Kiezsalon x KCMD

On 1 November 2024, Kyiv Contemporary Music Days in their first collaboration with Digital in Berlin present a three-part program at Villa Elisabeth under the umbrella of the Kiezsalon. The joint evening introduces the works of Ukrainian musicians and composers to a diverse Berlin audience, and is a pilot for future projects between KCMD and D/B.

The evening will consist of three 30-minute sets by Samuel Stoll, Antonii Baryshevskyi, and Heinali.

Samuel Stoll is a hornist and performer currently based in Berlin. Samuel’s work is surprising, versatile, and fascinating at every turn, incorporating an eclectic repertoire, unencumbered performance installations, and a number of artistic collaborators. Descriptions of some performances include: a man with horns wading through a fountain, a man opening mysterious envelopes as prompted by a disembodied voice, and a dazzling feat of gymnastics between embouchure and mouthpiece.

Samuel will play two specially commissioned pieces by Ukrainian composers Alla Zagaykevych and Boris Loginov.

Antonii Baryshevskyi is a Ukrainian pianist and a first-prize winner of the prestigious Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, “Premio Jaen” and the F. Busoni International Piano Competition.

He gives master classes in Ukraine and abroad, as a guest professor at Davidsbündler Music Academy in The Hague, and is a regular member of the Landesakademie in Ochsenhausen. He graduated from the National Music Academy of Ukraine and École Normale de Musique de Paris where he studied with Professors Valerii Kozlov and Marian Rybicki. He also trained under Alina Sorkina, Ryta Donskaya, and Lily Dorfman.

Oleh Shpudeiko is a composer and sound artist who records as Heinali. In his core practice, Oleh reimagines medieval music with a modular synthesizer, an instrument informed by artistic research to improvise polyphony and monophony. Techniques are borrowed from medieval composers and theorists, as well as contemporary analog synthesis and generative music. His music connects ancient theory such as Providence and Contingency to the technology of the present and the universally sacred.