Victoria Vita Polevá

Victoria Vita Polevá (also spelled:  Ukrainian: Вікторія Польова)  is a Ukrainian pianist and composer.

Born on September 11, 1962 in KievUkraine, daughter of composer Valery Polevoy (1927–1986). Graduate of Kiev Conservatory (class of composition with Prof. Ivan Karabyts) 1989. Post-graduate studies completed there in 1995 under Prof. Levko Kolodub. 1990-1998 - lecturer in the faculty of composition, 2000-2005 – at the Music Information Technologies Department of the Kiev Conservatory. Since 2005 she has been a freelance composer.

2014, 2015 - member of the jury of the International Composers Competition "Sacrarium" (Italy)

A genre range of her compositions includes symphonic, choral, chamber music. Early works of Victoria Polevá were related to the aesthetics of the avant-garde and polystylistics (ballet "Gagaku", "Transform" for symphony orchestra, "Anthem" for chamber orchestra, "Еpiphany" for chamber ensemble, cantatas "Horace's ode", "Gentle light"). From the late 1990s her music became identified stylistically with "sacred minimalism". An important period in Victoria Polevá's creative work is related to intensive studies and embodiment of texts from divine services in the music.

 Victoria Polevá's works are performed at the Beethovenfest Bonn (Germany), the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival (Austria), Chamber Music Connects the World (Kronberg, Germany), the Dresdner Musikfestspiele, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Köln Philharmonie (Germany), the Theatre Chatelet in Paris (France), the Rudolfinum-Dvorak Hall in Prague (Czech Republic), the Auditorio Nacional de España in Madrid (Spain), the George Weston Recital Hall in Toronto (Canada), the Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco (United States), the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai (China), the Seoul Art Center (South Korea), the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, and at festivals of new music in Ukraine, SwedenFinlandSwitzerlandItalyPolandUnited Arab EmiratesPeru, and Chile.

- Pianist and composer

In 2006 Victoria Polevá was composer-in-residence at the Menhir Chamber Music Festival (Swiss, Graubunden).

In 2010, among such composers as Giya KancheliValentin Silvestrov  Victoria Polevá has taken part in Gidon Kremer's international project «The Art of Instrumentation», devoted to Johann Sebastian Bach and Glenn Gould.

In 2011 Victoria Polevá was invited by Gidon Kremer as composer-in-residence at the XXX Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival (Austria).

In 2012 a butoh dancer Tadashi Endo did premiere of her ballet "Gagaku".

In 2013 Kronos Quartet did premiere of V.Polevá "Walking on Waters".

In 2013 Victoria Polevá was composer-in-residence at Festival of Contemporary Music Darwin Vargas (Chile, Valparaiso)

In 2021 Naxos publishes "The Simurg Quintet" by Victoria Poleva.

In 2023 London Philharmonic Orchestra did the English premiere of “Nova”(with conductor Andrey Boreyko)

Among the performers of her works are:
Gidon Kremer (violin), Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone), Aleksei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Elsbeth Moser (accordion), Chamber orchestra "Kremerata Baltica", Giedre Dirvanauskaite. "Ricochet "Atros-trio", "Avalon-trio", "Zurich Ensemble for New Music" (Switzerland), "Accroche note" (France)
conductors : Andrey Borejko, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Volodymyr Sirenko, Roman Kofman, Arild Remmereit, , Natalia Ponomarchuk, Simon Camartin;

 Victoria Poleva is a Laureate  of Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.