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First name: Bohdana
Last name: Frolyak
Dates: 1968
Category: Quartet
Nationality: Ukrainian
Opus name: Magni nominis umbra
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Peculiarities: cd: Eur.Zentrum der Künste CD 896/DAT 613
Information: Born in Ukraine in 1968, she completed a secondary music school in Lviv in 1986, in the class of piano and musicology. She subsequently studied composition at the city's M. Lysenko Music Academy, gaining her diploma in 1991. After a traineeship as an assistant to M. Skoryk, she became a faculty member of the Academy's Department of Composition as a lecturer. She held grants from the Warsaw Autumn Friends Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (2001) and the Gaude Polonia Programme of the Polish Ministry of Culture (2004, for compositional studies with Zbigniew Bujarski). She is a member of the New Music Association. Her compositions have been performed at international festivals in Poland and abroad, including Contrasts in Lviv, the Kyiv-Music-Fest, Premieres of the Seasonas in Kiev, Two Days and Two Nights (the new music festival in Odessa), Days of Ukrainian Musica in Warsaw and Moscow, Days of Music by Krakau Composers and Cultural Crossroads in Krakau. Bohdana Frolyak