"Music for Second Chapter of Gospel from Luke"
for violin and string orchestra, (2008)
performance:
13.06.2008, Concert hall of Lviv Philharmony, Lviv, Ukraine.
performers:
Maria Tkachyk (violin),
“Perpetuum mobile” chamber orchestra (cond. Ihor Pylatyuk)

Music for Second Chapter Of Gospel from Luke

"Rainfall" (2011)
version 1 (2011) - for fixed media (stereo)
version 2 (2011) - audiovisual composition (video by Mykhaylo Barabash) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdGBbD15juE
version 3 (2011-12) - for 16-channels sound space
first performances:
19.07.2012 Project "My Daily Expiriences",
Platz der Weltausstellung, Hannover, Germany.
3.07.2011, audio-visual project “Inversions of contradictions”,
Concert hall of the Centre of Contemporary Art “Solvay”, Krakow, Poland;
17.05.2011, Iter/Eter project, International Festival “Musica Electronica Nova 2011”, Wroclaw, Polnad.

RAINFALL

"Chopin... Impression"
for flute, oboe, violin, violoncello and piano, (2010)
performances:
International project “Chopin: Transcriptions of our time”,
28.11.2010, Lviv Philharmony, Lviv, Ukraine;
29.11.2010, Concert hall of Ternopil Musical Colege, Ternopil, Ukraine;
06.12.2010, Concert hall of National Union of Composer of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
performers:
Ensemble Nostri Temporis;

Chopin... Impression

"Trees"
for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and electronics (2012)
performance:
28.03.2013 International Festival "Forum of youth music. Ukrainian Biennale of New Music" Concert Hall Lviv Philharmonic (Lviv)
performers:
Ensemble Le Balcon (Paris, France)
Conductor Maxim Pascal (France)

Trees

"Lithos" for tape
4-channels and stereo versions (2014)
8-channels version (2019)
performances:
02.02.2019, CCRMA at BING project, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, CA, USA
20.11.2014, International Festival of Electroacoustic Music "Audio Art",
Concert Hall of The Center for Contemporary Art "Bunkier Sztuki", Krakow, Poland

Lithos - translitertion of greek word "λῐ́θος", which mean "stone".  As new stones appear when lava melted different materials so new democratic society apeared in Ukraine after Revolution of Dignity which joined together different people. Composition based on transformation of gunshots sounds from recordings made in February 2014 during Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv when police killed more than 100 demonstrants.
Winter 2013-2014 was extremely important for Ukrainian History. Pro-russian president Viktor Yanukovych anounced braking agreements about collaboration and association with European Union and turning to extremely Russian-orienteted course in politic. Also his party in parliament voted for legal governmental Internet censorship and applyed a broad definition of "extremist activities" which gave possibility to arrest people for participation in any form of anti-governmental protests.  This two events ignited massive protests all over Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands people protested on Maidan squere in Kyiv. In February 2014 Yanukovych gave orders for special troops to shoot protesters. Over 100 people was killed and many hundreds was wounded. Death of this protesters pushed army and thousands of police officers to support pro-european protesters and opened way to democratic changes, association with European Union and extremely intensive evolution of civic society in Ukraine.

Lithos

Composition based on transformation of sounds by jew's harp and floiara - woodwind instrument from Carpathian Mountains.
First performance:
2007 - Krakow Music Academy (Poland)

Mountains. Morning mist

"Oracle" is a sound story about strange "prophetic" rituals from antique times.  Composition is full of sounds that reflect life of forests and birds but also strange, unexpected sound changes mirrored uncertainty , premonitions and drama. "Oracle" was composed shortly after the beginning of Russian invasion in Crimea and eastern part of Ukraine.
Edited recording from the ISCM World Music Days 2019 concert at the Estonian National Museum. Tartu. 6.05.2019
Performers: Andres Maamees (flute), Kadri Karatšev (oboe), Ivar Säde (clarinet), Rodion Matvejev (French horn), Kristjan Kungla (bassoon)

"Oracle" for woodwind ensemble (2014-19)

"Transgression II"
for violin and electronic/fixed media (2018)
performers:
Ostap Manko (UA-PL), Rafal Zapala (PL)

edited recording of the world premiere 20.03.2018 at the Festival “Poznanska wiosna” (Poznan, Poland)

Transgression II (2018)

"Akathist for the icon of Sambir Theotokos" for soprano and male choir a capella (2018)
text by Fr.Nazar Zatorsky
performers: Kvitka Troianovska (soprano), A Capella Leopolis Choir, Liudmyla Kapustina (conductor)

fragment

Akathist (2018) fragment 1

Ostap Manulyak – ukrainian composer, performer and organiser of different artistic initiatives. Ph.D, docent (assist. prof.) of composition department of the Lviv Music Academy.
Was born in Lviv 1983. Studied composition at the Lviv Music Academy (with prof. Viktor Kaminsky) and also took part in many master-classes of new music leaded by such composers as: Samuel Andreyev (Canada), Carola Bauckholt (Germany), Stefano Gervasoni (Italy), Sergej Newski (Russia-Germany), Serhiy Pilyutikov (Ukraine), Boguslaw Schäffer (Poland), Gerhard Stäbler (Germany) and others.
At 2009 received LODA and Ukrainian Academy of Science Award and at 2010 received the Levko Revutsky award in composition.
Twice was a fellow of Gaude Polonia Program. In 2006 he studied composition at Krakow Music Academy with prof. Zbigniew Bujarski. In 2011 worked at Studio of Electroacoustic Music (SME) at Krakow Music Academy and studied electroacoustic music with prof. Marek Choloniewski.
Ostap Manulyak is a co-founder of Art Association NURT, director of the Festival of electroacoustic music VOX ELECTRONICA and Experimental Educational Studio of Electroacoustic Music (EESEM) of Lviv Music Academy.
Currently at Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic (CCRMA) of Stanford University (California) as Fulbright fellowship.

Ostap Manulyak

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