Anatoliy Gernadenko

Ukrainian handpan musician and composer Anatoliy Gernadenko combines instrumental recordings with vocal collaborations in the project The Snow.

Anatoliy Gernadenko is a Ukrainian musician and composer whose work centres on the handpan and Hang. His recordings also appear under the spelling Anatolii Hernadenko and the name SnowHang. With singer Olga Prudey, he performs as The Snow: their Sofar Kyiv rendition of Nad Dunaiem brings handpan accompaniment to a Ukrainian folk song. His instrumental work appears on Contra Spem Spero, the Future Rust compilation of Ukrainian handpan music released in 2022, with Dance With Diana and Once Upon a Time. These pieces offer another entry into a catalogue that includes Touch to the Sound. His SnowHang catalogue documents several instrumental combinations, including handpan with guitar, melodica, udu and bass, alongside pieces for two handpans. This range connects solo percussion with arrangements that give other timbres room around its resonant notes. Across the documented recordings, Gernadenko moves between instrumental composition and accompaniment, keeping melodic percussion at the centre of the exchange.