"As a composer, Ivan Taranenko is one of the artists who feel completely free in various musical spheres: intellectually serious music, jazz, pop music. The creative style is characterized by amazing openness, willingness to share secrets." Maya Rzhevska, Doctor of Arts Ivan Taranenko - composer, pianist, teacher, public figure graduated from the Kyiv State Conservatory. PI Tchaikovsky, class of professors V. Kireiko, A. Shtogarenko, G. Lyashenko (1991), assistantship-internship at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Music Academy, class of professor G. Lyashenko (1995) Member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (since 1994). Secretary of the Board of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (since 2005). Laureate of the Prize named after M. Lysenko (2011), Laureate of the Prize named after L. Revutsky (1999), Winner of the Grand Prix of the V Charitable Festival "Regina-Vladimir Horowitz in Memoriam" (piano and chamber music, Kyiv, 1998), Laureate of the All-Ukrainian competition named after S. Prokofiev (Donetsk, 1991). He was awarded the "Honorary Award" of the Kyiv Mayor "For significant personal contribution to the development of culture and art" (May, 2002). Since 2000 he has been the dean of the Faculty of Music, and since 2003 he has been the director of the Center for Festivals and Competitions of the Kyiv Children's Academy of Arts, and since 2005 he has been a teacher-methodologist on the basics of composition and improvisation. Since 1999 - lecturer at the Department of Composition of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Music Academy. Participant of the festivals "Kyiv Music Fest", "Musical Premieres of the Season", "Autumn Jazz Marathon", "Kyiv-May-Jazz", international youth music forums (Kyiv), International Slave Festivals (Son, Hungary), XXI International Festival in Ankara (Turkey), 2004, International Festival of Electroacoustic Music "Musica Electronica Nova" (Wroclaw, Poland). For the latter, a piece entitled “There and then, here and now ...” was specially written, music for harpsichord and computer sound collage, commissioned by the Friends of the Warsaw Autumn Foundation at the expense of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. Monaco (2005); International Festival “CINE, SCIENTIA ARS NIHIL EST” of the Studio of Computer Composition of the Wroclaw Academy of Music named after Karol Lipinski (Poland, 2019): The composer's works have been performed in concert halls in Poland, Turkey, Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, France, Israel, the USA, Canada, Russia, and are constantly performed in Ukraine. As a performer he performs a solo program of his own works and improvisations in Ukraine and abroad. In 1996 he created the jazz-fusion band IvanTaranenkoMUSCLUB, with which he performs as a composer and pianist.

Ivan Taranenko

"As a composer, Ivan Taranenko is one of the artists who feel completely free in various musical spheres: intellectually serious music, jazz, pop music. The creative style is characterized by amazing openness, willingness to share secrets." Maya Rzhevska, Doctor of Arts Ivan Taranenko - composer, pianist, teacher, public figure graduated from the Kyiv State Conservatory. PI Tchaikovsky, class of professors V. Kireiko, A. Shtogarenko, G. Lyashenko (1991), assistantship-internship at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Music Academy, class of professor G. Lyashenko (1995) Member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (since 1994). Secretary of the Board of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (since 2005). Laureate of the Prize named after M. Lysenko (2011), Laureate of the Prize named after L. Revutsky (1999), Winner of the Grand Prix of the V Charitable Festival "Regina-Vladimir Horowitz in Memoriam" (piano and chamber music, Kyiv, 1998), Laureate of the All-Ukrainian competition named after S. Prokofiev (Donetsk, 1991). He was awarded the "Honorary Award" of the Kyiv Mayor "For significant personal contribution to the development of culture and art" (May, 2002). Since 2000 he has been the dean of the Faculty of Music, and since 2003 he has been the director of the Center for Festivals and Competitions of the Kyiv Children's Academy of Arts, and since 2005 he has been a teacher-methodologist on the basics of composition and improvisation. Since 1999 - lecturer at the Department of Composition of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Music Academy. Participant of the festivals "Kyiv Music Fest", "Musical Premieres of the Season", "Autumn Jazz Marathon", "Kyiv-May-Jazz", international youth music forums (Kyiv), International Slave Festivals (Son, Hungary), XXI International Festival in Ankara (Turkey), 2004, International Festival of Electroacoustic Music "Musica Electronica Nova" (Wroclaw, Poland). For the latter, a piece entitled “There and then, here and now ...” was specially written, music for harpsichord and computer sound collage, commissioned by the Friends of the Warsaw Autumn Foundation at the expense of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. Monaco (2005); International Festival “CINE, SCIENTIA ARS NIHIL EST” of the Studio of Computer Composition of the Wroclaw Academy of Music named after Karol Lipinski (Poland, 2019): The composer's works have been performed in concert halls in Poland, Turkey, Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, France, Israel, the USA, Canada, Russia, and are constantly performed in Ukraine. As a performer he performs a solo program of his own works and improvisations in Ukraine and abroad. In 1996 he created the jazz-fusion band IvanTaranenkoMUSCLUB, with which he performs as a composer and pianist.

