Biography
Yaroslava Snitko is an Italy-based Ukrainian composer and sound designer. She was born on January 24th, 1991, in Kyiv. She studied in R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music in 2006-2010 and in Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in 2010-2014. In 2018 Yaroslava had defended her thesis dedicated to Benjamin Britten’s chamber music and got a degree of Candidate of Study of Art (comparable to PhD). For more then 10 years she worked as teacher of solfège, piano, classical harmony and music composition in music schools and as a private tutor. At the same time she was a part of church music band as a keyboards player and a back-vocalist. However, she has never forgotten her dream to become film music composer. She continues her studies taking private lessons of audio engineering and some courses of music production. And in process she discovers for herself a new passion – sound design.
In February 2022 because of the beginning of Russia’s full scale invasion in Ukraine Yaroslava migrates to Italy. There she continues to work as a freelance musician and creates experimental compositions for contemporary music festivals.
From 2023 to 2024 she studies in Scuola Internazionale di Comics on Music Composition Per Cinema, TV e Videogame’s department.
During April and May of 2023 Yaroslava works on music for her first short film “Heroine” directed by Sofia Karpenko (Ukraine.) Straight after she makes music for some of the scenes of hybrid documentary-animation film “Fragments of Red” (premiered on August 2023) directed by Lachlan Saille (Australia). In 2024 she participates in various stages from Scuola Comics as sound designer, and continues her collaboration with L. Saille.
In her music Yaroslava embodies a vide range of genres and moods. From minimalistic pieces for strings solo to complex hybrid orchestral scores. From calm and meditative tracks to emotional depth of psichological dramas, from touching softness of romantic scenes to epic and sci-fi compositions. Strong classical music background allows Yaroslava to use orchestral instruments with flexibility and to fully apply their expressiveness. At the same time she enriches their sound by adding electronic instruments and using various methods of audio synthesis.
Yaroslava Snitko | Composer and Sound Designer