Renata Sokachyk

Renata Sokachyk was born in 1990 in Vylok (Transcarpathian region). From 2005 to 2009, she studied at the piano department of the Uzhhorod Dezyderii Zador State Music College (Natalia Shutko's class). At the same time, she mastered the basics of composition in Viktor Telychko's class. In 2014, Renata completed her studies at the composition faculty of the National Music Academy of Ukraine (course of Prof. Hanna Havrylets). Later, she continued her postgraduate studies there (Department of History of World Music, academic supervisor — Prof. Larysa Nebolubova). In December 2019, she defended her thesis and obtained the Ph.D. degree.

Renata Sokachyk's composition includes chamber instrumental, vocal, and orchestral works. Her opuses are performed at prestigious domestic festivals by ensembles such as the Khreschatyk Academic Chamber Choir, the National Ensemble of Soloists Kyiv Camerata, the National Chamber Ensemble Kyiv Soloists, the Ricochet Ensemble of Contemporary Music, the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv National Philharmonic, and others. Twice, she participated in international master classes at the Eötvös Institute in Budapest. Sokachyk took consultations with acclaimed composers such as Gerd Kühr, Pascal Dusapin, and Toshio Hosokawa.

In addition to her creative and scientific work, Renata Sokachyk teaches. From 2011 to today, she has taught music-theoretical disciplines and composition at the Stefan Turchak Kyiv Children's Arts School. Since 2021, Renata Sokachyk has been a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. In 2022, she became a co-founder of the festival “Ukrainian Composers for Children” dedicated to the memory of Hanna Havrylets.

Awards

In 2018, Renata Sokachyk won first place at the Contemporary Musical Dialogue in the Carpathian Region competition. Her vocal-instrumental work Radnóti-fragments was performed in various cities in Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
In 2020, the composer became a finalist in the international project “O Blissful Loss of Self” (the project of the contemporary music ensemble Anima Vox Duo, State of North Carolina, USA).
In September 2023, Sokachyk became the laureate of the II Myroslav Skoryk All-Ukrainian Composer Competition. The premiere of her poem for solo Double Bass and symphony orchestra Antonych-fragments was performed on the stage of the Lviv Philharmonic (solo Nazarii Stets, conductor Vincent Kozlovsky).
Renata Sokachyk is the 2023 laureate of the Levko Revutskyi Prize of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.
Serhiy Nigoyan Award (2018)