ukraine, winner of international competitions, and laureate of the national programme "New Names of Ukraine".

She is the soloist of the Kyiv Camerata National Ensemble. Besides, Bohdana is a participant in numerous international festivals: Berliner Festspiele/ MaerzMusik, Europäische Klassikfestival in Ruhr (Germany), International Youth Music Festival Vienna (Grand Prix, Austria), the Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music (Poland), "Nostalgie" in Krakow (Poland), Days of Ukrainian Culture (Paris, Vienna, Moscow, Berlin, etc.).

Moreover, Bohdana has given many concerts in Spain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Japan, China, and the USA. She has repeatedly participated in the premiere performances of the contemporary Ukrainian composers' works.

She is also the author and producer of such projects as "The Anthology of Contemporary Ukrainian Music" (8 CD albums) and "The Return of the Names". As a soloist she performs with the leading chamber and symphony orchestras of Ukraine, being a participant in projects of the international orchestra "The Philharmonic of Nations".

From 2000 to 2008, Bogdana Pivnenko was a teacher at P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine.

Anna Khmara is a leading concertmaster of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music.

• 1992 – 1998 – Lysenko Kyiv Special Boarding Music School, professor I. Lipatova
• 1998 – 2003 – Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, professors І. Lipatova and І. Pavlova
• 2003 – 2006 – research assistantship, professor L. Tsvirko

Laureate of international competitions:

• 1995 – Gnesin Institute All-Russian Competition of Chamber Ensembles (Novomoskovsk) – IV Prize for the best performance of the XX century music;
• 1996 - International Pierre Lantier Competition (Paris) – Grand Prize;
• 1996 - Concertino Praga – ІІІ Prize;
• 1997 – "Traditions and Modern Times" Saint Petersburg ІІ Prize
• 2000, 2001, 2003 – fellow of the programme "New Names of Ukraine"
• 2015 – F. Chopin Competition (Rome) Diploma
• 2016 – International Piano Competition (Belgrade) – Grand Prize
• 2016 – IBLA GRAND PRIZE Competition (Ragusa) – І Prize
• 2016 – "Academia Tadini" Competition (Lovere) – І Prize
• 2017 – International Music Competition "Pietro Argento" (Gioia del Colle) – ІІ Prize

In addition to solo performing Anna Khmara has devoted a lot of her time to playing in ensembles. Beginning with 1994 she has given a lot of concerts in Ukraine and abroad.

Anna has performed in ensembles together with B. Pivnenko, Marc Danel, O. Piriev, Ye. Sirenko, P. Khmara, Yu. Lukianova, O. Savchenko, O. Zhukova, L. Demberg, M. Tomotaki, A. Ishivatari, D. Udovichenko, P. van der Rest, N. Maksymchuk and a lot of other brilliant musicians.

The concerts have been held on the stages of Ukraine, Poland, the USA, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, and other countries. As a member of "Fiori musicali" piano duo Anna Khmara has taken part in numerous international festivals in Ukraine and abroad.

The pianist's repertory is comprised of music of various styles and epochs, from G. Ph. Telemann and J. S. Bach to contemporary composers – Ye. Stankovych, A. Pärt and others.

Sed Contra Ensemble was founded in 2013 at the initiative of composers Serhii Vilka, Vitaliy Kyianytsia and Andrii Merkhel. The ensemble performs chamber music of the period from the beginning of the ХХ century till nowadays, and presents series of concerts of music written by young composers, projects of new improvisational and electroacoustic music. In the years of its existence the ensemble has presented a number of original projects and performed the premières of the works of many foreign and Ukrainian composers. The ensemble takes part in the leading festivals of Ukraine and Poland, including GOGOLFEST, Kyiv Music Fest, "Contrasts", Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, "Two Days and Two Nights of New Music", International Music of Youth Forum, Lviv Hindemith Fest, "Kyiv Musical Premieres", "Porto Franko", FreeFest, "Poznańska Wiosna Muzyczna", "Ukraińska Wiosna", international projects "Envision Sound", "EM-VISIA", "The interaction of dance and music", etc. Since 2015 Sed Contra Ensemble has collaborated with the New Drama Theatre on Pechersk in Kyiv, and is a co-founder of the Music and Theatre Laboratory "Sound. Voice. Silence". In the recent years the ensemble has focused on such events as lectures-concerts, monographic events, musical and theatrical performances, multidisciplinary collaborative projects with various artistic collectives. The art-director of the ensemble is Andrii Merkhel.

