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Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko are an award-winning composers’ duo from Ukraine. They have been working together as composers, stage directors and librettists in the field of contemporary opera and new music theatre since 2015, exploring the boundaries and borders of contemporary opera and music theatre in Ukraine and worldwide.

Education / Roman Grygoriv
2007-2012 – Kyiv National Music Academy of Ukraine, composition, Master study
2012-2015  – Kyiv National Music Academy of Ukraine, Postgraduate composition (class of Anna Havryletc)
2022 - Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts, Media Composition, Postgradual (class of Jorge Sanshez-Chiong )

Education / Illia Razumeiko
2007-2012 – Kyiv National Music Academy of Ukraine, composition, Master study (class of Anna Havryletc)
2022 – Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts, Composition, Master study (class of Karlheinz Essl)
2020-2022 – Vienna University for Music and Performing Arts, Artistic research Doctorate (class of Johannes Kretz and Wei-Ya Lin)

Awards:
2021 – Music Theatre NOW, TOP-6 music-theatrical performances worldwide for Archaeological opera CHORNOBYLDORF.
2021 – Ukrainian theatre award “GRA” Best experimental performance for Archaeological opera CHORNOBYLDORF, opera also gets 4 prices for the best music, direction, scenography and choreography.
2021 – Terni Film Festival, Best Soundtrack for “Mother of Apostles” film
2021 – Social World Film Festival, Best Soundtrack for “Mother of Apostles” film
2020 – Shevchenko National Prize for opera-requiem IYOV
2018 – Music Theater NOW, TOP-10 music-theatrical performance worldwide s for opera-requiem IYOV

Opera and Music theatre projects:
GENESIS. Opera of memory in 13 mise-en-scene
National Khanenko Museum, Kyiv, 2022
OPERA LINGUA, Music theatre in seven books
National Library, Kyiv, 2021
CHORNOBYLDORF. Archaeological Opera in seven novels
National Arsenal Museum Complex, Kyiv, 2020
GAZ, opera-dystopia  (dir. By Virlana Tkacz)
National Drama Theater, Kyiv, 2019
AEROPHONIA, futuristic opera  for air-plane and Ensemble 	Ivano-Frankivsk, stadium “Rukh”, 2018
Hamlet, horror-opera  (dir. By Rostyslav Derjypilskiy), trap-opera Wozzeck, opera-ballet ARK (dir. By Vlad Troitskiy, Nova Opera), 2017 
Babylon, opera-circus  (dir. by Vlad Troitskiy, Nova Opera), All-night opera neprOsti, 2016
IYOV, opera-requiem  (dir. By Vlad Troitskiy, Nova Opera), 2015

Venues and Festivals:
2015-2022
National Opera House, Kyiv Ukraine (2018, IYOV)
National Drama Theater, Kyiv Ukraine (2019, GAZ) 
Theater La Mama, New York, USA (2019, GAZ)
Festival Prototype, New York, USA (2018, IYOV)
Festival Musiktheatertage Wien, Austria (2019, GAZ / 2022 CHORNOBYLDORF)
Musikverein, Gläserner Saal, Austria (2017, IYOV)
Rotterdam O. Festival, Holland (2019, IYOV / 2022 CHORNOBYLDORF)
Macedonian National Opera, Macedonia (2017, IYOV)
Gdansk Shakespeare Theater, Poland (2016, IYOV / 2017 HAMLET)
Lublin, Center for Meeting of Cultures, Poland (2016, IYOV)
Saint-Mary Cathedral, Paris, France (2018, IYOV)
Radio Hall, Copenhagen, Danemark (2017, @arnaval)
Ars Electronica Festival Linz, Austria (2022, Lullaby for Mariupol) 
Helsinki, Music Center, Finland  (2022, Lullaby for Mariupol)
Milan, Triennale Milano Teatro  (2022, Lullaby for Mariupol)
Teatro Municipal São Paulo, Brazil (2023, CHORNOBYLDORF)
Theatre der Welt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2023, CHORNOBYLDORF)


Film music: 
“Chrysanthemum Day” (2023), 75 min, mystical sci-fi drama,  Dir. Simon Mozhovyi “Mother of Apostles” (2020), 125 min, drama, Dir. Zaza Buadza, “The Raid” (2019), 90 min, historical drama, Ukraine Dire. Sergey Lysenko “The Winter Garden’s Tale” (2019), 76 min, documentary, Dir. Simon Mozgovyi “Іn our Synagogue” (2018), 19 min, short, Dir. Ivan Orlenko “Myth” (2018), 90 min, documentary, biography, Dir.: Leonid Kanter, Ivan Yasnyi

Festivals and organisation: 
Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko are founders and artistic directors of the PORTO FRANKO festival (2010-2018, Ivano-Frankivsk, West Ukraine)  which for the seasons 2016-2018 was one of the largest multidisciplinary festivals of contemporary and performing arts in Ukraine. http://portofranko.com.ua/en/
Since 2020 they have been running an independent laboratory and production company for contemporary opera “Opera Aperta” in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Media Coverage
The Times, Richard Morrison Chorobyldorf review
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/.../chernobyl dorf-review-a…

The Telegraph, Chorobyldorf review
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/.../reviews-november-2022s.../

Harry Rolnick, “When Human’s Make Heaven and Hell”
https://www.concertonet.com/scripts/review.php?ID_review=12845

Theresa Wirth, “Wenn die Dystopie real wird”
https://www.diepresse.com/6188909/wenn-die-dystopie-real-wird

Kelly Sallivan, “theartsdesk in Kyiv - defiant new operatic epic in an empty gallery”
shorturl.at/eoUZ8 

The Claquers, ““We are at the epicentre of the war for Ukrainian culture”
https://theclaquers.com/en/posts/8913

Andryi Kolyada, Yuliia Bentia, “Chornobyldorf – Einige Lektionen zur Gestaltung der Zukunft”, Positionen
https://www.positionen.berlin/post/chornobildorf?fbclid=IwAR3SrX1rjiSnzu2qtrZ8osLvnzCcc2Z9eNQiAafcizOhFUrXFCSw0tECnvw

Michaela Preiner, “Chornobyldorf - a look back, and one forward”
https://www.european-cultural-news.com/en/chornobyldorf-musiktheatertage-wien/46800/

Once I was asked what is music for me and I said: Music is like ocean. And ocean is my first love.  

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