OSTAP MANULYAK, born 1983 in Lviv, is a Ukrainian composer, performer and organiser of different artistic initiatives. He is a Ph.D. and docent (assistant professor) in the Composition Department of the Lviv Music Academy. Manulyak studied composition at the Lviv Music Academy with Viktor Kaminsky and has taken part in master-classes led by composers, including Samuel Andreyev (Canada), Carola Bauckholt (Germany), Stefano Gervasoni (Italy), Sergej Newski (Russia-Germany), Serhiy Pilyutikov (Ukraine), Boguslaw Schäffer (Poland), and Gerhard Stäbler (Germany). In 2009, he received the LODA and Ukrainian Academy of Science Award and, in 2010, the Levko Revutsky Award in composition. Manulyak was a fellow of the Gaude Polonia Program twice. In 2006, he studied composition at the Krakow Music Academy with Prof. Zbigniew Bujarski. In 2011, he worked at the Studio of Electroacoustic Music (SME) at Krakow Music Academy and studied electroacoustic music with Prof. Marek Choloniewski.

Manulyak is a co-founder of Art Association NURT, director of the Festival of electroacoustic music VOX ELECTRONICA and Experimental Educational Studio of Electroacoustic Music (EESEM) of Lviv Music Academy. During 2018-19 academic year he was visiting researcher at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic (CCRMA) of Stanford University (California) as Fulbright fellow.

He has recently received several award. In 2020, he received the Mykola Leontovych Award for choral composition and in 2021, the Stanislav Liudkevych Award for works composed since 2018.