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Rheingold M. Glière Music College
Glière Music College is the second oldest Ukrainian music conservatory established in the late 19th century in Kyiv. In the early 20th century it was split into two music schools, Reinhold Glière, Glière Music College and Kyiv Conservatory (now ''Kyiv Academy of Music''). Over the past century, many world-famous musicians have graduated from this school, such as Vladimir Horowitz and Mélovin. In 2008, the R. M. Glière Kyiv State Music University was reorganised into the R. M. Glière Kyiv Institute of Music. In 2018, the institution celebrated its 150th anniversary at the state level, which became an occasion for another renaming. Since 2018 – Reinhold Glier Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music. Notable alumni *Jerry Heil, singer *Tina Karol, singer *Alex Luna (singer), Alex Luna, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian countertenor *Mélovin, singer *Iryna Bilyk, singer *Kateryna Buzhynska, singer *Zlata Ognevich, singer *Evgenia Vlasova, Ukraine, Ukrainian singer-songwriter. *Lena Bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zlata Ognevich
Zlata Leonidivna Ognevich (; born Inna Leonidivna Bordiuh, on 12 January 1986) is a Ukrainian singer and former politician. She represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö with the song "Gravity", placing third. Ognevich previously attempted to represent Ukraine at the contest in 2010 and 2011. In 2014, Ognevich was elected to the Verkhovna Rada for the Radical Party using her birth name Inna Bordiuh.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament , Ukrainian Television and Radio (8 November 2014) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music In Kyiv
Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all human societies. Definitions of music vary widely in substance and approach. While scholars agree that music is defined by a small number of specific elements, there is no consensus as to what these necessary elements are. Music is often characterized as a highly versatile medium for expressing human creativity. Diverse activities are involved in the creation of music, and are often divided into categories of composition, improvisation, and performance. Music may be performed using a wide variety of musical instruments, including the human voice. It can also be composed, sequenced, or otherwise produced to be indirectly played mechanically or electronically, such as via a music box, barrel organ, or digital audio workstation software on a computer. Music often plays a key r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Andriievska
Nina Kostyantynivna Andriievska ( Ukrainian: Ні́на Костянти́нівна Андріє́вська; 20 December 1927 – 14 June 2014) was a Ukrainian composer, musicologist, journalist, editor, radio commentator, music and social activist. She was an Honored journalist of the Ukrainian SSR (1983) and an Honored Artist of Ukraine (1998). Early life and education Nina Andriievska was born in Kyiv on 20 December 1927. In 1950, she graduated with honors from the Kyiv R. Glier Music School. In 1952, Andriievska graduated from Kyiv Pedagogical Institute, named after A.M.Gorky, and in 1954 – Kyiv Tchaikovsky Conservatory. In 1970, she finished her postgraduate studies there. Career Since 1953, Andriievska worked at Ukrainian Radio. She was an editor-in-chief, senior editor, department head, editor-in-chief, and radio commentator of music programs. Andriievska was a member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine since 1957 and the National Union of Composer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladyslav Buialskyi
Vladyslav Buialskyi (; born 15 August 1997) is a Ukrainian bass-baritone. Since 2020, he has performed with the Metropolitan Opera as a member of its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Biography Buialskyi was born on 15 August 1997 in Berdiansk, Ukraine. The son of an accountant and a driver, he became interested in singing at an early age and admired the Soviet singer Muslim Magomayev. When he was 17 years old, he began training at a conservatory. He is an alumnus of the R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music and the Kyiv Conservatory, where he trained with the baritone Mykola Koval. His participation in "Kharkiv Assemblies", the International Competition of Musical Art, in Kharkiv in 2018, led to a performance as Leporello in Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' at the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. Buialskyi sang at several competitions in 2019, becoming the inaugural recipient of the Brian Dickie Young Talent Award at Neue Stimmen. He was named a semi-finali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Uspenskaya
Lyubov Zalmanovna Uspenskaya (Russian: ''Любо́вь За́лмановна Успе́нская''; born Sitsker (''Си́цкер''); 24 February 1954) is a Soviet and Russian performer of Russian popular music, much of which is the so-called "urban romance" or Russian "chanson" (Russian: городской романс, gorodskoy romans) style. Multiple winner of the "Chanson of the Year" (Russian: Шансон Года) award. Biography Uspenskaya was born in Kyiv (Ukrainian SSR) to Zalman Sitsker (1932–2002), the director of a household appliances factory in Kyiv, and Elena Chaika, a nurse from Ashgabat, who died during childbirth. From an early age, the future star was surrounded by music. She was taught piano by her father and graduated from music school, where she studied to play the accordion. It was not her choice since it was her relatives who wanted, in memory of her grandfather, a professional musician and a director of the factory of folk instruments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spinto Soprano
