Ukrainian Resonance: Askar Ishangaliyev and Anna Khmara in concert

This event will be held in English.

Ukrainian Resonance is a chamber music concert series organized by the 1991 Project with the Columbia Global Paris Center and Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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The 1991 Project presents cello/piano duo Askar Ishangaliyev and Anna Khmara, with a program of works by Nadia Boulanger, Debussy, Silvestrov, and Viktor Kosenko

Program

Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), Three Pieces for Cello and Piano, 1914 [8’]
I. Modéré
II. Sans vitesse et a l'aise
III. Vite et nerveusement rythmé

Viktor Kosenko (1896-1938), Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor, op. 10, 1923 [30’]
I. Moderato
II. Andante con motto
III. Allegro con fuoco

Valentyn Sylvestrov (b. 1937), Kitsch-Music, cycle of five pieces for piano, 1977 [12’]

Claude Debussy (1862–1918), Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor, L 135, 1915 [11’]
I. Prologue
II. Sérénade
III. Finale

1964-2024: Celebrating 60 Years of Columbia at Reid Hall

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Ukrainian Resonance: Chamber Music Concerts at Reid Hall

The 1991 Project presents a chamber music concert series featuring performances by Ukrainian musicians affected by war, as well as their renowned international colleagues, who are popularizing the Ukrainian repertoire. The series aims to promote Ukrainian music and highlight its deep connections to European cultural trends.

As the 2023-24 project-in-residence at the Reid Hall Displaced Artists Initiative, the 1991 Project has organized six concerts, as well as co-organized events in partnership with Eastern Circles, the Arts Arena, the Zadkine Museum, and the Centre international Nadia et Lili Boulanger. This followed their inaugural series, the Silvestrov Days in Paris in spring 2023, which celebrated one of Ukraine’s greatest contemporary composers.

This series is organized by the 1991 Project, the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, with the support of the Ukrainian Embassy and Les Amis de la culture ukrainienne en France.

Organizers

The 1991 Project is a Paris-based initiative that aims to explore and popularize unknown or rarely performed repertoire and to support endangered talents. Its core principles are social entrepreneurship and feminist leadership. The project is led by Anna Stavychenko, a scholar in musicology, opera critic, and classical music curator, former executive director of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and Harriman Resident of the Institute for Ideas & Imagination from Columbia University during the season 2022-2023. The project’s main focus is the Ukrainian musical repertoire from classicism to the present day.

The Columbia Global Paris Center addresses pressing global issues that are at the forefront of international education and research: agency and gender; climate and the environment; critical dialogues for just societies; encounters in the arts; and health and medical science.

Each year the Institute for Ideas and Imagination brings together a cohort of 14-15 Fellows, half of them Columbia faculty and post-docs, the other half artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation. The Institute fosters intellectual and creative diversity unconstrained by medium and discipline through the interaction of the arts and academia.

The Paris Center and Institute are part of Columbia Global, which brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and Undergraduate Global Engagement.

Venue

Nestled in the Montparnasse district, Reid Hall hosts several Columbia University initiatives: the Columbia Global Paris Center, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Columbia Undergraduate Programs, the M.A. in History and Literature, and the GSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement with the world through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.

This event will take place in Reid Hall’s Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.

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