Moments of Memory

Friday, Feburary 26, 2027, features Talea Ensemble for an evening of contemporary music exploring “Moments of Memory” at their home base St. Bartholomew Hall, located inside the Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Under Skyline by Maxim Kolomiiets, whose opera The Mothers of Kherson will receive its US Premiere at The Metropolitan Opera in 2028, probes an impenetrable darkness just beyond the reach of light, while Alexey Shmurak reimagines classical mythology in I have lost my Euridice. Polina Pohozha’s Likitsary draws on a deeply personal experience of an ancient village in western Ukraine, where landscape and Ukrainian legends become intertwined. In Clocks for Seeing, Anthony Cheung takes inspiration from Roland Barthes’s reflections on photography, meditation, and time, and similarly Karmella Tsepkolenko’s Faust Celebration, with text by Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych, revisits the age-old pursuit of knowledge and truth through a contemporary literary lens. The program also features the world premiere of Jason Eckardt’s Piano Trio and Shades of White № 5 by Maksym Ivanov, the winning work of a new co-commission with the Ukrainian Classical Music Foundation.