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“Austritt” – is going beyond, into new cultural contexts and sound area. Performers-composers of contemporary music from Kyiv Sed Contra Ensemble will present an original project where combined will be structure and spontaneity, precision and improvisation, following impulses and balance. On the verge of the various interactions canons are discharged, previously unexplored new forms of co-creation appear and wake up.

The project “Austritt” is an attempt to provoke a challenge, new forms of musical thinking, opposed to the stereotyped standards. Sed Contra Ensemble was created in 2013 on the initiative of the composers Serhiy Vilka, Vitaliy Kyyanytsa and Andriy Merkhelyo.  Winners of numerous international competitions are part of the ensemble.  The ensemble performs chamber music from the early twentieth century until nowadays, presents series of concerts of young composers’ music, and new projects of improvised and electronic music.

Over the years the group has presented a number of original projects and performed premieres of many works of foreign and local composers. The group took part in “GogolFest”, “Contrasts”, “Kyiv Music Fest”, “Kyiv Contemporary Music Days”, “Two Days and Two Nights of New Music”, “International Youth Music Forum”, “Lviv Hindemit Fest”, “Musical premieres of the season “,” FreeFest “,” Porto Franko “, ” Poznanska Wiosna Muzyczna “,” Ukraińska Wiosna “(Poland), forum “Donkult “, international projects “The interaction of dance and music”, “EM-VISIA”,  project “Alliance 22″, ” Sonor Continuus “. Since 2015 Sed Contra Ensemble has cooperated with New Theater on Pechersk. Among the collaborative projects is the presentation “Hesse. Proverbs” and the Laboratory of Music and Theater “Sound. Voice. Silence”.

First Division:
1. Richard Wagner – Overture to the opera “The Flying Dutchman”;
2. Richard Wagner – Arius Dutch opera from “The Flying Dutchman”. Soloist: Alexander Forkushak;
3. Richard Wagner – The Seti Ballad from opera “The Flying Dutchman”. Soloist: Julia Alekseeva;
4. Richard Wagner – Senti duo and Dutch from the opera “The Flying Dutchman”. Soloists: Julia Alekseeva and Alexander Forkushak.
Second Division:
1. Viktorya Pol’ova – “Langzam” ( “Lanhzy”) for symphony orchestra;
2. Leonid Grabowski – Symphonic fresco “This is not to blame return”;
3. Conductor – winner of the National Prize of Ukraine named after T. Shevchenko, People’s Artist of Ukraine – Vasily Vasilenko.

Artistic director – chief conductor of the National Presidential Orchestra, People’s Artist of Ukraine, Professor – Anatoliy Molotay.

Taras Prokhasko – writer, essayist and philosopher, molfar-guardian and the guard (averter) of ancient Carpathian Mountains. Taras Prokhasko is going to meet with the singer and performer on the crust, representative of the ancient Senegalese musical dynasty Keba Tsisoho, who will bring us melodies and rhythms of West African coast of the Atlantic Ocean. He graduated from Ivan Franko Lviv National University – the Faculty of Biology (1992). He participated in the student movement of 1989-1991 years, the “revolution on granite” in Kiev 1990.
The best-known books: the novel “Complicated”, story “Anna’s Other Days”, essay “FM Galicia”, “One and the same”. Taras Prokhasko is also the author of children’s books series: “Who’ll make the snow”, “Where did the Sea disappear” and “How to understand a goat.” The most famous translations of: Andrzej Stasiuk “Galician Stories”, “East”; Stanislav Vincenz “On a High Mountain Glen”.

Vladyslav Sokha is a street musician, a percussionist, a member of the scout organization called “Plast”. He is a student of Igor Semkiv, studied percussion instruments.Graduated with Masters Degree from Institute of Arts of Carpathian National University (2017). He used to be head of the organization “Plast – National Scout Organization of Ukraine” in Ivano-Frankivsk (2015-2017).

Keba Tsisoho – is the performer on the crust and the singer, the representative (bearer) of Senegalese ancient tradition. He is from the old musical family. His father was acknowledged (declared) as “The King of Crust” (a traditional musical instrument). Keba lives in Vienna.

