Bass-baritone Ihor Kolomiiets
The Ukrainian bass-baritone studied conducting, harpsichord and basso continuo at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. The conductor of the Graz BläserVielharmoniE Orchestra also researches Ukrainian music of the Baroque and early 20th century. He has travelled to the Stockholm Early Music Festival and to France with the baroque ensemble ‘Musikia’. At the KUG, he conducted Vilma Webenau's ‘Ballade vom Spielmann’, among others.
About the artist
Conductor and singer
Hailing from Kyiv, Ukraine, Ihor is a highly motivated and proactive Master's student of Conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, having previously graduated from the Kyiv National Academy of Music (BA in Choral Conducting).
Ihor conducts the orchestra Grazer BläserVielharmoniE, is chief editor and publisher of the first two books of the planned five-volume collection ‘Sacred Music of the Executed Resurrection’ (works by P. Kozytskyi and S. Chavdarov, 2020) and an enthusiastic researcher of Ukrainian sacred and secular music of the Baroque period and the early 20th century.
He founded the Ensemble Musikia in Ukraine in 2018 and has toured with them to France, as well as performing in Graz and Sweden. In Graz, he works as an assistant conductor and conductor at the KUG, as well as a répétiteur. In the production of Handel's 'Giulio Cesare' at the KUG, he is assistant conductor under the direction of Stefan Gottfried.
