Voices from the New Millennium

Our opening concert will feature a series of composers from Ukraine’s youngest generation. These young artists show a diversity of approaches to contemporary music in Ukraine today from noise music and extended techniques (Kobzar, Loginov) to cartographic compositional techniques (Shliabanska) to a series of post-modern approaches (Sierova, Mocanu, Kolomiiets). The work of these young composers is complemented by works by two of Ukraine’s most well-known living composers, Victoria Poleva and Oleh Bezborodko, whose works employ various avant-garde and post-minimalist techniques.

Performed by Yuliya Basis, Caroline Drexler, Helen Newby, Adrianne Munden-Dixon, Carrie Frey, Rita Rovenskaya, Andy Didorenko, Lindsey Eckenroth, Jennifer Gliere, Gleb Kanasevich, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Joanna Mieleszko, Rita Mitsel, Mivos Quartet, Heather O’Donovan, Valeriya Sholokhova, Gerson de la Rosa, and Lucie Vitkova

7:00 PM Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Leah Batstone

7:15 PM CONCERT

TICKET INFORMATION

Because this year’s festival will be streamed online due to the on-going COVID 19 pandemic, ticket purchases will provide audience members with a link to the concert that can be accessed as many times as you wish once the broadcast has premiered. Tickets to single events range from $5 to $25.

ALL-ACCESS PASS

We are also offering two exciting options to increase your access to this year's festival events.

Patron: A $50 ticket provides you with an "all-access" pass for the entire weekend of performances and events--no need to register individually for each event stream.

Sponsor: A $100 ticket will give you access to all events as well as a printed souvenir program of the festival and access to one of two exclusive events:

• An interview with the composer Leonid Hrabovsky, whose music will be played as part of Saturday's concert of the Kyiv Avant-Garde

• A live discussion with Volodymyr Sheiko, General Director of the Ukrainian Institute in Kyiv, about their burgeoning efforts in the realm of cultural diplomacy (Conducted in Ukrainian)

The festival is open to the public and conducted in English.