Olena Diachkova

Today Kyrylo Karabyts is well-known abroad. In the eyes of the European journalists he and his peers Vasily Petrenko from St. Petersburg and Andris Nelsons from Latvia present the “eastern mission” in Europe. The foreign impresarios set their hopes on those young people, however...

A musical dialog between cultures was staged by the members of Drevo, a Ukrainian folk group, and Dzham, a group of Iranian musicians; the premiere of the choral oratorio Barbikivska Koliada by Hanna Havrylets, a well-known composer, was also performed by the Dumka choir. These events were...

The Day of the first performance, which coincided with the eve of St. Andrew’s Day, appeared to be symbolic, as one of the story lines touched upon a vision of Kyiv. But it is not the Christ follower that we see in the ballet, it is a priest of Perun, the pagan god. The liberetto was...

Virtuosi of the Planet 2010 comprises musicians with interesting destinies and well-conceived images: the winner of international competitions, button accordion player Oleksandr Khrustkevych (Ukraine), winner of the 2010 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Composers Competition Vadim Neselovskyi (...

The album’s first soundtrack presents a 23 second ovation. The charity concert by the NMAU students’ orchestra conducted by Roman Kofman at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn in fact enjoyed great success with the public. Evidence to this are headlines in the German press: “Delight with the Brilliant...