Pianist Roksolana Kit performs works by Ukrainian composers

Name: Pianist Roksolana Kit performs works by Ukrainian composers
Start: 2025-01-11T17:00:00-05:00
Location: 63 4th Ave, New York, NY, United States, New York 10003

Schedule

Sat, 11 Jan, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

63 4th Ave, New York, NY, United States, New York 10003 | New York, NY

Program:
Kateryna Palachova - “Prayer”
Serhiy Bortkiewicz - Sonata no.2, op. 60 (1 and 2 movements)
Theodore Akimenko - “Urania. Heaven’s Muse”
Borys Lyatoshynsky - Prelude op.44, no.4
Vitaly Vyshynsky - “Kitch music”
Antin Rudnytsky - Sonata op.10
Mykola Leontovych - “Shchedryk” (arrang. Sergiy Yushkevych)
Roksolana Kit is a Ukrainian pianist, event organizer, and founder of various music initiatives. In 2023, she performed in Arkan alongside Roman Himey and Yarema Malanchuk at the Kyiv Biennial, and in 2024, she joined the IRON Collective at the Warsaw Autumn Festival. As the Grand Prize winner of the Ukrainian Music Competition, Roksolana is set to perform Antin Rudnytsky’s Piano Sonata at Carnegie Hall. Earlier this year, she has performed this Sonata at the Klavier Festival in Bayreuth, Germany. Roksolana studied at the Workshop of Cultural Practitioners at the Ukrainian Catholic University in 2021 and further honed her craft at the XV International Piano Forum Bieszczady bez granic in Sanok, Poland (2020), as well as in early music master classes at the Mid Europe Early Music Festival in Kielce, Poland (2022). She also won the special project award for the 20th anniversary of the Hnatyshyn Foundation, Ukraine – Heritage, Spirit, and Future, in Canada (2022). In 2023, she co-founded Etc.duo with flutist Natalia Kozhushko-Maksimiv, a duo focused on performing works by Ukrainian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also the co-founder of the Ukrainian podcast Without Experts and a regular contributor to the classical music publication The Claquers. Roksolana holds a bachelor's degree from the Mykola Lysenko National Academy of Music and a master's degree from the H. and K. Bacewicz Music Academy in Łódź, Poland.

Pianist Pavlo Gintov has been described as “a poet of the keyboard” by Marty Lash of the Illinois Entertainer, a “musical storyteller” by the Japanese publication Shikoku News, and “a fantastic pianist and extraordinary artist” by Jerry Dubins of the Fanfare Magazine. Following his debut at the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall at the age of 12, Mr. Gintov has been touring throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the United States, appearing at such stages as Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Teatro Verdi Nationale in Milan and Kioi Hall in Tokyo. He has been a soloist with Tokyo Royal Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra under such conductors as Michiyoshi Inoue, Victor Yampolsky, Thomas Sanderling, Volodymyr Sirenko and Tomomi Nishimoto.