Olha Pryndiuk

Concert titled “Outstanding Gra­dua­tes for Alma Mater” took place at NMAU. The program of the concert included performances of the ensemble “Kyiv Soloists,” Viktoria Lukianets (soprano), and Andrii Ilkiv (trumpet). The highlight of the night was the perfect bel...

You cannot confuse Mykola Kondratiuk’s deep, melodious, and unwavering baritone with anyone else’s. Kondratiuk was a superb opera singer and the premier performer of many Ukrainian songs, including the now legendary “Yaseny” (Ash-trees) and “Dva Koliory” (Two Colors) by Oleksandr Bilash. The well-...

The voice of the pipe organ reaches out to us from the depths of time. This instrument first appeared in Europe in the 7th century: together with a choir, it accompanied the divine service in Catholic churches and assumed its contemporary shape in the 17th century. In Ukraine the organ is mostly...

In the 1920s the summer stage in the Central Park near the Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv hosted educational concerts for the public, featuring such prominent musicians as Alexander Glazunov, Sergei Prokofiev, Vladimir Horowitz, and Nathan Milstein, as well as conductors Natan Rakhlin, Reinhold Gliere,...

The Actor’s House in Kyiv recently held a mini-festival of accordion music, featuring musicians ranging from music students to experienced professionals. The main idea of this festival, the fourth of its kind, is to show the broad harmonic possibilities of the accordion, which were demonstrated by...