Maxim will create a monoopera for voice and instruments dealing with the subject of Neurological Disorder and Parkinson’s Disease.
Maxim Shalygin is a Ukrainian-Dutch composer. He has written more than 40 works in various genres: chamber, vocal, symphonic, electro-acoustic music, as well as music for theatre, ballet, and film. Since 2016 he is a founder and an artistic member of the Shapeshift Ensemble (NL), which marked the beginning of the S I M I L A R project.
Shalygin’s compositions combine a wide range of techniques with psychological insight and spirituality. Composer extends the traditional array of playing techniques, not so much by resorting to ‘extended techniques’, rather is out at unfolding the sounds of the instruments in all their congenial sonority. No academic formulas hence, nor avant-garde radicalisms, but rather a self-conceived scale of playing techniques in its own right that never severs the ties with sonority, and thus allows for maintaining a thoroughly tonal language.
His works have been performed at many famous venues and music festivals worldwide, including Music on Main (Vancouver, Canada), Klarafestival (Brussel, Belgium), Musikwoche Hitzacker 2022, IMPULS 2022 | Festival für Neue Musik, Konzertsaal, HMDK Stuttgart, Piano Salon Christophori, Einstein Kultur – Theater Musik (Germany), Brussels Piano Festival, Musique de Chambre en Normandie (France), Galway Cathedral Organ Festival (Ireland), and many more.
Leading contemporary music ensembles who have performed his works include National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Amsterdam Cello Octet, Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Asko|Schönberg, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, DoelenKwartet, Insomnio, Nieuw Ensemble, Slagwerk Den Haag, Amstel Quartet and Keuris Quartet.