Nature has always been an important part of Ukrainian history. This cultural preoccupation gains contemporary salience as the study of music and the general public become increasingly engaged in issues surrounding changes in climate and the future of our planet. Join us for an exploration of Ukrainian history and language, studies in eco-musicology, and compositional approaches to engaging audiences in climate concerns.
MONDAY MARCH 21, 2022 | 12PM EST | UKRAINIAN MUSEUM OF NEW YORK
Our Panelists
MYROSLAV SHKANDRIJ is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, where he taught in the Department of German and Slavic Studies until 2019. He has also held professorial appointments at the universities of Calgary and Ottawa, and in 2021 was Visiting Professor at Columbia University.
His books and articles have explored twentieth-century Ukrainian and Russian literatures, the avant-garde, Ukrainian-Jewish relations, nationalism, and the history of revolutions in Ukraine. He has curated several exhibitions on avant-garde art of the 1920s, and translated works by a number of Ukrainian authors into English, including Serhy Zhadan and Mykola Bazhan.
His books include Modernists, Marxists and the Nation: The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s (1992), Russia and Ukraine: Literature and the Discourse of Empire (2001), Jews in Ukrainian Literature (2009), Ukrainian Nationalism: Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956 (2015), Avant-garde Art in Ukraine: Contested Memory, 1910-1930 (2019), and Revolutionary Ukraine 1917-2017: Flashpoints in History and Contemporary Memory Wars (2019).
TYLER KINNEAR is an Instructor in the David Orr Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts at Western Carolina University, where he teaches world music and interdisciplinary arts courses. Kinnear also serves as an Adjunct Instructor in the School of Music at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, offering a special topics course on soundscapes. His research interests include sonic art and the environment, histories and theories of listening, and global music studies.
His work has been published in Chigiana: Journal of Musicological Studies, Ecomusicology Review, Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, and Organised Sound. He is principal investigator of Sonic Histories, an interdisciplinary research initiative studying how students experience histories of race, class, and belonging at an institution of higher learning through sounds heard and imagined.
JOANNA (ASIA) MIELESZKO is a singer, conductor, protector of the (very) old, and pioneer of the daringly new. She has been the acting artistic director, curator, and principal vocalist of AEON Ensemble, ushering in 12 world premieres and 15 synaesthetic collaborations since its resurrection at the 2019 Queens New Music Festival. Outside of ÆON, Asia is an accomplished interpreter of renaissance, contemporary, and Eastern European repertoire. Recent highlights include performances at the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice, Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, JetLAg Fest, Princeton's SoundKitchen, Merkin Hall, Brooklyn Folk Festival, and Zlatne Uste Golden Festival.
As the musical director of Ukrainian Village Voices, she concluded an ethnographic and performance tour in Ukraine which culminated in a sold-out multi-media performance at the Ukrainian Museum in 2018. In addition to leading weekly rehearsals with UVV, she has led workshops of Ukrainian polyphony across the country sponsored by the New York Folklore, Brooklyn Arts Council, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.