Alumnus from Odessa conservatoire and later MMus in composition under Theo Loevendie at Amsterdam conservatoire, the Ukrainian Svitlana Azarova recides in The Hague since 2005.

Svitlana has participated in many international workshops, festivals and project -- Gaude Polonia, Dresdner Tage der zeitgenossischen Music, Avantgarde Tirol and Musica Viva, etc.

Many of her works have been published by MCN/Donemus (The Netherlands) and TEM (Italy) and are performed by for example Orchestre National d'Île de France (ONDIF) under Enrique Mazzola (France) and Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra (ECSO) under Toshi Shimada (USA) Read more

La Lettre du Musicien

"En une poignée de minutes, Mover of the Earth, Stopper of the Sun témoigne d’un indéniable savoir-faire orchestral, sa trame de longues tenues de cordes zébrées de cuivres rappelant l’esthétique balte d’un Erkki-Sven Tüür ou d’un Arvö Pärt."
Laurent Vilarem, La Lettre du Musicien

The Day, CT

"What better way to start a new year than with the world premiere of a symphony? The January performance of Ukrainian composer Svitlana Azarova's grand, noisy and thoroughly engrossing symphony "Pure thought transfixed" was a top-shelf event: The composer seated in the hall, the orchestra in top form, and wonderful new sounds to transfix us with a gripping immediacy and sense of discovery. It was also a tribute ECSO Music Director Toshi Shimada who landed this score. Azarova's new works are starting to dot the schedule for major venues in Amsterdam and Paris. A few years from now, we may get to say, ah, yes, I was there for the premiere..."
Milton Moore, The Day, CT