Maxim Shalygin (born January 30, 1985, in Kamianske, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian-Dutch composer, conductor, and performer known for his innovative compositions that blend a wide range of techniques.

He earned his first master's degree in 2010 from the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in Kyiv, Ukraine, studying under Ihor Shcherbakov and influenced by composer Svyatoslav Lunyov.

In 2011, he received a second master's degree from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands, where he studied with Cornelis de Bondt and Diderik Wagenaar.

The production combines music with visual elements, such as the video ‘Ombre indigène’ by artist Edith Dekyndt, adding to the opera's complex and layered experience.

No academic formulas hence, nor avant-garde radicalisms, but rather a self-conceived scale of playing techniques in its own right that, otherwise than Lachenmanns 'manuals', never severs the ties with sonority, and thus allows for maintaining a thoroughly tonal language.The music on this disc is a fascinating exploration of instrumental textures, with Shalygin creating structures and then disturbing them in intriguing ways.