Biography
Anna Arkushyna is Ukrainian composer based in Graz, Austria. She studied composition in Kyiv (with Alla Zagaïkevych and Yevhen Stankovych) and in Graz (Composition-class by Beat Furrer and Franck Bedrossian). Also she was a student at the IEM Graz (class by Marko Ciciliani and Daniel Mayer).
Anna completed the Cursus Program on Composition and Computer Music in 2022/2023 at IRCAM, Paris.
She is winner of the 3. award of the “Pre-art composers competition” in (2017). Anna was also finalist of the “Ö1-Talentebörse Kompositionspreis" (2020, 2022) in Austria. In 2021 she was awarded with "Musikförderungspreis der Stadt Graz". Anna got a Start Stipendium für Musik und darstellende Kunst 2022 from Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport Österreich in 2022, and Staatstipendium für Komposition for 2024 from Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport Österreich.
In summer 2024 she is an Artist-in-Residence 2024 at Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany.
Her music is widely performed during many festivals and projects at Manifeste, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Impuls Festival, Klangwerkstatt, Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, Novalis and many others by ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Airborne Extended, Cantando Admont, Quatuor Béla, Nostri Temporis, Ensemble Spectrum, Kwartludium etc.