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Myroslav Gutej was born in Perth, Western Australia on 18 September 1961. He began playing the piano accordion at four years of age and the piano at nine. Initially, in his teenage years, he was interested in popular music. He entered the University of Western Australia Music Department at 17 to study the piano and develop harmony skills. His piano teachers during his six-year stay there included Brian Michell, David Bollard and the composer-pianist Dr. Roger Smalley.
During his music studies at U.W.A, he began a personal study and arranging of Eastern European folk music. In 1984 he formed and started arranging music for the Kashtany Music Ensemble, a world music group. This led to the formation in 1989 of the Kashtany Duo which has since been performing folk music from a number of countries, focusing mainly on the folk music of Eastern Europe and the Gypsies. In 1995 the Kashtany Music Ensemble released a CD of his arrangements of Ukrainian dance and folk melodies.
In 1987 he spent time studying music at the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music under Richard Gill and took piano lessons from Pauline Belviso.
Serious hand injuries and illness prevented Myroslav from piano playing from September 1987 to 1990. He didn't perform publicly until the year 2000. He reverted to a personal study of composition during this period, with an emphasis on the study of the music of Mozart and composed his first piece, a Sonatine for Piano in September 1990.
Since then he has written a number of pieces for piano, a Symphony, a Mass for Choir and Orchestra and pieces for chamber orchestras and ensembles. He has also ventured into writing techno music and music for visual synchronisation.
The CD Piano Sonatas nos 1,3,4, 5, 6
and 7 is a collection of various piano pieces
he composed between 1991 and 2001. His recovery
from hand injuries has enabled him to be the
performer of the piano pieces on this CD.