Maxim Kolomiiets WorldFrom the Contemporary and Timeless series
Kyiv Chamber OrchestraNatalia Ponomarchuk, conductorVolodymyr Voit, bandura
Contemporary and Timeless is a project initiated by Dom Master Klass and the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, conceived as a series of author’s concerts by contemporary Ukrainian composers whose works have already become part of the history of Ukrainian musical culture. Today’s program features compositions by the renowned Ukrainian composer and oboist, co-founder of the iconic Ukrainian contemporary music ensemble Nostri Temporis, Maxim Kolomiiets.
“...Endless valleys. Silent snow. It seems I have absorbed all the warmth of this land, leaving no trace, plunging the entire world into eternal cold. I freely glide above the snow-covered valleys, easily rising upward, finding no boundaries anywhere...”These reflections on Over Snow Valleys precisely convey the immersive nature of Maxim Kolomiiets’s music — a world that draws the listener into a space where personal meanings are formed.
The composer offers his own vision of his works. Garden Lost of Dream is a luminous narrative about dreams, desires, and hopes we have lost in recent years. About a plane that never took off. About wings that never spread. About flowers that never bloomed. About children who never grew up. Yet despite the drama and tragedy of our reality, this piece becomes a refuge for everything best and brightest that remains within us, no matter what.
I Saw Your Reflection in the Mirror is one of the first works created after the beginning of the full-scale invasion. “For me, Maxim Kolomiiets’s music for bandura — whether it is the part in the opera Night or I Saw Your Reflection in the River Mirror — speaks of the instrument’s improvisational nature. Of the absence of compositional dictatorship. Of freedom. Of mood. And even of familiar landscapes — impressions born through sound,” says the renowned bandurist Volodymyr Voit, who performs this work at the concert.I Saw Your Reflection in the River Mirror was written specifically for the Kharkiv-style bandura, and the composition subtly conveys the nature of this unique instrument: contrasting dynamics, resonances, and the tension between sound and silence.
This concert presents Maxim Kolomiiets’s oeuvre as a unified artistic world. The cold vastness of winter landscapes, the fragile vulnerability of lost dreams, and deeply personal reflections of contemporary dramatic events mirrored in the soul — each work stands as an independent yet inseparable fragment of this musical universe, where the visible world sheds its boundaries and the distant horizon, despite everything, remains bright.
Programme:Over Snow Valleys
for solo piano
Maxym Shadko

Garden of Lost Dreams for viola and strings
(waiting for confirmation – violist)

I Saw Your Reflection in the Mirror for solo bandura
Voit

Quartet No. 2 (world premiere)
Soloists:
Yurii Stepin
Oleksii Kolesnyk
Andrii Chop
Dmytro Hlushchenko

Mirrors: Black Mirror – White Mirror
for solo bayan, piano, and strings
Soloists: Ihor Saienko, Maxym ShadkoIn partnership with Iryna Budanska and Dom Майстер Клас
Concert host: Tetiana Novytska
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