COURSES

I took Katarina’s music production course, and it turned out to be a transformative experience for both me and my artistic practice. Her teaching approach not only helped me overcome creative and technical barriers but also gave me the confidence to expand my work in new directions.

Katarina combines an immense set of practical tools with a rare tenderness and care in her guidance. Every lesson left me both inspired and equipped with concrete skills to grow further, and what impressed me most was her generosity. Despite being a classically trained, highly experienced, and widely recognized experimental musician with a distinct artistic voice, Katarina shares her knowledge openly and wholeheartedly. She doesn’t hold back her methods or insights—on the contrary, she encourages her students to shape their own voice through them.

What I took away from this course was more than just technical ability—it was a renewed sense of possibility in my artistic practice. I left each lesson not only with skills I could immediately apply, but also with the feeling of having been inspired and supported on a much deeper level. The course was a reminder that music production is not just about mastering software or polishing sound; it is also about cultivating a relationship to one’s own creativity, and Katarina is an extraordinary guide in that process.

Hello, my name is Nora. I’ve been learning from Katarina for roughly two years now through one-on-one mentorship, primarily focused on music production. I can truthfully say that I’ve experienced more tangible personal progress and learned more applicable things with her in our initial three-month intensive mentorship than I did in my entire music bachelor’s degree.
She’s the teacher I always wanted but didn’t find until I came across her.
Katarina is so caring and attentive. She truly understands that creative and artistic education cannot be a one-size-fits-all experience. Her breadth of knowledge extends far beyond what she stylistically creates — I’m always impressed by it. She’s able to tailor her teaching to your individual needs, desires, and pursuits.
She’s also incredibly emotionally attuned, which, for all of us sensitive artists, is such an important quality. She’s a very well-rounded, wonderful person to have as a mentor or teacher.
If you feel called to learn from her, I would absolutely say: go for it.

The first time I heard Katarina perform live, I thought she had something profound to express. When she told me she was going to teach a course on sound production I immediately wanted to participate so that I could share with her a vision of music that seemed to be common to us both.

I found a person whose generosity and intuition are as vast as her knowledge and deep respect for the subject she teaches.

She opened me up to new perspectives and shared her keen insight into the current state of music, as well as providing me with important and stimulating tools to open up new approaches in my creative process.
Higly recommended!

I just want to send a shout out to my amazing music teacher and coach, Katarina. It’s hard to imagine, but we've been working together for 2 very rewarding years now.

I really love working with Katarina because I walk away from every class and meeting truly inspired to take my work to the next level. She's helped me tap into something that was stuck inside for many years while focusing on my day job, often leaving my creativity behind. 

She is prepared to teach any level of student, from absolute beginners, to accomplished musicians. She brings a lot of unique and fresh content to each lesson. Her content is easily adapted to any genre or tastes. Katarina really knows how to motivate us to try new things and quickly reach results.

She truly cares about her students’ success, even long after classes of over. She follows up on our progress and helps students stay connected with new opportunities.

For me, it’s been the most important to make something that I am happy with. I’m a perfectionist who’s pretty tough on themself. So now that I am confident and proud to listen to the tracks I create, I know Katarina’s classes have set me on the right path.

I took Katarina’s music production course but it turned out to be so much more than that. Katarina is an amazing teacher, she has a special approach to each and every one of her students. She is very honest and open about her own practice and shares a lot of behind the scenes details that are essential to feeling confident as a beginner in a new field. Though she often talks about her experience and preferences in music, she is able to help each student achieve their own goals. Being the kind person she is, she also makes sure that the atmosphere during classes is super lovely. I highly recommend learning from Katarina!!

Hi, my name is Chloé.
I'm a contemporary classical musician and I practice electronic
music completely by myself since already quite some years. Last year, I finally decided to take a class in Katarina's collective online course and it was a very good idea for me. I was in contact during one year approximately with different people from different backgrounds. It helped me to open up to new ideas.
Also, Katarina is incredibly skilled, she can adapt to many different levels from very beginners to more advanced people. Personally, I was struggling to find the right method in my creative process and she pushed me to finish my tracks. She also gave me incredibly valuable tips that I use a lot right now.So, I definitely feel that my process is different now in a very positive way and I recommend this class for anyone who wants to get started with electronic music, no matter your style and also for anyone who wants to speed up their learning or just to change their habits and open up to new ideas and new perspectives.

Hi, I'm Vlad, and I'm an electronic composer and producer. I've been doing this for around seven years, and more often than not, I felt like I was hitting the limit of my potential due to things like lack of self-confidence or music theory basics. Everything was done kind of intuitively, and hence with lots of extra effort.

