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Maxim Shalygin / Alla Zagaykevych

Saturday, 1 March 2025   |   18:00 - 20:00

Maxim Shalygin / Alla Zagaykevych

The double vinyl album LIMBO on Kyiv Dispatch – a new Ukrainian label for contemporary and experimental music. A project by Viktoriia Vitrenko in collaboration with Sasha Andrusyk from Ear (Ukraine), dedicated to Maria Kalesnikava. The album includes part of the vocal cycle ‘The songs of holy fools’ composed by Maxim Shalygin in 2009-2010 as well as a premiere piece “Signs of Presence” by Alla Zagaykevych. 

The album gets its release on February 17th as a limited edition of 500 copies, on March 17th the album will appear on all major streaming platforms. 

Music by Agata Zubel, Alla Zagaykevych, Ying Wang, Sven-Ingo Koch and Maxim Shalygin. Video art and performance – Studio Radar and Viktoriia Vitrenko. Supported by the Goethe Institute Ukraine.

  • Composer(s) Maxim Shalygin / Alla Zagaykevych
  • Title(s) of the Work(s)

    Maxim Shalygin - The songs of holy fools
    Alla Zagaykevych - Signs of Presence
  • Performer, Ensemble or Orchestra Viktoriia Vitrenko soprano & piano
Date
Mar 01 2025
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Time
18:00 - 20:00
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Location
Kyiv, Vere Music Hub, Ukraine
Kyiv, Vere Music Hub, Ukraine
21/8 Malopidvalna Street, Kyiv, Ukraine
Website https://vere.fund/en/ua-vere-music-hub-concerts-august-2024/

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Composer

Maxim Shalygin

"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin

His compositions include chamber, vocal, symphonic, electro-acoustic music, as well as music for theater, ballet and film.
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Alla Zagaykevych

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