Foundation of the National Chamber Ensemble "KYIV SOLOISTS" is implementation of long-standing dream of Bogodar Kotorovych (1941-2009). Collective, recognized by listeners and critics in different countries of the world, unites talented young musicians of Ukraine (average age of artistes – 30 years). Most of them are winners of national and international contests and represent Maestro school. Since October 2009 chief conductor of the ensemble – honoured art worker of Ukraine Dmytro Logvyn. Currently chief conductor of the ensemble – Honored Figure of Arts of Ukrane, winner of the National Taras Shevchenko Prize Volodymyr Sirenko.The ensemble gained reputation of popularizers authors of world level, whose works were performed in the territory of Ukraine. So, Ukrainian audience was presented for the first time with "Military requiem" of B.Britten and double concert of G. Palmer "Need two". Effective co-operation of the ensemble with such outstanding contemporary composers as Ye.Stankovych, V.Sylvestrov, K.Penderetskyi, M.Skoryk deserves special attention.
Multiple potential of the ensemble draws attention of the world performers of different style directions – concerts with V.Papyan (piano, Israel), DUO GURFINKEL (clarinets, Israel), I.Chetuyev (piano, Ukraine), N.Grubert (piano, the Netherlands), J.Milkis (clarinet, USA), V.Vorona (violin, Russia), U.Uliona (viola, Lithuania), D.Severin (violoncello, Switzerland), D.Ashkenazi (clarinet, Switzerland), Garry Hofman (cello,USA), Sergey Ostrovsky (violin, Israel), Mihail Kugel (viola, Germany), take place together with concerts of band "Okean Elzy" (Ukraine), jazz singer Nino Katamadze (Georgia) and founder of band "Deep Purple" J.Lord. High poetic spirit of artistes in conjunction with peculiar Ukrainian music tradition enslaves by avant-gardism world audience in such famous halls as Luxembourg Palace and UNESCO in Paris, Komische Oper in Berlin, Great National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, Concert Hall "Flagey" in Belgium, RadioKulturhaus in Vienna, Concert Hall Esplanade in Singapore, World Exhibition "Expo-2005" in Japan. They are invited participants of international festivals named after D. Oistrakh (Parnu, Estonia), modern music "Warsaw Autumn" (Warsaw, Poland), modern music in Krakow (Poland), classic music in Ruhr (Germany), "Season music premiers", "KyivMusicFest", "GOGOLFEST", "ChamberArtMusic". For active brilliant activity in representation of Ukrainian performance culture in the world ensemble "Kyiv Soloist" gained status "Ambassador of the Ukrainian culture" of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
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