Ensemble SED CONTRA (Kyiv), 19.09.2013, Kyiv

Voice/Way (2013) version for instrumental ensemble and electronic

Sed Contra Ensemble was founded in 2013 by a group of young composers (Sergiy Vilka, Vitaliy Kyianytsia, Andriy Merkhel) from Kyiv, Ukraine. Musicians of Ensemble are postgraduate students from Tchaikovsky National Musical Academy of Ukraine. The priority objective of Ensemble is performing chamber music from the begining of XX century till nowadays, music of young composers, projects of electroacoustic and improvisational music, interdisciplinary projects. Sed Contra Ensemble is a permanent participant of major festivals in Ukraine, such as: "GogolFest", "Kyiv Music Fest", "Kyiv Contemporary Music Days", "Two days and two nights of New Music", "Lviv Hindemith Fest", "Donkult", "Musical season premieres", "FreeFest". Group participated in international projects "The interaction of dance and music" and "EM-Visia" as well as in "Alliance 22" and "Sonor Continuus" projects. Ensemble works with foreign composers and musicians.  Sed Contra Ensemble has actualized around 20 projects of different type and character. From 2015 Sed Contra collaborates with "Pechersk New Theatre" in Kyiv and actively implements interdisciplinary projects with leading artists of young age. Among common projects with theatre the most important are performance "Hesse. Parables" and Laboratory of Music and Theatre "Sound.Voice.Silence". Selected repertoire: Boulez, Murail, Sciarrino, Spahlinger, Ustvolskaya, Hindemith, Przybylski, Saariaho, Ablinger, Zagaykevych, Korsun, Zielinska, Szymanski, Yurina, Shymko, Kyianytsia, Vilka, Merkhel, etc. Email to contact - sedcontra.ens@gmail.com

Alla Zagaykevych (Ukraine) studied composition in Kyiv State P.Thaikovsky Conservatory (1985-1990). In 1995-1996 she attended annual course for composition and musical informatics at the Institut IRCAM (Paris). In 1986 -1999 participated in the folk  Ensemble "DREVO" (Kyiv).
List of Zagaykevych’s works  include symphonic, instrumental and vocal chamber music, electro-acoustic compositions, multi-media installations and performances, chamber opera, music for films.
In 1998 she created the Electronic Studio at the National Music Academy of Ukraine. 
Alla Zagaykevych - Artistic Director of International projects Electroacoustics, EM-VISIA (Kyiv, 2003 - 2010), Artistic Director of Electroacoustic’s Ensemble, Assistant Professor at the Composition and Computer Music Department of the National Music Academy of Ukraine


Zagaykevych’s compositions and performances were performed by:

The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Philarmonic Orchestras of Chernigiv, Rivne, ensembles CAT, Archi, Frescos, New Performance, Cluster, Ricoshet, Kyiv Camerata, Natalka Polovynka, Sergiy Okhrimchuk (Ukraine), ensemle Court-Circuit (France), Ensemble Contemporain de Montreal (Canada), Kammersymphoniker (Austria), ensemble Recherche (Germany), J.Isaac, (recorders, live electronics), (Hollande)
Lenka Zubrova (Germany), QNG - Quartet New Generation (Germany),  
ensemble für neue musik zürich (Switzerland), ), Anna  Zielinska (Poland), Silk Road Duo (Germany), Ilia Belorukov. Vladislav Makarov, Sergei Letov (Russia), Electroacoustic’s Ensemble (International project)
She participe in numerous concerts, conferences, festivals


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alla_Zahaikevych
