The Ukrainian composer, producer, sound artist, violinist, and educator focuses on a variety of timbres and sound textures, mixing organic sounds and classical music with progressive forms of electronic music production.

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Gryvul studied at the music academies in Lviv and Kraków, and is currently studying computer music and sound art at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Her pieces have been performed at festivals such as Warsaw autumn, Ars Electronica, CTM, ZKM, Musikprotokoll, Ephemera, skaņu mežs, Sanatorium of Sound, Klangzeit, Hyperreality, United Islands of Europe, and many others.

She is a member of the first music catalogue of Ukrainian music, participant of Gaude Polonia – scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture – 37th general assembly of International Confederation of Electroacoustic music, and has won the Ukrainian presidential scholarship for young artists and writers, the Grand Prix of music and sound design »Power of Young,« and was selected as a SHAPE+ platform supported artist in 2022. In 2021, she opened her own music school for composition, instrumentation, music theory, and music production.

Katarina Gryvul is supported by SHAPE+ which is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.