Organist Gail Archer shall be touring her Live performance for Ukrainian Reduction from February via Might 2025, and she or he’ll hit Toronto on February 1. She’ll be acting on one of many metropolis’s largest pipe organs on the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church.
The live performance will embody materials from her 2020 album Chernivtsi, A Recording of Up to date Ukrainian Organ Music.
Gail Archer
Primarily based in New York, Gail Archer has develop into famous for her adventurous tackle classical organ repertoire.
Gail Archer is a live performance organist, recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer with a global profile. She has an intensive recording catalogue that features Russian music, Liszt, Bach, and extra in a variety of fabric.
Archer based Musforum, a global community for girls organists. She is school organist at Vassar School, and director of the music program at Barnard School, Columbia College. A school member at Columbia College’s Harriman Institute, Gail has carried out in Jap Europe yearly since 2011, together with Russian in addition to Ukrainian halls and church buildings.
Amongst her different accomplishments, she grew to become the primary American girl to carry out the whole Messiaen cycle in 2008. Archer has additionally develop into well-known for researching and rediscovering the work of composers who’ve develop into obscured by time. Her 2020 album Chernivtsi, A Recording of Up to date Ukrainian Organ Music, dives deep into little identified music. The album, from which she attracts the live performance program, consists largely of shorter works by modern composers.
Music by Ukrainian Composers
This system consists of by Nineteenth-Twenty first century Ukrainian composers. It’s a part of a decade-long effort on her half to sharing Jap European organ literature, and specifically, to acknowledge the contributions of Ukrainian composers. With regards to the pipe organ, one of many points in Russia and Ukraine is that the instrument itself is far scarcer than in your common Western European metropolis, the place they’re ubiquitous.
“In my very own view, the organ music contributions from Ukraine have been monumental, and human tradition and civilization can be far poorer with out them,” says Archer in an announcement. “I hope this shall be stored in thoughts significantly on this interval of battle and disaster.”
This system consists of:
- Fanfare (Kotyuk),
- Benedictus: Tune of Zachariah (Kotyuk),
- Piece in 5 Actions (Machl)
- Fantasia (Goncharenko)
- Passacaglia (Kolessa)
- Chacona (Ostrova)
- Fantasie (Kryschanowskij)
As Archer notes in a paper, a few of the works have been revealed, whereas others got to her straight by the composers.
Bohdan Kotyuk (1951 – 2022) was born right into a household of non secular leaders and philosophers, together with Archbishop Samuel Cyryl Stefanowicz (1755- 1858). He studied music on the Lviv Conservatory, and was an ethno-organologist, conductor, lecturer-musicologist, music critic, producer, and editor-in-chief of the Collegium musicum publishing home in addition to a practising organist and composer.
Tadeusz Machl (1922 – 2003) was born in Lviv to Polish mother and father. He would develop into an organist, composer and educator. After the Second World Warfare, he studied composition and organ on the State Increased Faculty of Music in Cracow, and later continued his schooling in Paris. In 1950, whereas nonetheless a pupil, he’d take house third prize on the Bach Worldwide Competitors in Poznań.
Viktor Goncharenko (b. 1959) is a local of the town of Dnipro, Ukraine. He studied composition with on the Kyiv Conservatory, the place he graduated in 1983. He’s a music editor and a pc modelling specialist for publishers in Kyiv.
Mykola Kolessa (1903 – 2006) was born in Sambir, close to Lviv, right into a musical household. He studied and later taught at Lviv Conservatory, finally serving as Rector.
Svitlana Ostrova (b. 1961), a local of Kyiv, studied choral conducting, composition and organ on the Music Academy in Kyiv. She is an writer and music educator, and teaches at youngsters’s music colleges in addition to conducting the vocal ensemble Shchedrivochka.
Iwan Kryschanowskij (1867-1924) grew up in Kyiv, the place he studied each music and drugs. Profitable at each, he studied with Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, additionally instructor of Stravinsky. Kryschanowskij’s work explores the eras modernism with the organ.
- The live performance is free/PWYC, with all proceeds going to conflict reduction businesses. Extra info [HERE].
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