Nazarii Stets

Performers | Instrument: Double bass

Nazarii Stets is a double bassist focused on contemporary music and promoting the modern music of Ukraine. He was born in 1991 in Kopychyntsi, Ukraine into a musician family. His first instrument was violin and after seven years of learning it, he began studying double bass at the Ternopil Music College under the tutelage of Vasyl Felenchak. Then from 2010–2015, he achieved both bachelor's and master’s degrees from the National Music Academy of Ukraine while working with Oleksandr Melnyk from the National Opera of Ukraine.

Nazarii got his first professional contract with the Municipal Galician Chamber Orchestra at the age of 16, and at 20 he received the soloist position in the National Ensemble of Soloists Kyiv Camerata. He became a professor at the National Music Academy of Ukraine at the age of 26.

Nazarii Stets got master classes with Nicolas Crosse, Chi-Chi Nwanokue, Jeff Bradetich, Leon Bosch, Ruslan Lutsyk, Dan Styffe, and Hiroshi Ikematsu. He was the first performer of double-bass concertos by Zoltan Almashi, Renata Sokachyk, Oleksandr Gonobolin, Alisa Zaika, Meryson Borghes, Oleksandr Levkovych, Julia Monducci, Edvard Kravchuk, and Serhiy Pilyutikov. His concert geography includes more than 25 countries with solo, chamber, and orchestral performances at festivals like ManiFeste (IRCAM, Paris), Lucerne Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, BBC Proms, Istanbul Music Festival, Gogolfest (Kyiv), Two Days and Two Nights of New Music (Odesa), Britten Pears Young Artist Programme (Suffolk), Contrasts (Lviv), Course (Lviv), Warsaw Autumn, Septembre musical (Montreux-Vevey), and so on. He has collaborated with Ulysses Ensemble, Salzburg Sinfonietta, Ensemble Nostri Temporis, Sed Contra Ensemble, New Era Orchestra, National Ensemble of Soloists Kyiv Camerata, Ukho Ensemble, and others.