Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival: Ukrainian Tone Poems
$35-$60
- Ginevra Petrucci, flute
- Forrest Eimold, organ
Adrian Mocanu — Les chevaux de feu
Alla Zahaikevych (Zagaykevych) — Tercet (for clarinet, violin, & cello)
Alex Voytenko — Homo Fugens ("Running Man")
Renata Sokachyk — The Desert Breathes
Alisa Zaika — he only dreamed of places now…
Lena Sierova — The Last Leaf
Yurii Pikush — Be a Cycle
A presentation of instrumental works inspired by Ukrainian and American literature, both classical and contemporary, from Lesia Ukrainka to Stephen King.
About Ukrainian Music Initiative
Ukrainian Music Initiative (UMI) is a collaboration of four independent artists—contralto Vira Slywotzky, cellist Valeriya Sholokhova, pianists Margarita Rovenskaya and Pavlo Gintov—each of whom have a longstanding history of commitment to Ukrainian music. They are joined in their mission by musicologist Leah Batstone and business entrepreneur Alex Gamota. UMI's goal is to elevate Ukrainian classical music to its rightful place in the Western canon and to fill a significant gap in the American cultural landscape, that of skilled and knowledgeable musicians of Ukrainian heritage performing the breadth of Ukrainian classical music.
https://www.ukrainianmusicinitiative.org/About PinkNoise
PinkNoise is a New York-based chamber ensemble dedicated to musical improvisation and compositions in acoustic and electronic mediums as a reaction and response to the conditions of our community and our society. Our mission is to reveal how improvisation in musical performances lies at the intersection of historical and contemporary works, and how it is a synthesis of multifarious cultures and styles from the past and the present that connect us to our conscience in society. We also believe in performing new works by composers in acoustic and electronic mediums and collaborating with visual artists and writers to present music as a collaborative and interdisciplinary art form.
Each member of the ensemble is a performer, composer, and creator committed to inverting, translating, reflecting, and transcending the boundaries of both old and new music to present a kaleidoscopic range of performances that connect us to our sensibilities and conscience.