Hanna Lunina

Soirees commemorating modern Ukrainian composers are infrequent events in Kyiv’s music life, so every such event attracts considerable interest among the local music devotees. Regrettably, the event I am about to dwell upon was not a joyous one, commemorating Yaroslav Vereshchahyn who would have...

With a touch of sadness we mark the close of the Kyiv Music Fest, on which we have written earlier. Its stylistic picture resembled a multicolored mosaic: neobaroque, neoromanticism, neoclassicism, avant-garde of the 1960s, post-avant-garde, and, finally, the search for intonation in the 1990s...

Last weekend’s momentous cultural event was the opening of the main Ukrainian festival of serious music, the Kyiv Music Fest. The first day of the festival bore witness to a brilliant success, a choral concert at Kyiv-Pechersk Laura. There were renditions of works by Dmytro Bortniansky, Maksym...