Spring at the Philharmonic begins with a series of events, including a unique music marathon, evenings dedicated to Volodymyr Ivasiuk and Taras Shevchenko, symphony concerts by talented young people, and family events.

Friday 01.03.2024 / 19:00. Titova & Zakharov

On the first day of March, we invite you to hear iconic works – Arnold Schoenberg’s “Enlightened Night” and Felix Mendelssohn’s Double Concerto for piano, violin and string orchestra. Together with the Lviv Virtuosos Academic Chamber Orchestra, they will be performed by Ukrainian soloists known in Europe: pianist Kateryna Titova, violinist Mykhailo Zakharov, and conductor Natalia Stets.

Saturday 02.03.2024 / 18:00. Identity

Identity, originality, and courage to be who you define yourself will be imbued in the program of the concert by the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra, featuring Antonin Dvořák’s Slavic Dances, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, and Antonin Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. The Lviv audience will see a well-known Polish conductor, the musical director of the Lublin Opera, Wincenty Kozlowski, at the conductor’s console. During the unjust Russian-Ukrainian war, he will once again come to Lviv to express his solidarity and support for Ukrainians together with the INSO-Lviv orchestra and renowned pianist Roman Lopatynsky.

To the 180th anniversary of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy

Sunday 03.03.2024 / 18:00. Volodymyr Ivasiuk. 75

The 180th anniversary of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy is very reverently and symbolically intertwined with the 75th anniversary of one of its most famous students, Volodymyr Ivasyuk. His compositions symbolize unbreakable independence, love for the Motherland, native language and culture. The famous “folk” songs and forgotten masterpieces of Volodymyr Ivasyuk will be performed by mezzo-soprano Maria Stokolyas, the Wind Orchestra of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy and soloists under the direction of Yaroslav Horbal in a unique harmony of the wind orchestra and the best soloists!

Monday 04.03.2024 / 19:00. Brahms & Dvorak

This time, a special project of the Lviv National Philharmonic will be a performance by the Symphony Orchestra of the Vasyl Slipak Opera Studio of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy under the trampoline of Olga Khoma. The soloist is Bohdan Havrylov.

The program will feature a performance of Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 4: a masterpiece that impresses with its depth and emotional intensity. The second part of the evening will be the performance of Antonin Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, where the subtle interaction of the cello and the orchestra creates a precious weaving of sound images.

Friday 08.03.2024 / 18:00. Le Nozze di Figaro

A concert performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera

On the occasion of the 180th anniversary of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy, we invite you to attend a performance of Mozart’s outstanding comic opera (1786). “The Marriage of Figaro is an iconic opera for any stage. This time at the Philharmonic, we will recreate Beaumarchais’ plot in a masterful performance by soloists and a symphony orchestra.

Monday 25.03.2024 / 12:00. Morning Piano Concerts

This year’s graduates will have the opportunity to showcase their talents on a professional stage. We believe that such cooperation will be a successful start for young musicians and composers, and the Philharmonic stage will be the first and most important step to the desired heights.

We invite you to support the masters of the Department of Composition and hear the supernova works!

On the 210th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth

His words contain prophecies and calls to struggle, bloodstained pages of history and picturesque dreams of the future, true pictures of life and beautiful landscapes of the Motherland.

Saturday 09.03.2024 / 16:00. Poet of Freedom

The Lviv National Philharmonic invites you to two days of commemoration of the Ukrainian prophet, genius, Kobzar. On March 9 at 16:00, attend a large-scale event featuring soloists: Sofia Soloviy, Roman Strakhov, and Oleh Sozansky, the Galician Academic Chamber Choir, the Academic Chamber Orchestra “Lviv Virtuosi” under the direction of Taras Vergun, and the Orpheus Octet. The program includes compositions by Ukrainian authors based on texts by Taras Shevchenko.

Sunday 10.03.2024 / 18:00. Shevchenko. Today

To mark the 210th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth, works dedicated to him will be performed by two leading orchestras – the Military Orchestra of the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv National Philharmonic, as well as soloists: baritone Oleksiy Kuvitanov and bandura player Oleh Sozansky.

Friday 15.03.2024 / 19:00. Conductors. In Ukrainian: Kirychuk

Conductors. In Ukrainian is an already well-known project of the Lviv National Philharmonic, founded in 2020. In the March event Conductors. Ukrainian” event in March, the Philharmonic’s Symphony Orchestra will perform under the baton of Nataliia Kyrichuk, a conductor from Kyiv. During the master classes held by Theodore Kuchar and the orchestra together with the Student Scientific and Creative Society “Octopus” of the National Music Academy of Ukraine, the orchestra members were invited to join this collaboration. Together with the orchestra, Kirychuk will perform works by Beethoven and Dvořák, symphonic works of incredible beauty and complexity that not every conductor of our time can master.

Saturday 16.03.2024 / 18:00. Values

What do we call values? The most important, unshakable, real. What about musical works? Who or what determines their value? Time, context, skill, audience, critics, or maybe the author himself? There is no exact answer. However, almost all of us can distinguish a priceless masterpiece from a fake. This evening’s concert by the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra will feature real musical gems – tried and true, highly appreciated by authors and long recognized by listeners. Ludwig van Beethoven’s First Symphony, César Franck’s Symphony in D minor and Anton Webern’s Passacaglia.

Wednesday 20.03.2024 / 19:00. World Classic Gems

For more than a century, the stage of the Lviv Philharmonic has been the first coveted stage for many prominent musicians. Their debuts here have given them a variety of experiences: exciting and nervous, joyful and enthusiastic.

No one knows what exactly the first steps on the stage of the soloists of this concert will be like, but we assure you that the evening will leave pleasant memories. Most of the pieces on offer are centuries-old masterpieces: overtures and arias from operas by Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, concertos by Weber and Chopin. The musicians have deliberately combined their favorite pieces to give you a truly unforgettable evening. So we invite you to join the virtuoso spring event!

