Music Imprezas of Ukraine

“Music Imprezas of Ukraine” – 2016, 2017 and 2018 presents a series of various music, theatrical, educational and academic events held annually within the International festival of academic music, a Cherkasy-based creative initiative. Such broad-scale events are traditionally held in big cities possessing the appropriate background: stages and scientific platform of high music institutes, national philharmonic society and national theatre of Ukraine, etc. These include Kyiv autumn “Kyiv Music Fest” and spring “Premiere of the Season”, Lviv “Kontrasty”, Odessa “Two Days and Nights”, Kharkiv “Music Assemblies”. Such artistic events carry on a centuries festival tradition of European cities highlighting serious intellectual music.  Cherkasy, a Ukrainian regional center, is now among them due to its pool of music professionals, talented youth and sufficient number of concert stages. A lot of concerts have been held in Cherkasy Music College named by Hulak-Artemovsky, alma mater of Volodymyr Nesterenko, who was a dean of music science department for many years, and Oleksandr Vynokur, a music science teacher who was the first professional composer of the region. Volodymyr Nesterenko organized composers’ competitions for students, started a singing competition “My granny’s songs”. Oleksandr Vynokur was the founder of individual creative approach in music education aimed at developing students’ creativity. He was a talented composer who left behind a rich heritage of music pieces, poetry, autobiographical essays.