Viktor Rekalo

Performers | Instrument: Cello

Viktor Rekalo was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He graduated from the Kharkiv Specialized Music School and the Kharkiv National University of Arts. He improved his professional skills with Walter Deshpalj, Reinhard Latzko, Denis Severin, Natalia Gutman, Lukasz Frant, and Jörg Zwicker (baroque cello).

Rekalo is a prizewinner of international competitions in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, and Ukraine; the scholarship holder of the International Association of Wagner Society Societies (2010), Ministry of Culture of Poland (2015), and Ministry of Culture of Lithuania (2023).

Viktor Rekalo зarticipated in international festivals such as Сontrasts (Lviv, Ukraine), Poznan Music Spring (Poznan, Poland), Musikprotokoll (Graz, Austria), AFEKT (Tallinn, Estonia), Jauna Muzika (Vilnius, Lithuania), and others.

From 2017 to 2021 Rekalo was a member of the Kyiv Soloists National Chamber Ensemble, Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, and Open Opera Ukraine baroque ensemble (Kyiv).

Since 2022, Viktor Rekalo has been a cellist of the Vilnius String Quartet (Lithuania).

Viktor Rekalo introduced himself as a composer in April 2022 when he performed his Suite Seven Simple Dawns for cello solo in Lviv Organ Hall. The Suite has since been performed many times by cellists around the world. Viktor’s other pieces for different ensembles were performed and recorded by Ukrainian musicians in Kyiv and Vilnius. Main part of his composer’s works is music for dancers. Viktor’s ballet D.I.M. (Home) premiered in Cologne and Kyiv in 2023 and is now part of the permanent repertoire of Insha Dance Company (Kyiv). Other Rekalo’s pieces for dance performances include EXTER.Live (Stefanie Noll, Kyiv, 2021), Trafalgar Square Vigil (Company E, London, 2023), Light in Darkness (Vladyslav Detiuchenko, Den Haag, 2023), and others.

Awards

Scholarship holder of the International Association of Wagner Societies (2010), Ministry of Culture of Poland (2015), and Ministry of Culture of Lithuania (2023).

Selected works

Victor Rekalo, Seven Simple Dawns Suite

Performed by Victor Rekalo (cello)

20 May 2022, Lviv Organ Hall

https://youtu.be/g6PshfGB730?si=vR5X_SUQJLu2Q1Gq

Ivan Pakhota, Études sur les thèmes de Borys Lyatoshynsky Op. 38/b for violin and cello

Performed by Xenia Kosarieva (violon), Viktor Rekalo (cello)

16 April 2015, Akademia Muzyczna im. Karola Szymanowskiego w Katowicach

https://youtu.be/-yLCKAaI_VY?si=No6Ix9G7NBxV3fXj

Viktor Rekalo, Music for EXTER.Live

Performed by Viktor Rekalo

https://youtu.be/TxFHbfI2V_0?si=EU4CqbMUU5lLhZvI

Toykan Efe Kahraman, Fractions for mixed quintet

Performed by Ensemble Nostri Temporis

2019, Contrasts International Contemporary Music Festival, Lviv Philharmonic Concert Hall

https://youtu.be/Ll37F4Oq85k?si=olJsv3KjBVGQsQ0d

Oleksandr Shchetynsky, De Profundis for five instruments (2023)

Performed by Inna Vorobets (flute), Maxim Kolomiiets (oboe), Andrii Pavlov (violin), Viktor Rekalo (cello), Roman Yusipey (accordion), Oleksandr Shchetynsky (conductor)

09 June 2023, Festival für Neue Musik aus der Ukraine Widerstand der Klänge, Dialograum Kreuzung an St. Helena in Bonn

https://youtu.be/OcTSmgFR4qY?si=f_-Xd9boBArzZAlf

Pēteris Vasks, Fruit of Silence

Performed by Vilnius String Quartet

https://youtu.be/EpWQ8zahx2Y?feature=shared