About

Mariia Yaremak is a composer, arranger and pianist from Ukraine, known for her emotive soundtracks, in which she blends traditional Ukrainian melodies with contemporary musical styles. 

She is a recipient of the ‘Talents for Ukraine’ grant programme from the KSE Foundation (2025), a Presidential Scholarship holder, an ambassador for the British organisation Creative Youth 2023 (under the patronage of the Duke of Edinburgh), and a nominee for the UN Women Award in Ukraine and the Mykola Lysenko Award. Her compositions have garnered over 112 million streams.

Services:

  • Composing music for musical projects (films, theatre, performances, songs)
  • Working with orchestras
  • Concert activities and performances

The artist’s projects include:

– Collaborations with stars: creating orchestral arrangements for Within Temptation’s performance at Atlas United 2024, performances at St Pancras Station in London alongside Svyatoslav Vakarchuk (Okean Elzy) and Stephen Fry, as well as projects with Tina Karol, KRUT’, Jerry Heil, Melovin, Alyona Alyona, Phil It and others. 

 

– Cultural diplomacy: participation in over 80 charity concerts in the UK, France, the USA, Ireland, Estonia, Austria, Poland, Germany and Ukraine – venues included St Albans Cathedral, Truro Cathedral and Bath Abbey. She has also taken part in events attended by members of the British Royal Family – notably the Duke of Edinburgh, son of Queen Elizabeth II – and has performed her own music in Connecticut (USA) at an event alongside Grammy Award-winning artist Paul Winter and Grammy nominee Chris Brubeck – during the ceremony appointing the American composer Kim Sharnberg as a UN Goodwill Ambassador.

 

– ‘Ukrainian Fantasy’: an original project that promotes national identity through instrumental storytelling in the form of albums, candlelit concerts and the first fantasy music book, ‘The Musical Tales of Ukraine’.

 

– Work in film and heritage: composing film scores, digitising manuscripts, musical editing and orchestration (including work on Luke Coradini’s new soundtrack for Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s “Earth” for its premiere at the Academy Museum in Hollywood).

Awards and honours

  • Finalist at the Cyclop Festival (Norway) — her short film ‘Roots’ was ranked in the top 10 out of 103 entries 2022
  • Recipient of grants from the Goethe-Institut, House of Europe and the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation from 2023
  • Ambassador for the British organisation Creative Youth — one of 15 selected artists; patron — the Duke of Edinburgh 2023
  • Winner of the European 3D Audio Production Competition — ‘Audio Drama / Documentary / Soundscape’ category, for the composition ‘If Trees Had a Voice’ 2023
  • Nominee for the ‘Women in the Arts. The Resistance’ Award — Ukrainian Institute and UN Women in Ukraine 2024
  • Winner of the ‘Best Local Composer’ award at ColoFest 2024
  • Recipient of the Presidential Scholarship 2025
  • Winner of the ‘Talents For Ukraine’ programme — KSE 2025
  • Nominee for the Mykola Lysenko Award — Ukrainian Institute and UN Women in Ukraine 2026

Maria has performed at more than 80 charity concerts in the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Ireland, Estonia, Austria, Poland, Germany, and Ukraine

Creative career and education

The composer’s professional training took place at the Solomiya Krushelnytska Specialised Music Boarding School in Lviv, and subsequently at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Academy in the class of Bohdana Frolak.

In 2024, Yaremak furthered her training on the Screen Music Programme in Italy, where she attended masterclasses with composers such as David Buckley (“The Sandman”, “Greenland”), Carlos Rafael Rivera (“The Queen’s Gambit”), Ryan Shore (‘Star Wars: Animated Series’, ‘Scooby-Doo!’), Alison Plant (Professor of Screen Music at Berklee College of Music), and Clint Badjakian (‘World of Warcraft’, ‘God of War’, ‘Uncharted’).

Creative career and education

In 2025, she also completed a course in composition and orchestration under the guidance of Penka Kuneva – a Grammy Award winner and orchestrator for leading Hollywood studios, who has worked on projects including “Dragon Age: Retribution”, the TV series “Pandora”, “Legends of Runeterra”, “Prince of Persia” and “Moana 2”. 

Mariia is currently studying at one of the world’s leading film schools – the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK – where she attends masterclasses given by composers such as Stuart Earl (‘Black Mirror’), Dario Mariianelli (‘Paddington 2’, ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’, ‘Everest’, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’, ‘Atonement’, ‘V for Vendetta’, ‘Pride and Prejudice’), Rob Lane (Elizabeth I, John Adams, Merlin) and many others, as well as undertaking work placements at the world-renowned Air Studios and Abbey Road.

This talented composer’s vision extends far beyond individual works to encompass profound and large-scale cultural projects

Ukrainian fantasy

Her ‘Ukrainian Fantasy’ project began as a series of online compositions, which collectively garnered millions of views on social media, and later evolved into international events where audiences had the opportunity to experience a unique blend of historical and contemporary musical language.

In late May 2026, together with illustrator Oleksandra Dikaya and photographer Pavlo Yaremak, Mariia released a bilingual, illustrated sheet music edition entitled ‘The Musical Tales of Ukraine’. The project combines original piano music, illustrations and photographs inspired by Ukrainian folklore, legends and cultural heritage. 

The book contains 20 piano pieces of varying levels of difficulty – from beginner to professional. The collection includes both original compositions and the author’s reinterpretations of well-known folk songs and ritual melodies. This book has already been endorsed by British writer Stephen Fry, Mick Audsley (editor of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”), Grammy Award winner Penka Kuneva, British actor and comedian Stephen Fry, and many others.

Fundraising is currently underway for a charity edition of the book, to be donated to music schools in Ukraine.

Bank details
Bank account number: 4874 1000 3973 3574

‘Ukrainian Odyssey’

Yaremak is currently working on a symphonic-choral album entitled ‘Ukrainian Odyssey’. It comprises 12 epic compositions representing the 12 stages of a great journey: from the archaic Trypillia culture through the grandeur of Kyivan Rus’ and the free spirit of the Zaporizhzhia Sich to the tragedies of Bakota, the ‘Executed Renaissance’ and our contemporary struggle.

Mariia’s mentors are world-class Hollywood composers – Clint Badjakian (BAFTA, composer for “World of Warcraft” and “Star Wars”), Grammy Award winner Penka Kuneva (“Moana”), composer Stuart Earl (“Black Mirror”) and Kim Sharnberg (Broadway musicals).