Iryna Sikorska

Legendary composers Myroslav Skoryk, Yevhen Stankovych and Valentyn Sylvestrov are now the pride not only of Ukrainian, but also of world culture! Each maestro is unique, inimitable, ingenious, crowned with the highest titles and awards. To combine these three completely different artists in one...

Halyna Stefanova, an actress of the Les Kurbas Center started the music-poetic action with the lines from Lesia Ukrainka’s The Possessed: “He may forgive, but he will never forget!”The visitors were united by the feeling of sorrow, the mourning for the killed, and the uneasiness...

Over the past 13 years, thanks to Valentyn Revenko, principal of Kirovohrad’s Music School No. 2, a school completion of young composers in memory of the outstanding Ukrainian composer Yulii Meitus, a fellow countryman, has turned into a full-scale festival Classik-Proekt.This year’s...

The share of foreign guest musicians has noticeably shrunk in the difficult realities of today’s Ukraine. Nevertheless, the tours of Italian performers are on the rise thanks to the efforts of the Italian Institute of Culture in Ukraine and personally its director Nicola Franco Balloni. In...

A concert of the Suona Italiano (Italian Sound) cycle took place at the National Philharmonic Society in Kyiv, starring the noted guitarist, Emanuele Buono, winner of numerous international music competitions.Organized with the aid of the Italian embassy and the Institute of Culture, the concert...

The name of this artwork is Bloody Sunday in Petersburg on January 9, 1905. In a frighteningly expressive way and with almost photographic precision, it depicts a narrative everyone knows of from school. Some historical sources evaluate the number of participants in that demonstration to be as high...

The premiere of Bela Bartok’s solo opera Bluebeard’s Castle was one of the most important events of last year. The present to music lovers was made by the world-renowned Ukrainian maestro Kyrylo KARABYTS (with the assistance of the administration of the National Philharmonic Society and...

It became the first artistic event in the country to make use of the traditional Ukrainian cart — a truly multifunctional item from Cossack times, which served as a vehicle, bed, and fortification — as a stage and exhibition stand for folk singers and bands, the carriers of authentic...