Shliabanska, Yana International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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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).