Olha Semchyshyn

Olha is a violist and a singer. Together with Marino Palma, she is the founder of Kimnata polit, a project emphasizing songs in constant motion. Her favorite audience is ready and willing to receive and share intimacy. Her least favorite audience is too intellectually inclined. Olha likes to talk to people on trains.

I come from Ukraine, a country where music, poetry and nature are indissociable from life. These roots nourish everything I create. Since the age of five, the violin has accompanied me like a second voice. My studies at the HEMU in Lausanne have given me the rigor and the freedom to explore further horizons.
Today, I weave music, song and poetry together to open up sensitive spaces, where one can reconnect to oneself. I believe in the fragile force within moments, in compassion as an act of courage, in art as a place to breathe, and in the dancing universe. My work does not limit itself to one discipline: it follows the movement of life, it borrows from the classical and the contemporary, drawing inspiration from Ukrainian folklore as well as sounds of today, anchored in reality, yet constantly seeking the infinite.
This exploration has given rise to several worlds: Kimnata Polit, an intimate laboratory where piano and voices open up emotional refuges: PeauPierre, an immersive performance created with Zoé Sève, which questions how compassion can protect our vulnerability in the face of the harshness of the world; or Svitanok, a violin-piano duo that bridges musical heritage with new horizons. These projects are not separate chapters but facets of the same impulse: to express the essential through music, and to share it in all its simplicity and depth.
For me, creating means feeling the wind of life, and inviting others to feel it as well.