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1 hours 50 minutes. Presented with one interval
For the first time in Ukraine on stage of the National Opera House meet a unique Ukrainian orchestra New Era Orchestra under the lead of Music Director and Conductor Tatyana Kalinichenko and Sarah Chang, an American classical music superstar of a Korean descent and one of the world’s most celebrated violinists.
For the first time in Ukraine on stage of the National Opera House meet a unique Ukrainian orchestra New Era Orchestra under the lead of Music Director and Conductor Tatyana Kalinichenko and Sarah Chang, an American classical music superstar of a Korean descent and one of the world’s most celebrated violinists.
Ms. Chang is a past recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize, Gramophone’s “Young Artist of the Year” award, Germany’s “Echo” Schallplattenpreis, “Newcomer of the Year” honors at the International Classical Music Awards in London, and Korea’s “Nan Pa” award. Ms. Chang has been named the US Embassy’s Artistic Ambassador from 2011. In 2006, Ms. Chang was honored as one of 20 Top Women in Newsweek Magazine’s “Women and Leadership, 20 Powerful Women Take Charge” issue.
New Era Orchestra
New Era Orchestra (NEO) is one of the most exciting ensembles performing on Ukraine’s musical stage. The orchestra has a reputation for originality and quality. Acknowledged as a symbol of what ‘New Ukraine’ is by Ukrainian philanthropists and admirers of music, New Era Orchestra was created in 2007 in Kiev, Ukraine by Tatyana Kalinichenko, who has been a leader, an art director and main conductor of the orchestra ever since. The repertoire of the orchestra embraces a range of styles from classical to contemporary music. Along with performing trendy repertoire, the orchestra often showcases the unjustly disregarded and new works to its audience.
New Era Orchestra was the first in Ukraine to perform the music of such composers as Philip Glass (USA), Michael Nyman, John Tavener (Great Britain), Iannis Xenakis (France), Avner Dorman (Israel – USA), Takashi Yoshimatsu (Japan), Leonid Desyatnikov, Alexander Mosolov (Russia), Marjan Mozetich (Canada), Alexander Raskatov (Russia – Germany), Georgs Pelecis and Arturs Maskats (Latvia). Besides, the orchestra has premiered numerous pieces of such outstanding contemporary composers as Joaquin Rodrigo (Spain), Yasushi Akutagawa (Japan), Krzysztof Penderecki (Poland), Arvo Pärt (Estonia), Giya Kancheli (Georgia), Peteris Vasks (Latvia), Giovanni Sollima (Italy), Vladimir Martynov (Russia) and others.
The orchestra has worked with many of the world’s renowned soloists including Joshua Bell (violin, USA), Avi Avital (mandolin, Israel – Germany), Danjulo Ishizaka (cello, Germany), Roman Mints (violin, Russia – Great Britain), Anja Lechner (cello, Germany), soloists of ‘Kremerata Baltica’ Andrei Pushkarev (vibraphone, Ukraine – Latvia) and Jana Ozolina (violin, Latvia), Dino Saluzzi (bandoneón, Argentina). The orchestra frequently performs with such leading Ukrainian soloists as Andrii Rakhmanin (violin, main concertmaster of the orchestra), Tetiiana Andriievska (violin, concertmaster of the orchestra), Kirill Sharapov (violin), Dmytro Marchenko (vibraphone), Roman Repka (piano), Artem Poludenny (cello), Olena Arbuzova (soprano), Solomiya Pryymak (soprano).
The orchestra is a frequent participant of the main contemporary music festivals in Ukraine and abroad such as GAIDA (Vilnius, Lithuania), Gogolfest, Art Arsenal, New Music Festival, Jazz in Kiev, DonKult etc.
In the past seasons New Era Orchestra has undertaken tours to Europe (France, Lithuania). A special venture of the orchestra has been the project ‘Father and Son’ (Kiev – Paris, Salle Cortot – Moscow) dedicated to Arsenii and Andrey Tarkovsky, a duo of outstanding Russian poet and film director respectively.
