Kyrylov, Viacheslav International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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is a composer born in 1997 in Donetsk, lives in Cracow. He is interested in the idea of the verticality in music and other non-linear ways of shaping sound material. He graduated in composition from the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow from the class of Wojciech Widłak and in philosophy from the Jagiellonian University. Previously, he studied composition with Alexander Gugel in Kharkiv. He is currently a PhD student at the Academy of Music in Cracow, where he is researching the concept of difference and its place in compositional practice. Kyrylov has participated in workshops led by composers such as Chaya Chernovin, Bernhard Lang, Mark Andre, Niels Rønsholdt, Klaas de Vries, Klaus Lang, Stefan Prins, Marc Sabat, and Steffi Weissman. He has collaborated with the Music Cooperative Contemporary Ensemble, Ko-MAT ensemble, Hashtag Ensemble, Ensemble KOMPOPOLEX, and the CORda Cracovia orchestra. 

Selected works: softly say goodbye for piano (2018), Piano Trio (2018), music for chamber ensemble (2019), Zeitschaft for cello and sampler (2019), close to the zero intensity for amplified string trio (2020), vis-à-vis for chamber ensemble (2020), essay on the fall for piano and live electronics (2020), To Nathaniel Hawthorne for orchestra (2021), Fragments de Verlaine for voice, piano and percission (2022), late evening/gothic blue for chamber ensemble and sampler (2022), Kafka-Texte for clarinet in B♭, cello and piano (2023), Dream passage for 17 instruments (2023), I’m the real pig blood soaked fucking homecoming queen for electric guitar, accordion and percussion (2023), recurrences in the lower realm / solar hymns for percussion (2024).