In their first collaboration with Digital in Berlin, the educational and concert platform Kyiv Contemporary Music Days (KCMD) will present, under the umbrella of the Kiezsalon, a three-part program at Villa Elisabeth. 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.
Founded in 2015, KCMD is an educational and concert platform for new music. KCMD produces festivals, concerts, live streams, masterclasses for composers and performers, and lectures for professional musicians and a wider audience. Since February 24, 2022, KCMD has also worked towards the preservation of the Ukrainian music community and advocating for Ukrainian voices to continue to be heard internationally.
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 a piece by a Ukrainian composer alongside an original composition.
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 in 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 synthesiser, an instrument informed from artistic research to improvise polyphony and monophony. Techniques are borrowed from medieval composers and theorists, as well as contemporary analogue synthesis and generative music. His music connects ancient theory such as Providence and Contingency to the technology of the present and the universally sacred.
Our music selectors for the evening are two of our team members, DJs Lo Stine and Glen S, whom you may recognise as familiar faces at Kiezsalon. Hailing from opposite sides of the globe—Mexico and Australia—they meet in the middle, sharing a passion for sonic chaos, playfulness and deep textures.
The Villa Elisabeth is one of Berlin’s protected architectural monuments. Its grandeur and its historical charm – with parquet floor, and stucco-ornamented columns and archways that support the overhanging gallery. The parish hall of the neighbouring St. Elisabeth’s Church was designed by Schinkel and inaugurated in 1907. The grounds of the Villa, including its church park – a green gem in the centre of Berlin – invite you to linger longer, between and after the concerts. We are looking forward to returning to the Villa Elisabeth after our Kiezsalon in August 2021.
