VICTORIA POLEVA (*1962) in 1989 graduated from Kiev National P. Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (composition with Prof. Ivan Karabyts) and in 1995 completed her post-graduate studies under Prof. Levko Kolodub. Since 2005 she is a freelance composer. In 2010, Poleva took part in Kremer’s international project Art of Instrumentation, devoted to Johann Sebastian Bach and Glenn Gould. In 2011 she was invited as composer-in-residence at the Lockenhaus Festival (Austria).
Poleva’s music was performed at Beethovenfest Bonn, Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival, Yuri Bashmet’s Festival in Minsk, Valery Gergiev’s Easter Festival in Moscow, Chamber Music Connects the World in Kronberg, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Philharmonie Berlin, Köln Philharmonie, Theatre de Chatelet Paris, Rudolfinum-Dvorak Hall in Prague, Concert Auditorio Nacional de Espana in Madrid, George Weston Recital Hall in Toronto, Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco, Oriental Art Center Shanghai, Seoul Art Center, Esplanade Concert Hall Singapore, festivals of the new music in Ukraine, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, Poland, UAE, Peru and Chile.
Her early works were related to the aesthetics of the avant-garde and poly-stylistics (Gagaku ballet, Transform for symphony orchestra, Anthem for chamber orchestra, Еpiphany for chamber ensemble, Horace’s ode). From the late 1990s, her music became identified stylistically with “sacred minimalism” (Pärt, Vasks, Tavener, Gorecki). An important period in Poleva’s creative work is related to intensive studies and embodiment of texts from divine services in the music.
"Null" for accordion (2005, dedicated to Roman Yusipey). This work is an attempt to create an original kind of anti-music. Absolute, non-personal, supra temporal. Which would encompass all possible space of the roaring emptiness. Nothing-music. (Victoria Poleva)
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