The world around us is distorting and cracking like overheated vinyl, but it is precisely in these cracks that a new aesthetic is sprouting. Welcome to our cyberpunk. Here, neon…
This spring, the piano album Music of Kharkiv appeared on streaming platforms. It was recorded by Ukrainian pianist Maksym Shadko, a Kharkiv native and soloist of the National Philharmonic of…
“Festive,” “cheerful,” “joyful” … Definitions offered by etymological dictionaries for the Latin word festivus are indescribably far from what Ukrainians are experiencing today. What kind of festivals can we talk…
We Lwowie, zasypanym śniegiem po uszy, pod drzwiami filharmonii, ozdobionymi mroźnymi wzorami, zebrała się garstka ludzi: dorośli i prawie dorośli. Najmniejsze postacie jako pierwsze śpieszą z otwarciem ciężkich drzwi, aby…
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…
Although the world has entered a new era with a bunch of dangers and restrictions, where people are increasingly moving away to the depths of the virtuality dimension, Ukrainian cultural…
Anyone interested in contemporary European jazz is more likely to associate pianist and composer Kathrine Windfeld with a big band than with a sextet, the lineup of which she arrived…
On the 31st of December New Year’s Eve, the restored St. Andrew’s Kyiv Church hosted known musical guests: Maksym Berezovsky, the Kyiv Soloists Ensemble, and Kyrylo Karabyts. Significantly and symbolically,…
— Composers often compare creativity with cooking or sex. So what associations do you have? — I think you can find different metaphors here, it depends on the…