A spinto soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that has the limpidity and easy high notes of a lyric soprano, yet can be "pushed" on to achieve dramatic climaxes without strain. This type of voice may also possess a somewhat darker timbre than the average lyric. Spinto sopranos are also expected to handle dynamic changes in the music that they are performing with skill and poise. They command a vocal range extending from approximately low B (B3) to in alt D (D6). The spinto repertoire includes many roles written by Verdi, by the various verismo composers, and by Puccini. Some of these roles are extremely popular with opera audiences. Certain Wagnerian heroines such as Elsa, Elisabeth and Sieglinde are also sung by spinto sopranos. The fact that spinto sopranos are uncommon means that parts that are ideal for their voices are often performed by singers from other classifications, and more than a few lyric sopranos have damaged their voices singing heavier spinto ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainians
Ukrainians (, ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine. Their native tongue is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, and the majority adhere to Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, forming the List of contemporary ethnic groups, second largest ethno-linguistic community. At around 46 million worldwide, Ukrainians are the second largest Slavs, Slavic ethnic group after Russians. Ukrainians have been Endonym and exonym, given various names by foreign rulers, which have included Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Habsburg monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and then Austria-Hungary. The East Slavic population inhabiting the territories of modern-day Ukraine were known as Ruthenians, referring to the territory of Ruthenia; the Ukrainians living under the Russian Empire were known as Little Russians, named after the territory of Little Russia. The ethnonym Ukrainian, which was associated with the Cossack Hetmanate, was adopted following the Ukrainian natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liudmyla Monastyrska
Liudmyla Viktorivna Monastyrska () is a Ukrainian spinto soprano. Early life and career Born in Irkliiv, Cherkasy Oblast, she studied at the R. Glier Kyiv Institute of Music and Kyiv Conservatory. Monastyrska made her debut with the Ukraine National Opera as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's ''Eugene Onegin'' in 1996 and became a principal soloist with the company in 1998. There, and at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, she sang the title roles of Verdi's ''Aida'' and Ponchielli's '' La Gioconda'', as well as Amelia in Verdi's '' Un ballo in maschera'', Lisa in Tchaikovsky's '' The Queen of Spades'', Nedda in Leoncavallo's ''Pagliacci'', and Santuzza in Mascagni's ''Cavalleria rusticana''. In 2010 she appeared successfully on short notice in the title role of Puccini's ''Tosca'' at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which led to her Italian debut at the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, Italy, under the conductor Alberto Veronesi. In February 2012 she appeared as Aida at La Scal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano (, ), or mezzo ( ), is a type of classical music, classical female singing human voice, voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types. The mezzo-soprano's vocal range usually extends from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e. A3–A5 in scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C4; 220–880 Hz). In the lower and upper extremes, some mezzo-sopranos may extend down to the F below middle C (F3, 175 Hz) and as high as "high C" (C6, 1047 Hz). The mezzo-soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, lyric, and dramatic. History While mezzo-sopranos typically sing secondary roles in operas, notable exceptions include the title role in Georges Bizet, Bizet's ''Carmen'', Angelina (Cinderella) in Gioachino Rossini, Rossini's ''La Cenerentola'', and Rosina in Rossini's ''The Barber of Seville, Barber of Seville'' (all of which are also sung by sopranos and contraltos). Many 19th-century French- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Belkina
Lena Belkina or Olena Leser (born 27 November 1987) is a Ukrainian mezzo-soprano. Career Belkina studied at the Kyiv and Leipzig conservatories. From 2009 to 2012, she was a member of the Leipzig Opera, where she worked with P. Konwitschny in ''Eugene Onegin'' and '' Elektra'' and as Flora in '' La traviata'' and Zaida in ''Il turco in Italia''. In 2010, she sang the opening concert of the Handel Festival Halle and made her debut at the Konzerthaus, Vienna in Meyerbeer's '' Emma di Resburgo''. As part of the YSP 2010, Salzburg Festival, during ''Orfeo'', she worked together with conductors such as Riccardo Muti and Ivor Bolton. Under Omer Meir Wellber she sang Olga in a UNITEL recording of ''Eugene Onegin'' at the Palau de les Arts, Valencia, and sang at oratorios and recitals in Leipzig, Frankfurt, Munich and Kyiv. At the Vienna State Opera, she debuted in October 2011 as Second Lady in ''The Magic Flute''. At the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2011 she stood for Rosina in the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and List of cities in Ukraine, largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Odesa, and Dnipro. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian. Humans have inhabited Ukraine since 32,000 BC. During the Middle Ages, it was the site of early Slavs, early Slavic expansion and later became a key centre of East Slavs, East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. Kievan Rus' became the largest and most powerful realm in Europe in the 10th and 11th centuries, but gradually disintegrated into rival regional powers before being d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
