1991 Project Presents: Olena Zhukova and Yulia Vash

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The 1991 Project presents a chamber music concert featuring contemporary Ukrainian works for harpsichord.

Program to come.

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Performers

Olena Zhukova is a Ukrainian harpsichordist, pianist, and educator. She studied at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and worked with prominent professors like Svitlana Shabaltina and Valeriy Kozlov. Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Academy and founded its harpsichord class. Zhukova has performed widely as a soloist and ensemble member, collaborating with major orchestras and artists such as Olga Bezsmertna. She has won several international awards, including First Prize at the Wanda Landowska Harpsichord Competition (2014). She holds a Ph.D. focused on Francis Poulenc’s piano music.

Yulia Vash was trained as a pianist at the National P. I. Tchaikovsky Academy of Music of Ukraine. (“Master of Musical Arts, university teacher, chamber music ensemble musician, concertmaster, performing concert artist”). She has been a solo pianist since 2006 and works as piano teacher. Julia Vash has many years of experience as a répétiteur for dancers and singers, and is looking back to 15 years of study and work as a classical ballet dancer, specializing in baroque dance.In 2020 she finished her studies at the Hochschule for Music and Theater Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig (early music – harpsichord). She lives and works in Leipzig.

Ukrainian Resonance: Chamber Music Concerts at Reid Hall

The 1991 Project presents a chamber music concert series featuring performances by Ukrainian musicians affected by war, as well as their renowned international colleagues, who are popularizing the Ukrainian repertoire. The series aims to promote Ukrainian music and highlight its deep connections to European cultural trends.

As the 2023-24 project-in-residence at the Reid Hall Displaced Artists Initiative, the 1991 Project has organized six concerts, as well as co-organized events in partnership with Eastern Circles, the Arts Arena, the Zadkine Museum, and the Centre international Nadia et Lili Boulanger. This followed their inaugural series, the Silvestrov Days in Paris in spring 2023, which celebrated one of Ukraine’s greatest contemporary composers.

This series is organized by the 1991 Project, the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, with the support of the Ukrainian Embassy and Les Amis de la culture ukrainienne en France.

Organizers

The 1991 Project is a Paris-based initiative that aims to explore and popularize unknown or rarely performed repertoire and to support endangered talents. Its core principles are social entrepreneurship and feminist leadership. The project is led by Anna Stavychenko, a scholar in musicology, opera critic, and classical music curator, former executive director of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and Harriman Resident of the Institute for Ideas & Imagination from Columbia University during the season 2022-2023. The project’s main focus is the Ukrainian musical repertoire from classicism to the present day.

The Columbia Global Paris Center addresses pressing global issues that are at the forefront of international education and research: agency and gender; climate and the environment; critical dialogues for just societies; encounters in the arts; and health and medical science.

Each year the Institute for Ideas and Imagination brings together a cohort of 14-15 Fellows, half of them Columbia faculty and post-docs, the other half artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation. The Institute fosters intellectual and creative diversity unconstrained by medium and discipline through the interaction of the arts and academia.

The Paris Center and Institute are part of Columbia Global, which brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and Undergraduate Global Engagement.

Sponsors

The Ukrainian Embassy in France serves as the primary diplomatic mission of Ukraine, fostering strong bilateral relations between the two nations. Located in Paris, the embassy provides a range of consular services to Ukrainian citizens Through various events and initiatives, the embassy actively works to highlight Ukraine's rich heritage and contemporary achievements to the French public.

The Amis de la culture ukrainienne en France is a French association established under the 1901 law. It was created during Russia's military action against Ukraine, targeting its civilian population and culture, to showcase the closeness of French and Ukrainian cultures, and to restore and disseminate the ties between them.

This event is organized with the additional support of Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, the Performing Arts Fund NL and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands. 

Venue

Nestled in the Montparnasse district, Reid Hall hosts several Columbia University initiatives: the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Columbia Undergraduate Programs, the  M.A. in History and Literature, and the GSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement with the world through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.

This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.

The views and opinions expressed by speakers and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of the Columbia Global Paris Center or its affiliates.

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