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‘Voices Across Generations’ will celebrate 30 years of Ukrainian independence through music. Each day of the festival, concerts will be broadcast via the platform Musae, which uses the highest quality video and audio recording available to optimise the experience. Take a look at the full programme and book your tickets on the festival website!
The Ukrainian Institute London is working in partnership with the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival to bring the festival to UK audiences!
Friday 5 March – Sunday 7 March 2021.
The second annual Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival explores the role of music in contemporary Ukrainian culture and politics through lively presentations and performances under the theme ‘Voices Across Generations’ to mark thirty years of Ukrainian independence. Streamed from the stages of the Ukrainian Museum, the Kaufman Music Center, and the DiMenna Center on the innovative Musae online platform, the Festival provides space to hear today’s most exciting Ukrainian music and to contextualize its place within a broader scope of history and society.
The Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival has adapted to current conditions by switching to an online platform for this year’s events. UCMF believes that even in uncertain times, the core mission of bringing new music to audiences remains.
Full Listing of Festival events
Date: Friday 5 March 2021
This year’s festival will open with a concert of music from the youngest generation of Ukrainian composers, complemented by works by two of Ukraine’s best established musical voices.
PROGRAM
Alisa Kobzar, S
Adrian Mocanu, Jeux for viola and piano
Lena Sierova, Suppression
Boris Loginov, The Two
Victoria Poleva, Music for Temo
–INTERMISSION–
Maxim Kolomiiets, Icy Echo of Your Silence
Victoria Poleva, Songs of Innocence
Yana Shliabanska, Almost Real Directions
Oleh Bezoborodko, ..To love, not to love…
PERFORMED BY Yuliya Basis, Caroline Drexler, Helen Newby, Adrianne Munden-Dixon, Carrie Frey, Rita Rovenskaya, Andy Didorenko, Lindsey Eckenroth, Jennifer Gliere, Gleb Kanasevich, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Joanna Mieleszko, Rita Mitsel, Mivos Quartet, Heather O’Donovan, Valeriya Sholokhova, Gerson de la Rosa, and Lucie Vitkova.
The performance will stream from the Ukrainian Museum in New York City.
7:00 Welcome & Introductory Remarks by Leah Batstone (Creative Director, UCMF)
7:15 Music performance
9:00 Conclusion of the event
All timings are Eastern Standard, corresponding with the initial broadcast of the event.
For complete information on composers, performers and festival events, please visit: https://www.ucmfnyc.com.
Date: Saturday 6 March 2021
The second concert presents five works by leading composers of Kyiv avant-garde, also known as the shistdesyatnyky, who created music that challenged socialist realism – the only acceptable musical and aesthetic style in the USSR.
PROGRAM
Vitaly Godziatsky, Surface Ruptures
Volodymyr Huba, Confession
Volodymyr Zahortsev, String Quartet No.1
Leonid Hrabovsky, Concerto Misterioso for 9 instruments
–INTERMISSION–
Valentyn Sylvestrov, Drama
PERFORMED BY Anna Shelest, Mivos Quartet, Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, and Talea Ensemble.
The performance will stream from Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center.
7:30 Pre-Concert Talk by Peter Schmelz (University of Arizona, Tempe)
8:00 Music performance
10:00 Conclusion of the event
All timings are Eastern Standard, corresponding with the initial broadcast of the event.
For complete information on composers, performers and festival events, please visit: https://www.ucmfnyc.com.
Date: Sunday 7 March 2021
The third and final concert will feature works by composers of all generations of Ukrainian electroacoustic music.
PROGRAM
Katia Olenych, Kolomyiky
Alla Zahaykevych, Voice/Way
Ujif_Notfound, Practice of Strings
Alex Chornyi, As the dusk becomes silence for Bass-Clarinet and Electronics
Svyatoslav Krutykov, CHRONOMETRY for Cello and Electronic
Anna Arkushyna, Modelle for violin and tape
Ostap Manulyak, Lithos
Alla Zahaykevych, Punctum Reditum for Clarinet, Violin, Accordion and Electronic
PERFORMED BY Alla Zahaykevych, Madison Greenstone, Lavinia Pavlish, Valeriya Sholokhova, and Lucie Vitkova, with sound engineering by Gleb Kanasevich.
The performance will stream from Mary Flagler Cary Hall at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music.
2:30 Pre-Concert Talk by Alla Zahaykevych (National Music Academy of Ukraine, Kyiv)
3:00 Music performance
4:30 Conclusion of the event
All timings are Eastern Standard, corresponding with the initial broadcast of the event.
For complete information on composers, performers and festival events, please visit our website at https://www.ucmfnyc.com.
TICKET INFORMATION
Once you purchase a ticket, you will receive an email with a link to the concert that can be accessed as many times as you wish once the broadcast has premiered.
Supporter of UCMF: $25
Friend of UCMF: $15
Fan of UCMF: $5
ALL-ACCESS PASS
An All-Access Pass affords access to all program events across all three days of the Festival, plus some perks such as access to invite-only exclusive events. Tickets are available at bit.ly/UCMFNYC2021.
Visit the official Festival website for more information: ucmfnyc.com.
