Serhiy Ivanovych Zazhytko (born December 6, 1962, Chernihiv) is a Ukrainian composer.
In 1974-1982 he studied at the Kyiv Special Music School, majoring in piano.
In 1979 he received the first prize of the All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Composers.
In 1990, he graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory as a composer in the class of Prof. E. Stankovych.
In 1990-1994 he worked as an editor at the state publishing house Musical Ukraine.
Since 1994, he has been a consultant at the Kyiv organization of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
He has participated in such festivals as the Forum of Young Music, KyivMusicFest, Music Premieres of the Season, Meta-Art (Kyiv), Two Days and Two Nights of New Music (Odesa), Contrasts (Lviv), and the International Summer Courses of New Music in Darmstadt (Germany, 2000). His works have been performed in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Belgium, Italy, Germany, and Finland. He is a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine and the New Music Association.
An extraordinary representative of Ukrainian musical actionism (along with Volodymyr Runchak and Serhiy Yarunsky). In the words of the composer himself, his "creativity nourishes what goes beyond logic into the realm of the illogical - for example, when things that are usually taken seriously and with great reverence in society are transformed into something completely inadequate."
Serhiy Zazhytko does not consider himself a purely "academic composer". In particular, S. Zazhytko joined the Russian rock movement, creating several songs in this genre, which were included in the album "Twice Born" with S. Pilyutikov
