Albert Saprykin is a Ukrainian composer, pianist, underground sound artist, and curator of contemporary classical music projects. His oeuvre consists of solo, chamber, orchestra, electronic, and electroacoustic music. Albert also performs contemporary music as a piano/keyboard player. 

Albert Saprykin studied composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine (classes of Levko Kolodub and Ihor Scherbakov; attended lectures by Alla Zagaykevych and Mykola Kovalinas) and Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (with Marcin Błażewicz, as a Gaude Polonia fellow), and piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (with Milana Chernyavska). 

Saprykin is currently an MA student at the Freiburg University of Music with Prof. Alexander Grebtschenko.

Since 2015, Albert Saprykin has focused on advocating for the new music community. He co-founded and directed Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (2015–), curated concert and educational projects in Ukraine, Germany, Portugal, and Austria; ran music projects at the Ukrainian Institute (2018–2020) and contributed to state policy reforms at the State Agency of Ukraine for Arts and Art Education (2020–2022).

Albert Saprykin’s music has been performed by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and National Ensemble of Soloists Kyiv Camerata, as well as by soloists Junya Makino, Orest Smovzh, Antonii Baryshevskyi, Sylvia Hinz, Olga Kulchynska, and Dmytro Pashynskyi in Austria, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine. 

il est là for violin solo (2024)

Performed by Orest Smovzh (violin)

February 2024, Berlin, Germany

https://youtu.be/MU4W66hWKyA 

amadoka for violin and electronics (2021)

Concert with music by Boris Loginov, Maxim Kolomiiets, and Albert Saprykin after the novel by Sofia Andrukhovych, curated by Veronika Yadukha

Commissioned by Translatorium festival

Performed by Maxim Kolomiiets (electronics), Alexandra Ponasik (double bass), Boris Loginov (grand piano), Orest Smovzh (violin), Albert Saprykin (electronics), Georgiana McReynolds (clarinet), Chiho Kaneko (soprano), Henry Danaher (organ), Veronika Yadukha (ceramic musical instruments) 

April 2024, Rollins Chapel, Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH, USA 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5ifB0YS1bQ 

ααria for violin and electronics (2022)

Performed by Orest Smovzh (violin) and Albert Saprykin (electronics)

April 2022, Lviv, Ukraine

https://youtu.be/xMH1HYMlVIo 

in cage for violin and keyboard (2015)

Performed by Orest Smovzh (violin) and Antonii Baryshevskyi (piano)

2021, Kyiv, Ukraine 

https://youtu.be/VDrF_O_9gGg 

sp for symphonic orchestra (2014)

Performed by Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, conductor Mykola Lysenko

2014, Kyiv, Ukraine  

https://youtu.be/Y0uY8XDLmbk 

danke for Goethe-Institut (2020)

https://youtu.be/ng6MHJLRRtY