Ukrainian composer, musician, author of operas, electronic and vocal music. Composer, librettist and performer of the NOVA OPERA formation (2015-2020). Co-founder (together with composer Roman Hryhoriv) of the OPERA APERTA contemporary opera laboratory and artistic director of the PORTO FRANKO international contemporary art festival.
Biography
1989-2007
Ilya Razumeiko was born in 1989 in Zaporizhzhia. He began his musical education in 2000 with classical guitar. In 2003-2007, Ilya studied at the Zaporizhzhia Music College, music theory class (teacher: V. Tereshchenko). During his studies, he became a laureate of 42 All-Ukrainian, All-Russian and International competitions as a guitarist, musicologist and composer. At the same time, he began to study composition in the class of composer Natalia Boieva.
2007-2012
In 2007-2012, Razumeiko studied at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, composition class (prof. Gavrylets G.O.).
In 2010, while studying at the conservatory, he founded the international festival of contemporary art PORTO FRANKO in Ivano-Frankivsk together with composer Roman Hryhoriv and designer Yaroslav Zen. In 2012-2013 he worked at the Kyiv Opera House. A significant part of his creative work during his student years was vocal music based on various texts: German - Goethe, Heine, Lenau, Rilke, Heidegger, English - Shakespeare, Italian - Dino Buzzatti, Russian - Pushkin, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Tarkovsky, excerpts from classical opera libretti and Latin sacred texts. Among the first performers of his works were Kyiv Opera soloist Daria Knyazeva, Vienna Opera soloist Olena Belkina, the Kyiv Camerata Orchestra, and others.
2013-2015
In 2013, he moved to Vienna to continue his education at the Vienna Conservatory (University). From 2013 to 2020, he studied at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts, composition class (professors Martin Lichtfuss and Karlheinz Essel[de]). During his stay in Vienna, he worked as a tour guide and developed a number of guided tours, including "Vienna Cemeteries", "Brutalism in Vienna's 23rd District", and "Red Vienna: Vienna's Socialist Architecture of the 1920s and 1930s".
2015-2020. Composer and performer at NOVA OPERA
Since 2015, together with the composer and conductor Roman Hryhoriv, she 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 with director Vlad Troitsky IYOV - Babylon - ARK, the dream opera Continuity (libretto by Trace 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), Holland (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, Ilya Razumeiko, along with Roman Hryhoriv and Vlad Troitsky, won the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine in the Theater Art nomination for his opera Job.
