In its first visit to the United States since 1998, Kyiv Camerata, Ukraine’s leading chamber ensemble, will perform an all-Ukrainian program of North American premieres conducted by Canadian Ukrainian Keri-Lynn Wilson featuring acclaimed mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and the New York based Ukrainian Chorus Dumka New York, directed by Vasyl Hrechynsky, at Carnegie Hall‘s Zankel Hall on Sunday, April 28 at 5PM. The benefit program is presented by USA for Ukraine, a not-for-profit organization that supports humanitarian and animal causes in Ukraine.

The 24-member Kyiv Camerata will perform the North American premieres of works by leading Ukrainian composers, including Zoltan Almashi, Oleksandr Kozarenko, Yevhen Stankovych, Volodomyr Zubytsky, Victoria Poleva, and Valentin Sylvestrov. Shchetynsky’s Requiem, Skoryk’s Melody, and Sylvestrov’s Prayer for Ukraine are the only works on the program not receiving their North American premieres.

Program:

Zoltan Almashi: Maria’s City

Oleksandr Kozarenko: Concerto Rutheno

Yevhen Stankovych: Legend from the Mountains

Volodymyr Zubytsky: Violin Concerto No.1

Victoria Poleva: No Man is an Island

Oleksandr Shchetynsky: Requiem

Myroslav Skoryk: Melody

Valentin Sylvestrov: Prayer for Ukraine