Ювілейний авторський концерт ВОЛОДИМИРА ВОЛОНТИРА

THE PHILHARMONIC INVITES YOU TO   CONCERT OF THE BOYS AND YOUNG MEN'S CHOIR OF THE MUKACHOV CHOIR SCHOOL

October 21 in the large hall of the Transcarpathian Regional Philharmonic    The anniversary author's concert of Honored Artist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine Volodymyr VOLONTYR will take place. The musical evening will be held within the framework of the XX II International Festival of Classical and Contemporary Music "Musical Constellation of Transcarpathia".  

The concert will feature:       BOYS' AND YOUNG MEN'S CHOIR OF THE MUKACHOV CHOIR SCHOOL. Artistic director and conductor –   VOLODYMYR VOLONTYR. Choirmaster – OKSANA VOLONTYR. Concertmaster – TETYANA KOLODYAZHNA.

ACADEMIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE PHILHARMONIC.   Leader – ONDRAŚ TAZINGER, soloist -   SUSANNA DYACHENKO / violin, as well as:   

  LESYA GOTSA / piano, soprano; TETYANA KOLODYAZHNA / piano;

MARIA PROZHEHACH / piano;   CHRISTINA VOLUNTEER / piano;

ANASTASIA PALINCHAK /   soprano; ANNA CASO / accompanist.

   The boys' and young men's choir of the Mukachevo Choir School was founded in 1983, and in 1989, a boys' and young men's choir school was created on the basis of the choir - one of the first in Ukraine. The organizer of the choir and the choral school is Volodymyr Volontyr, Honored Artist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine, permanent artistic director of the choir and director of the choral school.

The choir is a laureate of many international competitions and festivals, including: the International Festival of Boys' Choirs (Szolnok, Hungary);   European Youth Music Festival (Nierpelt, Belgium); International Festival of Children's and Youth Choral Creativity (Kyiv); International Music Festival "Gaja-2000" (Portugal); International Youth Music Festival "Summa Cum Laude" (Vienna, Austria); XI International Festival of Sacred Music (Budapest, Hungary).

The choir has repeatedly participated in festivals of sacred music in Slovakia (Kosice, Prešov, Vranov nad Topľov) and Poland (Rzeszów, Czestochowa, Tarnów). In 2010, the choir's concerts in Italy, Rome, were a great success.   The Papal Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore and the Cathedral of St. Sophia.

The group represented Ukrainian choral art in European countries: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Romania. The choir successfully held philharmonic concerts in the cities of Ukraine: Kyiv, Lviv, Ternopil, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Poltava, Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Kolomyia, Uzhgorod.

The choir's concert programs include: Ukrainian choral classics (D. Bortnyansky, A. Vedel, M. Lysenko, M. Leontovych, K. Stetsenko, O. Koshits); Western European classics (D. Palestrina , J. Bach, G. F. Handel, W. Mozart, G. Pergolesi, F. Schubert, J. Brahms, A. Bruckner); works by modern Ukrainian and foreign composers; Ukrainian folk songs and carols.

The musical evening will begin at 6:30 p.m.    

If an air raid warning is issued during a concert, it will be interrupted and guests will be asked to move to a safe location.