International Music Festival “Music without Limits” opened in Dnipropetrovsk. The festival clearly stands out among creative projects of Mikhail Glinka Dnipropetrovsk Conservatory. Four-day creative interaction with prominent musicians of our time during concerts, workshops, professional meetings, conferences are of invaluable benefit for students and the audience.
The festival is traditionally held in the fall and spring and presents masterpieces of classical music, written for a variety of academic instruments. This tradition was established in pre-revolutionary Katerynoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk). Opening of a local branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society with musical classes in 1898 became the starting point in the development of musical culture and musical education in Dnipropetrovsk. Already in 1901 Katerynoslav Music School began its work. Music school teachers actively participated in concerts. Performing of outstanding musicians such as Leonid Sobinov, Feodor Chaliapin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Leopold Auer, Alexander Scriabin, Josef Hofmann, Jascha Heifetz, and others were of great importance for the development of musical culture in the region. In the Soviet time the school remained the main institution that trained professional musicians.
With the opening of Mikhail Glinka Dnipropetrovsk Conservatory in 2006 not only the qualitative renewal of higher music education in the central region of Ukraine was made possible, but also the rapid development of concert, festival, and music competition events. This year the eighth festival “Music without Limits” will take place in Dnipropetrovsk. “We have renewed historical artistic connections and established creative cooperation with leading musical institutions in Russia, Belarus, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and France. International festival ‘Music without Limits,’ that will be held until April 3, presents work of famous contemporary musicians, including Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Pyotr Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory Aleksandr Trostiansky (violin), Professor of Higher School of Music in Geneva Jean Pierre Berry (horn), Professor of School of Arts in Bern Denis Severin (cello), Professor of the Pyotr Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow Viacheslav Poprugin (piano), teacher of the School of Art in Bern Tatiana Korsunska (piano), Honored Artist of Ukraine Andrii Ilkiv (trumpet), soloist of Goettingen Symphony Orchestra Ruben Dura de Lamo (tuba), Professor of the Higher School of Music in Geneva Sergei Ostrovsky (violin), Jacques Mauger (trombone),” said Valerii Hromchenko, Ph.D. in Art, rector of Research at Glinka Dnipropetrovsk Conservatory.
It has become a tradition to have workshops of famous musicians for students of Dnipropetrovsk Conservatory as a part of the festival. Symphony Orchestra of the Conservatory conducted by Honored Artist of Ukraine Dmytro Lohvin and student brass band (conduced by Honored Artist of Ukraine Ihor Hruzin) will perform at festival concerts. The organizers of the festival say that such performances prove the old truth: by reviving traditions we create the future!
