Organizers:

International Public Organization "Association New Music"

Southern Ukrainian Public non-profitable organization "Svitlo"

Author and manager of the project:

Iouri Semenov

Financial support:

International Renaissance Foundation (Cultural Link program | Cultural coordinator: Kateryna Botanova)

Participating Foundations:

OSI - Armenia Assistance Foundation

Soros Foundation - Kazakhstan

Soros Foundation - Kyrghyzstan

Soros Foundation - Moldova

Fundacja Stefana Batorego - Poland

Open Society Institute - Russia (Moscow)

Supported by:

Odessa Branch of the Ukrainian Composers' Union

The festival-forum presents a number of various actions (performances, audio-actions, meetings, round-tables, etc.) aimed at the valuating the experience of cultural interaction in music of post-communist and particularly former-Soviet East-European and Eurasian countries as a phenomenon proceeding from the past to the future of this cultural continent.

The main goal of the festival-forum is to reset and to develop creative contacts and interaction between composers and musicologists from participating countries as well as between professional musicians and larger circles of public.

The festival-forum is dedicated to the memory of Prof. Yury Fortunatov. In spite of that his activity was not recognized by official authorities of the USSR he was well known as the informal artistic leader and teacher of a generation of composers, musicologists and performers from countries of former Soviet Union. His original conception of music creation is still popular. Since Fortunatov's personality was too broad for standard definition, the forum ideated as the homage to his memory and his heritage would be rather unordinary as to the choice and character of the planned actions.

The project' reviews some important aspects of the contemporary musical situation as well as determines priorities and methods of cultural policy for further development of musical art.

The project enriches the cultural exchange between participating countries and provides new ideas to music making and thinking.

 

•	programme:

January, 21 (Friday) 10.00 Round-Table I | Iouri Semenov (Odessa, Ukraine) The millennium turn and music development in the light of Yury Fortunatov's personality and heritage 11.00 Audio-Action I | Eleonora Fedosova (Moscow, Russia) Yury Fortunatov's life and activities. 12.00 Audio-Action II | Pavel Rivilis (Chisinau, Moldova) 15.00 Audio-Action III | Vasily Zagorschii (Chisinau, Moldova) 16.00 Audio-Action IV | Julia Gomelskaya (Odessa, Ukraine) 16.30 Audio-Action V | Helen Tomlionova (Odessa, Ukraine) 18.00 Evening performance I | Four in One Ensemble ARS POETICA (Chisinau, Moldova) programme: Yury Fortunatov (Russia): Prelude and Fugue for piano Vladimir Beleaev (Moldova): Violino Solo Oleg Palymschi (Moldova): Bagatelle for piano Gennadie Ciobanu (Moldova): from Songs and Dances of the Melancholic Moon for english horn Viktor Grishin (Russia): Little Prince for vibraphone Vasily Zagorschi (Moldova): Sonata for violin

Pavel Rivilis (Moldova): Sonata for piano Performed by: Ludmila Amelina percussion, Julia Rivilis piano, Lucica Beleaeva violin, Vasile Habasescu english horn 19.30 Evening performance II | Piano Recital Joanna Maklakiewicz (Warsaw, Poland) Program: Andrzej Dobrowolski (Poland): Music for tape and piano Pawel Strzelecki (Poland): Retrospekcje Pawel Lukaszewski (Poland): Souvenir II Maciej Zoltowski (Poland): Intermezzi I, II, III Aleksander Kosciow (Poland): Five Cosinogonic Tales Kazimierz Serocki (Poland): Sonata   January, 24 (Monday) 10.00 Audio-Action X | Ludmila Samodaeva (Odessa, Ukraine) 15.00 Round-Table V | View from the West   January, 25 (Tuesday) 10.00 Round-Table IV | In progress...