Maxim Kolomiiets

Composers

Maxim Kolomiiets (also spelled Maksym Kolomiets) was born in 1981 in Kyiv. He graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine as an oboist (2005) and as a composer (2009) and from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln as a composer (class of Johannes Schöllhorn, 2016). He took part in International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky city (2013) and reading sessions by Ensemble MusikFabrik.

He is the author of two operas. One of them was presented in a concert version in October 2020 by the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and Luigi Gaggero as conductor.

His music has been performed at international festivals MATA-Festival (New York), Summer New Music Courses in Darmstadt (Darmstadt), New Talents (Cologne), Donaueschinger Musiktage, Warsaw Autumn (Warsaw), World Music Days (Leuven), Other Space (Moscow), Gogolfest (Kyiv), Contrasts (Lviv), Randfestspiele (Zepernick), Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival (New York), etc.

Among the performers of his music are Ensemble MusikFabrik (Cologne), Ascolta (Stuttgart), Lions Gate Trio (the U.S. and Europe), Neo Quartet (Gdansk), Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Kyiv), Kyiv Chamber Orchestra (Kyiv), Syrinx Flute Quartet (Moscow), Ensemble Nostri Temporis (Kyiv), GAM-Ensemble (Moscow), Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (Moscow), Vladislav Pesin (Moscow), Ian Pace (London), Helen Bledsoe (Cologne), Hayk Melikyan (Yerevan), Enno Poppe (Germany).

He has also been working as a solo oboist in the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv since 2015, and in the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra since 2018.

As a solo oboist, he played with orchestras Kyiv Soloists National Chamber Ensemble, Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, National Ensemble of Soloists Kyiv Camerata. Together with the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, he realized the Ukrainian premiere of the concert for oboe No. 2 by Luca Francesconi as well as ensemble pieces by Boulez, Gervasoni, Ferneyhough, Berio, Kurtag, and many others.

Maxim Kolomiiets is the co-founder of the contemporary music ensemble Ensemble Nostri Temporis (2007), the founder of the baroque music ensemble Luna Ensemble (2014), and the music curator of the 2017 edition of the Gogolfest (Kyiv).

Awards

Maxim is the winner of the national competitions Gradus ad Parnassum (Kyiv, 2000), Step to the Left (Saint Petersburg, 2012), Skoryk Competition (Lviv, 2021), and III Prize on Vareler Komponistenpreis (Oldenburg, 2015).