Catherine Likhuta
Biography
Catherine Likhuta (b. 1981, Kyiv, Ukraine) is an Australian-based composer, pianist and recording artist.
Catherine holds a bachelor's degree in jazz piano from Kyiv Glière Music College and a five-year post-graduate degree in composition from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv Conservatory). She is currently [2018] pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at the University of Queensland.
Her music exhibits high emotional charge, programmatic nature and rhythmic complexity. Catherine's works have been performed throughout North America, Europe and Australia by many prominent soloists and ensembles, such as Paul Dean, Peter Luff, The Australian Voices, U.S. Army Field Band Horns, Cornell University Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony, Queensland Conservatorium Wind Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the National Radio of Ukraine. Her pieces have been played at several international events, including two international horn symposia and the World Saxophone Congress. Her concertino for five horns entitled Hard to Argue became the winner of the International Horn Society Composition Contest, virtuoso division.
Works for Winds
- Apex Predators (2015)
- Bad Neighbours (2017)
- Bury and Rise (2023)
- Hard to Argue (2014)
- Home Away from Home (2019)
- It Comes and Goes
- Let the Darkness Out (2011/2019)
- Me Disagrees (2010/2013)
- Out Loud (2008)
- A Place That Is Yours (2022)
- Planet B (2021)
- Scraps from a Madman's Diary (2016)
- Storm Chasers (2022)
- Through Healers' Eyes (2020)
- Vivid Dreams (2018/2020)
Resources
- Catherine Likhuta website Accessed 2 April 2017
- The Horizon Leans Forward…, compiled and edited by Erik Kar Jun Leung, GIA Publications, 2021, p. 392.