Festival music performers

Olga Dmytrenko graduated from the Kyiv State Conservatory (today it is the National Music Academy of Ukraine) with Specializations in Piano and Organ under Professors Ye. Rzhanov and А. Kotlyarevskyi. After that she went through assistant training at the same educational establishment. The musician’s creative development was fostered by her contacts with such outstanding figures as W. Schetelich, F. Klinda, L. Kremer, L. Digris, and P. Eben.

In 1979 she was awarded the 1st Degree Honorable Diploma at the Prague Spring International Competition and in 1989 she won Grand Prix at the Festival in Memory of Volodymyr & Regina Horowitz. She gives many concerts in Ukraine, as well as in Russia, Belarus, Moldova, the Baltic States, Poland, Germany, Italy...

She worked as a soloist of the National House of Organ and Chamber Music from the moment it was founded till 2004. She worked as Music Director at the Roman – Catholic St. Alexander’s cathedral since 1998 till 2005.

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Was born in Kiev, got secondary and high music education and was awarded the qualification of choir conductor. After graduation from the Conservatory she worked as a choirmaster of opera studio of the National Music Academy of Ukraine. For the first time she started singing ancient music in the ensemble “Avlos” – the only ensemble specializing in ancient medieval music for that period of time. To foster her singing talent and her knowledge of medieval music Tatiana moved to Switzerland to study at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis specializing in “Medieval singing”. She studied in class of famous singer of ancient music Dominique Vellar.

Her repertoire comprises different music styles from medieval to modern. Her persistent research work gives her opportunity to make programmes for solo concerts and concerts with different ensembles and to go on tours in Switzerland, Belgium, Ukraine, Germany, France and Czech...

Chamber choir “Pectoral” from Kiev House of Teachers was formed in September 1998. The choir brought together young singers most of whom had high music education. Creative power of choir members is aimed at recreation of the best samples of spiritual and folk choir heritage.

In April 2000 the choir “Pectoral” released its first CD with the recordings of diverse Ukrainian music and best samples of the world choir art.

The choir often goes on tour with solo concert programmes and with different choir ensembles such as men’s choir “KLEPPMANNSKOR” from Norway, chamber choir “MUSICAL FEAST” from Moldova, choir LJOMEN, “MANLAMARK MENIHETS MANNSKOR” “SJOK” from Norway, choir NORD NEDERLANDS PROJECT KOOR from the Netherlands.

Chamber choir “Pectoral” had great success while being on tour in Norway, Slovak Republic, Estonia and Moldova. Their concerts got appraisal in mass media.

In 2002 the chamber choir “Pectoral” was awarded by the diploma...

The early music ensemble Bornus Consort was established in 1981 by Marcin Bornus-Szczycinski on the commission of dr. Ewa Obniska, director of Classical and Early Music Department of Polish Radio Channel 2. The long-term project’s aim was to reconstruct and record the music preserved in the Manuscripts of the Rorantists of the Wawel Cathedral. The archives included a repertoire of the Europe-famous Rorantists’ capella, founded by King Sigismund I in 1541.

Bornus Consort were the first one in Poland to undertake an attempt to reconstruct the sound qualities of the small male ensemble according to generally accepted rule of keeping as close as possible to the original way of performing the early works. For many years the group’s main specialisation was Polish 16-17th-century music supplemented with Dutch polyphony, French chansons, Italian and English madrigals as well as contemporary pieces.

Recordings of the ensemble were thrice nominated for the prestigious award Fryderyk. Their...

Graduated in 1985 from the Music Academy in Gda?sk in the organ class of prof. Leon Bator and up from 1985 is teaching there, now as the professor of the organ class. He also teaches in a secondary schools. He had continued his studies in master classes in Poland and abroad.

He is a chief organist in the cathedral in Gda?sk Oliwa and a counselor of the President of the Gdansk City in a band of organ. He is managing director of the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra (with it’s new seat Gdansk’s Congress-Music Centre; www.filharmonia.gda.pl), the President of Society „Musica Sacra” and Society of Friends of the Cathedral in Gda?sk Oliwa. He contributed to arise new instruments in Gda?sk and in it’s neighbourhood.

Prof. Roman Perucki is the manager of the oldest in Poland, the International Organ Music in the Cathedral in Oliwa and International J.P. Sweelinck Competition in Gda?sk, as well as other international organ-music cycles (in Gda?sk, Frombork, Jastarnia, Stegna, Rumia,...