This autumn, the “Contrasts” International Festival of Contemporary Music will once again be held in the Myroslav Skoryk Lviv National Philharmonic. One of the oldest and largest Ukrainian forums of contemporary art will be presented from October 1 to 10. All events of the Festival will be broadcasted online.

Traditionally, “Contrasts” will combine in its program the newest samples of music of the 20th-21st centuries, presenting to the musical community of Ukraine and the world, in particular, the skill of performers who remained in Ukraine during the full-scale phase of the Russian invasion. After all, the festival will take place under the motto of the “Ukraine-2022. Muses Are Not Silent” Project, which the Philharmonic has been taking care of since March of this year. Its purpose is to support Ukrainian musicians and their concert activities in new circumstances. The concerts are a platform for the unification of the Ukrainian cultural environment.

01.10 / Saturday
20:00

«Praeludium»

LIMBO

 staged song recital

Dedicated to Maria Kalesnikava and to all Ukrainian and Belarusian victims
of the totalitarian, cynical and cruel regimes in Russia and Belarus

Victoriia Vitrenko, vocals, piano and performance

Titus Selge, stage director

Astrid Eisenberger, costume designer

In the program:

Agata Zubel

Alla Zagaykevych 

Ying Wang

Sven-Ingo Koch

Maksym Shalygin

02.10 / Sunday
18:00

«Transfiguration»

Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine

Andrii Pavlov, violin

Ustym Zhuk, viola

Oksana Rapita, piano

Volodymyr Syvokhip, conductor

In the program:

Man-Ching Donald Yu

Michail Travlos 

Jean-Pierre Vial

Yurii Laniuk

04.10 / Tuesday
19:00

«Illumined by the Black Sun»

Liatoshynskyi cappella: choir

Oleksandr Ostrovskyi, narrator

Bohdan Plish, conductor

In the program:

Ivan Nebesnyi

Tetiana Iashvili

Yevhen Stankovych

Hanna Havrylets 

Victoriia Polyova

Victoriia Polyova

Yevhen Petrychenko (1976). “Illumined by the Black Sun”, choral symphony-performance

05.10 / Wednesday
19:00

«The Hammers and a Master»

Khrystyna Beniuk, piano

Solomiia Salamaniuk, piano

Hlib Fareniuk, piano

Vitalii Dvorovyi, piano

In the program:

Piano works by the students-composers of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy:
Alisa Formasiuk
Ksenia Stetsenko
Anastasiia Sysenko
Marian Fil
Ihnatii Moiseiiv
Denys Kucher

Borys Liatoshynskyi (1895–1968). Symphony No. 3, op. 50. Arrangement for two pianos and eight hands by Hlib Fareniuk

06.10 / Thursday
19:00

«Lviv Trio»

Nazarii Pylatiuk, violin

Oksana Lytvynenko, cello

Myroslav Dragan, piano

In the program:

Vasyl Barvinskyi

Myroslav Skoryk

Borys Liatoshynskyi

07.10 / Friday
19:00

“Two Days & Two Nights of New Music” at “Contrasts”

Tetiana Muliar, soprano

Rupert Bergmann, bass-baritone

Ensemble “Senza Sforzando”:
Nazar Kravchenko, flute
Volodymyr Gitin, clarinet
Irma Gotkova, piano
Kateryna Korshomna, violin
Yevgen Dovbysh, cello
Zhelyazko Ivan, percussion
Oleksandr Perepelytsia, piano & conductor, artistic director

In the program:

Karmella Tsepkolenko

Hanna Kopiika

Asmati Chibalashvili

Kira Maidenberg-Todorova

Mykhailo Shved 

Julia Gomelska

Werner Schulze

Karmella Tsepkolenko

Andrii Merkhel

Elena Sataite

Anna Stoyanova

Ihor Zavgorodnii 

08.10 / Saturday
18:00

Only to fight means to live!

“INSO-Lviv” Academic Symphony Orchestra 

Dalia Stasevska (FI), conductor

In the program:

Yevhen Stankovych

Bohdana Frolyak

Valentyn Sylvestrov

09.10 / Sunday
18:00

«Microsymphonies»

Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra — Sinfonietta

Vincent Kozlovsky (PL), conductor

In the program:

Ostap Manulyak

Witold Lutosławski

Yevhen Stankovych

Arnold Schoenberg

10.10 / Monday
19:00

«Postludium»

Oksana Rapita, piano

Myroslav Dragan, piano

In the program:

Hennadiy Liashenko

Victor Kaminskyi

Yarema Yakubiak

Yurii Laniuk

Myroslav Skoryk

 Ihor Shcherbakov

Yevhen Stankovych

Bohdana Frolyak

The Festival is held with the support of the Society of Authors ZAiKS, PWM Edition, Fundacija RenesArt, Goethe-Institut Ukraine and the OeAD Cooperation Office Lviv.

“Ukraine–2022. Muses Are Not Silent” is a concert series in support of Ukrainian musicians during the russian armed aggression. Online concerts will become a platform for the uniting of the Ukrainian music community, as many musicians participating in these concert programs have become internally displaced people and have found shelter in Lviv.

We provide a free opportunity for the whole world to watch concerts on the official YouTube channel of the Lviv National Philharmonic. At the same time, we suggest our listeners from abroad make charitable donations to Ukrainian musicians who have stayed here in Ukraine.

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