The course with Katarina helped me progress as a musician and artist on so many levels. The biggest breakthrough was systematic thinking. Before, some parts of the production process felt like a bottleneck — my weak spots, for example, composition or mixing — and I kind of avoided them because I didn’t know where to start to reach the results I needed. Now, I feel I can decompose any task basically into more digestible pieces and have a clear step-by-step process in my head. What felt boring and difficult before, like mastering, became engaging and interesting. I feel more in control, and the workflow became more systematic.

I should mention that Katarina’s blend of academic and electronic production methods was perfect for me. Part of the course with classical music theory is simply refined from unnecessary over-complications you don’t always need for modern music production. Of course, we were given all we needed to produce in a DAW: a selection of battle-tested plugins, methods, and techniques. And by the way, if you don’t work in Ableton like I do, there were zero issues going through each lesson in my DAW of choice.

The course is really practice-centered, and I enjoyed all the tips and hints, big and small, that Katarina was sharing — things I haven’t found in YouTube tutorials for many years, and they really make a difference in speed and results. As a tutor, Katarina is really easygoing. I never felt pressured and, on the opposite, always encouraged. I took the package with extra one-on-one lessons, which allowed me to also dig into the details of my workflow, my past productions, and also to have feedback on commercial work-in-progress pieces that I was doing in parallel with the course.

Lastly, I started to feel more confident in taking on more challenging projects than ever. Since I started the course, I produced my first soundtrack for a full feature movie — a documentary I always wanted — including mixing and mastering, not just composing. I’ve presented my release at a major European festival and started performing in multi-channel live sets, another thing I had been lacking for around five years, and now I feel I can do it.
Although it's not part of the program, as a bonus effect of compositional thinking and the overall approach and mindset developed during the school, my DJ mixes for radio stations, for example, became noticeably more fluid and intertwined, feeling more like a single piece than a compilation of different tracks — again, thanks to this mindset and outlook on the process.

In summary, I finally feel I have a strong foundation to take on any musical, sound art, production, audio installation, or audio polishing projects and have fun on the way. So I can recommend this to everyone, basically.

Katarina is an amazing teacher. She does very much care about your personal goals, she’s super reliable, always capable of giving feedback and open for any kind of style. The course is structured very well and I always felt that I’m making progress. So I’d certainly recommend taking the course.

Gryvul Music School is highly recommended if you are a music producer that wants to explore new ways of composing but also if you are new to music production. It gives you new inspiration and fuels your curiosity. Katarina will guide you with her expertise, talent and kindness!

In 2019 I took a course in music theory taught by Katya. I was very pleased. In addition to theory, Katya gave advice on tracks and advised cool plugins for Ableton, which helped me a lot.
I saw that Katya was starting her course in music production, and signed up without hesitation in the first set. I really liked the construction of the course. We started with the simplest and finished the course with ready-made tracks. Presentations for lessons are a separate kind of art, where the most difficult topics were explained in a very accessible way.
After the course, writing my tracks became much easier and faster, and I finally started to like how they sound. I recommend.

For those who are looking for inspiration, motivation, and technical skills to realize their unbridled creative potential ;) for those who ALREADY consider themselves as cool musicians and for those who seek to understand all this magic :) I recommend not wasting time searching for the truth in the middle of an unnecessary information field, but to turn to a person who has a systematic approach to teaching, and most importantly vast experience in both academic and experimental areas, the acquired knowledge can be used to create your own creative tracks, and for commercials.

I finished 8 years of music school. I also had experience playing several different instruments. But only after the Gryvul School course did I understand what music is in general and started to feel like a musician.
Katarina is a wonderful responsive teacher with a unique program. She teaches not only dry "mathematical" theory but also shows how to embody the worldview in the form of sounds.
I am very grateful to Katarina for her knowledge and time. I recommend the school to people even with basic music education. Believe me, school solfeggio can be understood and used!

Passed an individual course. Very happy with the classes and results. Katarina Gryvul helped to gather fragmentary and chaotic knowledge from my head into a single system. Easily adapts to individual student requests. Always in touch and will always tell you how. Great course, teacher, and person. I recommend.

Passed the course Music production, I highly recommend it! Lots of theory and practice. Katarina has a non-standard approach both in her music and in teaching, she invests 100% in the lessons, motivates, sincerely shares her experience, and cares about the results of students! In addition to thematic knowledge and exercises, you can also learn a lot of interesting and useful things about the history of modern music, business, and trends!

Very pleased with the result of my classes at Gryvul School. Professional and creative approach to learning. The created individual program exceeded my expectations. Katarina Gryvul is a wonderful, caring teacher. She cares about the result, helps to identify growth areas, and works them out. Always in touch.
Thanks!