The Virtuosos Festival has remained a challenge for the student musicians of the Lviv Academy Chamber Orchestra for over forty years, and the most impressive programs are chosen to remind them that an eternally young ensemble is also eternally high. The best orchestra players are given an unforgettable chance to perform a solo. This tradition has been going on since the first years of the festival and continues to encourage young musicians to new achievements.

Under the watchful eye of the Academy’s director and concertmaster, Arthur Mykytka, and artistic director and conductor Ihor Pylatiuk, more than one generation of famous musicians has already formed, so we advise you to take a closer look at the young soloists, and maybe next time you will hear about them as world-class virtuosos!

Artists:

• Stanislav Parashchuk, alto saxophone
• Khrystyna Kmit, violin
• Khrystyna Randziak, violin
• Volodymyr Zatsikha, violin
• Kyrylo Zubko, violin
• Kyrylo Filatov, viola
• Volodymyr Kohut, viola
• Anastasiia Zokhniuk, cello
• Mariia Khodakivska, cello
• Lviv Chamber Orchestra “Academy”
• Ihor Pylatiuk, conductor and artistic director
• Arthur Mykytka, concertmaster and director

Program:

• Christoph Gluck (1714-1787). Orchestral suite from music to the ballet-pantomime “Don Giovanni” (1682)
• Giuseppe Torelli (1651-1709). Concerto for two violins and orchestra No. 2, op. 8 (1709)
• Julius Klengel (1859-1933) Andante from the Concerto for Two Cellos, op. 45 (1907)
• Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868). Sonata No. 3 in C major (1804)
• Kurt Atterberg (1887-1974). Suite for violin, viola and strings (1917)
• Myroslav Skoryk (1938-2020). “Synchronization” for alto saxophone and strings (2020)
• Yevhen Stankovych (1942) “Mountain Legend” for viola and strings (2003)
• Yurii Reshetar (1961). “Influenced by tango” for violin and orchestra (2021)
• Viktor Telychko (1957). “Dandy Rag” (2021)