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Performers:

• Mariana Holovko, vocals (Ukraine)
• Ihor Saienko, accordion (Ukraine)
• Julian Milkis, clarinet (USA)
• INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra
• Nikoloz Rachveli, conductor (Georgia)

Programme:

• Giya Kancheli. Night Prayers for Clarinet, Strings and Tape
• Giya Kancheli in Nikoloz Rachveli’s Arrangements. Music for Screen and Stage
  • Melodies from Georgian films: Mimino, Don’t Grieve!, Kin-dza-dza!, The Eccentrics, Blue Mountains, When Almonds Blossomed and music from productions of the Rustaveli Theatre: Khanuma, King Lear, The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Giya Kancheli. Nu Mu Zu for Large Symphony Orchestra

On this stage, musicians from Ukraine, the United States, and Georgia come together. The voice of Mariana Holovko, the clarinet of Julian Milkis, and the accordion of Ihor Saienko join the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Nikoloz Rachveli to create a living fabric of sound, where every voice carries its own weight and character.

At the heart of the programme is the music of Giya Kancheli alongside Rachveli’s original compositions. Kancheli has often been described as a composer of extremes, where stillness and intensity coexist. His music holds the listener in a delicate balance between fragility and power, where a single sound can feel like a memory and the next like an inner rupture. Performed in the world’s leading concert halls and widely featured in film, his work always retains the intimacy of a deeply personal conversation.

Nikoloz Rachveli continues this lineage in his own voice. His music emerges from theatre, cinema, and a direct, living connection with people. He shapes emotion as material, building form through tension and breath, weaving together classical tradition with contemporary inflections in a way that feels immediate and deeply recognizable.

In this concert, Ukrainian and Georgian cultures do not simply meet, they grow through one another. Timbres blend, rhythms find a shared pulse, and from this emerges a sense of forward motion and a kind of light that warms rather than dazzles.

Promin is about people. Those who create, those who listen, those who experience. It is about an inner strength that arises in moments of togetherness, about a connection that needs no explanation.

This is an evening with a lasting resonance. And perhaps that is exactly why it is worth being there.