Arkushyna, Anna International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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is a Ukrainian composer now based in Graz. She studied composition with Alla Zagaïkevych and Yevhen Stankovych in Kyiv and with Beat Furrer and Franck Bedrossian in Graz. She was a also student at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) in Graz in the class of Marko Ciciliani and Daniel Mayer. She completed the IRCAM Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music in 2022/23. She participated in workshops of composition masterclasses with Pierluigi Billone, Alberto Posadas, Clara Iannotta, Gerhard Stäbler, Sergej Newski, Mark Andre, Raphaël Cendo, A. V. Gorne, J. Reis, and received tuition from Dmitri Kourliandski, Carole Bauckholt, Stefano Gervasoni, Pierre Jodlowsky, and Jérôme Combier. 

She was a finalist of the composition competition Step to the Left-4 (2011) and Ö1-Talentebörse Composition Prize (2020, 2022). She won the 3rd Prize at the Pre-Art Composers’ Competition (2017) and received the Musikförderungspreis der Stadt Graz. In 2022, she was the recipient oft he Start Stipend for Music and Performing Arts from the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture, and she is currently a fellow of State Bursary for Composition. In 2024, she was selected to be as Artist-in-Residence at Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany. 

Her music is widely performed during many festivals and projects in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Austria, France, the United States, the Netherlands, Croatia, Mexico, Japan, Slovakia, Switzerland by ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Airborne Extended, Cantando Admont, Quatuor Béla, Nostri Temporis, Ensemble Spectrum, Kwartludium, Pre-ArtSolisten, MozArt Sinfonietta Salzburg, and many others. 

Selected works: Inside the Pseudo na ensemble (2011), Serenades through Opened Windows for voice and objects (2011), 410-escape for oboe (2011), Sound-streamlining for voice, oboe, alto saxophone and marimba (2011), Puzzles for violin, cello and double bass (2011), Cosa in se for violin and piano (2011), When Now is Never for piano (2012), Spraying for five instruments (2012), Chemistry for three recorders, bass clarinet and percussion (2012), Images of Dust for oboe, trumpet, horn, MIDI guitar and tape (2012), for accordion and piano (2012), Körnung for five instruments (2012), Glanz for four voices (2013), Aura for objects (2013), Wo-men for two ocarinas and two whistles (2013), Stimmen der unsichtbaren Portale for fixed media (2013), Improvisation for fixed media (2013), Teeter-Totter for large ensemble (2014), Ventus de Tuum Lux for clarinet in Bb and symphony orchestra (2014), Murmuration for large ensemble and objects (2014), Triangles for accordion and tape (2015), Route for two pianists (2015), The Song of Future Human for small ensemble with percussion (2015), Modelle for violin and tape (2016), pur-pur for fixed media (2016), Doyouhearme? for voice and loopers (2017), ihearyou for fixed media (2017), jsbcs for fixed media (2018), niemand jeder for fixed media (2018), Slow(g)raining for fixed media (2018), tes rêves verts for bass flute, Paetzold recorder, harp and harpsichord (2019), curve(s)nails for live electronics (2019), Imagine for prepared electric guitar and tape (2020), Let Nobody but the Room for large ensemble (2021), Innermost Games, vocal cycle for five singers, part 1: Giggling Shimmer (2022), ...So They Grow Like Sunflowers for string quartet and harp (2022), ...au ciel enflammée for soprano and live electronics (2023), Crown Shyness for trumpet, horn and tuba (2024), Innermost Games, vocal cycle for five singers, part 2 (2024), Énouement for percussion and electronics (2024).