bohdana Frolyak
ukraine

Ms. Frolyak’s new work will be premiered in 2024. It is connected to Beethoven’s Sonata no. 2 in A Major, Op.2 no.2.

Bohdana Frolyak (b.1968)  is one of the foremost Ukrainian composers today and a well-known teacher and social activist. Her prolific body of works includes orchestral, choral, chamber and solo compositions.
Born in 1968 in Vydyniv village in Western Ukraine, she graduated from the Mykola Lysenko State Music Academy in Lviv in 1991, where she studied composition under Volodymyr Flys and Myroslav Skoryk. In 1998 she completed her postgraduate studies under Myroslav Skoryk at Lviv’s Academy of Music. Currently she teaches composition at Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy in Lviv. 

Her accolades include the National Levko Revutsky Award for the Orbis Terrarum symphony (2000), National Borys Liatoshynsky Award for the Clarinet Concerto (2006), Mykola Lysenko National Award for her Symphony no. 2 (2010), and National Stanislav Lyudkevich Award for Diptych after Shevchenko and chamber works (2011). In 2017, she was awarded the National Shevchenko Prize for her works on Schevchenko’s poetry: Humble Soul, Flower, Dream. She has received scholarships from the Friends of Warsaw Autumn Foundation, Ernst von Siemens Foundation (2001), and Minister of Culture of Poland (Gaude Polonia 2004).

Her music has been performed on various festivals of contemporary music in Ukraine and internationally, including Contrasts (Lviv), Two Days and Two Nights of New Music (Odessa), Kyiv Music Fest, Premieres of the Season (Kyiv), Days of Sacred Music (Uzhhorod), Warsaw Autumn, Festival of Cracow Composers, Witold Lutosławski Forum of Contemporary Art in Lublin (Poland), Menhir Festival (Switzerland), Festival of New Music in Berlin and Cologne, Days of Ukrainian Music in Azerbaijan, as well as at concerts in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and France.