Alla Sirenko is one of the most exciting composers to have emerged from Ukraine in recent years. Now lives and works in England.
Alla Sirenko was born in Lviv (Western Ukraine) into a professional musical family. She graduated from the Ukrainian State Conservatoire in Kiev as a pianist, from the Estonian State Conservatoire in Tallinn as an organist, and from the Ukrainian State Conservatoire in Lviv as a composer. She has also studied piano at the Moscow Conservatoire and organ in Cambridge and Lubeck.
A few years ago Alla was signed up by the music giant EMI - Music House International, to produce music for film and television across the world. 3 CDs of her music has been successfully released world-wide, and a new release of a double album will be available shortly. She is currently working on producing her new CD. Among her film music - BBC 4 series "In the Footsteps of Churchill".
She is a Composer in residence for the Lviv State Opera and Ballet Theatre, where her 3 stage productions (Opera "The Golden Penguin" and 2 Ballets "The Night of F. G. Lorca" and "The Little Prince") are in the main repertoire of the theatre for the next 10 years.
Her music also is successfully performing in this country and in Europe and U.S.A. A few years ago her Opera for children "The Golden Penguin" was premiered in The Royal Opera House - London.
A performance and composition of her "Ave Maria", especially commissioned for the late Pope's 2001 visit to Ukraine was performed and televised to several million people around the world.
Her Cantata of Peace for mixed choir and symphony orchestra - specially commissioned for a major European celebrations and a pivotal point to her concert tour in France - Lyon , Strasburg.
Three films have been made about Alla and her music. The first was made for the Italian International Film festival "La Donna in Musica" and transmitted in Italy, Cannes, USA and Japan. Another two documentaries about her life and music have been made for the Ukrainian Television.
Her current commissioned work includes the "Sea Mosaics" for 2 French Horns and Orchestra for Soloists from London Symphonia for Dartington Festival - 2005, and an epic Opera "King Danilo", commissioned by The Lviv Opera Theatre for 2006.
