This event will be held in English.
This series is co-organized by the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the 1991 Project. With the support of the Embassy of Ukraine in France and Les Amis de la culture ukrainienne en France.
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The 1991 Project presents a program of duets and solo pieces for violin and cello, which reveals the beauty and technical diversity of both instruments and the original approach to them by composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Program (97m)
Leonid Hrabovsky (b. 1935), Hlas I for Cello solo, 1990 [12’]
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967), Duo for Violin and Cello, Op.7, 1914 [26’]
- Allegro serioso, non troppo
- Adagio - Andante - Tempo I
- Maestoso e largamente ma non troppo lento - Presto
Intermission 15’
Morton Feldman (1926-1987), For Aaron Copland for Violin solo, 1981 [5’]
Zoltan Almashi (b. 1975), Sonata for Violin and Cello, 2013/2022 [18’]
- Prelude
- Melancholy
- Romanian Rock
- Interlude
- Final
Maurice Ravel (1875 -1937), Sonata for Violin and Cello, M. 73, 1920-1922 [21’]
- Allegro
- Très vif
- Lent
- Vif, avec entrain
Musicians
Polina Chaika is a Ukrainian orchestra, chamber and solo violinist. Her professional orchestra experience started in 2014 as a tutti first violin at the Odesa State Opera. In parallel with the orchestral activity, she was a permanent resident of the department of chamber ensemble of the Odesa National Music Academy and had to stop this work due to the full-scale war. Since 2019 Polina was also a solo violinist of Odesa Philharmonic, performing in various venues in Ukraine. Thanks to the Philharmonie de Paris mission project Polina Chaika got an opportunity to develop her professional career in France. Since September 2022 Polina has been a tutti violinist of the Orchestre National de France. In January 2024 Polina also started to collaborate with the Orchestra Dijon Bourgogne.
Askar Ishangaliyev was born in 1985 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he began studying the cello at the age of 7. Noted for his musical abilities, he decided to continue his studies in France where he entered the class of Philippe Muller in Aulnay Sous Bois and then the CNSM in Paris. Askar notably plays in trio with Jean-Noël Molard and Jean Angliviel, or as a soloist with the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, the Orchester de Tours, Halle Staatskappele, the Lille National Orchestra. He is supported by the Meyer Foundation and ADAMI. Actively performing contemporary repertoire, Askar Ishangaliev has worked with musicians such as Pierre Boulez, Mauricio Kagel, Peter Eötvös, Michaël Lévinas, Bruno Mantovani, Martin Matalon and Heinz Holliger, and since 2008 he has been the cello soloist of the Le Balcon ensemble.
Organizers
The 1991 Project is a non-profit association whose purpose is to promote Ukrainian music in France and in the Western world. It is led and inspired by Anna Stavychenko, a musicologist, music critic and classical music producer. The production of concerts, cultural, and educational events gives visibility to the Ukrainian musical repertoire, in its tight connections to European cultural traditions. Most of the musicians with whom the 1991 project collaborates are participants of the Philharmonie de Paris mission project that helps Ukrainian musicians exiled in France.
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Venue
Nestled in the Montparnasse district, Reid Hall hosts several Columbia University initiatives: the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia Undergraduate Programs, M.A. in History and Literature, and the GSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement the world over through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.
This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.
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