– the audience will be placed on mattresses and will be provided with tea and coffee during the breaks;
– mobile phones and other electronic devices should be put into the storage chamber at the entrance;
– photography, video , audio recording and media access to the event is prohibited;
– if the volunteers or the guard notice anyone using electronic devices in the room, those people will be forced to leave the performance;
– the listeners who will go back to the wardrobe in order to check their mobile phones during the performance will be forced to leave the theater.

ACT I. Palimpsest
Anne Bennent accompanied by NOVA OPERA Ensemble (Roman Hryhoriw, Ilya Razumeyko, Zhanna Marchinska, Andrew Nadolskyy). The poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, Samuel Beckett, Wolfgang Bauer, Robert Walse in French, English, German.
ACT II. Konezerte-Konzepte
Mysterious voice of Yuri Izdryk, the legend of Ukrainian poetry scene, accompanied by a contrabassist and performer Alireza Toghiyani((Iran-Austria) and accordionist Damian Keller (Austria).
ACT III. Singapore
Cyclic digital noise generators, crackling transmit mystical atmosphere of an imaginary city Singapore, which combines manmade structure sound information in the world with an emphasis on phonetic features live voices and their shadows. Textures penetrate each other to form a complex space of the city. The poetry of Mykhail Semenko, Nika Turbina. Artists: Architect – ujif_notfound, resident – Diana Lototska, shadow – Kata Okneson.

ujif_notfound [UN2114] (Heorhii Potopalskyi) – generates audio and visual streams in real time during “live” performances.
Diana Lototska – singer, pianist, actor.
Izdryk (Yurko, Yurii, Yur) – writer, musician, activist, enthusiast of multi genre and polystylistic self-presentation, sociopath.
Damian Keller (Austria) – accordionist. He studied at the State Conservatory of Voralberg in the class of Professor Goran Kovacic. Since 2015 he has been studying at the Conservatory in Vienna, in the class of Professor Gregor Stop. The winner of many competitions regularly performs solo, accompanied by a symphonic brass band and as part of various ensembles.
Anne Bennent – an actress, participated in the shooting of numerous films, she also worked with the legendary director Michael Haneke. Ann is in a constant search in the field of musical and melodramatic projects in collaboration with various musicians, she has a lot performances from Paris to Tokyo, from Vienna to Zanzibar. Her repertoire include – French chanson, Oneggera and Stravinsky, she easily combines it with various languages, poetry, dance and performative practices.
Instrumentalists of the formation “Nova Opera” – founders of the Festival PORTO FRANKO – composer and pianist Ilya Razumeyko, composer and bassist Roman Gregory, cellist Jeanne Marczyński and drummer Andrew Nadolskyy – are the basis for instrumental ensemble of “Nova Opera” team, together they participated in the creation of such operas as “IYOV”, “BABYLON”, “nerpOsti” (“difficult”), which were presented at Gogolfest in 2015-2016 and at various festivals in Ukraine, Poland, of Denmark, Austria and Macedonia. As part of the night poesophonia, the ensemble of “Nova Opera” will become a multi-instrumental orchestra, that will combine performative poetry with polystylistic music play and stochastic movement of artists between audio points.

Antonii Baryshevskyi was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1988, he started playing piano at the age of seven. After finishing course at Lysenko Special Secondary Music School in Kiev, he entered National Music Academy of Ukraine . Where made Master and Phd with Prof. Valerii Kozlov. Also he had graduated by Diplome Superieur de Concertiste at Ecole Normale de musique de Paris, where he studied with Prof. Marian Rybicki. Participated in the Master Classes with Profs. Daniel Pollack, Lily Dorfman, Alfred Brendel, B. Bloch and many others. Antonii is a soloist of National Philharmonic of Ukraine from 2012 till nowadays. He performs as a soloist and also as a chamber player in the duo with violinist Vera Symchych. Laureate of the Ukrainian program “A Man of the Year 2005″ at the age of 16. A year later participated at the 2006 Euro Radio Youth Concert in Munich, Germany.

