Ostap Manulyak is a Ukrainian composer, performer, lector, curator, and organizer of artistic initiatives. Ph.D., assist. prof. of the Composition Department of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy.

Ostap Manulyak was born in Lviv in 1983. He studied composition at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy (composition class of Prof. Viktor Kaminsky) and took part in master classes of new music by composers Samuel Andreyev (Canada), Carola Bauckholt (Germany), Stefano Gervasoni (Italy), Serhiy Pilyutikov (Ukraine), Boguslaw Schäffer (Poland), Gerhard Stäbler (Germany), and others. Manulyak is a two-time Gaude Polonia Scholarship Program fellow. In 2006 he studied composition at Krakow Music Academy (composition class of Prof. Zbigniew Bujarski). In 2011, Manuliak worked at the Studio of Electroacoustic Music (SME) at Krakow Music Academy and studied electroacoustic music under the supervision of Prof. Marek Choloniewski.

During the 2018–19 academic year Ostap Manulyak was a visiting researcher at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) of Stanford University (California) as a Fulbright fellow. In 2009, he received a Ph.D. in music (doctoral thesis about contemporary Ukrainian sacred music) and an award from LODA and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for musicological research.

Manulyak’s works are characterized by an organic combination of the latest technologies of electroacoustic music and computer-assisted compositional techniques (spectral analysis and permutations of sound material) with well-established 20th-century techniques of extensive use of the capabilities of acoustic instruments. Often the compositions become the basis for broader performative projects or are transformed into independent audiovisual works. Ostap combines active compositional work with research and pedagogical activity. Now he is mainly focused on the interrelationships between musical, artistic, and socio-political processes. He is also the author of lectures aimed at popularizing Ukrainian music worldwide.

Ostap Manulyak is a co-founder of the Art Association NURT, director of the Festival of Electroacoustic Music VOX ELECTRONICA and Experimental Educational Studio of Electroacoustic Music (EESEM) of Lviv Music Academy, and co-curator of the Festival of audiovisual art TETRAMATYKA.

Transgression 6 for flute, accordion, piano, and electronics (2023)

Performed by Natalia Kozhushko-Maksymiv (flute), Bohdan Kozhushko (accordion), Myroslav Drahan (piano)

7 October 2023, Contrasts International Festival of Contemporary Music, Lviv Philharmonic Hall, Lviv, Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/live/EmhIVsx5Nwk?si=fHfNzpExe6_cfV2f&t=2980 

Reprogression 2 for fixed recording (2022)

Performed by Ostap Manulyak

24 November 2022, AudioArt Festival, Krakow, Poland

https://youtu.be/cwFuOsfAN-A  

Reprogression for a large ensemble/orchestra (2022)

Performed by Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vincent Kozlovsky (PL)

9 October 2022, Contrasts International Festival of Contemporary Music, Lviv, Ukraine

https://youtu.be/XW7Dx_an0GI?t=353  

Saltation for flute, oboe, clarinet, and cello (2022)

Performed by Natalia Kozhushko-Maksymiv (flute), Markiian Maksymiv (oboe), Taras Hamar (Clarinet), Oksana Lytvynenko (Violoncello)

21 April 2022, “New Music of Lviv Composers” project, Lviv Organ Hall, Lviv, Ukraine

https://youtu.be/SXiYwlOe6gU  

Oracle II for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and fixed recording (2020)

Performed by Lindsay Eckenroth (flute), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinet), Erin Lensing (oboe), Tessa Pettit (horn), Remy Taghavi (bassoon)

29 February 2020, Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, Lang Hall, New York, USA

https://youtu.be/EJS5ZuaFE_Q?si=aeRe9_hZVhV-CVOR  

Chronicles I for fixed media (2020)

Performed by Ostap Manulyak

1 November 2020, digitIZMir International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Izmir, Turkey

https://youtu.be/1UBspzRkdZ0  

Lithos for fixed media (2014/2019)

Performed by Ostap Manulyak

7 March 2021, Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, Mary Flagler Carey Hall at the DiMenna Center for Contemporary Music, New York, USA

https://youtu.be/QV-_fw3Pzpg