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This series is organized by the 1991 Project with the Columbia Global Paris Center and Institute for Ideas and Imagination. This event has the additional support of Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, the Performing Arts Fund NL and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands.

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The 1991 Project presents a chamber music concert featuring contemporary Ukrainian works for harpsichord.

Program

Olena Zhukova

• Yurii Ishchenko (1938 – 2021)
  Partita for harpsichord (2004) [9']
  Three Gavottes (2004) [8']
• Svyatoslav Krutykov (b. 1944)
  Little Monkey: Ten Snapshots (2014) [7']
  Five Recollections for Harpsichord (2000) [6']
• Svyatoslav Lunyov (b. 1964)
  Mozartino (2003) [10']
• Zoltan Almashi (b. 1975)
  Oda (2009) [3']

5-minute break for setup

Yulia Vash

• Hommage à Jean-Philippe Rameau
  (Electroacoustic Improvisation) [20']

Performers

Olena Zhukova is a prominent advocate for baroque music in Ukraine. She holds a PhD and is an Associate Professor in the Chamber Ensemble Department at the National Music Academy of Ukraine. She also founded the harpsichord class at the Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music. A winner of numerous international competitions, Olena's accolades include First Prize in the "Section Solo" and the Absolute First Prize for the "Bach Concerto for Harpsichord with Orchestra" at the Wanda Landowska Harpsichord Competition (Bari, Italy, 2014), First Prize at the International Tadini Competition (Lovere, 2016), and Second Prize at the Pietro Argento Competition.

As part of the "Two Violins Project," Olena represented Ukraine at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang and Seoul (Feb 2018) and the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has collaborated with internationally acclaimed artists such as Philippe Herreweghe and Hugo Reyne. Olena released her debut album, Harpsichord Mystery, in 2017, and in 2024, she will release the CD Pal Hermann: Complete Surviving Music, Volume 3 – Chamber, Instrumental, and Vocal Music.

Julia Vash (Ukraine/Germany) is a pianist, harpsichordist, performance artist, and baroque dancer. She studied piano at the National Music Academy of Ukraine and later pursued graduate studies in musicology. She holds a master's degree in piano and a PhD. In 2020, Julia graduated as a harpsichordist from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig, specializing in Early Music. Julia performs across a range of formats and genres. In Ukraine, she worked with the Ukho Ensemble and participated in the NOVA OPERA project. She was also the harpsichordist for the early and contemporary music group LUNA Ensemble. In Germany, she has collaborated with the Bach Museum, the Grassi Museum, the Festival of Early Music, and several contemporary composers' projects.

Ukrainian Resonance: Chamber Music Concerts at Reid Hall

The 1991 Project presents a chamber music concert series featuring performances by Ukrainian musicians affected by war, as well as their renowned international colleagues, who are popularizing the Ukrainian repertoire. The series aims to promote Ukrainian music and highlight its deep connections to European cultural trends.

As the 2023-24 project-in-residence at the Reid Hall Displaced Artists Initiative, the 1991 Project has organized six concerts, as well as co-organized events in partnership with Eastern Circles, the Arts Arena, the Zadkine Museum, and the Centre international Nadia et Lili Boulanger. This followed their inaugural series, the Silvestrov Days in Paris in spring 2023, which celebrated one of Ukraine’s greatest contemporary composers.

This series is organized by the 1991 Project, the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

Organizers

The 1991 Project is a Paris-based initiative that aims to explore and popularize unknown or rarely performed repertoire and to support endangered talents. Its core principles are social entrepreneurship and feminist leadership. The project is led by Anna Stavychenko, a scholar in musicology, opera critic, and classical music curator, former executive director of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and Harriman Resident of the Institute for Ideas & Imagination from Columbia University during the season 2022-2023. The project’s main focus is the Ukrainian musical repertoire from classicism to the present day.

The Columbia Global Paris Center addresses pressing global issues that are at the forefront of international education and research: agency and gender; climate and the environment; critical dialogues for just societies; encounters in the arts; and health and medical science.

Each year the Institute for Ideas and Imagination brings together a cohort of 14-15 Fellows, half of them Columbia faculty and post-docs, the other half artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation. The Institute fosters intellectual and creative diversity unconstrained by medium and discipline through the interaction of the arts and academia.

The Paris Center and Institute are part of Columbia Global, which brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and Undergraduate Global Engagement.

Sponsors

This event is organized with the additional support of Kyiv Contemporary Music Days, the Performing Arts Fund NL and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands.

Venue

Nestled in the Montparnasse district, Reid Hall hosts several Columbia University initiatives: the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Columbia Undergraduate Programs, the  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 with the world 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.

The views and opinions expressed by speakers and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of the Columbia Global Paris Center or its affiliates.