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Name:
Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
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At Large
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Country:
Ukraine
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"I wanted to bring together Ukraine’s best orchestral musicians from home and abroad to demonstrate a proud artistic unity. We are fighting on the cultural front for the freedom of Ukraine."
— Keri-Lynn Wilson
"Our music is our gun!"
Dates:
WARSAW July 28 (Teatr Wielki–Polish National Opera)
LONDON July 31 (BBC Proms)
MUNICH August 1 (Isar Philharmonic Hall)
ORANGE August 2 (Chorégies d’Orange Festival)
BERLIN August 4 (Konzerthaus)
EDINBURGH August 6 (Edinburgh International Festival)
SNAPE MALTINGS August 8 (Snape Maltings)
AMSTERDAM August 11(Amsterdam Concertgebouw Festival)
HAMBURG August 13 (Elbphilharmonie)
DUBLIN August 15 (National Concert Hall)
NEW YORK August 18 & 19 (Lincoln Center)
WASHINGTON D.C. August 20 (Kennedy Center)
Life
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Bio:
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra was formed by conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson in artistic defense of their country.
UKRAINIAN FREEDOM ORCHESTRA TOUR BIOGRAPHIES
Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson’s international career as a guest conductor spans more than 20 years, leading some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras—such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks—and operas at the world’s top opera houses, including Covent Garden, the Bavarian State Opera, Bolshoi Theatre, and the Vienna State Opera. Next season, Ms. Wilson will make her Metropolitan Opera debut, conducting Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and will return to Covent Garden to conduct La Traviata. Ms. Wilson’s work has been praised as “vividly shaped and nuanced” by The New York Times, and “elegantly incisive” by The Telegraph. Ms. Wilson received a nomination for conductor of the year from the Opus Klassik 2020 awards for her recording of Rossini’s Sigismondo with the Bayerische Rundfunk.
Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska made her Metropolitan Opera debut singing the title role of Verdi’s Aida in 2012, followed by the title role of Puccini’s Tosca, Santuzza in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, and Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco. This season, she will sing the title role of Puccini’s Turandot at the Met, Abigaille in Nabucco at Covent Garden, and the title role of Aida in Naples and Verona. Recent performance highlights include Aida, Elisabeth in Don Carlo, Tosca, and Abigaille at the National Opera of Ukraine; Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth at the Bavarian State Opera; Leonora in Il Trovatore at La Scala; Tosca in Rome and Barcelona; Abigaille at Deutsche Oper Berlin and in Hamburg; Leonora in La Forza del Destino at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Covent Garden; and Santuzza in concert with the NDR Radiophilharmonie.
Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova has performed with leading ensembles including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Yomiuri Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Netherlands Philharmonic.
In 2018, Ms. Fedorova signed with Channel Classics Records and released six albums, including Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra and the duo album Silhouettes with violist Dana Zemtsov. In March, she and Interartists Amsterdam organized a charity concert with members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, cellist Maya Fridman, and percussionist Konstantyn Napolov, raising €111,000 in humanitarian aid for the victims of the war in Ukraine.
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FIRST VIOLINS
Marko Komonko - Concertmaster
Iuliia Rubanova
Andrii Chaikovskyi
Olga Sheleshkova
Mihaly Stefkó
Alisa Kuznetsova
Mykola Haviuk
Viktor Hlybochanu
Marta Bura
Marta Semchyshyn -
Anna Bura
Tetiana Khomenko
Daniil Gonobolin
Iryna Solovei
SECOND VIOLINS
Viktor Ivanov - Principal
Adrian Bodnar
Kateryna Boychuk
Ostap Manko
Yuliya Tokach
Marta Kachkovska
Viktor Semchyshyn
Liudvika Ivanova -
Olha Malyk
Marta Kolomyiets
Maria Sichko
VIOLAS
Andrii Chop - Principal
Ustym Zhuk
Yevheniia Vynogradska
Dmytro Kreshchenskyi
Kateryna Suprun
Andrii Tuchapets
Iya Komarova
Hryhorii Zavhorodnii
Roksolana Dubova
Lyudmyla Garashchuk
CELLOS
Artem Shmahaylo
Viktor Rekalo
Lesya Demkovych
Yevgen Dovbysh
Mariia Mohylevska
Oksana Lytvynenko
Olha Boichuk
Yuliia Bezushkevych
BASSES
Nazarii Stets - Principal
Yurii Pryriz - Principal
Mykola Shakhov
Maciej Pakula
Viktor Ashmarin
Serhii Dikariev
FLUTES
Ihor Yermak - Principal
Inna Vorobets
OBOES
Yurii Khvostov
Yevhen Marchuk
CLARINETS
Vasyl Riabitskyi
Oleg Moroz - Principal
BASSOONS
Mark Kreshchenskyi
Aleksandra Naumov
CONTRABASSOON
Ihor Nechesnyi
HORNS
Dmytro Taran - Principal
Dmytro Mytchenko
Igor Szeligowski - Principal
Oleg Bezushkevych
TRUMPETS
Ostap Popovych - Principal
Arsen Khizriiev
TROMBONES
Taras Zhelizko - Principal
Vasyl Shparkyi
Andriy Shparkyi
TUBA
Oleksandr Yushchuk
TIMPANI
Dmytro Ilin - Principal
PERCUSSION
Yevhen Ulianov
Sviatoslav Yanchuk
HARP
Nataliya Konovalenko
CELESTA
Khrystyna Boretska
PIANO
Oksana Gorobiyevska
Clips (more may be added)
The Integrated Global Creative Economy
Wolfram Mathematics
Bahia, Brazil is a small-world matrix. It was final port-of-call for more enslaved human beings than any other place on earth throughout all of human history. It was refuge for Sephardim fleeing the Inquisition. It is Indigenous both apart and subsumed into a sociocultural matrix which is all three of these and more. Human society, the billions of us, is small-world. Neural structures for human memory are small-world. This technological matrix positioning creators around the world within reach of each other and the entire planet is able to so because it is small-world (see Wolfram above)...
