FESTIVALS (see also CONFERENCES/FORUMS and MASTER-CLASSES)
Improvisational Roundabout
Odessa, Ukraine, June 25-30, 2002
A complex event entitled "Improvisational Roundabout" devoted to the development of contemporary improvisational art.
International Festival of Contemporary Art
TWO DAYS & TWO NIGHTS OF NEW MUSIC
The second international festival of the improvizational kinds of arts
The Art Of Improvization In The Contemporary World
Odessa, Ukraine, April, 16-21, 2001
The project presented a series of Fantasy Workshops (4), concerts, performances (12), Jam Sessions (4). All events were held at the Odessa Actor's Club (Bunin street, 15 ) from 16 to 21 of April, 2001. The entrance to all festival events was free of charge. The total number of active participants - 41 person.
Representatives from over 6 newspapers, 4 broadcasting radio companies and 3 TV channels realized mass-media coverage of this Festival. There were published articles before, during and after the event. Information concerning Festival events in monthly periodic editions have to be published in the nearest future in countries -participants (Ukraine, Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, France, Italy, Czech Republic and Tatarstan).
According to the press comments and personal talks, all the participants have considered "THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF IMPROVIZATIONAL KINDS OF ARTS" as a great international event being very important for their professional career, and work as to its organization was evaluated as excellent. Public opinion as well as journalists is perfect too. The second festival of Improvisational kinds of art was first one in new millennium, therefore novel creative spirit accompanied all concerts and performances of this event, where audience and performers were like the parts of an united organism. They communicated and formed certain emotional environment promoted not only performer self-expression, but also strong emotional feelings of the audience. More attention was focused on the educational aspect, pupils and students as well as young musicians and composers were together in the creative workshops. The highest professional level of the participants should be noted. It is noteworthy that an extraordinary creative atmosphere for communication and exchange of opinions and experience were created during festival work. Good chances for fruitful cooperation and relationships on future projects in new millennium have appeared. The participants stated the leading role of Ukraine, and Odessa region in the cultural interaction between the post-communist countries and all over the world. Thus the aim and tasks by the project have been realized completely.
All persons, involved in the realization of the Festival, expressed their intention to participate in possible continuation of given project in order to make this event as tradition. Organizing Committee managed to resolve all problems.
Bernhard Wulff
Motto: The Doomed for Death Will Live Longer
Review of the 7th Festival in Odessa
Lesia Olijnyk
Two days and two nights in Odessa
Review and assessment of the 2001 2d2n festival and of the ANM activity
Viktorija Muratova
From Sunset to Sunrise: New Music - for them, who don't sleep
A short review of the 7th 2d2n festival (Odessa, April 2001)
Andrij Bondar
In memory of "Two Days and Two Nights" of New Music in Odessa
A vivid and pointed reportage from the festival.
Olena Zinkevytch
Once More!, Or "Two Days And Two Nights Of New Music" In Odessa
Reportage from 2d2n-Odessa-2000 with an assessment of post-modern trend in contemporary music.
Lesia Olijnyk
Two Days and Two Nights in Odessa
A professional reportage from 2d2n-Odessa-2000.
Ilia Rudin
New Music, Or Angels On Tchernobyl
Detailed professional critical reportage from the forum "Informing for Acting" held by Association New Music in Odessa from 1 to 3 December 2000 (the author and manager of the project Iouri Semenov) and supported by International Renaissance Foundation.
Odesskij Vestnik, 6.12.2000
Julia Gomelskaya, composer
LUX-Festival In LUXembourg
ISCM World Music Days Luxembourg 2000 - A professional reportage from one of the most important international events of new music in 2000 written by a participant in this event.
Anton Rovner
World Music Days 2000
A very notable event, which took place in Western Europe in the Fall of 2000, was the World Music Days Festival in Luxembourg, organised by the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music) and its Luxembourg branch, the LGNM (Luxembourg Society for New Music). The artistic director of the festival was Luxembourgish composer and conductor...
Ivan Yergiyev
Duo “Cadence” in Lithuania
Ivan Yergiyev, from the Duo “Cadence” (accordion and violin, - Odessa, Ukraine) after having participated in accordion festival in Vulnius (Lithuania) informs and assesses this international event.
Anton Rovner
“Europe-Asia” Contemporary Music Festival in Kazan
Among some of the grandest musical events which happened in Russia this past spring was the Fourth International Contemporary Music Festival «Europe-Asia», which took place in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Mel'nyk, Lida
"Kontrasty" (Contrasts), Lviv-2000
Professional information about the 6th edition of the annual International Festival for New Music held in Lviv in October 2000 with the participation of the eminent Ukrainian composers and performers as well as some first-rank musicians from abroad, including the cello player Ivan Monighetti.
CONFERENCES/FORUMS
The 2nd International Festival-Forum
Past and Future: Cultural Interaction in Music of East-European and Eurasian countries
Odessa, Ukraine, May, 24-29, 2001
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Average audience of performances was numbered about 200 persons.
At a press conference held before the festival-forum, about 10 newspapers, 5 radio stations and 5 TV channels were present. There published reports in the electronic and printed mass media before, during and after the event. Reports in monthly Ukrainian, Armenian, Russian and international periodicals have to be published in the near future.
