Serhiy Tsyhankov

Kyiv’s Honchary Gallery opened on June 11 an exposition of paintings and ceramics by Kyiv’s Natalia Makieyeva. It is titled A New Collection and is the result of basic concepts revised. It is really an altogether new collection and its value can hardly be appreciated by one just dropping in....

TWO MORE SERGE BORTKIEWICZ WORKS WILL APPEAR IN UKRAINE Symphony No. 52 in D-major, From My Homeland, written by Serge Bortkiewicz (Serhiy Bortkevych) in the mid-1930s, premiered in Ukraine in mid-May. The Day wrote about the return of Bortkiewicz’s music (No. 15, May 22, 2001), and a sequel...

A program called The Last Romantic: Return to Ukraine was presented in Chernihiv on May 15 and at the National Philharmonic Society in Kyiv the next day. Chernihiv "Philharmonia" Symphony Orchestra performed Ukrainian composer Serhiy Bortkevych’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Major (op. 16) and...

By Tetiana POLISHCHUK, The Day By Tetiana POLISHCHUK, The Day By Tetiana POLISHCHUK, The Day The first day the audience enjoyed classical time-tested ballets. The second...

Volodymyr Runchak, renowned Ukrainian composer and author of the New Music in Kyiv project, represented chamber concert compiled of the works by Ukrainian and Polish composers. Touch by Serhiy Zazhytko, as well as Homo Ludens II by Volodymyr Runchak, were written for the piano. Homo Ludens has been...

For the numerous admirers of Indian culture the four melancholy and dull autumn days of November 2-5 were filled with a serendipity of color and exotic scintillating melodies as the Sixth All-Ukrainian Indian Dance Festival was held in Kyiv under the patronage of the Embassy of the Republic of...

The exposition features rare books and manuscripts submitted to the museum “recently.” In other words, during the uncertain times that could have become the last for this unique collection, after complete government sustenance, is now left, figuratively speaking, on bread and water like most...

Without doubt the joint concert by the French musical maitre Michel Legrand and Tamara Gverdtsiteli became one of the highlights of the competitive events of the Slovyansky Bazar [Slavic Bazaar] Festival. The maestro first met Tamara ten years ago when the singer’s agent decided to send an...

As the off season draws to a close, Ukraine staged quite an event, the First Ukraine’s Stars of Culinary Art Festival organized by the Kyiv City State Administration, the Kyiv International Contract Fair, the Association of Ukrainian Cooks, and Kyiv State Trade and Economics University. The...

Awaiting Kyiv in late May is a fireworks of the premiere performance of European music little known even to musicologists and of pieces undeservedly kept away from the public. The idea of the project, including three concerts, belongs to Meritorious Performer of Ukraine, pianist Mykola Suk who...