Valeria Vynohradova

Composers

Valeria Vynohradova (1998) is a Ukrainian composer and performer of electronic works. She was born in the city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine. She received higher education at the National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv (Ukraine), composition class of Yurii Ishchenko and Alla Zagaykevych; and studied at the Nino Rota Conservatory in Monopoli (Italy) with the Erasmus+ mobility program, Zeno Baldi's composition class and Domenico Tagliente's counterpoint class. Valeria is currently studying electronic composition at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg (Germany) with Alexander Grebtschenko.

Valeria Vynohradova writes electronic and acoustic music and creates audio-visual installations and musical performances. Her works were performed in Ukraine, Germany, France, Belgium, Croatia, Italy, and the Canary Islands. She participated in master classes with Johannes Schöllhorn, Alexander Grebtschenko, Alla Zagaykevych, Annette Vande Gorne, Jaime Reis, Clemens Gadenstätter, Martin Shüttler, and Jerzy Kornowicz.

The main vector of Valeria's musical creativity is electronic music and music programming and creating new ways to play sound with different devices. The main topics the composer explores in her works are social, psychological, and mythical, as well as Ukrainian folklore and exact sciences such as physics and mathematics:

“I have never written music for existential pleasure, I think we have a lot of that. Instead, I invite the listener to think about something that may never have occurred to us. Each piece has a certain history, symbols, references to history, mythology and so on, but all this can be explained with the help of unexpected things, whether it is the theory of Dirac's ratio, which the Ukrainian traditional doll Motanka tells us with the help of symbols of the ancient Trypillia culture, or an interview format with added themes of mental illness, or Ouroboros serpents reminding us of the linearity of our lives, or a crazed teenager with a video game addiction that presents the beauty of real life. Sometimes music is the only language we can use to explain these things.”