Olesia Naidiuk

The maestro will perform with the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra on the stage of the Lysenko Columned Hall on February 16. The name given to the concert comes from a waltz of the same name, written by Carl Maria von Weber, a 19th-century German composer who dedicated the piece to his bride,...

It took time for the project to reach the format of a festival. It is the Lviv-born Oksana Lyniv (pictured), conductor of the young musicians’ orchestra “New Munich Philharmonic” and chief conductor at the Graz Opera and the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra in Austria, who hit upon...

The name of this bass-baritone is not so much known among Ukrainian opera buffs in contrast to, say, Liudmyla Monastyrska or Viktoria Lukianets, who also work abroad but perform much more often in Ukraine. Yet it is thanks to Pavlo Hunka that many foreigners discovered the song heritage of...

Mikheil Menabde, a conductor at the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine, a graduate of the National Music Academy of Ukraine (Roman Kofman’s student), answered The Day’s questions on the eve of the opening. The honor to open the festival befell his chamber orchestra Armonia Ludus...

A creative meeting with Polish conductor of Ukrainian origin Roman Rewakowicz, dedicated to the launch of his personal fund in our capital, (within the framework of the literary-music project “Artistic Meetings in the Archive-Museum”) has taken place in the Central State Archive-Museum...

During almost 60 years of the “Warsaw Autumn,” one of the most reputable forums of modern academic music in the world, the Ukrainian school of composers was represented by six names: Valentyn Sylvestrov, Myroslav Skoryk, Yevhen Stankovych, Oleksandr Shchetynsky, Bohdan Sehin, and...

Claudio Martinez Mehner, a distinguished Spanish pianist, performed during the Chamber Art Music Festival recently held in Kyiv. Apart from his phenomenal musical talent, the man knows some seven languages. He was born in Germany, studied at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid,...

International Festival of Classical Music “ChamberArtMusic” will be held in Kyiv from October 18 through 22. Traditionally, Ukrainian and European leading soloists and chamber ensembles perform within the framework of the festival, and authoritative European musicians give charity...

The band marked its birthday without its founder, artistic director, and conductor, the recently deceased Bohodar Kotorovych. The anniversary concert took place at the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine before the band’s official birth date (November 29), and was dedicated to the...

The 21st International Festival of Academic Music is over. Traditionally, Kyiv Music Fest was held by the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. Seeking to defend its status as the most representative forum of modern classical culture in Ukraine, every year Kyiv Music Fest tries to present as...