Ukrainian composer, musician, author of operas, chamber, vocal and symphonic works, music for plays and films, winner of the National Shevchenko Prize. Composer, conductor and performer of the NOVA OPERA formation. Co-founder (together with composer Ilya Razumeiko) of the OPERA APERTA laboratory of contemporary opera and president of the PORTO FRANKO International Festival of Contemporary Art.
Biography
1984-2007
Roman Hryhoriv was born on May 15, 1984 in Ivano-Frankivsk. He started playing music at the age of 15, playing the electric guitar and participating as a guitarist in the bands Karna and Que Pasa. He graduated from the Ivano-Frankivsk Institute of Arts.
2007-2012
Since 2007, he studied composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in the class of Hanna Havrylets and, as an option, conducting in the class of Volodymyr Sirenko. His graduation work was the work "De Profundis" for large symphony orchestra, choir and soloists. In 2010, while studying at the conservatory, he founded the international festival of contemporary art PORTO FRANKO in Ivano-Frankivsk together with composer Ilya Razumeiko and designer Yaroslav Zen. Since 2011, Hryhoriv has been working as a composer and artist of the National Presidential Orchestra of Ukraine.
2012-2015
After graduating from the conservatory, he entered postgraduate studies and continued to work at the National Presidential Orchestra of Ukraine as the orchestra's musical director. He was the artistic manager of the international festivals "O-Fest" in 2013, 2014, 2015 in Kyiv on the basis of the Kyiv Operetta. As a composer and organizer, he implements a number of projects in China and the United States: "MOZ-ART 2014 in Shenzhen, Music from Europe 2015, 2016 in Beijing, Ukrainian Elegy 2015 in New York. Since 2014, he has been a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
Roman Hryhoriv and Ilya Razumeiko, GAZ dystopian opera. Photo by Valeriya Landar
2015-2020
Since 2015, together with the composer Ilya Razumeiko, he has been working with the NOVA OPERA formation.
During the theater seasons 2015-2019, the composer duo created and realized 8 opera productions, including the biblical trilogy IYOV - Babylon - ARK with director Vlad Troitsky, the dream opera Continuity (libretto by Taras Prokhasko), the trap-opera WOZZECK and the futuristic opera AEROPHONIA (libretto by Yuriy Izdryk), the neo-horror opera HAMLET (directed by Rostyslav Derzhypilsky), and the dystopian opera GAZ (directed by Virlyana Tkach).
As a composer and soloist of the NOVA OPERA formation, he has performed in Ukraine (Gogolfest, National Opera of Ukraine, LvivMozArt Festival), Poland (Shakespeare Theater in Gdansk, Great Hall of the Center for the Collision of Cultures in Lublin), Denmark (Copenhagen), Macedonia (Skopje, Macedonian Opera), Austria (Glass Hall of the Vienna Philharmonic), France (Salle Cortot and Sainte-Marie Cathedral), the Netherlands (Rotterdam Opera Days) and the USA (New York, Prototype Contemporary Opera Festival, La Mama Theater, St. Mary's Church in Brooklyn). St. Mary's Church in Brooklyn).
In the fall of 2018, IYOV's opera-requiem was named one of the TOP 10 best musical theater performances among 436 applicants from 55 countries by the international Music Theater Now competition.
In 2020, Roman Hryhoriv, together with Ilya Razumeiko and Vlad Troitsky, won the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in the Theater Art nomination for the opera Job.
