Questions of how to engage audiences with previously unknown works are more pertinent than ever. The move to diversify concert hall repertoire can be seen in changes to musical programming throughout the United States. Two panelists, one from Ukraine and one from the US, explore the challenges and rewards of bringing new repertoires and new audiences together.

SATURDAY MARCH 6, 2021 | 12PM EST | ZOOM WEBINAR

Our Panelists

LIUBOV MOROZOVA is a musicologist and music critic. She has been the Artistic director of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra since 2018. As a music curator, she has worked on numerous projects including the cultural forums "Doncult" (Kyiv, 2014; Lviv, 2015) and "GaliciaCult" (Kharkiv, 2016), "New Ukrainian Soundscapes" at the 3rd and 4th ODESSA CLASSICS festival(2017, 2018), the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s "Digital Concert Hall in Ukraine" (since 2017), a joint program with ProMuseum (France) and the Goethe-Institut called "Cult or Culture: The Development of Participatory Practices in the Museum" (Kharkiv, Zaporizhye, 2016), and the music program of the Book Arsenal (Kyiv, 2019, 2021). She developed and conducted a series of concerts of contemporary music called "On the border of the fertile land: Stalkers and combiners of new music" at the Kharkiv Philharmonic (season 2017-2018). She is the curator, host and consultant for the music department of the Bouquet Kyiv Stage festival (Kyiv, 2018-2020).

Morozova has also developed a number of courses, including "Dumbbells for the ears" for the Cultural Project (Kyiv, 2016), as well as a course on the musical avant-garde of the 1920-30s called "Twelve nails in the coffin of Ukrainian romanticism" at the M17 gallery (Kyiv, 2019).

As a public musicologist, she is the co-host of the program #MuzLove / "Lectures. Music” on the UA: Culture TV channel with documentary screenwriter Yuri Makarov. She previously hosted the radio program "F-sharp" on Hromadske Radio (2018-2019). She is a member of the Committee on the Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine and was a member of the jury of the National Selection for Junior Eurovision 2020. She has been working in journalism since 2005 and has authored more than 900 articles in domestic and foreign periodicals.

CHRISTOPHER H. GIBBS is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music at Bard College, Co-Artistic Director of the Bard Music Festival, and Executive Editor of The Musical Quarterly. He has also taught at Columbia University, Haverford College, and the University at Buffalo.

Gibbs edited The Cambridge Companion to Schubert (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and is the author of The Life of Schubert (Cambridge University Press, 2000), which has been translated into five languages. He is co-editor, with Dana Gooley, of Franz Liszt and His World (Princeton University Press, 2006) and, with Morten Solvik, of Franz Schubert and His World (Princeton University Press, 2014). He co-authored, with Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition (Oxford University Press, 2013; revised 2018). 

Gibbs is a recipient of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1999-2000. He has written for many scholarly and general interest publications, including 19th-Century Music, Schubert durch die Brille, Current Musicology, The Opera Quarterly, Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has contributed to anthologies and reference works, including the revised edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 

As a program annotator and lecturer, Gibbs works with leading musical institutions around the world. He was the musicological director for the final three years of the acclaimed Schubertiade at the 92nd Street Y in New York City and served as musicological adviser for the bicentennial Schubert Festival at Carnegie Hall. For the past twenty seasons he has written the program notes for the Philadelphia Orchestra. He gives frequent pre-concert lectures for that orchestra, as well as for Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York City Opera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Great Performers” at Lincoln Center, Music@Menlo, and other organizations.