Shliabanska, Yana
Born in 1994, composer and sound artist. She creates chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic music, sound installations, and music for theatre, performance and dance. She also performs experimental electronic music. Her works have been presented at international festivals and music institutions across Europe, Asia and the Americas. She graduated in composition from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in Kyiv and completed the Cursus programme at IRCAM in Paris. Her artistic work has been supported by the ministries of culture of Ukraine, Poland, France and the Netherlands. She has also received the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture’s Golden Stage Cross theatre award, the President of Ukraine’s grant for young artists, and the Levko Revutsky Prize in the composition category. In 2026, her opera Słoń na Białym Morzu (The Elephant on the White Sea) was staged at the Anhalt Theatre in Dessau.
Selected works: melt.elt.el.e… for double bass and bass clarinet (2017), Mill: conversion of energy for 15 string instruments (2017), Almost real directions for clarinet, violin, cello, double bass and piano (2018), WildWood for double bass and wooden discs (2020), [out]come for three instruments (2021), DON’T for baritone, cello and piano (2022), Con fuoco for flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, violin and cello (2023), Semiregular variable star or 29 microvariations for violin (2023), Loteria, interactive music performance for voice, two saxophones, percussion and electronics (2024), 10 Commandments, multimedia performance for saxophone, piano, objects, electronics and electric irons (2024), The Route of Improbabilities for children and ensemble (2024), Atropa Belladonna for string quartet and electronics (2022–25), Quartet for one performer on 4 saxophones and electronics (2025), The Elephant on the White Sea, opera for five singers, cello, bass clarinet and electronics (2025–26), Divisifor ensemble and electronics (2026).