Olha Holynska

We met the outstanding violist at the recent 28th international festival Kyiv Music Fest 2017. Andriy Viytovych specially came to Kyiv to take part in the concert that marked the 75th birthday of Yevhen Stankovych, a classic of the contemporary Ukrainian school of composers, and, concurrently, to...

The concert took place at the National Philharmonic Society. That night, music lovers were treated to a wonderful program offered by musicians of the Kyivski Solisty National Chamber Ensemble (conductor Vitalii Protasov) and soloists Valerii Sokolov (violin) and Marcin Sieniawski from Poland (cello...

A grand concert will be held on April 28 as part of the 9th International Paschal Assembly “Spirituality Unites Ukraine,” and a commemorative plaque will be unveiled near the entrance to the Main Hall of the National Music Academy of Ukraine, which says that this hall has been...

I met an outstanding modern Ukrainian composer Yevhen Stankovych on the occasion of an extraordinary event: he had just returned home after a big US concert tour.“AMERICANS KNOW MANY OF OUR MUSICIANS”“I had been in the US for almost a month on an invitation from violinist Solomia...

The renowned conductor performed together with the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra at the National Philharmonic Society. The program included masterpieces of world classics and the premiere of a piece by contemporary French composer Pierre Thilloy in memoriam Vasyl Slipak, an opera singer and Hero of...

In the two last days of January, Kyiv hosted such interesting art events as “Bohdana Pivnenko and Her Pupils” (on occasion Mozart’s birth anniversary and the musician’s own birthday) at the concert hall of the National Union of Ukrainian Composers and “Pyotr...

The 4th All-Ukrainian Competition of Choral Conductors was held recently in Kyiv. It discovered new names and showed a high professional level of the participants, while the final concert of winners drew a capacity audience at the Lesser Hall of the National Music Academy of Ukraine. The Day...

I was invited to an open rehearsal by the show’s creators: Serhii Proskurnia, screenwriter and director; Volodymyr Lavrenchuk, composer; Tetiana Kalynychenko, conductor; Ivan Lenio, leading actor and frontman of Kozak System, and others.“It all started during the Revolution of Dignity,...

This year the program of the festival is dedicated to the momentous date – the 200th birth anniversary of Taras Shevchenko. Musicians will perform compositions associated with the name of the Ukrainian genius, most of them will be premieres: Roman Tsys’ Cantata for a Narrator and Chorus...

It is cold and snowing outside. Seems like no one would want to go out of their cozy homes. But the hall of the National Opera of Ukraine  is full to the brim (Ukrainian intelligentsia is here: composers, musicians, artists, musicologists, directors, writers, clergy, politicians, and also...