III International Music Festival Odesa Classics 2017

Main program June 7 — 13

New Ukrainian Soundscapes June 8 — 12

Master classes, lectures, creative meetings June 6 — 10

Artists Artists of the Odessa Classics festival

📅 April 20

Grand hall of Odessa Philharmonic

Concert – prelude of the III International musical festival ODESSA CLASSICS

Linus Roth (violin)
Alexey Botvinov (piano)

In programm – Third Sonata of Brahms, the grand First Sonata of Prokofiev, “The suite in an ancient style” by Schnittke. The Odessa premiere of the masterly “Rhapsody on the Moldavian themes” by Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

📅 June 7

Grand hall of Odessa Philharmonic

The performance-opening of the III-rd Festival

Daniel Hope (violine)
Alexey Botvinov (piano)

In program – the main masterpieces of the Romantic for Violin and Piano – First Sonata by Johannes Brahms and Third Sonata by Edvard Grieg; as well as works by Joseph Joachim and Felix Mendelssohn.

📅 June 8

Odessa National Academic
Opera and Ballet Theater

Ukrainian Stars of Belcanto gala

Olga Mykytenko (soprano)
Lena Belkina (mezzo-soprano)
Vitaliy Bilyy (baritone)
Odessa Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, conductor Igor Shavruk

At the gala concert will sound the brightest Belcanto works – 20 arias and duets from operas by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Offenbach, Delibes, Leonkovallo, Gounod, Mascagni.

📅 June 9

OPEN-AIR
with video installations

The participants
Alexey Botvinov, Myroslava Kotorovych, «Artehatta» chamber ensemble, Odessa Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, conductor Igor Shavruk

Concert of popular classical music with video installations will be performed by pianist Alexey Botvinov and Ensemble «Artehatta» headed by Myroslava Kotorovych and Odessa Philharmony Chamber Orchestra (conductor Igor Shavruk). This event is going to become an unforgettable show for which decorations will be the historical Colonnade of Vorontsov Palace and the Odessa coast of the Black Sea.

Musicians will perform compositions by Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Mozart, Piazzolla and also soundtracks to cult films. A historic Colonnade for few hours will be turned into a huge canvas on which riot of colors unfold spectacular video installation by VJ Videomatics.

Success of the last year concert, which was listened by 3 thousand people, has inspired festival organizers to annually hold a similar event, as a gift to all the classics fans.

Free entrance

📅 June 10

Grand hall of Odessa Philharmonic

For the first time in Ukraine!

Sebastian Knauer (piano)

In the program

Beethoven. Sonata op.31 N. 2 “The Tempest”
Schubert. 4 Impromptu op.90
Bernstein. Selections from “Four Anniversaries”
Gershwin. Songbook (selected). Rhapsody in the style of the Blues (Version by S. Knauer for piano solo)

📅 June 11

Grand hall of Odessa Philharmonic

David Orlowski Trio

David Orlowsky (clarinet), Jens-Uwe Popp (guitar), Florian Dohrmann (double-bass)

«PARIS – ODESSA» project, performance at ODESSA CLASSICS as a part of worldwide SONY Classical disk promo tour.

📅 June 12

Grand hall of Odessa Philharmonic

In cooperation with the Odessa International Literary Festival

Viktor Erofeyev. Literary and art evening.

📅 June 13

Odessa National Academic
Opera and Ballet Theater

Gala concert of the Festival closing

Vadim Repin (violin)
Belgium Chamber Orchestra, musical director Michael Guttman

The program includes Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Ravel, Piazzolla.

Odesa Literary Museum

📅 June 8 — 12

June 8	Collegium Musicum
June 10	Myroslava Kotorovych (violin), Ihor Saienko (accordion), Dmytro Cherchenko (spoken word) and ensemble “Artehatta”
June 11	Trio – Oleh Shpudeiko (electronics), Maksym Kolomiiets (objects), and Oleksii Shmurak (objects)
June 12	Zoltan Almashi (cello) and Andrii Pavlov (violin)

📅 June 6 — 10

📅 June 6	Liubov Morozova – “The Role of the Listener in the History of New Music”
📅 June 9	Sonia Koshkina – Creative Meeting
📅 June 10	Oleh Vergelis – “Ukrainian Cultural Space. Current Trends.” Presentation of Oleh Vergelis’s book.