Since the spring of 2022, musicians from military bands stationed in Mariupol have been held in Russian captivity alongside the city’s defenders. Among them are members of the bands of…
A century ago, Mykola Leontovych’s music was first performed on European stages by the Ukrainian Republic Capella and immediately became a symbol of Ukrainian national identity worldwide. The figure of…
Ukrainian composer Roman Grygoriv has released the album Irrenaissance, with music played using the frame of an Uragan MLRS cluster munition missile. The release is available on Spotify, YouTube Music,…
Ivan Kuzminskyi was a leading researcher of Ukrainian early music. He had a Ph. D. in Musicology and was the author of dozens of scientific publications. His career developed rapidly,…
Milan Kundera (1929-2023) was one of the most prominent writers of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, an author who spoke with unbearable ease about Immortality,…
Since the spring of 2022, musicians from military bands stationed in Mariupol and the Ukrainian military who defended Mariupol from the Russian invasion have been held captive in Russia. Three…
Leonid Hrabovsky’s music style evolution shows a constant development and exploration of new and unknown elements. He began with a neo-folkloristic opus in the late 1950s and was among the…
Lyubava Sydorenko’s music is original, varied, emotional, and beautiful. Her musical language is undoubtedly modern but, at the same time, it is largely based on the classical principles of dramaturgy…
Despite the war, artistic life in Ukraine continues and is gaining new momentum. This year, the newly created All-Ukrainian chamber music festival “Mirror”, launched in the walls of the Lviv…
For more than six decades, Leonid Hrabovsky’s evolution of music style has been like a winding broken line with clearly defined nodal points and sharp turns. New horizons opened after…
