Ukrainian composer, participant of many international festivals of modern music in Ukraine, France, Sweden, Japan, China, Russia, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Canada, Germany, Poland. The author of numerous musicological articles in scientific collections and magazines in Ukraine and abroad. The owner of many grants and awards. Combines work in academic concert genres (symphonic, chamber, electroacoustic music, chamber opera) and in modern multidisciplinary projects (audio-visual installations, performances, music for films and theater performances). He performs in electroacoustic performances with performers of new improvisational music.
Biographical information
She studied at the Kyiv State Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky in the class of Professor Yuri Ishchenko (1985–1990) and at the Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics/Music (IRCAM) in Paris (1995–1996). In 1986–1999, she was a member of the band "Drevo" (led by E. Yefremov).
Since the mid-90s, she has actively promoted academic electroacoustic music in Ukraine, collaborated with musicians of experimental electronic music.
Since 1998, she has been teaching at the Department of Music and Information Technologies of the National Music Academy of Ukraine, where she founded a studio of electroacoustic music with the assistance of the International Renaissance Foundation.
Alla Zagaykevych is the curator of the international projects of electroacoustic music "Electroacoustics" (since 2003), "EM-vision" (since 2005), the head of the Association of Electroacoustic Music under the Kyiv Organization of SCU (since 2010).
In 2004, she was awarded the National Prize of Ukraine for the music of Oles Sanin's film "Mamai". Oleksandr Dovzhenka.
In 2009, she founded the international project Electroacoustic's ensemble, where she performed as a composer, programmer, performer on electroacoustic instruments.
In 2021, the composer dedicated a concert to the memory of the conservatory teacher Oleksiy Bosenko, who influenced the formation of her worldview.
List of main works
Marek Kholonevskyi, Alla Zagaikevich and Panagiotis Kokoras. Kyiv, April 8, 2017
Alla Zagaikevich is the author of symphonic and chamber music, chamber opera, electro-acoustic and multimedia works, music for movies, etc.
Opera
1997 — "Numbers and Wind" ("Pictures from Memory"), chamber opera based on the poetry and painting of Mykola Vorobyov, 50'
Orchestral works
1990 — Symphony to the poetry of V. Mayakovsky (in Russian) for baritone and symphony orchestra, 20'
1993 — Intermezzo for symphony orchestra, 12'
1995 - "Musique Aveugle" ("Blind music") for piano and string orchestra, 15'
2007 — Concerto for cello with orchestra in two parts, 17'
2010 — "Cantos: Island" for three cellos and fifteen strings, 12'
Chamber-instrumental and chamber-vocal works
1991 - Trio for violin, cello and piano, 14'
1994 - "Not leaving the ground" for violin, guitar and accordion, 14'
1997 — "Mare-X-unknown" for soprano and piano to the visual poetry of Andriy Chuzhy, 12'
1998 - Interlude for flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trombone, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass, 11'
1998 - "Shadow Journeys" for trombone, percussion and double bass, 11'
2001 - "Gravity" for two cellos, 7'
2004 — "Wind, stones, flowers" for accordion solo, 7'
2005 - "Air Mechanics" for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello, 17'
2007 — Tercet for clarinet, violin and cello, 10'
2008 — "Underground River" for flute, clarinet, oboe, piano, 11'
2009 — String Quartet, 12'
2010 — "Blicke der Verliebten" (for Recherche Ensemble) for eight performers, 7'
Electroacoustic and multimedia works
1996 - "And slowly circling I will enter the heavenly pond" (music after the poem "Carp" by Oleg Lyshega) for clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, double bass and electronic recording, 13'
2000 - "COSI FAN TUTTI" - electronic music for audio-visual installation, video - Oksana Plysyuk, 46'
2002 - "Heroneia" - electroacoustic work for bassoon, piano, violin, cello and electronic recording, 12'
2002 - "Run away. Breathe. Keep silent." — electroacoustic performance for violin, voice, piano, electronic recording and processing in real time, 45'
2003 - "PAGODE" - electroacoustic composition for block - flute, electronic recording and real-time processing, 9'
2003 - "MOTUS" for electronic recording, 10'
2004 - "Seasons on the Maidan" - electronic music for audio-visual installation, video - Oksana Plysyuk; the work uses poems by Yuriy Andruhovych performed by the author, 15'
2005 - "LABORINTUS - EXITUS" - electro-acoustic work for clarinet and electronic recording, 10'
2006 - "TRANSPARENCY" - electroacoustic work for violin and electronic recording, 9' (video art - Vadim Yovych)
2006 - "PAGODE - VISION" - electro-acoustic piece for recorder quartet and electronic recording, 9'
2008 - "VENEZIA" - electroacoustic piece for cello, electronic recording and processing in real time, 16' (video art - Vadym Yovych)
2008 - "VENEZIA - VISION" - electroacoustic performance for cello, electronic recording andprocessing in real time, 30' (video art — Vadym Yovych)
2009 - "GO" - electroacoustic work for sheng, erhu, percussion and electronic recording, 10'
2009 - "SUD/EST" - electroacoustic audio-visual performance for a changing lineup of performers, 30' (video art - Vadym Yovych)
2009 — ".falling asleep: waking up.. soaring: sinking" — electro-acoustic installation for the "MAVKA" project (artist — Michael Merfenko), 46'
2010 — "Contre S." (dedicated to Guy Debord) — electroacoustic performance for Electroacoustic's Ensemble, 15'
2010 - "NORD/OUEST" - electroacoustic performance for folk voice, violin, flute, percussion, theremin and electronics, 48'
2011 — "Contre S." (dedicated to Guy Debord) for Kontra-Trio — electro-acoustic work for contrabass flute, contrabass saxophone, tuba and electronic recording, 15'
2011 - "Mithe IV : KS" (dedicated to Karol Symanowski) - electro-acoustic work for violin and electronics, 7'
2011 - "Musique naïve" (dedicated to SAT trio) - electro-acoustic performance for accordion, guitar, theremin and electronics, 30'
2011 - "Life as Music" - real-time generated composition for oboe, clarinet in B, alto saxophone, percussion and double bass, 15'
2015 - Friend Lee Bo, for bandura and electronics
Choral and vocal works
1996 - "Ausgesetzt auf den Bergen des Herzens" - chamber cantata for soprano, organ and strings based on a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, 12'
1999 - "Boat" - motet for soprano, mezzo-soprano and baritone based on a poem by Mykola Vorobyov, 12'
2002 — "The Way to the Great River" to the text of Oleg Lyshega (in English) for soprano and 8 instrumentalists, 10'
2004 - "ECCE JUVENTA ANNI" - cantata based on poems by H. Skovoroda for soprano, choir and symphony orchestra, 14'
Piano works
2007 - "Luceo" for piano, 4' (piano miniature)
2009 - "Cascades" for piano, 5' (piano miniature)
Music for movies
1991 - "The Hiding Place" (dir. Nelya Pasichnyk)
1994 — "Tysmenytsia" (dir. Nelya Pasichnyk)
2003 - "Mama" (dir. Oles Sanin)
2005 — "SH" (dir. Yaroslav Lupii)
2005 - "Oligarch" (dir. O. Rosich)
2006 — "The Illusion of Existence" (dir. Vadym Yovych)
2014 — "Guide" (dir. Oles Sanin)
2017 — "House "Slovo"" (dir. Taras Tomenko)