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“As a composer, Ivan Taranenko is one of the artists who feel completely free in various musical spheres: intellectually serious music, jazz, pop music. The creative style is characterized by amazing openness, willingness to share secrets.” Maya Rzhevska, Doctor of Arts Ivan Taranenko - composer, pianist, teacher, public figure graduated from the Kyiv State Conservatory. PI Tchaikovsky, class of professors V. Kireiko, A. Shtogarenko, G. Lyashenko (1991), assistantship-internship at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Music Academy, class of professor G. Lyashenko (1995) Member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (since 1994). Secretary of the Board of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine (since 2005). Laureate of the Prize named after M. Lysenko (2011), Laureate of the Prize named after L. Revutsky (1999), Winner of the Grand Prix of the V Charitable Festival “Regina-Vladimir Horowitz in Memoriam” (piano and chamber music, Kyiv, 1998), Laureate of the All-Ukrainian competition named after S. Prokofiev (Donetsk, 1991). He was awarded the “Honorary Award” of the Kyiv Mayor “For significant personal contribution to the development of culture and art” (May, 2002). Since 2000 he has been the dean of the Faculty of Music, and since 2003 he has been the director of the Center for Festivals and Competitions of the Kyiv Children’s Academy of Arts, and since 2005 he has been a teacher-methodologist on the basics of composition and improvisation. Since 1999 - lecturer at the Department of Composition of the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Music Academy. Participant of the festivals “Kyiv Music Fest”, “Musical Premieres of the Season”, “Autumn Jazz Marathon”, “Kyiv-May-Jazz”, international youth music forums (Kyiv), International Slave Festivals (Son, Hungary), XXI International Festival in Ankara (Turkey), 2004, International Festival of Electroacoustic Music “Musica Electronica Nova” (Wroclaw, Poland). For the latter, a piece entitled “There and then, here and now …” was specially written, music for harpsichord and computer sound collage, commissioned by the Friends of the Warsaw Autumn Foundation at the expense of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. Monaco (2005); International Festival “CINE, SCIENTIA ARS NIHIL EST” of the Studio of Computer Composition of the Wroclaw Academy of Music named after Karol Lipinski (Poland, 2019): The composer’s works have been performed in concert halls in Poland, Turkey, Hungary, Great Britain, Germany, France, Israel, the USA, Canada, Russia, and are constantly performed in Ukraine. As a performer he performs a solo program of his own works and improvisations in Ukraine and abroad. In 1996 he created the jazz-fusion band IvanTaranenkoMUSCLUB, with which he performs as a composer and pianist.

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Experience Level

Freelance Gig
Expert

Language

Ukrainian
Fluent
Russian
Fluent
Polish
Advanced
English
Intermediate

Education

Master's degree, Musical art at Kyiv State Conservatory (1991) & postgraduate Assistantship studies at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music (1995)
September 1, 1986 - October 1, 1995

Qualifications

Music Composer, Orchestrator, Pianist
June 28, 1991 - January 27, 2025
Arranger, Film Composer,
March 1, 2009 - October 14, 2019
Teacher of Musical Composition, Orchestration etc., of Theory & History of Music
September 1, 1991 - December 27, 2025

Industry Experience

Computers & Electronics, Education, Non-Profit Organization, Software & Internet
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