The National Ensemble of Soloists “Kyiv Camerata”, founded in 1977, is a leading chamber ensemble with a clear mission to promote Ukrainian music and boasts of being the first to perform it. Kyiv Camerata comprises highly skillful musicians, each of whom is a virtuoso and a soloist. The program features works by outstanding Ukrainian contemporary composers. The concert is a part of the benefit tour presented by USA for Ukraine, a not-for-profit organization that supports humanitarian causes in Ukraine.

Program:

Yevhen Stankovych – Chamber Symphony 3 for flute and strings
Hanna Havrylets – Choral for strings
Yevhen Stankovych – Mountain legend for viola and orchestra
Valentyn Silvestrov – Silent music for strings
Oleksandr Kozarenko – Concerto Rutheno for piano and orchestra
Zoltan Almashi – Maria’s City for strings

Victoria Vita Poleva – Soul for violin, piano and orchestra

Oleg Kyva – That Garden Chamber cantata #3 at poem by Pavlo Tychyna
Levko Kolodub – Two Arrangements of Ukrainian song “Oy, pishly b na muzyky”
Volodymyr Zubystsky – Concerto for violin and orchestra

‘Soul’

for Violin, Piano and Strings 2022 (red.2024). This piece was commissioned by Ukrainian violinist Bogdana Pivnenko.

Victoria Vita Poleva:

‘The idea of the piece is the journey of the soul; continuity, non-stop, constancy of movement. Despite the intonation of the “sigh”, these are not complaints, not lamentations, but steps, steps of a tired person who does not give up.
This is a path that must be walked with dignity, without complaining.’