Prize-winner of many international piano competitions. Among those prizes are:
– First prize, Prize for best performance of Israeli piece at the 14thA.Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition (Tel Aviv, Israel, 2014)
– Second prize and Special Prizes at the VI International Piano Competition “In Memory of V. Horovitz” (Kiev, Ukraine, 2005);

Antonii performed in the concert halls of UK, France, Italy, Poland, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Iceland, Russia, Denmark, Luxembourg, Serbia, Japan, S.Korea and USA. Played with some of the leading European orchestras, including Munich Radio Orchestra, The Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra,The Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, the Gubernator`s Orchestra of St.-Petersburg, Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Ciudad de Granada Orchestra, under the baton of maestros A. Fisch, F. Chaplin,V. Kahidze, D.Bostock, G.Albreht, G.Kostin, V.Sirenko, M.Dyadyura, S.Gorkovenko, and many others.
CD “Antonii Baryshevskyi: Piano Recital” has been released by the Naxos recording label, another CD “Moussorgskyi &Scriabin“ has been released by CAvi-music.

At the turn of two days a spatial performance of the Kyiv electroacoustic duet will take place in the multilevel lobby of Drama Theatre. It will be built as the deconstruction or even reconstruction of the song genre. Using acoustic and electronic instruments, moving between balconies and stairs, musicians will be migrating among countries, from the usual rock groove to complex sonoristic meditation, from pity to irony. Performers: Alexey Shmurak ( voice, melodics, kalimba, percussion instrument), Oleg Shpudeiko (computer, modular synthesizer).

Oleg Shpudeiko (Heinali)
Heinali is a stage name of the composer and performer Oleg Shpudenko, who mainly works in the electroacoustic sphere. He began conducting his first stylistic eclectic experiments with sound in 2003. Uses different methods of audio processing combining them with the improvisation as a method and deepening in the phenomenology of sound and liminality. Artist’s commercial works often combine piano and electronics. In 2009 he wrote music for installations and performances as a member of the art group Soloma. In 2010 began a long-term collaboration with an American poet Matt Finney. The project combines Heinali music and Matt spoken word performance. Heinali and Matt Finney recorded and released several albums on Paradigms. The new album How We Lived will be released on Flesner in 2017.
In 2013 he creates together with composer and performer Alexis Shmurak an electroacoustic duet Blook, practicing live performances based on the theme of interdisciplinarity and new forms of interaction. The duet implemented a number of projects together with artists, VJs, musicians and poets. In 2015 curated a short series of electroacoustic improvisations in Kyiv. In 2016 wrote music for a videogame Bound by Plastic and Sony Santa Monica, and choreography A Thread by Jean Abreu Dance.
Heinali works were released on Sony Interactive Entertainment, Fluttery, NEN, Paradigms and other labels. Anthem’s latest album was released in 2017, the year on Injazero Records.

Alexey Shmurak
Was born in 1986 in Leningrad, now lives in Kyiv. Graduated from the Kiev Conservatory, Yuri Ishchenko composition class. Before that, he studied composition under Alla Zagaykevych.
In 2006-2007 co-founder, co-organizer and pianist at Ensemble Nostri Temporis (ENT), which was the leader of Ukrainian chamber stage of new music. As a member of ENT he conducted a number of multimedia projects in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany.
In 2013 created together with Oleg Shpudeiko an electroacoustic duet Blook.
In 2014 held together with a composer and cellist Zoltan Almashi a festival of contemporary and classical music “Gulf Stream”.
In 2012-2015 held a series of solo piano concerts exploring contemporary performing techniques. Concerts took place in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia (including the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg).
Since 2013 has been giving concerts as a singer, keyboardist and composer.
Since 2014 has been working with a musical agency Ukho. Since 2016 constant participant and the author of ideas at a cultural space Plivka, mainly in collaboration with curator Dmitry Kazakov.
Alexey’s music sounds at many festivals, including Gaudeamus Musikweek (Utrecht, Netherlands, 2013) and the International Summer Courses for New Music (Darmstadt, 2010 and 2016). Since 2010 cooperates with the Goethe-Institut (about 15 projects). A participant of Berlin’s Deutsche Opera Theater workshop and Parkaue workshop dedicated to creating operas for children (2016).
Since 2015, together with the Russian choreographer Alexander Lyubashynym works on a series of international laboratories researching of interdisciplinarity “Intersection of Parallel”.
He created music to numerous orders of Polish, Austrian and Russian institutions. The music was released on labels Fancy music (2012) and Requiem records (2016).
Gave lectures in Lviv (art-space Dzyga), Kyiv ( art-space ‘Xarms’ and ‘Cultural Project’), Moscow (Higher School of Economics).
A participant and co-founder of the Frank Opera Fest 2010, participant of the festivals Porto Franko 2010 and Porto Franko GogolFest 2016 in Ivan0-Frankivsk.

