Natalia Semenenko

A full house at the recent performance of Eugene Onegin in the National Opera hardly surprised anyone, although the performance was not a premiere. Most of the music fans came to the theater to hear the baritone voice of Yurii Yurchuk, who, having arrived from London on a tour to his hometown,...

Musicians from Italy, Denmark, and Ukraine conquered the Kyiv public. The National Philharmonic of Ukraine hosted The Piano Fairy, an evening whose program arose at the crossing of three European cultures. This cross-national project was born of joint creativity of talented musicians: young Danish...

A concert at the National Philharmonic Society allowed the audience to relish the exuberant timbres of symphonic scores by such classics as Claude Debussy, Jacques Ibert, Francis Poulenc, and Maurice Ravel. The soiree’s program consisted of the works that represent one of the most interesting...

Even for professionals, the Danish musical culture remained a kind of terra incognita until recently. Understandably, then, Kyiv music fans were keenly interested in the concert dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the founder of the Danish school of composition, violinist, conductor, and music...

Musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine conducted by Volodymyr Sirenko have presented a feast of music. This concert turned a new brilliant page of the 25th jubilee international festival “Music Premieres of the Season,” which coincided for the second time with Kyiv Day...

The “Kyiv” fest, whose life story began with a successful performance of Andrii Ostapenko, is now a star attraction for guitar aficionados. Its extensive programs have been full of various interesting things, such as exhibitions of instruments, launchings of publications, competitions...

“In our country a conductor is more than a conductor” – this paraphrase of Aleksandr Yevtushenko’s words about a poet who is more than a poet in our country came from the time of Khrushchev’s Thaw and, in a sense, has not lost its meaning now. Brought into our music...

This musician frequently goes on tours to many European countries, performs with such influential symphonic ensembles as the national orchestras of France and Belgium, philharmonic orchestras of Lisbon, Liege, Israel, Luxembourg, and Hanover. Sonia Wieder-Atherton has cooperated with famous...

The concert program surprised the audience with the variety of style priorities. Music fans in one concert night got a chance to listen to music of different styles – sonatas by Alessandro Scarlatti (famous Italian composer of the Baroque period), virtuoso etudes by romantic composers...

The Days of Azerbaijani Music in Ukraine became an important cultural event in Kyiv. It was organized by the Ministry of Culture, the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, Embassy of Azerbaijan to Ukraine, the Union of Azerbaijan Composers, Muslim Magomayev Cultural Center, All-Ukrainian NGO...