The name of the composer-winner of the Lyatoshinsky Prize was announced

The name of the composer-winner of the Lyatoshinsky Prize was announced

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On January 17, the State Agency for Arts announced the laureate of the award, Boris Lyatoshynskyi. It became him Ostap Manulyak – Ukrainian composer, performer and initiator of artistic projects.

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This was reported on the State Arts website.

Ostap Manulyak was awarded for creative compositional achievements for 5 years.

As the organizers of the award noted, the composer implemented his project at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University (California, USA). He also became a laureate of the Levko Revutsky Prize in 2010 and the Mykola Leontovich Prize in 2020 in the field of composition.

Ostap Manulyak. Photo: Lviv National Philharmonic.

In addition to chamber-instrumental, choral and symphonic music, he also works in the field of electro-acoustic music and funk-jazz-rock.

Since 2007, he has been working regularly in the field of electroacoustic music, combining forms of fixed composition with live interaction between different aspects of the musical fabric, transformation of sound material with kinetic performing gesture and audiovisual interaction. Also in the works are numerous sound installations and cooperation within the framework of multimedia projects“, says the website of the Lviv National Academy of Arts.

Ostap Manulyak – associate professor of the composition department of the Lviv National Academy of Music named after M.V. Lysenko, co-founder of the NURT Artistic Association, director of the VOX ELECTRONICA Electroacoustic Music Festival and head of the Experimental Educational Studio of Electroacoustic Music (EESEM) of the Lviv Academy of Music.

About the Boris Lyatoshinsky award

The State Prize is awarded annually to professional composers for outstanding achievements in the field of professional compositional creativity.

A composer can be nominated for an award for a separate work, for a creative work in a certain genre (symphonic, choral, operatic, chamber, etc.) and for creative achievements during the last five years.

The amount of the prize is 20 thousand hryvnias.

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