'Music after the Revolution of Dignity' with Oksana Nesterenko

The Revolution of Dignity, the war in Donbas, and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine have certainly transformed Ukraine’s cultural landscape. This lecture focuses on art music composed in response to these events, as well as its reception by foreign audiences. We will examine music by the most prominent composers working in Ukraine in the twenty-first century, including Valentyn Sylvestrov’s choral cycle Maidan-2014, electroacoustic piece Requiem (2022) by Alla Zahaykevych, experimental operas Chornobyldorf (2020–2024) and Gaia-24 (2024–25) by Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko, Victoria Poleva’s Bucha.Lacrymosa (2022), and Zoltan Almashi’s Maria’s City (2022).