“The international baroque music festival KYIV BAROQUE FEST-2024 will be held in Kyiv from November 14 to 22, where famous performers from France and Germany will come, as well as Ukrainian stars of baroque music.”, — write: www.ukrinform.ua
Kyiv Baroque Fest will begin with the concert La mystérieuse (Modérément) – a recital by the superstar of early world music, pianist Jean Rondo, who plays various keyboard instruments. He will present a program of well-known works of the French harpsichord tradition of the XVII-XVIII centuries, which demonstrate its originality. Jean Rondo is coming to Ukraine for the second time. In October 2015, he played Domenico Scarlatti’s sonatas on the stage of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. At the same time, in France, he won the title of “Discovery of the Year” among instrumental music soloists.
Closing the festival on November 22 will be Andreas Scholl, the first countertenor to headline the BBC Prom festival, whose musical accolades cover every imaginable honor in the world of the modern music industry. The program with his participation is called Ich habe genug.
Liatoshynskyi Capella: Early Music Ensemble&Choir of the National House of Music will also take part in the concert, conducted by Natalia Khmilevska.
Scholl is a musician who has already made a very powerful career and is noted for his participation in opera productions, and even more so in numerous chamber concert initiatives.
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The organizers of the festival are sure that Kyiv Baroque Fest is a new beginning of the long-awaited history. After all, from now on, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine in partnership with Open Opera Ukraine and the National House of Music will every year offer music lovers and connoisseurs of early music the opportunity to immerse themselves in, follow and discover this mainstream direction of the modern musical world.
One of the key ideas of Kyiv Baroque Fest is to strengthen and reveal relationships between Ukraine and other European and world cultures, which will contribute to the emergence of unexpected angles and themes in the proposed concert programs, participation in the festival of musicians from different parts of the world, joint educational and educational initiatives, testing new festival formats.
Photos courtesy of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine