VIRKO BALEY AT 85

FRIDAY MARCH 29, 2024 | 7PM

DIMENNA CENTER FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC | 450 W 37TH ST

Famed Ukrainian-American composer Virko Baley celebrates his 85th birthday with the Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival.

The concert will be preceded by a pre-concert talk with the composer, Virko Baley, and musicologist, Peter Schmelz at 6PM in the concert hall.

Nocturnal No. 5, “In the Grove” (1980)

Soliloquies & a Dialogue (2023-34) [WORLD PREMIERE]

–INTERMISSION–

Nocturnal No. 7, "Introitus" (1990; rev. 2013-14) 

From Dreamtime (1993-95; rev. 2005)

Treny IV (1996-99)

Postludium: From Uniforms of Snow: No. 10, Interlude 2: Tren (2002-3)

FEATURING Yuliya Basis, Andrii Didorenko, Julia Henderson, Timothy Hoft, Gleb Kanasevich, Olga Pasichnyk, Anastasia Petanova, Ginevra Petrucci, Valeriya Sholokhova, Laura Spitzer, and Sean Statser.