A ROUNDTABLE ON UKRAINIAN MUSIC AND LITERATURE

MARCH 12, 2025 | 5PM | NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Ahead of our sixth season and in collaboration with the Jordan Center at New York University, the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival presents a roundtable conversation about Ukrainian literature and its intersections with musical composition, featuring literary scholar Tamara Hundorova. .

FANTASTYKA

MARCH 13, 2025 | 7:30PM | 450 W 37TH ST

An exciting collaborative concert with TAK ensemble. Fantastyka will highlight Ukrainian contributions to the sci-fi literary genre and today’s hot-button discussions around technology and artificial intelligence. Solomiya Moroz’s world premiere, a commission by UCMF, takes Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s classic sci-fi novel The Sun Machine as its starting point.

FROM KONTRAKTOVA SQUARE

MARCH 14, 2025 | 7:30PM | 450 W 37TH ST

In the 19th century, the Contracts House on Kyiv’s Kontraktova Square was not only a trading space but contained a concert hall where many of the era’s musical and literary luminaries performed their works. From Kontraktova Square recreates this Kyiv salon with a selection of art songs, chamber works inspired by literature, and poetry readings.

UKRAINIAN TONE POEMS

MARCH 15, 2025 | 7:30PM | 450 W 37TH ST

Our final concert, Ukrainian Tone Poems, presents exclusively instrumental works inspired by literature. Features compositions are composed for diverse instrumentations and are inspired alternately by Ukrainian and American literature, both classical and contemporary, from Lesia Ukrainka to Stephen King.

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UCMF AFTERDARK

DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED