Yulia Monastyrenko

Yulia Monastyrenko

Contemporary composer and pianist, performer of her own works in so called Classical CrossOver style. Her music is rapidly gaining popularity in Russia, as well as among Western audiences. Yulia has released two albums - "140 Piano" and "Reflection", played a solo concert consisting of her own compositions with an orchestra in Moscow International House of Music, filmed a music video for one of her music compositions in Spain, which gained more than 1,000,000 views in YouTube.

Now, Yulia composes music for movies, records new compositions with the orchestra, as well as prepares for her next solo concert. Yulia's music is figurative, sensual, and awakens imagination and association. Each of the compositions has a special story that the composer tells at her concerts. Yulia's concerts are held in direct communications with the audience.

Yulia considers that her passion for music comes from her childhood. Her mother was a child choreographer, and Yulia began to dance at the age of four, dreaming to become a ballerina. Later, her interest in dancing had grown to love for contemporary dance. At the age of six, Yulia's mother took her to a music school, where Yulia had discovered her composing and improvisations talents. Eventually, Yulia had to make a choice between music and ballet as her occupation. Music won, however, dancing stayed a part of Yulia's life for a long time.

Yulia graduated from a music college, theatre institute, tried herself as an actress, taking part in filming of TV series, as well as opened her own dancing school, where she taught contemporary choreography. All of this has given Yulia a lot in her life - formed her as an artistic person and contributed to her coming back to music and composing again, now having a huge baggage of artistic experience, knowledge and impressions.