| Halyna Ovcharenko - Catalogue of Works
Children's Pictures (1980) - 6 songs for voice and piano. Premiered in Kiev 1982. 3 Choruses (1981) unaccompanied chorus SATB 5 Preludes for Piano (1982) Letila Zoulenika (1982) for unaccompanied female chorus Sonata for Double Bass and Piano (1984) Piano Sonata (1985). Premiered 1986 Chumats'ki pisni (Songs of the Oxcart Drivers) Cantata for male chorus, 1989 Cantata for Children's Choir, Soloists and Symphony Orchestra (1987). Performed and recorded in Kiev by Ukrainian State Broadcasting Corporation in 1996. Vesnovi for mixed chorus (1989). Premiered 1989 The Sun Scorched Mallow (1992) - Cantata for Choir, Soloists, Reciter and Symphony Orchestra. Performed and recorded in Kiev by Ukrainian State Broadcasting Corporation in 1992. Won the "Marian & Ivanna Kotz" International Composers Competition at Kiev in 1992. Dribushechki (1992) - Pieces for Symphony Orchestra. Performed and recorded in Kiev by Ukrainian State Broadcasting Corporation in 1993. Hopak (1993) for 2 Pianos for Luba and Ireney Zuk. Performed in Odessa, New York and Toronto in 1994. Toccata (1993) for trumpet and piano. Premiered in Kiev 1993. The Wizard World in Pieces of Ice (1994) for 2 pianos written for Luba and Ireney Zuk. Performed in New York and Toronto in 1994. Two Pieces for Inspired Clarinettist (1995) Performed and recorded in Kiev by Ukrainian State Broadcasting Corporation in 1995. Silence Wavered in the Sky (1995) Performed and recorded in Kiev by Ukrainian State Broadcasting Corporation in 1995. Everlasting (1995) for chamber orchestra and ensemble of authentic voices . Performed and recorded in Kiev by Ukrainian State Broadcasting Corporation in 1995. Won the International Women Composers Competition, Kiev in 1995. Invocation of Rain (1996) for four percussionists and authentic voice. Performed and recorded by Ukrainian State Broadcasting Corporation in 1996. Performed in Bristol in 1997.
Read More... Negative of a Sketch (1996) Music for an opera, libretto by V. Vitkevich. String Quartet (1996) Premiered by the Nossek Quartet in Bristol in 1997. Transformations (1997) for Symphony Orchestra. Premiered by University of Bristol Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adrian Beaumont 1997.
On the Threshold (1997) music for a film documentary on the life of the Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church of Great Britain (directed Andrei Shilov). Illusion (1997) for eighteen solo strings, commissioned by English Chamber Orchestra. Performed by the ECO, in February 1998 at Victoria Rooms, Bristol and Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Then in September performed by Beethoven Academy Orchestra at both Blue Hall of de Singel, Antwerp and the University Hall, Leuven in Belgium. All performances were conducted by Harry Christophers.
Read More... Le Nonsense (1997) for voice and harp. Words by Edward Lear.
Moods (1998) for mixed chorus (Words W.B. Yeats)
Studies in Witchcraft (1999) for orchestra The Last Battle (2000) Ballet in two acts after C.S. Lewis
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Kupala's Night (2001) Ballet in three acts after the story by Gogol Ebony Quartet (2003) for clarinet quartet
Bring Forth the Horse (2003) for male choir a capella.
Text from Byron's Mazeppa
Melting Light (2005) for Cello and
Piano
What the Shaman Saw (2005) for Five
percussionists. First performed in Bucharest, Romania, May
22-29, 2005, Ansamblul de percutie -"Game" , Conductor:
Alexandru Matei. Duration: 10 minutes
Polyphonic Pastorals (2006) for Flute
Orchestra. Commissioned by the French Flute Orchestra, Performed
in Paris 18.10.2007 Duration: 16 minutes
There was a Shimmering Silence (2007)
for string orchestra. Commissioned by SPNM
Performed by the Scottish Ensemble 23rd, 25th February 2007,
Glasgow, Aberdeen.
Performed at the Kyiv Music Fest, 1st October 2007 by the
National Orchestra, cond. Valerii Matjukhin. Duration: 11
minutes.
March & Lezginka (2007) for Clarinet
choir. Performed by Koorenhuis Klarinet Ensemble in Holland,
Norway and Belgium. Performed by The East London Clarinet Choir
in London. Duration: 8 minutes
…Thy Kingdom Come Thy Will Be Done…
(2007) for Symphony orchestra. Performed and recorded by the
London BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Maida’s Vale studios,
13th November 2007. Duration: 12 minutes.
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