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Join us for A Chanticleer Christmas & National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine
Announcing Two Exciting One-Night-Only Performances
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A CHANTICLEER CHRISTMAS
Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 7:30 pm, Sarasota Opera House
The Grammy Award-winning male ensemble performs a holiday program featuring renaissance, classical and contemporary holiday favorites, from works by Orlando de Lassus and Biebl’s Ave Maria, to O Come All Ye Faithful, White Christmas and more.
The GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.
Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalogue to these commissions, garnering GRAMMY® Awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener’s “Lamentations & Praises”, and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled “Colors of Love”. Chanticleer is the recipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming, and its Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his tenure with Chanticleer.
Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer continues to maintain ambitious programming in its hometown of San Francisco, including a large education and outreach program that recently reached over 8,000 people, and an annual concert series that includes its legendary holiday tradition “A Chanticleer Christmas”.
Chanticleer—a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation—is the current recipient of major grants from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Dunard Fund/USA, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The Bob Ross Foundation, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Chanticleer’s activities as a not-for-profit corporation are supported by its administrative staff and Board of Trustees.
Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 7:30 pm, Sarasota Opera House
The Grammy Award-winning male vocal ensemble, hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, presents a holiday program of Renaissance, classical and gospel choral works.
The GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer has been hailed as “the world’s reigning male chorus” by The New Yorker, and is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over one million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts to audiences around the world.
Chanticleer’s repertoire is rooted in the renaissance, and has continued to expand to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz, popular music, and a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements. The ensemble has committed much of its vast recording catalogue to these commissions, garnering GRAMMY® Awards for its recording of Sir John Tavener’s “Lamentations & Praises”, and the ambitious collection of commissioned works entitled “Colors of Love”. Chanticleer is the recipient of the Dale Warland/Chorus America Commissioning Award and the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming, and its Music Director Emeritus Joseph H. Jennings received the Brazeal Wayne Dennard Award for his contribution to the African-American choral tradition during his tenure with Chanticleer.
Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer continues to maintain ambitious programming in its hometown of San Francisco, including a large education and outreach program that recently reached over 8,000 people, and an annual concert series that includes its legendary holiday tradition “A Chanticleer Christmas”.
Chanticleer—a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation—is the current recipient of major grants from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Dunard Fund/USA, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, The Bob Ross Foundation, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Chanticleer’s activities as a not-for-profit corporation are supported by its administrative staff and Board of Trustees.
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF UKRAINE
Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 7:30 pm, Venice Performing Arts Center
We are honored to bring this extraordinary orchestra to Sarasota. Led by conductor Theodore Kuchar, the concert features Brahms’ Violin Concerto with violinist Vladyslava Luchenko, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World.
The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, headquartered in the medieval city of Lviv, was officially established in 1902 and its first concert took place in the Philharmonic Theater of Count Stanislav Skarbko (presently known as the Ukrainian National Academic Theater of Drama). The Principal Conductor of the orchestra was Ludwik Vitezslav Czelianski (1870-1931).
During its first season, the orchestra performed nearly 115 concerts, and the total number of audience members exceeded 115,000. In 1933, the orchestra became incorporated as the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine . According to the announcements, the “Inaugural” symphony concert of the newly formed orchestra of Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine took place on November 20, 1933 and was led by conductor Adam Soltys.
With the advent of the Soviet regime, the orchestra was led by Isaac Pain, and Lviv conductor and composer Mykola Kolessa was also invited to work with the orchestra. During the German occupation, in 1941-1944, the Philharmonic did not perform, and in the postwar period, the orchestra had to be re-assembled, resuming operations in August 1944.
During subsequent years, the Orchestra was led by various conductors, including Yuriy Lutsiv, Demyan Pelekhatyi, Ivan Yuziuk, Roman Fylypchuk and Yarema Kolessa. Some of the world’s greatest musicians have performed with the orchestra since the 1950s including: Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Dmytro Bashkirov, David and Ihor Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Gidon Kremer, and Natalia Gutman.
Some of the most famous conductors in classical music, including Kirill Kondrashin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Reinhold Gliere, Yevgeni Mravinsky, Kurt Masur, Theodore Kuchar and Mariss Jansons, as well as Ukrainian conductors Stefan Turchak, Fedor Glushchenko, Igor Blazhkov, Roman Kofman, Volodymyr Kozhukhar, Volodymyr Sirenko Viktor Ploskina, Yuriy Yanko and Victoria Zhadko have conducted the Orchestra.
The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine is a regular participant in international festivals, including the International Festival of Musical Art “Virtuosos”, the International Festival of Contemporary Music “Contrasts,” and the Ukrainian-Polish Festival “Discovering Paderewski.”
Since 2018, the orchestra has been collaborating with Theodore Kuchar, an American conductor of Ukrainian origin who is the main guest conductor of the orchestra.
The Orchestra has toured extensively around the world including Poland, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and The People’s Republic of China. During the past several seasons they completed highly-acclaimed recordings for major international labels including Naxos and Brilliant Classics.
Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 7:30 pm, Venice Performing Arts Center
We are honored to bring this extraordinary orchestra to Sarasota. Led by conductor Theodore Kuchar, the concert features Brahms’ Violin Concerto with violinist Vladyslava Luchenko, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World.
The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine, headquartered in the medieval city of Lviv, was officially established in 1902 and its first concert took place in the Philharmonic Theater of Count Stanislav Skarbko (presently known as the Ukrainian National Academic Theater of Drama). The Principal Conductor of the orchestra was Ludwik Vitezslav Czelianski (1870-1931).
During its first season, the orchestra performed nearly 115 concerts, and the total number of audience members exceeded 115,000. In 1933, the orchestra became incorporated as the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine . According to the announcements, the “Inaugural” symphony concert of the newly formed orchestra of Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine took place on November 20, 1933 and was led by conductor Adam Soltys.
With the advent of the Soviet regime, the orchestra was led by Isaac Pain, and Lviv conductor and composer Mykola Kolessa was also invited to work with the orchestra. During the German occupation, in 1941-1944, the Philharmonic did not perform, and in the postwar period, the orchestra had to be re-assembled, resuming operations in August 1944.
During subsequent years, the Orchestra was led by various conductors, including Yuriy Lutsiv, Demyan Pelekhatyi, Ivan Yuziuk, Roman Fylypchuk and Yarema Kolessa. Some of the world’s greatest musicians have performed with the orchestra since the 1950s including: Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, Dmytro Bashkirov, David and Ihor Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Gidon Kremer, and Natalia Gutman.
Some of the most famous conductors in classical music, including Kirill Kondrashin, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Reinhold Gliere, Yevgeni Mravinsky, Kurt Masur, Theodore Kuchar and Mariss Jansons, as well as Ukrainian conductors Stefan Turchak, Fedor Glushchenko, Igor Blazhkov, Roman Kofman, Volodymyr Kozhukhar, Volodymyr Sirenko Viktor Ploskina, Yuriy Yanko and Victoria Zhadko have conducted the Orchestra.
The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine is a regular participant in international festivals, including the International Festival of Musical Art “Virtuosos”, the International Festival of Contemporary Music “Contrasts,” and the Ukrainian-Polish Festival “Discovering Paderewski.”
Since 2018, the orchestra has been collaborating with Theodore Kuchar, an American conductor of Ukrainian origin who is the main guest conductor of the orchestra.
The Orchestra has toured extensively around the world including Poland, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and The People’s Republic of China. During the past several seasons they completed highly-acclaimed recordings for major international labels including Naxos and Brilliant Classics.
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