Тарас Галаневич aka Galatar - один із засновників проекту OY Sound System, працює у жанрі cinematic dance music та активно гастролює Україною та за кордоном - "Атлас вікенд" (Україна), "Джаз Коктебель" (Україна), "Гогольфест" (Україна), "Vschod Kultury"(Люблін, Польща), "Enea Spring Brake"(Познань, Польща), "Wianki" (Краків, Польща), "WesterPop 2019" (Роттердам, Делфт, Нідерланди)... Це далеко не повна географія музичних ідей Galatar.

Наталія Половинка - українська співачка, актриса театру і кіно, режисер, педагог.

Лауреат Національної премії ім.Т.Шевченка, Заслужена артистка України.
Засобами театру та музики творить унікальну художню територію проявлення пісні як категорії життя, духовної категорії.
Закінчила Вінницьке музичне училище ім. М. Леонтовича та Львівську національну музичну академію ім. М. Лисенка по класу фортепіано у професора Марії Тарнавецької;
Навчалась театру у видатного театрального режисера Єжи Гротовського в Центрі Є. Гротовського в Понтедері, Італії; пізніше - в Майстрів театру: Клім (Володимир Клименко), Сергій Ковалевич, Валерій Більченко.

• Представниця українського традиційного співу у всіх його жанрах.
• Виконавиця класичної музики та сучасної української академічної музики: В. Сільвестрова, А. Загайкевич, В. Полєвої, Б. Фроляк та ін.
• Засновниця, художній керівник та актриса Театрального Центру «Слово і голоС» у Львові з 2010 р.
• Автор і лідер Міжнародного театрального фестивалю Традиції ДРЕВО.
• Актриса в Театрі ім. Леся Курбаса (1988-2007), в ГОМО «Майстерня пісні» 2003-2010), у Івано-Франківському Найіональному драм.театрі
• Автор численних музично-театральних проектів
• Автор унікальної методології роботи з голосом актора: майстерні голосу та співу в Колумбійському, Пенсильванському, Єлльському університетах США, Уельському – Великобританія, педагог «Ательє» Міжнародного Інституту Є. Гротовського (Польща).

Головні ролі в кіно:

• "Брати. Остання сповідь", реж. Вікторія Трофіменко, Приз «За кращу головну роль» ММКФЄ;
• х/ф «ТЕРА» реж. Нікон Романченко;
• х/ф «Мати Апостолів», реж. Заза Буадзе;
• д/ф «ІРМОС", «Повернення" реж. Сергій Цимбал.

Співпрацює з Міжнародним Інститутом Є.Гротовського (Польща), Державною чоловічою хоровою капелою хлопчиків та юнаків «Дударик»(Львів), Державною чоловічою хоровою капелою ім. М. Ревуцького (Київ), з музикантами: Богдана Фроляк, Алла Загайкевич, Єжи Єрмінь, Ярослав Мигаль, Клаус Кугель, Петрас Вішняускас, Володимир Сіренко, Теодор Кухар та ін.

CD:

• «Homo Ludens»
• «Ірмос»
• «День перший»
• «Пісні вітру»
• «У неділю рано. Саундтрек до вистави»
• "Пасха красеная"

Лауреат численних міжнародних театральних фестивалів, Лауреат премій СТДУ, іменних премій Міського голови Львова та ЛОДА

Народився у Львові в 1969 році. Закінчив Львівське музичне училище та Львівську національну музичну академію ім. М. Лисенка по класу композицій М. Скорика та по класу фортепіано Н. Грамотєєвої, а також асистентуру-стажування у М. Скорика та Г. Лященка. Учасник і лауреат фестивалів «Контрасти», «Віртуози», «Київмузикфест», «Міжнародний форум музики молодих». Автор трьох «Симфоній», «Сонати для фортепіано», камерно-інструментальних та хорових творів. Виступає як піаніст-імпровізатор в різноманітних стилях від бароко до джазу.

Навчався у ЛССМШІ ім. Крушельницької та Львівській музичній академії ім. Миколи Лисенка по класу флейти.

Провідний флейтист оркестру Львівського театру опери та балету з 1995 понині, орекстру Leopolis (2004-2009), INSO (2001-2003).

Учасник чисельних майстер-класів та фестивалів давньої та сучасної музики, зокрема "Страстями за Йоаном" Й. С. Баха, разом із Musica Antiqua Koln (Ужгород, 2004), Фестивалю давньої музики у Львові (2007, 2017), Бах-фесту (Суми, 2007).

Будучи активним учасником ансамблів Львівського музичного Цеху, пропагує виконання давньої музики на автентичних інструментах, підтримуючи ідею функціонування гільдії музикантів як окремого цеху митців та музикантів.

Виконавець сучасної музики: учасник фестивалів Контрасти, Vox Electronica, Книжковий Арсенал та ін. Останні роки плідно співпрацює з Наталею Половинкою та Театральним центром «Слово і голоС».