BOHDAN SEHIN (*1976), a composer, project coordinator, studied composition with Myroslav Skorik at the Lviv M. Lysenko National Music Academy. In 2003 and 2006, he participated in the Gaude Polonia scholarship program and studied composition with Zbigniew Bujarski in Cracow and Zygmunt Krauze in Warsaw. Sehin is a recipient of the Warsaw Autumn Friends Foundation scholarship (2003), a Gulliver Connect (2008) and Ukrainian Presidential (2008–2010) grants. Multiple awards for both composition and theatrical work in Ukraine and Poland.
Sehin is a member of the Ukrainian National Composers Union and has worked on a number of projects in collaboration with the Polish Institute and the Austrian Cultural Forum in Kiev, the Goethe-Institut in Ukraine. In 2009 he began coordinating projects for the Ensemble Nostri Temporis, becoming its director the following year. Founder and artistic director of the COURSE (International master-classes for new music) and Ukrainian Biennale for New Music. From 2012 he is the commercial director for the new music development of Lviv Philharmonic Society and executive director of the Contrasts International Contemporary Music Festival.
Featuring symphonic, choral, and chamber works, as well as music for theatrical productions, Sehin’s work has been performed for audiences in Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia, France, Switzerland, Germany, China and certainly in Ukraine.
And the Sailors Enjoying the View of the Earth... for accordion (2011). The original title in Polish A jak żeglarze ziemi cieszą się widokiem... is a quotation from Homer's Odyssey, Book 23. The initial version was composed for organ solo was designed for the project Organ Odyssey under the request by Polish composer and organist Dariusz Przybylski. The premiere was held in Warsaw Autumn festival, 2011. In 2012, accordionist Roman Yusipey arranged the second edition for accordion solo.
According to composer, the main idea was not a musical expression of literary images, but a desire to show the emotional status of Homer's heroes. The music is focused on details and their transformations in the way of slow motion. The tension changes into the joy, which subsequently transforms into the serenity and peacefulness.
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