Catherine Likhuta : Associate Artist
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Random Audio Sample: Out of the Woods? : toccata for horn trio by Catherine Likhuta, from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 77. |
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Catherine Likhuta is an Australian-based composer, pianist and recording artist. Her music exhibits high emotional charge, programmatic nature and rhythmic complexity.
Catherine's works have been played throughout the United States, Europe and Australia, as well as in Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Her music has enjoyed performances by many prominent soloists (such as Trish O'Brien, Paul Dean, Peter Luff, Brent Miller, Adam Unsworth, Griffin Campbell, Ronald Caravan and Emma Di Marco), chamber ensembles (such as HD Duo, Horn Hounds, Barega Saxophone Quartet, Collusion, Western Brass Quintet, Atlantic Brass Quintet, Best of Brass, U.S. Army Field Band Horns and Queensland Symphony Orchestra Horns) and large ensembles (such as The Australian Voices, University of Georgia Hodgson Singers, Cornell University Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony, Queensland Conservatorium Wind Orchestra, University of Georgia Hodgson Wind Ensemble, and Orchestra of the National Radio of Ukraine).
Catherine's pieces have been played at many international events,
including four International Horn Symposiums and two World
Saxophone Congresses. In recent years, she was the winner of the
International Horn Society Composition Contest (virtuoso
division) and the recipient of several awards and two grants from
the Australia Council for the Arts. In 2017, she was selected as
one of four Australian composers for the highly competitive
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Cybec 21st Century Australian
Composers Program. Her music can be heard on Cala, Albany and
Equilibrium Records.
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 pursuing a PhD in
composition at the University of Queensland. She has delivered
presentations on her work at a number of institutions, including
University of Georgia, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith
University, Cornell University, Ithaca College, Arizona State
University, Syracuse University, Butler University, Bowling Green
State University and 50th International Horn Symposium.
Catherine enjoys performing as a pianist, often playing her own
music. She was the soloist on the premiere of Out Loud,
her piano concerto commissioned by the Cornell University Wind
Ensemble, and the pianist on Adam Unsworth's CD
Snapshots. On a recent joint tour with Adam Unsworth,
Catherine gave recitals at Eastman School of Music, Northwestern
University, University of Michigan and Temple University.
Catherine's most representative works are Out of the Woods? (2011), toccata for horn trio, and Scraps from a Madman's Diary (2016), secular oratorio-drama for chamber SATB choir and wind band.
Catherine Likhuta — current to September 2018
Teacher/Influence on
Selected Commissions
Work | Commission Details | |
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Lesions : horn with piano (2018) | Commissioned by Peter Luff. | |
Tangle and Tear (trios: bass clarinet, piano, cello) (2018) | Commissioned by Plexus Ensemble. | |
Lesions : for clarinet, horn and cello (2017) | Commissioned by Paul Dean for performance by Ensemble Q. | |
Bad Neighbours : chamber concerto for 6 horns (2017) | Commissioned by Horn Hounds. | |
Rituals of Heartland : orchestra (2017) | Commissioned as part of the Cybec 21st Century Composers Program. | |
Out of the Woods? (trios: clarinet, piano, cello) (2017) | Commissioned by Endeavour Trio. |