CV
Roksana Vikaluk – singer, multi-instrumentalist, actress, composer, educator, essayist.
Born in 1973 in Ukraine
Schooling
1988 – 1992
secondary music school, Ternopil, Ukraine (classical piano).
1992
Diploma in Pianist, Teacher of music, Concertmistress. Secondary music school, Ternopil.
1992 – 1994
private singing lessons (Prof. M. Bolotnyy), Ternopil, Ukraine
1999 – 2002
post-secondary jazz music school, Warsaw, Poland (cl. Ewa Bem)
2002
Diploma in Musician, jazz vocalist. Post-secondary jazz music school, Warsaw. Dimploma exam has been played with Andrzej Jagodziński Trio.
University education
2002 – 2007
study at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland.
2007
Diploma Master of Arts, Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland.
Faculty:
Composition, Interpretation, Education and Jazz
Field of study:
Jazz and stage music
Major:
Composition and arrangement
Graduate dissertation:
Gil Evans and Miles Davis. Inspirations. (Written in Polish)
Practical Master’s exam:
“The Meaning of the Blues” (Bobby Troup/Leah Worth, arr.and singing R. Vikaluk), “Happy 30” (instrumental, R. Vikaluk). Both compositions were performed with the school big-band.
2006-2007
completed a teaching practice at the Jewish Theater of Rachel and Ida Kamiński in Warsaw, while leading the orchestra and vocal ensemble.
Collaboration with Theatres
2006-2019
Jewish Theatre, Warsaw, Poland; as a singing actress, composer, musician, regisseur.
2008
Theatre Praga, Warsaw, Poland; as a singing actress and composer.
2009 – 2012
Theatre Rampa Warsaw, Poland; as a singing actress and composer.
2018 – present time
Teatr Polski, Wroclaw, Poland; as a singing actress.
2020
Teatr Nowy, Łódź, Poland; as a composer.
Professional activity and other important live events
1992-1994
jazz singer in Jazz club “Nichlava” (Ternopil, Ukraine)
1994
moving from Ukraine to Poland
1995-2010
collaboration with Józef Skrzek, the leader of the SBB progrock band, Poland (Jazz, rock, sound&visual pearformances)
1995-1997
collaboration with the Jazz trumpeter Piotr Wojtasik, Poland
1998
- recording the video clip “Midnight Sun” (L. Hampton); it has been placed in the top ten charts of hit- parade on Ukrainian Television;
- recording of jazz standards for Ukrainian Radio (broadcasted); – concert with solo programme in National Philharmony, Warsaw
1999-2007
teacher of piano and vocal (private lessons), Warsaw
2000-2002
collaboration with Jazz saxophonist Tomasz Szukalski
1999-2002
student of the First Lady of Polish Jazz, Ewa Bem
2000
founding the band MIZRAH (R. Vikaluk – voc., piano, R. Borowski – fl., P. Aleksandrowicz – gtr., W. Traczyk – double bass, M. Trela – dr.), Warsaw.
2002
competition “New Tradition” (Warsaw); the band “Mizrah”, award – recording an album in the most prestigious studio in Poland “S1”;
2006-2007
collaboration with Gypsy band “Roma”; singer. Warsaw
2009
premiere of spectacle “Jaskółka” (“Swallow”); composer, singing actress. Rampa Theatre, Warsaw.
2009- present time
collaboration with electronic musician, inventor, pedagogue Wolfram DER Spyra as a duo “Moon&Melody”
2010
“Taki jeden dzień”, a chamber theatrical music spectacle, inspired by motifs of Scholem Alejhem; direction, composer, singer, electronic instruments player)
2012, 2017
performances within “DOCUMENTA” (Kassel)
2013
special guest of the TV programme “Music for adults” (leading – Maria Burmaka, Ukraine, Kyiv) with solo programme (voc., electronic instruments, piano);
2015
the spectacle “Getto Dybukiem Warszay” (“Ghetto is a Dybuk of Warsaw”), Jewish Theater, Warsaw: composer, live performing with electronic instruments, singer;
2015-2018
Kasseler DokFest, music for the trailers, performing on the openings; with Wolfram Spyra
2016
composer, performing musician (electronic instruments, piano), singer of the performances, Jewish Theatre, Warsaw:
“Rzeź. Diabelski plan Stalina” (“Slaughter. the devilish plan of Stalin”)
“Stanisław Wygodzki. Dziewczynka z lalką” (“Stanisław Wygodzki. The Girl With Doll”)
“Śmiech to zdrowie” (“Laughter is good for health”)
“Ejli, Ejli…”- presentation of the newest author’s program (vocals, piano, electronic instruments) in a frame of Oleksij Kogan’s project “A Theme with Variations” (artistic production center “Jazz in Kiev”, Ukraine)
2016 – present time
columnist at Ukrainian newspaper “Nasze Słowo” (“Our Word”), the column “Korale”;
2017 – present time
- co-founder of “WorldWideWindow” Multi-Media Event Space, Art Gallery and Performance Stage; Berlin, Frankfurt (Oder);
- teacher of piano and vocal (private lessons), Berlin
2018
- the main sung role in the “Księgi Schulza” (“The books of Schulz”) spectacle. Teatr Polski, Wrocław, Poland;
- spectacle “Tak było miło, było cicho… znowu licho. Czerwony Głód” (“It was so peaceful, so serene… calamity again. Red Famine”), based on the “Red Famine” book by Anne Applebaum; director, composer, singer, performing musician (electronic instruments), actress. Polish premiere at Teatr Polski, Warsaw.
2019
- moving from Warsaw to Berlin;
- spectacle “Es war so hold und still geworden… schon wieder morden! Roter Hunger”;director, composer, singer, performing musician (electronic instruments), actress. German premiere in Passionskirche, Berlin.
2020
beginning of collaboration with the legendary composer Jan Kanty Pawluśkiewicz, as a singer, composer, performing musician, Poland
Instruments: piano, jew’s-harp, melodica, low tom. Electronic instruments: keyboards, synthesizers, looper, sampler.
Studio work: ability of recording and mixing; work in Logic Pro.
I am also working with Musescore app.