Arias and romances will resonate at Kyiv’s Scientist’s Home February 24 through 27, while the Ukrainian Home will welcome the dancers of the Second International Competition Art Premier. The forum’s organizers, the charity foundation Vivat Art, expect over 600 participants to come from Ukraine, Russia and other countries. Dancers from Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, as well as singers from Moscow, Odesa, Kharkiv, Lviv, and Donetsk have submitted their applications for the competition. Some educational establishments, such as the Poltava Institute of Culture or the Cherkasy Chorus will take part in the competition for a second time. The competition will include two nominations, singing and choreography, and five age categories (A, B, C, D, F). The oldest competitors (Category F, adults between 19 and 32) will compete for two days in two rounds. Children and teenagers will face only one round.
“All Kyiv’s residents and guests may come to the audition and final concert, which will take place at the Ukrainian Home. There will be no entrance fee,” Svitlana Sukhomlynova, head of the charity foundation Vivat Art explains. “The arrangements are the same all over the world. And we resolved to use the international experience, refusing from selling tickets for the competition. However, one must pay to take part in the competition, but it is only a token fee. The budget of the prize fund is not big so far. Only the grand-prix winners will get cash prizes. But children and teenagers won’t be left without presents,” the head of the second Art Premier Volodymyr Sobolev assures. “Last year we prepared toys, T-shirts with the competition’s logo and even ice cream for the youngest participants.”
The jury will be headed by the associate professor at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and Shevchenko Prize winner Valerii Buimister. The adults (Category F) will sing arias on their first day, and Ukrainian folk songs on the second one. Not only academic, but also variety singers will take part in the singing nomination. The variety singers will perform before a jury headed by the rector of the Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Arts, professor Oleksandr Chunikhin. The choreography jury will be headed by the People’s Artist of Ukraine Serhii Bondur. The dancers will compete in classical, contemporary, variety, and modern dancing.
