"...Tangy sounds, shrewd discourse, suspense-generated devices, a disposition to take a motif and work it every which way. They were all there, engagingly arrayed, with no sense of waste.." "The Boston Globe" Roman Yakub is an Amherst, Massachusetts based composer, whose music has been performed in the USA and Europe for the last 40 years. Educated as a composer at the L’viv State Conservatory (now – L’viv National Music Academy, Ukraine), Roman moved to the United States in 1991, settled in Amherst, Massachusetts, and received his M.M. in composition at UMass-Amherst, and his Doctor in Music Composition degree from Boston University. Roman Yakub received several national and international awards, including First Prize in the Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest (2006), MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2000), ASCAP Awards, and others. Roman Yakub's music was commissioned by Wiedikon Orchestra (Zurich, Switzerland), Bachanalia and Bridge Festivals, New York; University of Massachusetts Women’s Choir and Chorale, and by various theater companies in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Russia. He was a faculty member at Voronezh Academy of Arts, Boston University, Hampshire College, and Amherst College.     Aria of the Snow Queen from the chamber opera "Living Pictures" (2021)

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