Pavlo Kolpakov (born July 29, 1960, Zaporizhzhia) is a Kyiv-based composer.
He was born in 1960 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. From early childhood, he began playing the violin and piano. He studied at a children's music school, specializing in violin, and then at the P. Maiboroda Zaporizhzhia Music School. In 1983, he entered the Kyiv Conservatory (now the P. Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine), majoring in violin. Soon he began studying composition under the guidance of Yakiv Hubanov, a student of Dmytro Shostakovych. In 1987, he joined the composition faculty and graduated from the conservatory with a degree in composition in 1991.
He taught music theory subjects, in particular, at the Reinhold Glier Kyiv Institute of Music and the National Academy of Management Personnel of Culture and Arts. For a long time he collaborated as a composer with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and Choir. Since 2006, he has been a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
The composer's oeuvre includes works for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, and solo instruments. His symphonic works Caprice and The Lost World were recorded by the National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine and included in the Art Fund of Ukrainian Radio. Pavlo Kolpakov's works have been performed at the international festivals Kyiv Music Fest, Kyiv Summer Music Evenings, Season Premieres, and Gogolfest. The composer collaborates with a number of well-known Kyiv musicians, including singers Yelyzaveta Lipitiuk, Hanna Koval (soprano), Tetiana Piminova (mezzo-soprano), Ihor Yermak (flute), and Oleksandr Avramenko, Artem Shestovskyi (clarinet), Oleksandr Koshelev (oboe), Roman Fotuyma (saxophone), Janzhyma Morozova (violin), Zhanna Marchynska (cello), pianists Roman Repka, Mykola Chykarenko, Roman Lopatynskyi, and others.
In 2013, Pavlo Kolpakov founded the Sonor Continuus Chamber Music Festival in Kyiv, the main idea of which was to popularize world academic music of the 20th and 21st centuries. The festival concerts were held throughout the year in the hall of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. In 2017, he launched the Classical Jam project of contemporary music.
Major works.
"Sonor Continuus" for symphony orchestra (1991, unfinished)
"Caprice" for symphony orchestra (2006)
"The Lost World" for symphony orchestra (2007)
"Labyrinth" for solo clarinet
"Chacona" for solo violin
"Playing with Beads" for flute solo
"Savannah" for violin and cello
"Dream Galaxy" for saxophone and piano
"Dream Galaxy" for violin and piano
"Cantus Firmus" for flute, clarinet, violin and cello
"Amazing Vision" for soprano (mezzo-soprano) and piano based on the poem by D. Harms
"Amazing Vision" for soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello and piano based on the poem by D. Harms
"Dance of Shadows" for bass clarinet solo
"Song of the Universe" for an octet of copper wind instruments
Cycle "Sound Sculptures" for piano (2017)
