SASHA
KATSALAP
biography
Sasha Katsalap is ukrainian composer-performer currently studying in Basel under profs.Michel Roth, Caspar Johannes Walter and Tobias Schabenberger. During her studies in Ukraine and Switzerland she participated in numerous competitions as a pianist and performed as a soloist and ensemble member in many places, e.g. National Philharmonic of Ukraine (Kyiv), Martinskirche (Kassel) and in Basel (Stadtcasino, Theater Basel and Gare du Nord, Museum Tinguely). Her pieces have been performed in Switzerland, Germany and Ukraine. She was participant of Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in 2023.
In her works she explores the musical aspect of language and focuses on the theatrical aspect of music performance and creates multi-layered works blurring the border between abstract and political art. She combines composed pieces with improvisation and traditional acoustic instruments with live-electronics and DIY instruments.
composition
like painting, when different layers of colors are placed on top of each other,
like rays of light refracted at different angles and in different directions,
like musicians who are players and listeners,
like kittens that are dead and alive,
like water lilies by Monet, although they have no connection to quantum mechanics
this piece is in superposition and superpositions all listeners.
performance
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