Bach Marathon March 21-24

Every year, in honor of Johann Sebastian Bach’s birthday, the Lviv National Philharmonic holds the BachMarathon. As you know, most of the world celebrates the composer’s birthday on March 21, according to the old calendar, because Protestant Germany adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1700 with the agreement that all dates would remain valid until the year 1699.

Thursday 21.03.2024 / 19:00. BACH Marathon. 22 children of Bach

Mozart once said: “Bach is the father, and we are his children.” And although he was talking about Carl Philipp Emanuel at the time, today we would like to emphasize the eternity of Bach’s figure and how his presence imperceptibly and strongly influences modern life: all the music we know is marked by his influence, all our musicians grew up with his work, all the vital topics are covered in this boundless synergy of the Baroque genius and the master.

Attend this concert and perhaps there will be more of us in the list of Bach’s heirs.

Friday 22.03.2024 / 19:00. BACH Marathon. Vivace

The second concert of the marathon, which will take place this year at the Lviv National Philharmonic, will be held in the Vivace tempo. More than 300 years ago, this tempo symbolized a rather moderate movement – just to make you feel like a full-fledged master of the situation, nevertheless move in it quite dynamically.

At a comfortable pace, the selected pieces of the program will prompt you with new solutions and insights for your own non-musical projects, or, on the contrary, help you relax in the moment. This is the music of Bach – inseparable from our reality and powerful over it even through the ages.

Saturday 23.03.2024 / 18:00. BACH Marathon. Bach is smiling

…And Bach is smiling. He is happy… His music is played in the best concert halls of the world, in churches, on cell phones… No other composer has received such great attention from fellow musicians who enjoy creating their own arrangements, processing and “cover versions” – from classical to jazz – of the famous themes of the German Genius. And our concert is a confirmation of this. The works of Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed in interesting and extraordinary, multi-style and “driving” arrangements by Andriy Yatskiv and Serhiy Gurin. We are excited! And Bach is smiling…

Sunday 24.03.2024 / 11:30. BACH Marathon & Hitchhiking Through Musical Galaxy. Planet of Conductor’s Batons

What could be more exciting than getting to know a large symphony orchestra? We invite you to hear all its colors and get acquainted with musical instruments!

“Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Music Galaxy” is a series of interactive musical adventures of Tinkerbell and his friends in the music galaxy. During 10 concerts, young listeners will visit the amazing planets of the musical galaxy together with Tinkerbell, where they will be able to get acquainted with their inhabitants and the peculiarities of each planet. Also, before each concert, at 11:00, young listeners will have fun interactive activities with unique musical props from the TEMPO Music Development Center.

Sunday 24.03.2024 / 16:00. BACH Marathon. Аdagio

The concert will explore the architecture of sound that unfolds smoothly in time. The Adagio, a tempo of measured reflection, will be revealed to the audience gradually thanks to the unique performing lineup of famous Lviv musicians. In contrast to this nostalgic peacefulness, the hall will also have an incendiary atmosphere.

Visit this exposition of the works by the master of world greatness Bach and the composer from Brazil inspired by him – Villa-Lobos!

Sunday 24.03.2024 / 19:30. BACH Marathon. Baroque Chapel

No frivolity, but with a fantastic sense of humor and imagination: this is how the Baroque world and its two whales will appear in this concert. Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach.

As a sign of a community that boldly builds the future, the Baroque chapel means more than just a name. Young people are turning to the old. An ancient sound is revived in young hands, and announces a new hope. And it will also crown the Bahiana Marathon 2024 until next year.

Tuesday 26.03.2024 / 19:00. Perpetuum Mobile

If you close your eyes and listen to the first of the pieces on this program on the accordion, a truly special instrument, you might think that a mighty organ is playing. Or an entire orchestra. Because the timbre possibilities of the accordion, namely its register nature, allows you to perform a wide variety of music from different eras and genres and instruments completely different from the accordion, as it seems at first glance.

Today, there is a vivid tendency to expand the accordion repertoire, so you will hear both arrangements and original compositions by the young talented musician Denys Snigiriov.

Thursday 28.03.2024 / 19:00. Memory about City

London, Prague, Mariupol – once upon a time, these names could have been placed on a traveler’s map, in a note with vacation plans, or in a photo album. Nowadays, we often remember them in a different context: cities that help, shelter, support, or wait for us to return. The program of the Lviv Virtuosos Academic Chamber Orchestra and conductor Parviz Yahyavi will be connected to these cities.

The concert will begin with Zoltan Almasshi’s City of Mary, which tells the story of a city that defended itself to the last, in which there was less fear than courage, and despair than hope. The concert will continue with one of the best classical instrumental serenades – Serenade by English composer Edward Elgar, which has become not only a landmark work in the composer’s oeuvre but also one of the gems of British music. In the best traditions of orchestral evenings, the orchestra will end the concert with hope and bright moods, presented by one of the best instrumental serenades in the history of music – Antonin Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings in E major.

Friday 29.03.2024 / 19:00. Tree of Life

An evening of the most diverse classical music performed by soloists, choir and symphony orchestra will not leave anyone indifferent: this is how the mighty Symphony of Life grows from the first, fragile single sounds.

In this program, one of the composers has the name of the main villain from the Sherlock Holmes universe. No more intrigues, but still a lot of interesting things: this evening, the famous overture from the opera The Thief of Magpie by Italian Gioacchino Rossini and the contemporary symphony The Tree of Life by American composer Richard Moriarty will be performed in a free-spirited manner. The distance between the works is more than two centuries, and each author has put his own principles and beliefs into the sound of these compositions, which are worthy of attention.