The Resilience of Ukrainian Music
The Ukrainian Institute and Classical NOW! present To All Resurrected | Unbroken: Voices from Ukraine.
The program showcases the resilience of Ukrainian music, which refuses to be defeated. The concert also features the launch of Anthologies of Ukrainian Music : a new series of sheet music featuring previously unpublished Ukrainian compositions. The program explicitly connects the program to the present, featuring recent works by Sviatoslav Lunyov and Maxim Shalygin , who conducts  the Chamber Orchestra of the North.

During the Soviet era, much music was banned because it was deemed too modern, too idiosyncratic, or not Russian enough. The publication of the Anthologies is an important rehabilitation of this forgotten repertoire. Pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi performs “Fractured Surfaces” by Vitaly Hodziatsky, an avant-gardist active in Kyiv in the 1960s.

The spirit of innovation in Kyiv’s musical life has remained undiminished, thanks in part to his inspiration, Valentin Silvestrov. The Northern Chamber Orchestra performs Tristium by Silvestrov’s younger kindred spirit, Svyatoslav Lunyov – a moving, contemplative piece and a musical portrait of the Dnipro River, a lifeblood, that resonates broadly and expansively in the music.

Maxim Shalygin also leads the orchestra in two of his own works: Satarsa ​​and Drop after Drop. Antonii Baryshevskyi concludes with Shalygin’s monumental To All Resurrected, a devastating twenty-minute etude that gives the program its title

Program

Panel discussion
The concert will be preceded by a panel discussion with Liubov Morozova and Liliya Levandovska of Nijmegen4Ukraine.

Maxim Shalygin
To All Resurrected (2020)
Satarsa
​​Drop after drop

Svyatoslav Lunyov
Tristium

Vitaliy Hodziatsky
Fractured Surfaces

Traditional Ukrainian folk songs