Ukrainian Tone Poems

Performers include: PinkNoise, Ukrainian Music Initiative

Leonid HRABOVSKY (1935–), Bucolic Strophes for organ (1975)**
Inspired by “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” by Nikolai (Mykola) Gogol

Adrian MOCANU (1989–), Les chevaux de feu (2022)**
Inspired by Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

Alla ZAHAYKEVYCH (1966–), TERCET for clarinet, violin, and cello (2010)**
Inspired by Taras Prokhasko’s Necropolis

Alex VOYTENKO (1981–): Homo Fugens (Running Man) (2018)*
After the novel by Stephen King

Renata SOKACHYK (1991–), The Desert Breathes (2024)**
Inspired by Lesia Ukrainka 

Alisa ZAIKA (2001–). “he only dreamed of places now…” (2022)**
Inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man And The Sea

Lena SIEROVA (1981–), The Last Leaf (2010-11)**
After the short story by O. Henry

Yurii PIKUSH (1998–), Be a Cycle (2023)**
Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

*world premiere

**U.S. premiere