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“Music at the Institute” in cooperation with the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. present MUSIC OF UKRAINIAN DIASPORA COMPOSERS VIRA SLYWOTZKY, soprano • PAVEL GINTOV, piano Dancers from the SYZOKRYLI UKRAINIAN DANCE ENSEMBLE: DIANNA SHMERYKOWSKY • SOFIYA TASKER • MARKIAN KUZIW • ANASTASIYA HANIFIN ORLANDO PAGAN, artistic director Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 3 p.m. Ukrainian Institute of America 2 East 79th Street, New York City __________________________________________________________________________________________ OSYP ZALESKY (1892-1984) Piano Miniatures: 1. Prayer 2. Remembrance 3. Witches’ Dance MARIAN KOUZAN (1925-2005) “Constructor” for Piano Solo WADYM KIPA (1912-1968) Variations Fantastiques (1957) “Stoyala ya i slukhala vesnu” (I stood and listened to spring) —Lesia Ukrainka “I shcho zh ostalosia iz mriyi” (And what remains of dreams?)—Vadym Lesych “Ukrayini” (To Ukraine)—Petro Kizko —I N T E R M I S S I O N— IHOR SONEVYTSKY (1926-2006) Dance of the Sisters; Dance of the Stepmother from the ballet Cinderella (1967) Lullaby from the collection Four Seasons Variations on the theme of the Ukrainian Folk Song “The Crane” (Zanadyvsia zhuravel) (1962) VIRKO BALEY (b. 1938) “Pajarillo” (2001) SERGE BORTKIEWICZ (1877-1952) “The Rocks of Uch-Kosh” (Skeli ushchelyny Uch-Kosh) “Midnight” (Opivnochi) A reception will follow the performance ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Donation: $25, Students and Senior Citizens — $10, UIA Members — free Tickets can be purchased online at ukrainianinstitute.org or at the door. • “Music at the Institute” is sponsored by the Ukrainian Institute of America Solomiya Ivakhiv — Artistic Director • Mykola Suk — Artistic Advisor The Performers Soprano VIRA SLYWOTZKY has performed principal roles with Seattle Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Chelsea Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera, Light Opera of New York, Sarasota Opera, and Boston Midsummer Opera, and has appeared in concert with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Rockland Camerata, and New Haven Chamber Orchestra. She has sung recitals and concerts in New York at Merkin Hall, the Metropolitan Room, Opera America, Sheen Center, SubCulture, Symphony Space, Ukrainian Museum, and Weill Hall. Internationally Ms. Slywotzky has performed at the Festival D’Avignon in Avignon, France, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the American Church in Paris, the Armel Opera Festival in Szeged, Hungary, the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Gustov Adolf Church in Sundsvall, Sweden. Ms. Slywotzky’s operatic roles include Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, Nedda in Pagliacci, Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro, Magda in The Consul, and the title role in Vanessa. Vira Slywotzky and Swedish pianist and composer Daniel Stagno comprise the Nya Transatlantiska Duon. Other recital partners include Yegor Shevtsov and David Sytkowski. Since 2008, Ms. Slywotzky has been the soprano of Mirror Visions Ensemble, a vocal trio known for its innovative programming, nuanced performances, and extensive commissioning. She can be heard on the group’s 2015 commercial recording, The Three-Paneled Mirror. Ms. Slywotzky is a founding member of the New York based company Victor Herbert Renaissance Project – LIVE! She has performed in Herbert’s The Serenade as Dolores, Naughty Marietta as Adah, The Fortune Teller as Mlle Pompon, Sweethearts as Dame Paula, and Cyrano de Bergerac as Roxane. The recipient of a 2007 Richard F. Gold Career Grant, Vira Slywotzky has twice been a New England Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and in 2009 was the sole representative of the United States at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ms. Slywotzky received an MM from Mannes and a BA from Yale. She currently serves on the board of the Berkshire Opera Festival. Pianist PAVEL GINTOV has been described as “a poet of the keyboard” by Marty Lash of the Illinois Entertainer, a “musical storyteller” by the Japanese publication Shikoku News, and “a fantastic pianist and extraordinary artist” by Jerry Dubins of the Fanfare Magazine. Since his debut at the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall at the age of 12, Mr. Gintov has been touring throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States, appearing on such stages as Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Teatro Verdi Nationale in Milan, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and Kioi Hall in Tokyo. He has been a soloist with the Tokyo Royal Chamber Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Shizuoka Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, and Manhattan Chamber Orchestra under such conductors as Michiyoshi Inoue, Victor Yampolsky, Thomas Sanderling, Volodymyr Sirenko, and Tomomi Nishimoto. Mr. Gintov has appeared on WFMT radio station of Chicago, WCLV of Cleveland, WPR of Wisconsin as well as numerous radio and TV stations in Europe, Japan, and Ukraine. A native of Ukraine, Mr. Gintov won First Prize in the Premiere Takamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan, where in addition he was awarded four special prizes, First Prize in the 2010 Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, and First Prize in The World Competition in 2013. An avid chamber music performer, Mr. Gintov has worked with such distinguished musicians as violinists Nina Beilina and Alena Baeva, cellists Yehuda Hanani and Marina Tarasova, tenor Neil Rosenshein, pianist Mykola Suk, woodwind quintet Windscape and many others. He regularly performs together with his sister, violinist Iryna Gintova. Mr. Gintov was awarded the prize for the best collaborative pianist in the International Paganini Violin Competition in Moscow. Mr. Gintov graduated with honors from the Moscow State Conservatory, where he was a student of Lev Naumov and Daniil Kopylov. He holds a Doctor of Musical Art degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he studied with Nina Svetlanova. Founded in 1978 by the acclaimed dancer and choreographer Roma Pryma Bohachevsky, the New York based SYZOKRYLI Ukrainian Dance Ensemble has performed extensively throughout the United States. It has graced some of America’s finest stages including Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York; the Academy of Music and Robin Hood Dell East in Pennsylvania; the PNC Arts Center and Newark’s Symphony in New Jersey, and Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. In 1992, Syzokryli concluded a highly successful and critically acclaimed tour of Ukraine, appearing in opera houses in Ukraine’s major cities, including Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, and Ivano-Frankivsk. The ensemble’s current Artistic Director, ORLANDO PAGAN, began his training at the age of 13 with the Bronx Dance Theatre and later went on to study at the prestigious High School of Performing arts, Alvin Ailey School of Dance, School of American Ballet, and Jacobs Pillow. In 1987, he became a soloist of the Syzokryli dance ensemble. In 1999, Mr. Pagan auditioned for and was accepted to become a member of Dance Theater of Harlem in NYC under the direction of Arthur Mitchell. He has traveled all over the U.S. and abroad to perform and teach in countries such as Great Britain, Europe, Germany, China, and Austria and has worked with such dance luminaries as Mark Morris, Peter Martens, Geoffrey Holder, Michael Smuin, and Desmond Richardson. In 2006, Mr. Pagan became the Artistic Director of the Syzokryli Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and the Head Instructor for all schools under the Roma Pryma Bohachevsky foundation. .