The SOCAN award winning composer Eugene Astapov was born in Ukraine in 1988. In 2003 he immigrated to Canada where he has been making artistic contributions into the multicultural and highly diverse society of this country. He is currently a Master's Degree student at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, NY.

Eugene's music has been performed in Canada by the country's major ensembles including the Vancouver Symphony, Esprit Orchestra, the Penderecki String Quartet, l'orchestre de la fr...