Liubava Sydorenko (20 April 1979, Lviv) is a Ukrainian composer. She has been a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine since 2006. In 2007, she was awarded the L. Revutskyi State Prize, in 2015 - the B. Liatoshynskyi State Prize, a scholarship holder of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Foundation (Munich, Germany, 2009), Candidate of Arts (2009), Associate Professor (2015), Honoured Artist of Ukraine (2020).
Liubava Sydorenko was born in Lviv on 20 April 1979. The composer graduated from the Mykola Lysenko Lviv Music Academy in 2004 (class of Professor Yurii Laniuk) and completed her postgraduate studies in 2007. During her studies, she was a scholarship holder of the President of Ukraine and the Oleh Krysa Scholarship, a two-time winner of the Gradus ad Parnassum competition (Kyiv - 2001, 2003) and a Gaude Polonia scholarship holder (2005), which enabled her to study at the Krakow Academy of Music in the class of Professor Zbigniew Bujarski.
She has been a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine since 2006. In 2007, she was awarded the Levko Revutskyi State Prize of Ukraine. In 2009, she was awarded a scholarship from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung Foundation (Munich, Germany), and in 2015 she received the Borys Liatoshynskyi State Prize.
She worked closely with Andrzej Chłopiecki, thanks to which she defended her dissertation on contemporary Polish-Ukrainian music in 2009 in Lviv. In his opponent's review, A. Chłopiecki noted that the researcher: "...wrote a beautiful composition "White Angel" with vocals and electronics, in which she demonstrated an extremely sensitive attitude to the poetic word." "White Angel" is a work written especially for Agata Zubel, dedicated to Andrzej Chłopiecki, and inspired by Salvador Dali's paintings on poetic texts by Ihor Kalynets. The success of this work resulted in a commission from Cologne's Deutschlandfunk radio for Metabola, which was first performed at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 2007 by a Polish-German youth ensemble under the direction of Rüdiger Bohn, and was subsequently performed in Lviv and Krakow. In most reviews of the festival, both in the Polish and other European press, L. Sydorenko's work was noted as one of the most interesting, as a discovery of a new compositional talent. In 2008, the composer achieved another success in Poland, personally conducting the premiere of her opus Octagon, written for an ensemble of 8 cellos under the baton of Andrzej Bauer.
The artist's works of various genres (from symphonic and chamber music to electronic music), recorded on four CDs, have been included in the stock recordings of Ukrainian, Polish and German radio and television, so they can be heard in many countries around the world. Over the past few years, L. Sydorenko has been distinguished by a number of original premieres, among which the most important were commissioned by the Bavarian radio station Bayerischer Rundfunk and subsequently recorded in the studio. The symphony "Ab initio" performed by the Bamberger Symphoniker (conducted by Oksana Lyniv) became the composer's graduation work. In 2009, at the request of the Pro Musica Viva Foundation, she composed Chamber Music for the Polish youth orchestra Sinfonia Iuventus, inspired by the film Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky and the poetry of Wisława Szymborska. The composition was a great success and was presented in Lublin (Henryk Wieniawski Philharmonic), Warsaw (Polish National Opera), Kyiv (National Philharmonic) and Lviv (National Philharmonic). In 2010, she composed a Cello Concerto for Polish cellist Bartosz Koziak, which was premiered by the Warsaw Philharmonic and then interpreted by the artist at the Kyiv National Philharmonic under the baton of Volodymyr Sirenko. In 2013, at the request of Polish film director Bohdan Batruch, the artist created an electroacoustic composition "Rain" inspired by images of nature, which complements the visual series. Since 2015, she has been actively collaborating with the Polish-Ukrainian Paderewski Foundation (Polsko-Ukraińską Fundacją imienia Ignacego Jana Paderewskiego), which resulted in an invitation to Lviv for Andrzej Bauer, who made his debut as a conductor at the opening of the IV International Festival "Discovering Paderewski", performing, among other things, "Ab initio" by Lyubava Sydorenko.
Honoured Artist of Ukraine (2020).
Participation in festivals
The composer is a regular participant in many contemporary music festivals both in Ukraine and abroad:
"Warsaw Autumn (Warsaw, Poland),
"Contrasts" (Lviv, Ukraine),
"Aksamitna Kurtyna (Lviv, Ukraine),
"Forum of Young Music" (Kyiv, Ukraine),
"Season Premieres" (Kyiv, Ukraine),
"KyivMusicFest (Kyiv, Ukraine),
"Two Days and Two Nights of New Music" (Odesa, Ukraine),
"International Modern Music Festival (Krakow, Poland),
"Menhir Musik Festival Falera (Lausanne-Ettelberg-Bern, Switzerland),
X International J. Brahms Chamber Music Competition (Pörtschach, Austria - special jury prize for the work for cello and piano "Quasi sonata"),
8th Mykola Lysenko International Competition (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Major works
"Rhymes" prelude for solo piano (2000);
"Incrustations" for chamber ensemble (2001);
"A priori" variations for flute, violin and piano (2002);
"A Handful of Sand for soprano and chamber ensemble based on poems by Ishikawa Takuboku and Vihta Sad (2003);
"Quasi sonata" for cello and piano (2003);
"Ab initio" symphony for large symphony orchestra and solo violin (2004);
"Vertikalis" for solo accordion (2005);
Quartet for four flutes (2005);
Concerto for violin and orchestra (2006);
"White Angel" for computer tape, reader and soprano based on texts by Igor Kalynets (2006);
"Etudes of the Old Town for solo cello and computer tape (2007);
"Metabola for chamber ensemble (2008)
"Octagon" for eight cellos (2008)
"Chamber music" for chamber orchestra (2009)
"Cryptogram" for chamber ensemble (2009)
"Lumiere" for two solo violins (2010-12)
"Marionettes" for chamber ensemble (2011-12)
"Breath" for flute solo (there is also a version for cello solo) (2011)
Concerto for cello and orchestra (2012)
"Rain" for electronics and video (2013)
"Desire" for violin and electronics (2015)
"Games" for oboe, clarinet, French horn and double bass (2017)
"Solaris" for soprano, duduk and electronics (2018)
