Young Lviv Composers 2022
11 videos • 1,067 views • by Ukrainian Live Classic In April 2022, for the second time, the Lviv Organ Hall together with the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Music Academy realized an essential and interesting initiative. As part of the project supervised by the Ukrainian composer and the music academy teacher Bohdana Frolyak together with the team of the Organ Hall, young composers, and students of the Music Academy, had the opportunity to present their new pieces. "Music of young Lviv composers" is the voice of creative youth, the sound of today, which shapes our immediate future in the free state of creative people. The release included 11 solo and chamber works by 9 authors, performed by 24 musicians from Lviv. All works are united by extraordinary expression, depth, and sincerity. The composers talk about the creation stories and ideas of their music: 1. Alisa Formaziuk – Fantasia quasi una sonata for cello and piano. "The essence of this Fantasia is that the two instruments are equal, sound like one whole, complementing each other. This is a continuous, diverse movement of emotions. The work is a personification of human experiences and feelings, that fill our lives" 2. Anastasiia Zdvizhkova – Three preludes in the dodecaphonic system. "This is an attempt to use the twelve-tone system to create three distinct, vivid images that are moments rather than unfolding stories." 3. Anastasiia Zdvizhkova – Two preludes for piano. "Two Preludes" are romantic pieces with touches of impressionism, without programming, created for the listeners to immerse themselves in his experiences and find the feelings that this music awakens in them. 4. Anastasiia Sysenko - "Desert Map" for flute, piano, and drums. "I wrote the piece 3 years ago, made a small revision when preparing it for performance. The name evokes many associations, meanings, and sensations. Let them not be tied to a specific plot, instead, everyone will be able to hear their story along with the expressive sounds of the wind and the picture of the dunes. Self-awareness, listening to the universe, interaction with it - this is what my "Desert Map" is about. 5. Andriy Kostiv - "Journey from the End to the Beginning" for violin and piano. "It is difficult to realize that the end of some period of life has come. After finishing anything, you have to move again to a new beginning. And if there is such an opportunity, then you can always start with a clean slate." 6. Zakhar Ozerskyi - "Red Sun for Cello" for oboe, flute and cello. Auditory and visual perception are closely related in the human psyche. That is why when we hear music, association pictures automatically appear in our imagination. This principle is the basis of Zakhar Ozerskyi's work, which offers us to listen to the "sound" of the red sun setting over the horizon. 7. Ignatiy Moyseyiv - "Deformation" for violin and piano. "Although the piece was written before the war, with the beginning of the war it acquired new meanings without losing its previous form. Now, "Deformation" is music about the experience of war, about how a person breaks down, inside and out, loses everything they valued and loved. In this short piece, one can hear the rejection of the war, the reluctance to accept it as a fact that is happening here and now; then the inner experiences and finally the acceptance that this is now our reality. 8. Kseniia Stetsenko – Cycle "Ad Fontes" for solo piano. "The cycle of piano miniatures on the themes of Ukrainian melos. "Ad Fontes" translates from Latin as "To the sources". Its theme and this name were chosen this way because I consider the songs of my people to be one of the key sources of my inspiration. But, obviously, this is not the only thing that interests me in music, so while working on the cycle, I tried to wrap each of the old and well-known themes in new and unexpected contexts. In this way, a piano cycle was born, consisting of four miniatures, which should preferably be played together according to the attacca principle. 9. Ksenia Stetsenko – "Laulasmaa" for piano solo. "after a trip to the center of my beloved Arvo Pärt in the town of Laulasmaa in October 2021, the piece of the same name arose somehow involuntarily. I can talk about my stay in the center of Pärt for a long time, but it is better to let the music convey my impressions of the charming and interesting house built by the composer among the pine forests on the shore of the Baltic Sea." 10. Maryan Fil - "Poem" for baritone and chamber ensemble to a poem by Vasyl Stus. "The work was written in an unusual time: both before and after the war. When I started working on it, I did not think that Vasyl Stus' poem would become so relevant to me.” 11. Mykhailo Maksymchuk – Variations for violin and string quartet. The piece in the form of variations is imbued with lyricism. It is emotional, expressive, and dynamic. Instrumentation is multi-layered and skillful.