Nazariy Romanovych Stets (born 13 June 1991, Kopychyntsi, now Ukraine) is a Ukrainian virtuoso musician, soloist and instrumentalist. Laureate of the first prize of the All-Ukrainian competition "Veselkove Nadzbruchchia" (2001), Revutskyi Prize (2018).
Biography.
Nazarii Stets was born on 13 June 1991 in Kopychyntsi, now Kopychyntsi community, Chortkiv district, Ternopil region, Ukraine.
He graduated from the Ternopil State Music College named after S. Krushelnytska (2010; class of double bass with People's Artist of Ukraine Vasyl Felenchak), the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy (2015; master's degree with honours; class of Honoured Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Melnyk). In 2015-2018, he was an assistant intern at the latter educational institution. He worked in the Galician Municipal Chamber Orchestra, the Symphony and Chamber Orchestra of the Ternopil Regional Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Ternopil Shevchenko Drama Theatre; since 2011 - in the National Ensemble of Soloists "Kyiv Camerata"; since 2017 - a teacher of double bass and chamber ensemble at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy.
He has collaborated with the orchestras of the National Opera of Ukraine, the National Radio, the National Chamber Orchestra "Kyiv Soloists", the National Symphony Orchestra, the orchestra "Kyiv Virtuosi", "ICulture orchestra" (Poland), "Moldovan Youth symphony orchestra" (Moldova). He has toured Georgia, Moldova, Poland, France, Belarus, Luxembourg, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Turkey, Germany, Romania, Great Britain, the USA, Switzerland and Japan.
He has performed as a soloist and as a member of Ensemble Nostri Temporis, Ulysses Ensemble, Ricochet, Open Opera, New Era Orchestra, Nova Opera and Sed Contra Ensemble at such contemporary music festivals as: "Warsaw Autumn (Poland), Septembre Musical (Switzerland), Manifeste (France), Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme (UK), Mishima Contemporary Music Days (Japan), 2 Days and 2 Nights of New Music, Contrasts, Kyiv Music Fest, Odesa Classic, GogolFest, Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (Ukraine).
Since 2015, he has been working with the UKHO agency and the eponymous ensemble. Over 3 seasons, he has recorded three monographic CDs for Winter & Winter, Kairos and Naxos with music by Toshio Hosokawa, Stefano Giervasoni and Alessandro Solbiati, He has organised three conducting workshops, three workshops for young composers and three opera productions - Limb (Stefano Gervasoni), Luce mie tradici (Salvatore Sciarrino) and Pane, Sale, Sabbia (Carmine Cella).
He was the first performer of double bass concertos by Zoltan Almasy, Serhiy Pilyutikov, Edward Kravchuk, Alisa Zaika (Ukraine), Alexander Levkovich (Canada), Giulia Monducci (Italy) and Merrison Borges (Brazil).
He plays a double bass made by master Mykola Tambovskyi in the USA in 2014.
In 2008, he was one of the founders of the Brio band, which performs ethno-jazz music.