According to the questioning and personal talks, all the participants have assessed the festival-forum as a great international event being very important for their professional career, and the organization as excellent. So did the public and journalists too. This 2nd great international forum dedicated to the memory of Yuriy Fortunatov (1911-1998), an eminent orchestrator, musicologist and professor of composition, has continued Fortunatov's tradition of creative communication on the new millenium eve. Many Fortunatov's pupils and followers as well as young musicians and composers came together. There were remarked the highest professional level of the participants, an extraordinary creative atmosphere of communication and exchange of experience, beautiful opportunities for starting artistic contacts and new projects. The participants stressed the (potential and partly actual) leadership of Ukraine in the process of cultural interaction between the post-communist countries as well as between these and other countries of the world. So was achieved the aim and goals of the project.
All the participants expressed their wish to take part in possible continuation of the project. As they represented not only the Soros foundations' network but also the leading institutions and organizations in their countries (Almaty, Baku, Bishkek, Chisinau, Moscow, Vilnius, Warsaw, Yerevan music academies and creative associations), the project will let establish new cultural network contacts.
There were no especial problems, except of changes of dates of arrival and departure of some participants due to their professional activity.
The festival-foum will start the further activity. The participants of the festival-forum have formed the organizational committee for creating the independent International Yuriy Fortunatov Foundation aimed to publish his musical, musicological and paedogogical heritage, musical and musicological works by his pupils and followers, hold international festival and conferences, found Fortunatov prizes and grants etc. The participants will dedicate to Fortunatov's memory their new works. The performers which participated in the event will perform works by composers present at the festival.
The International Forum of Festival Directors and Managers of New Music Organizations
Uniting through Music
Odessa, Ukraine, April, 10-16, 2001
The Forum aimed at fostering the development of the New Music in the Ukraine as well as its integration in the European and global cultural space. A conference and a concert series represented a special event, although in time it was connected with the big Festival "2 Days and 2 Nights of New Music". It took place in various halls and venues of Odessa (Actors House, Literaturó Museum, Greek Culture Centre, Hall of Odessa section of the Ukrainian Composers' Union, and Worldwide Odessites' Club). Approximately 40 leaders of Composers' and other organisations, ensembles und festivals for New Music, directors of the Music Information Centres and other organisations as well as free composers, performers and musicologists from many countries of Europe, America and Asia. The entrance to all actions was free of charge. The financial support originated first of all from the Foundation Pro Helvetia Ukraina as well as other national and international foundations and institutions.
Two main topics were discussed: (1) organisation and holding the national and international festivals for New Music and (2) informational infrastructure of the contemporary music at regional and global level. The participants and guests of the conference had got the detailed information about the situation in Armenia, Azerbaidzhan, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Scandinavia countries, Ukraine, etc.
Prof. Bernhard Wulff set the pitch by reviewing his unique experience of organising festivals in various countries of Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine), America (Uruguay) und Asia (Mongolia, Kyrghyzstan, Vietnam). He called the Mongolin festival "Roaring Hoofs" a "child" of the Festival "2 Days and 2 Nights" in Odessa and the forthcoming Festivals in Kyrghyzstan und Vietnam its "grand-children". The conference participants consented, that contemporary festivals, particularly for New Music structurally should not be conceived as primitive conventional concert series, but they must originate from some integral, if possible unique artistic concepts.
We are now witnesses of the globalisation processes in the area of New Music, especially concerning its appearance and development in post-communist and some non-European countries. The support for such processes needs a developed and various international informational infrastructures. In addition to existing international networks, another new international both thematic and regional networks are to be created. Particularly, such regional networks have the perspectives, if they could unite developed and so-called transition countries, e.g. Black See, Balkan and Danube countries networks.
The participants and guests of the Forum got the detailed information about the development of the MIC Odessa Ukraine, its new production, and the online-magazine www.musica-ukrainica.odessa.ua.
A small festival with Ukrainian (including the chamber orchestra Kyiv Kamerata), Swiss, Greek and other musicians was the other important part of the Forum.
The Forum has found a large interest of Ukrainian and international mass medias as well as the public. The average number of the public mounted to nearly 200-300. Representatives of mass medias, the public as well as the participants have highly assessed its organisation, holding and importance. The wishes were expressed about the regular holding of such conferences and events in the terms of the activity of the MIC Odessa Ukraine.
Margarita Esipova
In memory of Jurij Fortunatov
Information about the 1st International festival-forum "Past and Future: Cultural interaction in the music of the East-European and Eurasian countries" which was held by the Association New Music and other NGOs in Odessa (Ukraine) from 20 to 25 January 2000 (author of the project and manager - Iouri Semenov). The forum included various actions - concerts, auditions, discussions, roundtables etc. with the participation of composers and musicologists, partly pupils of Jurij Fortunatov (1911-1998), and first-range performers from Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. The forum was supported by International Renaissance Foundation and Soros Institute Network. This beautifully organised event has showed that new independent countries of the former USSR as well as other ex-communist countries could well interact in the terms of the common cultural space and spiritual field, centered round such great personalities as the late Professor Fortunatov was and keeps to be.
Rossijskaja muzykal'naja gazeta, February 2000, #2(43)
MASTER-CLASSES
Karmella Tsepkolenko
Scenic Elaboration of Musical material
The author lets the audience penetrate into her creative laboratory analysing her approach to her psychological technique of composition.
Pierre Jansen
The School of Darmstadt
Les Purges, July 21st 2000
Biel (Switzerland), August 5-12 2001
Ukrainian-Swiss Piano Academy
26 students from different countries (Japan, Switzerland, Korea, Ukraine) participated in this event.
Svitlana Azarova
European Composers Informal Meeting (ECIM)
Baku (Azerbaijan), October 2000 - Information about the ECIM International Organisation and its meeting in Baku in 2000 with the participation of eminent and young composers from numerous European and Eurasian countries written by a participant from Odessa (Ukraine).
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