Svitlana Anatoliyivna Azarova (January 9, 1976, Izmail, Odesa region) is a Ukrainian, Dutch composer.
Biography.
In 1996, she graduated from the Faculty of Music and Pedagogy of the South Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynskyi, and in 2000 from the Odesa Conservatory, composition class of K. Tsepkolenko. She studied at master courses in the Czech Republic (1996, 1997). In 2006, she graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory (composition class, prof. Theo Luwendy).
Member of the NSCU, GENECO, GEMA.
International festivals and projects
On September 11, 2020, the Warsaw Philharmonic performed Svitlana Azarova's work "Beyond context".
Musica Viva (Munich, Germany 2007)
Spring festival (The Hague, the Netherlands 2007)
Nederlandse Muziekdagen (Utrecht, the Netherlands 2007)
Kyiv Music Fest (Ukraine, 2005, 2006)
Avantgarde Tirol (Tyrol, Austria, 2005)
Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Muzik (Dresden, Germany, 2004)
Forum of Creative Youth (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2002)
International Festival of Contemporary Art "Two Days and Two Nights of New Music" (Odesa, Ukraine, 2001-2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011)
International Forum of Young Composers (Kyiv, Ukraine, 2001, 2003, 2005)
Informal meeting of European composers (Baku, Azerbaijan, 2000; Krakow, Poland, 2001)
On the threshold of the XXI century (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 1999)
Composer's residence: Czech Music Information Center (Prague) and Klangspuren (Austria, 2008)
Composer residency at the Visby International Center for Composers (Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007)
Under the Gulliver project of the Felix Meritis Foundation, she received a grant to attend the Gaudeamus Music Week International Festival and work in the library of the Gaudeamus Foundation Contemporary Music Center (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2005)
She was awarded a KulturKontakt grant to participate in the 9th International Academy for New Composition and Audio Art Avantgarde Tirol (Prof. Bohuslav Shaffer and Dr. Richard Boulanger (Siefeld, Tirol, Austria, 2005).
Participant of the international project "pass_PORT", organized by the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music / DZzM (now the European Center for the Arts) within the framework of the International Festival Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Music (Dresden, Germany, 2003-2007)
Scholarship holder of the Gaude Polonia Program of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, Professor Marcin Blazewicz (Warsaw, Poland, 2003)
Attended master classes conducted by Faraj Karaev and Krzysztof Meyer (Baku, Azerbaijan, 2000)
Participated in international summer master courses with such famous composers as Marek Copeland, Paul Mefano, Jean-Yves Busser, and Sigmunt Krause (Czech Republic, 1996 and 1997)
Works
1999 - "Punished by Love" (Russian: Наказана любовью) - a vocal cycle based on poems by L. Oliynyk;
1999 - Sonata-diptych for clarinet and piano;
1999 - Symphonic poem (for large symphony orchestra);
1999 - Diagram (for 5 cellos);
2000 - "Chronometer" (for piano);
2001 - "And Tomb Slowly..." (for tuba solo);
2002 - "Ice Loneliness" (for 2 cellos);
2002 - "...is there no alternative for you?" (for flute, piano, violin and double bass);
2002 - "Time Profile" (for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello);
2003 - Symphony "Lana Sweet" (for large orchestra);
2003 - "West - East" (for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, accordion and cello);
2004 - "To Shout Out, Step Over and Move On" (for bass clarinet);
2004 - "Aziope" (for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano and cello);
2005 - Hotel Charlotte (for string quartet);
2005 - "Immersion" (for violin and piano);
2005 - "Violinist's Morning Espresso" (for solo violin);
2006 - "Calls of the Yellow Planet";
2006 - "Model Citizens" (for cello and piano);
2006 - "Valentine's Blues" (piano);
2007 - "Troyaborg" (for solo clarinet);
2007 - "Spices" (soprano, bass clarinet, trumpets, percussion, piano, violin and cello);
2007 - Un cortado para Michel (for boro flute (traverso), sauterrec and electronics);
2007 - Restrained Haste (for wind quintet);
2007 - "On Tuesdays" (for flute, duduk, clarinet, percussion, ganun, violin, viola, cello and double bass based on a poem by D. Harms);
2008 - "Out of Context" (for chamber orchestra) - a work commissioned by the Polish Institute in Kyiv;
2008 - "From such a longing..." (vocal work for choir, wind instruments and two percussionists based on the words of Oksana Zabuzhko)
2010 - "Pure thoughts transfixed" (for large symphony orchestra)
2011 - "Fall into the sky" (for solo viola)
2011 - "Mover of the Earth, Stopper of the Sun" (for large orchestra (overture dedicated to Mykola Kopernyk)
2013 - Concerto Grosso - for violin, viola and string orchestra
2014 - symphony "One Hundred and Thirty-One Angstroms"
2015-2016 - opera Momo (about a child who returned stolen time to people. Commissioned by the Royal Danish Opera).
2019 - "Hoc Vinces!" - for symphony orchestra
