Premiered by the vocal ensemble Cantando Admont in Bruseum, Graz, 8th April 2022.

“Innermost Games” is a name of the vocal cycle in progress to be composed in next years.
The whole cycle will be based on a sonic representation of human emotions. I consider each vocalist as an instrument for “musicalisation” of emotions as well as “emotionalisation” of music. There are no verbal elements in the vocal parts, because each emotion can say something without any words.
This is the first part of the cycle named “Giggling Shimmer”. The main point of it is the diversity of many colours of laugh, giggle, chuckle, snicker, gurgling, guffaw etc. We know, laughter can not represent only positive things, and you always must read it between the lines. “Giggling shimmer” is the work of mine, which musically represents us laughter, and each listener can still make his own choice about what sense of laugh he prefers to hear right now.

INNERMOST GAMES for 5 singers - I. Giggling Shimmer

uǝɯ-oʍ (2013) for 4 whistles

Doyouhearme? (2017) for voice and loopers,
performed by Viktoria Vitrenko https://viktoriia-vitrenko.com
privat recording, July 2022

this work explores the liminal zones that arise between breathing, whispering, speaking, singing and the gestural energy of the voice and are integrated in a strong emotional context. how exactly this context is defined cannot be predicted in advance, since the soloist creates her individual sonic environment with the loop machine, making the emotional component dependent upon each performance.

Doyouhearme? for voice and loopers

Johnna Wu violin, Marina Kifferstein violin, Jeremy Kienbaum viola, Kirsten Jermé cello, Nuiko Wadden harp

performed March 18 2023 at UCMF                                                                                  
Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Hall, New York

...So They Grow Like Sunflowers (2022) for harp and string quartet - part 1

...So They Grow Like Sunflowers (2022) for harp and string quartet - part 2

...So They Grow Like Sunflowers (2022) for harp and string quartet - part 3

...So They Grow Like Sunflowers (2022) for harp and string quartet - part 4

...So They Grow Like Sunflowers (2022) for harp and string quartet - part 5

perf. by Ensemble für Neue Musik KunstUni Graz, 
Dirigent Edo Micic
Minoritensaal, 4th December 2014

Murmuration (2014) for large ensemble

Performed by the vocal ensemble Cantando Admont at the Wiener Hofburgkapelle, Vienna, on April 30th, 2024.

“Innermost Games” is the name of a vocal cycle in progress, to be composed in the coming years. The entire cycle will be based on a sonic representation of human emotions. I consider each vocalist an instrument for the “musicalization” of emotions as well as the “emotionalization” of music. There are no verbal elements in the vocal parts because each emotion can express itself without words.

The second part is for 3 singers (soprano, tenor and bass), named "Tangled Dew" is a scene dedicated to the feeling of frustration in moments when several people suffer due to a lack of proper communication between them.

INNERMOST GAMES for 5 singers - II. Tangled Dew

perf. by kwartludium ensemble
lviv state philarmony
Kontrasty-festival

The Song Of Future Human(2015) for ensemble

.to the biggest happiness in my life
.to the biggest loss in my life

ihearyou(2016) fixed media

perf.by A.Shmurak, Goete-Institut in Kiev, 19-03-2012

When Now is Never (2012) for solo piano

M. Skrypa - violin
Ukrainian Forum of Music of Youth 2016

Modelle (2016) for violin and tape

Jsbcs (2018) fixed media

"Imagine" for e-guitar and tape (demo excerpt)

Dreiecke (2015) for accordion and tape
performed by Sergej Tchirkov

Dreiecke (2015) for accordion & tape (fragment)

performed by Airborne Extended ensemble
Kyiv Bouquet Stage Festival, 2019

tes rêves verts (2019)for paetzold recorder, bass flute, harp and cembalo

perf. by ensemble Musik Fabrik, cond. Manuel Nawri

Körnung (2012-2013) for ensemble

Anna Arkushyna was born 1989 in Lutsk, Ukraine. Graduated from Kyiv Special Music College in 2009 (Music Theory department, Composition-class by prof. Alla Zagaykevych) and from National Music Academy of Ukraine in 2014 (Composition-class by prof. Yevhen Stankovych). In 2017 she completed the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Composition-class by prof. Beat Furrer). Since 2015 till 2019 Anna was student at the IEM Graz, class by prof. Marko Ciciliani and prof. Daniel Mayer. Since 2020 she is a student of composition-class by prof. Franck Bedrossian in the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
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Anna is participant in workshops of composition by P. Billone, A. Posadas, C. Iannotta, G. Staebler, S. Newski, M. Andre,
R. Cendo, A. V. Gorne, J. Reis,  also took lessons with D. Kourliandski, C. Bauckholt, S. Gervasoni. 
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She is finalist of the composer's competition “Step to the Left-4” (St.-Petersburg, 2011), third-price-winner of the “Pre-art composer’s competition” in Switzerland (2017). Anna was also finalist of the “Ö1-Talentebörse Kompositionspreis 2020” in Austria. In 2021 she was awarded with "Musikförderungspreis der Stadt Graz". She was selected for the Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music 2022/2023 in IRCAM, Paris.
 
Her music is widely performed during the many festivals and projects in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, Holland, Austria, Croatia, Chile, Mexico, Lithuania, Japan, Slovakia, Switzerland by ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Airborne Extended, Cantando Admont, Nostri Temporis, Amsterdam Collage Ensemble, Ensemble Spectrum, Kwartludium, Pre-Art-Solisten, MozArt Sinfonietta Salzburg and many others.

Anna Arkushyna

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