Biography

Solomiya Moroz is a Canadian-Ukrainian composer-performer based in the UK. She has a PhD in music composition from the University of Huddersfield as well as a Master’s in Live Electronics from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Her work tends to progress towards the expansion of the music-specific medium and the role of the musicians and artists within them. Her music compositions have been presented as part of Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, Contrasts International Contemporary Music Festival in Lviv, Ukraine, Electric Spring Festival in Huddersfield, UK, Takt Berlin Artists residency, Omi International Musicians residency in New York, and Banff Centre Creative residency. In addition, she has performed and presented her collaborative and interdisciplinary work at Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Zone Homa festival in Montreal, Canada with the dance group Les Filles Föllen, Htmlles Feminist Festival of Media Arts and Digital Culture in Montreal, and at The Month of Performance Art Festival in Berlin. As a flautist and electronic performer, she has performed at numerous festivals as soloist and with the Thin Edge New Music Collective and in a duo String Air Synthesis (SAS) with bandurist Volodymyr Voyt. Recent premiers of her compositions have been performed by Ensemble Apparat, accordionist Teodoro Anzellotti, Quasar saxophone quartet, Bozzini string quartet and accordion duo XAMP. She is a recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et Culture for her research into interdisciplinary and gestural composition at the University of Huddersfield. Currently, she is a postdoctoral research fellow at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK in Embodied Music/AI Cognition in Digital Scores project.