Uliana Нorbachevska

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She is a singer, actress, director, researcher of authentic Ukrainian songs and ancient spiritual cantos which have formed her as an artist. 

Graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts (1997).

She creates contemporary artistic forms within the theatrical, singing, literary, musical, multidisciplinary and jazz projects, either based on archaic singing traditions or

closely related to Ukrainian culture (literature, poetry). She also combines the traditional singing with her own improvisations, in the field of contemporary music (free jazz, electronics), preserving its basic principles and essence. 

 

Most of her projects involve co-operation with musicians and actors from around the world.

 

Co-operation with institutions, centers and groups:

2003-2011 - worked with the creative association "Maysternia pisni";

2005-2011 - collaboration with the Institute n.a. E.Grotowski (Poland);

since 2004 - has been working with the authentic singing group “Drevo"(Kriachkivka village, Ukraine);

since 2009 - cooperation with the agency "ArtPole";

since 2013 - cooperation with the theaterical center "Lavoizelle" (France).

 

 

Cooperation with individuals:

Yuri Andruhovych (Ukraine), Petras Vysniauskas (Lithuania), Klaus Kugel (Germany), Riszard Latecki (Poland), Julian Kitastyi (America-Ukraine), Antoni Donchev (Bulgaria), Wlodek Pawlik (Poland), Jean-Francois Favreau (France) ), Christian Ramond (Germany), Sankar Nair (India) and many more.

 

 

 

The current projects: 

The opera-myth "Ukraine – Terra Incognita", "Leopolis Quintet", "Mosaic", "Antonych At Home", "Psalma. Journey", "Albert, or The Highest Form Of Execution", "Songs Of War And Sky", "Ultramarine", "Partytury fotografiy" and the author's school of authentic singing "The Way to The Personal Sound".

 

 

 

CDs:

“On A Sunday Morning” (2009); "Afrer Christmas" (2010); "The Appearance of Light" (2011); "Dole" (2011); "Nebocry" (2012); recording of the concert "Monastery" for the Polish Radio and Television Archives (Lutoslawski Recording Studio, Warsaw) with the Grammy Award winner, pianist Wlodek Pawlik (2014); "Christmas Mosaic" - music for artbook (2017).

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