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Stefan Nazarevich is a Ukrainian-Canadian musician, audio engineer, and educator. His compositions, performances, and installations utilize meticulous, architectural music production to turn emergent artifacts of failing technology into aesthetic sonic objects. His visual-album ARCMAPS (2023) explores retrofuturism and lo-fi glitches, described by Adbusters Magazine as “…casually dystopic [and] cinematic.”

Stefan’s musical journey began at Place des Arts as a student, studying with perennial faculty member Marjory Purdy for 17 years, eventually becoming a Junior teacher under her tutelage. By carrying on Marjory’s teaching philosophy mixed with his background in composing, Stefan’s goal is to pass on a love and appreciation of music to students of all ages and levels.

Since graduating with a BFA in music composition from SFU in 2020a, Stefan has composed for Vision Impure, Joshua Beamish, Wen Wei Dance, and FakeKnot, among many other prominent voices in the Vancouver arts community, both established and emerging, working across disciplines such as film, contemporary dance, and immersive theatre. He is a co-founder of the duo olive theory with Shion Skye Carter, working at the intersection of installation and performance.

Past presentations include Vancouver International Dance Festival (2019, 2021), Tangente (Montreal 2021, 2023), MAI (Montreal 2021), and Darmstadt Ferienkurse (Germany, 2018).