Victor Kaminskyi: Quasi una Sonata

Victor Kaminskyi

composition competitions. Victor Kaminskyi’s Quasi una Sonata for cello and piano was composed in 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxQfSNFivD0 Victor Kaminskyi: Quasi una Sonata (2020) Oksana Litvinenko – cello Oksana Rapita – piano…

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Catherine Likhuta: Let the Darkness Out

Catherine Likhuta

Catherine Likhuta (b. 1981) is a Ukrainian-Australian composer, pianist and recording artist. Her music exhibits high emotional charge, programmatic nature, rhythmic complexity, and Ukrainian folk elements. Catherine’s pieces have been…

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Akio Yasuraoka: 10 Sticks

Akio Yasuraoka

…(with some exceptions). This is where the title comes from, and it symbolizes the concept of the piece itself. This, of course, forces a certain compositional limit in terms of…

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Svitlana Azarova: Chronometer

Svitlana Azarova

…from Izmail Pedagogical Institute in 1996, Azarova entered Odessa State A.V. Nezhdanova Conservatoire, where she studied musical composition, first under the Ukrainian composer Olexander Krasotov, and later (until 2000) under…

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Stefania Turkevych: String Quartet

Stefania Turkevych

…Soviets, she fled in 1946, at first to Austria and subsequently to the United Kingdom. Her compositional output encompasses three symphonies, four operas (including the children’s opera Oksana’s Heart which…

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Galina Grigorjeva : Salve regina

Galina Grigorjeva

commission from Eesti Kontsert for the Theatre of Voices and YXUS Ensemble. According to the composer, “The string quartet does not have so much of an accompanying function, rather it…

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Patrick Leterme: Lumières

Patrick Leterme (photo © Sandra Reyckers)

…is bathed in an obsessive gravity that only comes to life during a brief explosive episode, with the mystery taking over for the conclusion.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgxA-3qoVTs Patrick Leterme: Lumières Orchestre Philharmonique…

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Yevhen Stankovych: Ukrainian Poem

Yevhen Stankovych

Yevhen Stankovych (born September 19, 1942) is a contemporary Ukrainian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works whose music has been performed around the globe. Among his composition teachers…

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Lesia Dychko: Slava

Lesia Dychko

…has also composed three liturgies which are among the most significant milestones in her oeuvre. Slava is a movement from the second of her liturgies, the Divine Liturgy of St….

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