Finest Festival Experiences with classics
Kyiv Contemporary Music Days is an educational and concert platform for classical contemporary music. It organizes festivals, concerts of chamber, orchestral and electroacoustic music, public lectures, master-classes and workshops: both for a professional and a wider audience.
The mission of the KCMD team stands on the idea of forming a community around contemporary music, developing its ecosystem, creating new formats and opportunities for education, professional interaction and professional realization of artists in Ukraine and around the world.
Creator: Geoffrey Froment
Contrasts International Contemporary Music Festival
The Contrasts International Contemporary Music Festival takes place annually since 1995 in Lviv, Ukraine. The Festival is organized by Lviv Philharmonic Society in cooperation with the National Composers Union of Ukraine (Lviv Branch) and Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy. Lviv region and municipal administration, various cultural foundations are supporting The Contrasts Festival as well.
The concept of the Festival is based on the aspiration for representing the contemporary Ukrainian music in the context of world culture. The program includes compositions by different generations of Ukrainian composers as well as composers from other countries. The music of Eastern Europe is the main focus of the Festival, but certainly not exclusive. A great part of the Festival’s program includes classical composition of 20th century.
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Two Days and Two Nights of New Music
The annual International Festival of Modern Art Two Days and Two Nights of New Music is recognized as one of the most important musical events in Europe. 2D2N doesn't imitate any other festival. Its uncommon distinction is that it unites new content with a novel festival form.
It is an uninterrupted 48-hour action, two 12-hour musical days, starting on Friday (Saturday) afternoon, breaking on Saturday (Sunday) from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. then recurring and continuing until Sunday (Monday) morning. Each day of the Festival is divided into 12 musical hours. Its unique character results from the fact that an enormous composition, involving performers and audience, is created in a rather limited time period. The festival managed to attract public attention and a wide range of specialists, to draw in hundreds of first-class professional Ukrainian and foreign artists, composers, performers and musical managers.
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The annual international music festival Odesa Classics is the main platform for the presentation of classical music in Ukraine. In June 2015, the Odessa Classics classical music festival was held for the first time in Ukraine, in the city of Odesa. The founder of the festival, pianist Oleksiy Botvinov, set the goal of creating a festival that would help bring Ukraine closer to Europe and at the same time symbolically oppose Russian aggression in the east of Ukraine.
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KharkivMusicFest is an annual classical music festival presenting famous Ukrainian and international artists in the second largest city of Ukraine. The Festival strives to create opportunities to discover classical music for broad audiences by combining high-quality concerts with other events including lectures, masterclasses, showcases, conferences, presentations, discussions, community gatherings, among others. This makes it unique on the map of music festivals of Eastern Europe.
KharkivMusicFest line-up of soloists in the last few years included musicians from Austria, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Moldova, Poland, Romania, the United States and many cities of Ukraine. Among featured artists the Festival recently presented are pianists Sergei Babayan and George Li, conductors Andriy Yurkevych and Tomasz Bugaj, violinist Agata Szymczewska, composer Myroslav Skoryk, Sextet “Les Musiciens du Louvre,” Igudesman&Joo duo, among others.
Creator: Evgen Korol
Ukho Music Agency is a Kyiv-based cultural agency specialising in contemporary classical, improvised, and experimental music. Since 2012, it has premiered over 700 pieces of contemporary music in Ukraine, the vast majority being of Ukrainian origin and composition. Ukho is known for complementing musical performances with elaborate visual art and for using unconventional concert locations.
In 2015, Ukho Agency and Italian conductor Luigi Gaggero founded Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, which unites fifteen Ukrainian soloists, joined by the American Rachel Koblyakov as concertmaster. Ukho is no stranger to more common educational approaches: between 2016 and 2018 it has held annual workshops for young conductors and composers where young talent from Europe and the Americas hone their skills under the supervision of composers and conductors Stefano Gervasoni, Samuel Andreyev, Luis Naon, and Luigi Gaggero.
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LvivMozArt international festival of classical music is an annual arts project launched to unite the best Ukrainian and world musicians. Inspired by Mozart, who in his time was making changes to Lviv, it creates a novel history of music, new formats and new traditions.
Creator: Ruslan Lytvyn
Kyiv Music Fest is an annual international music festival in Kyiv, Ukraine that profiles modern Ukrainian classical music aiming to promote Ukrainian musicians in the context of world art. The co-founders of the state-funded festival are the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the National Union of Composers of Ukraine. The program of the festival consists works of modern Ukrainian and foreign composers, solo artists and music groups performing.
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An annual multidisciplinary international festival which has been held since 2018 and contains music, visual art, cinema, theatre and literature. The jazz program is an integral part of the festival. Ukrainian and foreign jazz stars take part in it. Starting in 2020, there are always streams or recordings of festival events. With a brilliant program and a very nice venue (St. Sophia National Reserve), this festival really rejoiced city dwellers and guests.
