Oxana Omelchuk was born in Belarus in 1975 and studied with Johannes Fritsch and Michael Beil at Cologne University of Musik and Dance. Besides her work as a composer, she also appears in various ensembles as a performing musician (analogue synthesizer), including a duo with Constantin Herzog or Florian Zwißler, the quartet MONOPASS with Florian Zwißler, Luìs Antunes Pena and Mark Polscher, and the Simon Rummel Ensemble. Her music has been performed inter alia by Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Garage, hand werk, ensemble mosaik, 2e2m, the SWR Vokalensemble, Studio Dan, Klangforum Wien, Schlagquartett Köln, Radio-Symphonie Orchester Wien and the Ictus Ensemble at such leading festivals as ACHT BRÜCKEN/Musik für Köln, ECLAT Stuttgart, Wien Modern, the Afekt Festival Tallinn, musikprotokoll Graz, Ars Musica Brussels and the Warsaw Autumn Festival. Among her awards and distinctions are the Bernd Alois Zimmermann Scholarship from the City of Cologne (2006), a travel grant to the Schöppingen Artists Village (2007) and a travel grant to the Villa Aurora Artists Residence in Los Angeles (2018). She was also nominated for the German Music Authors` Prize in the category `ensemble music with electronics`(2019). In October 2019, her portrait CD by WERGO (`Edition Zeitgenössische Musik` by German Music Council) was released.
Today she lives as a freelance composer in Cologne.
Am Schloss Gottesaue 7 · 76131 Karlsruhe
The course is not open to the public.