International Festival of Contemporary Music

Contrasts 29. PULSUS

Lviv / 29.09.-8.10.2023

Myroslav Skoryk Lviv National Philharmonic 

Lyudkevych Concert Hall

It pulsates, initiates all processes and allows you to experience life to the fullest! We are convinced that this is how culture works. It activates those who are not indifferent to search in the immense depths of our traditions and innovations, to create and explore unrestrainedly – but remain true to themselves. Culture moves the world at maximum speed, flows in the eclectic present, and makes us get acquainted with Ukrainian art as soon as possible. The Lviv National Philharmonic is focusing on the visions of the Ukrainian art today.

For the 29th time, the Contrasts International Contemporary Music Festival will take place from September 29 to October 8. This year’s program of events for the 10-day marathon includes well-known Lviv ensembles, guests from Kyiv, Poland, and Germany, and real gems that are rarely performed even on our stages. We dedicate every pause and sound today to the unbreakable Ukrainians. And we believe that music has a healing effect: it gives us the strength to continue to defend our beliefs, freedom and future.

Dzvenyslava Safian, musicologist

CALENDAR

29.09 / Friday

19:00

CONTRASTS 29. OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL 

Artists:

• National Ensemble of Soloists “Kyiv Camerata”
• Dmytro Kuzmin, flute
• Inna Galatenko, soprano
• Zoltan Almashi, cello
• Oksana Rapita, piano
• Ivan Cherednichenko, conductor

Composers: Stankovych, Hrabovskyi. Karabyts, Silvestrov, Tsepkolenko, Almashi, Kozarenko.

30.09 / Saturday

18:00 

CONTRASTS 29. TRIBUTE TO VALENTYN SILVESTROV

Artists:

• Liliia Nikitchuk, mezzo-soprano 
• Violina Petrychenko, piano 
• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
• Volodymyr Syvokhip, conductor 

Composer: Valentyn Silvestrov

1.10 / Sunday

18:00 / CONTRASTS 29. DIALOGUE WITH SKORYK

Artists:

• Artem Poludennyi, cello
• Oksana Lytvynenko, cello
• Nazarii Stets, double bass
• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra 
• Vincent Kozlovsky, conductor (PL)

Composers: Skoryk, Kurinna, Ivanchenko, Sokachyk, Pikush

2.10 / Monday

19:00

CONTRASTS 29. SILENZIO DAL DOLORE

Artists:

Mykhailo Sosnovsky, flute

Stepan Syvokhip, oboe

Jozsef Ormeny, piano

Academic Chamber Orchestra “Lviv Virtuosos”

Volodymyr Syvokhip, conductor

Composers: Vasks, Pasichnyk, Stankovych, Sirenko, Skoryk, Frolyak, Havrylets

3.10 / Tuesday

19:00

CONTRASTS 29. BARVINSKYI & SKORYK

Artists:

Violina Petrychenko, piano

Nataliia Gordieieva, violin 

Maksym Rymar, cello

Composers: Barvinskyi, Lysenko, Skoryk

4.10 / Wednesday

19:00

CONTRASTS 29. SISTERS. MUSES

Artists:

• Kateryna Boichuk, violin I
• Maryna Hromadska, violin II
• Veronika Pedorych, viola
• Oksana Lytvynenko, cello
• Jozsef Ormeny, piano 

Composers: Havrylets, Frolyak

5.10 / Thursday

17:00

Concert hall of the House of Sound (6, Knyazya Romana St.)

CONTRASTS 29. PREPARED LANDSCAPES

Artists: students of the piano department of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv Music Academy

Composers: Hryhorieva, Gurina, Kucher, Maksymchuk, Moiseiev, Ozerskyi, Stetsenko, Fil, Formaziuk

19:00

CONTRASTS 29. ACADEMY

Artists:

• Stanislav Parashchuk, alto saxophone
• Pavlo Yanushevskyi, piano
• Lviv Chamber Orchestra “Academy”
• Ihor Pylatiuk, conductor and artistic director
• Arthur Mykytka, concertmaster and director

Composers: Koffler, Skoryk, Kaminsky, Bekirov, Kurylevich 

6.10 / Friday

19:00

CONCERT 29. CONCERTO GROSSO WITH POSITIVE 

Artists:

• Liatoshynskyi Capella: Early Music Ensemble

Yevhen Petrychenko. “Concerto grosso with a positive” 

7.10 / Saturday

CONTRASTS 29. PULSE MARATON

16:00 / KUNE / TOGETHER

Artists: 

• Lviv Chamber Choir “Gloria” 
• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra 
• Serhii Khorovets, conductor 

Arnaud Fillon. “Kune” for choir, soloists and symphony orchestra 

18:00 / VALENTYN BIBIK: SONATAS AND INTERMEZZOS

Artist: Maksym Shadko, piano

Composer: Valentyn Bibik

19:30 / INTERMEDIA

Artists:

• Nataliia Kozhushko-Maksymiv, flute
• Yevhen Kruk, violin
• Ustym Zhuk, viola
• Bohdan Kozhushko, accordion
• Myroslav Dragan, piano

Composers: Lozova, Berio, Donald Yu, Hermosa, Manuliak, Sehin 

21:00 / DUO SONORO

Artists:

“Duo Sonoro”

• Andriy Pavlov, violin 
• Valeria Shulha, piano 

Composers: Zagortsev, Kurtág, Silvestrov, Takemitsu, Ishchenko, Tüür, Lutosławski

8.10 / Sunday

18:00

CONTROLS 29. CLOSING OF THE FESTIVAL. SYNERGY

Artists:

• Kateryna Suprun, viola 
• Academic Symphony Orchestra “INSO-Lviv” 
• Vincent Kozlovsky, conductor (PL)

Composers: Penderecki, Azarova, Shchetynskyi, Kozlovsky