Olha Kyzlova

The Day met with the musician in Moscow, at the 14th International Tchaikovsky Competition, where Oleksandr Romanovsky won two awards (he won the Fourth Prize and the Special Prize established by the organizing commitee in memory of the recently deceased outstanding pianist and tutor Vladimir...

Greatly anticipated by admirers of academic singing, the world opera star, the Georgian bass singer Paata Burchuladze has come to Kyiv at last. The artiste sang to the accompaniment of the National Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by its artistic director and chief conductor Volodymyr Syrenko, in the...

Every summer concerts are held in a park near Maryinsky Palace to honor the memory of Volodymyr Symonenko, and these musical evenings are now an established tradition in Kyiv. On June 25-26, thousands of Kyivans and guests of the capital attended concerts by Ukrainian and Austrian jazzmen. This...

Two events occurred in the city’s jazz life in the first half of October. The 44 Art Club, owned by Eric Aigner, a well-known patron of young people’s alternative music, hosted for three days the Atlant-M first children’s jazz festival actively sponsored by an automobile company. The participating...

Jazz is an elite art. Its language and expressive means are inherently sophisticated. It belongs to a serious creative realm. Here one finds masters whose skill satisfies the most demanding professional critics while also enjoyed by larger audiences. Jazz guitarist Enver Izmailov of the Crimea is...