During the festival days three unique sound sculptures by Dutch musician and creator Hans van Koolwijk will be exhibited at former Church of Saint Mary the Virgin.

“Bambuso sonoro” (1991) is a unique bamboo organ and one of his central artworks which combines extraordinary meditative sound with unusual look of the musical instrument.

“The Bells” is the ringing of the bells which sounds as if in hollow space. The organ in the Church was destroyed after World War II as well as the bell tower of the same Church(renewed by now) was destroyed by Soviet government. So both the installations, the organ and the bells, will function at the festival as revived sacred and performatory symbol.

“Glissando” (2006) is a mobile sound machine which was a success at different festivals in Netherlands and Poland.

Hans van Koolwijk (born in 1952) is a Dutch sound artist, a performer and a designer of musical instruments. Since 1987 he works hard on designing unique sound sculptures, musical instruments and installations which he exhibits at festivals and modern art museums like those in London and Lublin, Lithuania and Lisbon. A book called “As a Matter of Sound” is regarded to be his manifesto. His unordinary sound sculptures “Klankkaatser”, “Oerkaatser”, “Oer-Oorsprong” were exhibited at a number of Museums of Contemporary Art in Netherlands where they gained much attention from public and critics.

Futuristic Liturgy, which combines several world religions and cultural practices:
– sounds of the futuristic organ Bambuso sonoro
– Muslim tunes and sounds of bark by the Senegalese musician Keba Tsissokho
– Buddhist motifs performed by Chinese musicians on hudzheni and pipi
– sacred music of Orthodox Church choir

Oleksandra Mailliet (Oleksandra Yasmin-Turyanska) – a Ukrainian singer (mezzo-soprano, contralto) and an ethnomusicologist, who lives in France. As a soloist, she participated in numerous multidisciplinary and experimental projects and as an actress of musical theater, too (in «SONG TREE» in New York, USA, with «Yara» group of the theater La Mama and with «Gogol Bordello», or a several years long contract with Compagnie des Mers du Nord for the play «HAIR MUNDO FREI, Messe pour un Temps Futur»). As a soloist, she took part in performing the 2nd Symphony of Mahler, Mozart’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s oratorio works, and also those of Pergolesi, Verdi and Beethoven. In 2015, at Gogolfest, Oleksandra participated in requiem ” IYOV “, within Nova Opera project, which has been repeatedly shown at various stages of Ukraine and Europe. Performance of the singer “Salve Regina.Veriditas” as part of MISSA SOLEMNIS is both a personal piece of contemporary large-scale project called “The girl who catches the wind and walks on water. ”

Zhanna Marchynska – cello, soloist of the New Opera ensemble, participated in the creating opera performances called “IYOV” requiem opera, of circus opera “Babylon” sonOpera “Inexcusable”, horror opera “Hamlet.” Participated as a soloist in various ensembles, performed at New Music, jazz and rock bands.

Chen Mengyao – young Artist and performer of an instrument called Pipa. She has various playing techniques, performs traditional and contemporary music, popularizing this instrument of the Chinese people in various countries. She repeatedly participated in various radio and television projects, and has a uniquely emotional, both free and authentic style of playing.

“Cantemus” camera choir of King Christ Church of Father Vasilian Monastery under Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Ivano-Frankivsk was created in 2000. It was founded by artistic director and regent Igor Demyanets. The main activity of the group – the Christmas and Sunday worship in the church of the monastery. Choir performs music by M. Berezovsky, D. Bortniansky, A. Vedel O. Kosice, K. Stetsenko, M. Leontovich, J. Sichynskyi A. Gnatishin, A. Archangel.