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NATALYA VYSOKIKH: MUSIC COMPOSER, MUSICIAN
About music
Natalia Vysokikh’s music is a phenomenon which cannot be expressly referred to as upmarket or popular. Natalia’s path is quite quaint and far from any stereotypic success story. Her background is about anything from the cozy Renaissance music to major multicultural world music festivals, vanguard slash academic music performances and even some gloomy Australian blues. Her previous allies are now firmly rooted in the soil of movie composers or they reap the cream in the arena of patriotic folk music. In this context, her yet one and only solo album “Butterflies & the Fish” recorded by a small ensemble is surprisingly eloquent in paying tribute to the classics of minimalist music and art rock. Today, Natalia is captivated by writing music for the theater (mainly for children’s plays). She lovingly puts Igor Irtenev’s ironic poems and Pavlik Letymbozh’s paradoxical verses onto music to create her ingenious concert agenda which can easily make you stay wide awake all night and your head itch with thought. This, of course, is chamber music, meaning that it is most fit for small rooms and sophisticated listeners who are ready for experiment. But in terms of its chamber nature, Natalia’s music is mesmerizingly serene and playful, even though such playfulness may sometimes drive you into the dissonant wilderness of sounds and may drive crazy a respectable mother who has brought her offspring to a Winnie-the-Pooh play. This composer does not boast of her academic background and does not abuse of austere music forms (yet it feels like she does have all these skills under her belt). What gives Natalia Vysokikh’s music its identity is the collision of the substance of the classical music school impregnated with the newest trends and performance authenticity, and the lightness and flexibility inherent to street musicians (its peculiar sounding has taken years in the streets to master). This mix is nothing close to the rough irony of post-modernist music. Her music is boosting with an honest search for her identity, for her ‘inner folklore’ nourished and influenced by a whole variety of music trends. Her music offers space for letting out an inner child to play or for letting an inner wise man out to meditate. This music is not a dispute between jazz and classical music, between fiery Latina and Scandinavian restraint, between well-calculated polyphony and improvisational fervor. This music space is not ruled by contrast or opposition but rather by juxtaposition of seemingly incomparable music ideas which, in the end, always find something common in their provenance. No matter where we grow up or learn or think, our bodies are more or less the same, and so are our base feelings which may prompt us one day to notice that some sounds in the chaotic world around us cling onto each other so well.
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Lives in
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Genres
World, folk, jazz, minimalism,
neoclassical, orchestral, theatrical, children's music
Member of
International Instruments Orchestra, Casa Orchestra
Vysо́ko
Contacts
etsahoda@gmail.com
Bandcamp
Rutube
Discography
Butterflies and fish (СD, self-released, 2011) Mystical journey (EP digital audio, self released, 2016)
Invisible side (EP digital audio, self released, 2017)
Vysóko - "Yıgyd Pelya Osh" (2020)
Vysóko - "Rosiká" (2020)
Vysóko - "St. Nicholas Prayers" (2022)
Theatrical works
A fairy tale about a bald lion (St. Petersburg)
Yudo and miracle (Khanty-Mansiysk)
Moidodyr (Kaliningrad, Petrozavodsk)
Memorial Prayer (St. Petersburg)
Paunch King (Tver)
Fedora's woe (St. Petersburg)
Carlson, who lives on the roof (St. Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Ivanovo)
The Canterville Ghost (Blagoveshchensk)
Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh (Nizhnevartovsk)
Aibolit's Travel (St. Petersburg, Khanty-Mansiysk)
Aibolit (Blagoveshchensk)
Twelfth night (St. Petersburg)
Tale vice versa (Kaliningrad)
The Three Little Pigs (Kaluga)
Brave Little Tailor (Kaliningrad)
Snowman mailer (St. Petersburg)
Little Red Riding Hood (Yaroslavl', Petrozavodsk)
A gift for mom (St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl')
Deer with golden horns (Magadan)
Nothern tale (Surgut)
Baby Elephant (Yaroslavl')
The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (Tver')
Lafertovskaya Makovnitsa (Kstovo)
Scary mister Au (Smolensk)
The story of one beard (Khanty-Mansiysk)
Lullaby for a mouse (Kaliningrad)
Silver hoof (Rybinsk)
Friendly company (Smolensk)
Golden chicken (Kaliningrad, Voronezh)
Snow tale (Petrozavodsk)
Morozko (Nizhniy Tagil)
Mermaid (Rybinsk)
Puss in boots (St.Petersburg)
Pinocchio (Petrozavodsk)
Romeo and Juliet (Nizhniy Tagil)
The Bremen Town Musicians (Voronezh)
Dance performances
Sleeping. Awakening (by Anna Chebotaryova)
Mona Lisa (by Anna Chebotaryova)
Exhibitions
Mystical journey (by Anzhela Razmanova)
Invisible side (by Tatyana Rakina)
Animated film/movies
Heavenly joy (directed by Natalia Fedchenkova)
Portrait (directed by Natalya Vishnya)
Awards
Award "Onega mask" 2018 for the best children's play - "Moidodyr" (Petrozavodsk)
Award "Golden Knight", "Saint Vladimir", "Radiant angel", "Radonezh" for the best animated film, finalist "Mirabile Dictu" (Vatican) - "Heavenly joy"
"A gift for mom" - award for the best music at the festival "Baltic Puppetwhirl" 2020 (Vyborg)
Special prize "Recognition of Talent" ("Onega mask" 2021) - play "Little Red Riding Hood"
Award "Golden Knight" for the best children's play "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" (Tver') 2022
Award "Onega mask" for the best acting ensemble "Pinocchio" (Petrozavodsk) 2024
Video
Vysо́ko
International Instruments Orchestra
Casa orchestra
Casa teatro
Photos
Photo by Marina Sivakova
In workshop
Play
Duo
Photo by Suchen S.K.
Casa orchestra (Syktyvkar)
Duo 2
Photo by Marina Sivakova
Theater work
Contact
Concert
Yaroslavl'
Petrozavodsk
International instruments orchestra
Syktyvkar
Petrozavodsk 2
Vysо́ko ensemble
Vysо́ko ensemble 2
Vysо́ko ensemble 3
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