In small worlds great things are possible.
Alicia Svigals
"Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!!"
—Alicia Svigals (NEW YORK CITY): Apotheosis of klezmer violinists
"I'm truly thankful ... Sohlangana ngokuzayo :)"
—Nduduzo Makhathini (JOHANNESBURG): piano, Blue Note recording artist
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers (BOSTON): Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory ... Former personal recording engineer for Prince; "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"
"Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched!"
—Julian Lloyd Webber (LONDON): Premier cellist in UK; brother of Andrew (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)
"This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :)))"
—Clarice Assad (RIO DE JANEIRO/CHICAGO): Pianist and composer with works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world
"We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow."
—Banch Abegaze (LOS ANGELES): manager, Kamasi Washington
"Thanks! It looks great!....I didn't write 'Cantaloupe Island' though...Herbie Hancock did! Great Page though, well done! best, Randy"
"Very nice! Thank you for this. Warmest regards and wishing much success for the project! Matt"
—Son of Jimmy Garrison (bass for John Coltrane, Bill Evans...); plays with Herbie Hancock and other greats...
Dear friends & colleagues,
Having arrived in Salvador 13 years earlier, I opened a record shop in 2005 in order to create an outlet to the wider world for Bahian musicians, many of them magisterial but unknown.
David Dye & Kim Junod for NPR found us (above), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (he's a huge jazz fan), David Byrne, Oscar Castro-Neves... Spike Lee walked past the place while I was sitting on the stoop across the street drinking beer and listening to samba from the speaker in the window...
But we weren't exactly easy for the world-at-large to get to. So in order to extend the place's ethos I transformed the site associated with it into a network wherein Brazilian musicians I knew would recommend other Brazilian musicians, who would recommend others...
And as I anticipated, the chalky hand of God-as-mathematician intervened: In human society — per the small-world phenomenon — most of the billions of us on earth are within some 6 or fewer degrees of each other. Likewise, within a network of interlinked artists as I've described above, most of these artists will in the same manner be at most a handful of steps away from each other.
So then, all that's necessary to put the Bahians and other Brazilians within possible purview of the wide wide world is to include them among a wide wide range of artists around that world.
If, for example, Quincy Jones is inside the matrix (people who have passed are not removed), then anybody on his page — whether they be accessing from a campus in L.A., a pub in Dublin, a shebeen in Cape Town, a tent in Mongolia — will be close, transitable steps away from Raymundo Sodré, even if they know nothing of Brazil and are unaware that Sodré sings/dances upon this planet. Sodré, having been knocked from the perch of fame and ground into anonymity by Brazil's dictatorship, has now the alternative of access to the world-at-large via recourse to the vast potential of network theory.
...to the degree that other artists et al — writers, researchers, filmmakers, painters, choreographers...everywhere — do also. Artificial intelligence not required. Real intelligence, yes.
Years ago in NYC I "rescued" unpaid royalties (performance & mechanical) for artists/composers including Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd (for his rights in Bob Marley compositions; Clement was Bob's first producer), Led Zeppelin, Ray Barretto, Philip Glass and many others. Aretha called me out of the blue vis-à-vis money owed by Atlantic Records. Allen Klein (managed The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles) called about money due the estate of Sam Cooke. Jerry Ragovoy (Time Is On My Side, Piece of My Heart) called just to see if he had any unpaid money floating around out there (the royalty world was a shark-filled jungle, to mangle metaphors, and I doubt it's changed).
But the pertinent client (and friend) in the present context is Earl "Speedo" Carroll, of The Cadillacs. Earl went from doo-wopping on Harlem streetcorners to chart-topping success to working as a custodian at PS 87 elementary school on the west side of Manhattan. Through all of this he never lost what made him great.
Greatness and fame are too often conflated. The former should be accessible independently of the latter.
Matrix founding creators are behind "one of 10 of the best (radios) around the world", per The Guardian.
Recent access to this matrix and Bahia are from these places (a single marker can denote multiple accesses).
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For a complete list of everybody inside, tap TOTAL below:
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Nduduzo Makhathini
Susan Rogers
Julian Lloyd Webber
Clarice Assad
Kamasi Washington
Randy Brecker
Matt Garrison
RÁDIO MATRIX