sviatoslavtvardovsky

Sviatoslav Tvardovsky is a Ukrainian music producer, DJ, sound engineer and label owner working in progressive house, tech house and organic house. He trained in sound engineering at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, with ten years of classical piano and three years of bass and acoustic guitar behind him — his mother is an opera singer, so music started at home long before it started on a dance floor.

He began producing in 2009, and by 2012 was one of the fastest-rising names on Europe's progressive and neo-trance scene, releasing more than 200 records on Beatport — 100 of them in 2012 alone. He founded the labels Stereo Paradise and Dear Deer Records, and hosted the monthly Stereo Paradise show on FRISKY Radio and Ibiza Global Radio.

His music has come out on Armada Music, Black Hole, Global Underground, Proton Music, Ministry of Sound and many others, with support from Hernan Cattaneo, Chris Lake, Barry Jamieson and Ad Brown. He has shared stages with John Digweed, Guy J, Henry Saiz and Luis Junior, and founded the Secret Reality event community.

Born in Moscow, he grew up in Kyiv and finished school there — his passport is Ukrainian. He now lives in Tivat, Montenegro, after relocating from Ukraine.