Mariana Sadovska

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Mariana Sadovska is a singer, harmonium-player, actress, composer and recording artist.

She was born in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1972 and lived in Poland, eventually settling in Köln, Germany. She works throughout Europe and the U.S.A.

She began her work with Les' Kurbas Theater (Lviv, Ukraine) at Anatole Vasiliev's Festivals in St. Petersburg and Moscow. There she was tapped for the "Slavic Pilgrim Project" by Jerzy Grotowski in Pontedera, Italy. Later that year, she was invited to join Theater Gardzienice where she worked for 10 years as an actor and music director. During her tenure with Gardzienice, she conducted ethnomusicological expeditions to Ukraine, Ireland, Egypt, Cuba and Brazil. She has since organized many cultural exchanges between contemporary artists from Europe and the U.S. with the native singers of Ukraine.

In 2001, she moved to New York with a grant from Earth Foundation. There she worked as a music director with La Mama E.T.C.'s resident theater company, Yara Arts Group. During her residence in NYC, she began work on her solo performances as well as collaborations with such renowned artists as Julian Kytasty, Michael Alpert (of Brave Old World), Anthony Coleman, Frank London, Victoria Hanna and Sanda.

In 2002, Global Village produced her first solo CD- "Songs I learned in Ukraine."

In 2005, Mariana Sadovska and EVOE group produced her second solo CD "Borderland." Since then she had appearances at Knitting Factory, Joe's Pub, BAM, Macor, Galapagos and Exit Art.

She teaches workshops on vocal techniques she has collected through her travels at the Grotowski Center (Poland), Giving Voice Festival (UK), International Workshop Festival (Israel), The Royal Shakespeare Co.(London), as well as many academic institutions, including Harvard, Swarthmore, SUNY Buffalo, NYU and UC Santa Barbara.

In July 2005, she taught workshops at the University of Kabul (Afghanistan).

In the Spring of 2006 she was a Guest Musical Director for the Art Atelier Program curated by Toni Morrison at Princeton University.

In 2008 Sadovska became a Fullbright scholar.