Kateryna Kravchenko

Kateryna Kravchenko's musical journey began at the age of four, when she started playing the piano and later singing in her hometown of Balta in Ukraine. At eleven, she discovered jazz thanks to her teacher, who immediately charmed her. From the age of fourteen, she received an intensive musical education in Odessa and continued her musical training in Dresden at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music. There she also founded her first jazz quartet and released her first recordings on the Stories EP. She broadened her musical horizons and met inventive colleagues as a member of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Germany, of which she was a member between 2020 and 2022, and then founded her still "heartfelt" project Short Collection of Tales.

In In 2022, Kateryna Kravchenko received a scholarship for a one-year stay at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden, and also participated in the prestigious residency program Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead in Washington, USA. She is the author of not only songs, but also a suite for a large ensemble dedicated to the Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko, which indirectly reflects the author's reflection on the difficult test her native country is going through.