"Brevis" vocal group (Mukachevo)
"Brevis" vocal group from the city of Mukachevo, transcarpathian region, was formed in 2012 in a picturesque area of unique Ukrainian Carpathians, Middle-aged castles, and peculiar folk style. Brevis is an a cappella group consisting of seven young and talented boys and girls, which also combines in itself the sweetness of sound and harmonic singing, eclectic and refined taste in music, and high professionalism in stage performing...
Accolade Trio (Lviv)
The Accolade trio has united the ardent enthusiasts of the unique instrument in the world - the Ukrainian Bandura, of singing and playing the traditional Ukrainian wind instruments - flute, Pan flute, ocarina, double flute, tylynka, etc. The combination of these instruments, as well as their solo presentations, renders the unforgettable flavour of Ukrainian melodiousness, meditation and playfulness. The Accolade musicians seek to envelop their audience in the tuneful beauty of both folk and classical music, as well as authored pieces. They share a passionate adoration for the art of music and an aspiration to acquaint the widestest audiences with the extremely rich Ukrainian and international musical heritage, to show the high virtuoso possibilities of their instruments, to communicate to their listeners the beauty and richness of Ukrainian vocal and instrumental performing art...
Bandura trio "Malvy" (Cherkasy)
The bandura trio Malvy (Valentyna Zaichenko, Lyudmyla Kvartalyova and Hanna Timchenko) began its creative development in 1992 in the city of Cherkasy, right in the heart of Ukraine...
Bandura trio "Oriana" (Ternopil)
The female bandura player trio “Oriana” is the professional group which has already existed for more than 15 years and during the time of its artistic career is known as one of the well-known group of Ukraine. This group become popular due to tree talented girls. There are virtuosic musicians, owners of the strong and beautiful voices in the faces of Iryna Korolevych (soprano), Iryna Hubiak (mezzo-soprano), Yuliya Rudnytska (alto)...
Cossack ensemble "Varta" (Sloviansk)
The first public performance of the Cossack ensemble "Varta" took place in September 2017. Regular performances and tours brought the success and recognition to the group not only among the fans of Cossack and folk music in Ukraine but also abroad. The band consists of six professional musicians performing both instrumental and vocal compositions with equal skill and giving preference to Cossack songs which reflect the centuries-old history of the Ukrainian Cossacks and the fate of Ukrainian people with extreme force and beauty...
Duo "Pysanka". Oksana Savchuk and Ivan Kavatsyuk (Chernivtsi)
The artistic duo "Pysanka" is acknowledged the pearl of Ukrainian national art, and the singer Oksana Savchuk and cymbalist Ivan Kavatsyuk are admitted patriotic hermits, archaeologists of folk song treasures, who zealously preserve the flavours of the native land, while remaining unique...
Ethnic folk group “Dzherela Karpat” ("The Carpathian Springs") (Lviv)
A strong love of their native and ethnic music at large, an everlasting desire to perfect themselves, an aspiration to promote traditional folk instrument art, have brought together the six virtuoso-musicians well-known and much loved both in Ukraine and in the world into the ethnic folk group "Carpathian Springs"...
Female Vocal Group "Marvinok" (Lviv)
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Marvinok is a female vocal group formed in 2006 in Lviv, the city located in the western Ukraine, at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, which for many years has been one of the cultural centers of Ukraine...
Folk Ensemble “Yaroslavna” (Cherkasy)
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Ensemble “Yaroslavna” started its existence it the very heart of Ukraine – it the marvellous Cossacks’ town Cherkassy, which is situated on the picturesque bank of the Dnieper River. The group consists of five talented musicians who using their mastery and variety of the repertoire captivate audiences’ hearts far from Ukrainian borders. The repertoire of the ensemble is rich and diverse. It includes an enormous spectrum of musical composition both, folk and variety-folk modern sounding. The ensemble performs lyric and playful compositions, ritual songs and Cossack ballads. Genre background of the repertoire includes songs recorded in different districts of Ukraine and also instrumental compositions, solo songs and songs a’capella...
Folklore Ensemble “Ozorniye Naigrishi” (Donetsk)
For more than 30 years the art of folklore ensemble “Ozorniye Naigrishi” from Donetsk has made numerous listeners happy. Founded in 1983, the ensemble is a constant participant of international festivals in Europe. This talented creative team has given multiple concert tours in Russia, Germany, the Netherlands, Cyprus, and they toured over Finland thrice...
Gennady Petrenko’s musical theater (Sloviansk)
The idea to switch to the more entertainment format, – format of the musical theater, belongs to the artistic director of the vocal-choreography ensemble "Kolyada", Gennady Petrenko. The main task of the young collective was to make every performance bright, colorful, to fill it with content and diversity of genres, to link it in one story line. Show to viewer not just only concert, but musical action, where one will be able not only to understand author's intention, but feel characters life at the same level without any words, only with the song lyrics, music, dance and costume's help. And the young performers coped with this creative task...
National Academic Song and Dance Ensemble "Hutsulia" (Ivano-Frankivsk)
The eastern picturesque Carpathians of western Ukraine are inhabited by the Ukrainian highlanders – the Hutsuls, the people who have their own centuries-old, distinctive, bright and very rich culture. The musical culture of the Hutsuls has always been distinguished only by the melodies peculiar to them in terms of character and musical style, which have always mesmerized the listener from the first chords, just like the choreography of Hutsul dances, which enchants its audience from the very first movements. And the Hutsul region itself, a region, located in western Ukraine, in the Carpathians where the Hutsuls live, is a unique and inexhaustible source for research and study of ancient traditions, customs, costumes and art. Therefore, the preservation of the Hutsul music and song and dance heritage of the Carpathian region of Ukraine became the main goal of the foundation of the ensemble, which was named "Hutsulia" and was created in 1939 in the city of Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk)...
Theatre of choreographic miniatures "Artaniya" (Cherkasy)
Theatre of choreographic miniatures "Artaniya" was created in 1997 in the historic motherland of Zaporizhya Cossacks - in central Ukraine in Cherkasy. The creative team of the theater consists of 6 young energetic and talented artists who for the years of theater existance were collecting bit by bit the cultural Cossack heritage and their traditions, to show the full range of Cossack culture from music and songs to dances and rituals not only for the audience in Ukraine, but also abroad...
Ukrainian Folk Theater of Finland (Helsinki)
Ukrainian Folk Theater of Finland was founded in November 2014 in Helsinki by Ukrainian Association in Finland joined with Finnish actor and director of Ukrainian origin Igor Frei, who became the artistic director and chief director of the theater...
Vocal and choreographic ensemble "Kolyada" (Sloviansk)
Vocal and choreographic ensemble "Kolyada" was created just over a year ago in town Sloviansk in the east of Ukraine and at once became a real musical sensation. The repertoire of the ensemble is a folk ritual songs of almost all regions of Ukraine from the Carpathian mountains to the Donbass prairies...
Vocal female group "Nota Neo" (Lutsk)
Vocal female group “Nota Neo” was set up in 2000 in Lutsk, Volyn region – a Ukrainian region that is especially rich in folk authentic singing traditions. That is where the biggest amount of Ukrainian folk songs was collected and preserved...
Vocal septet "Sіmnot" (Cherkasy)
In summer 2012 a group of energetic young musicians-vocalists from Cherkassy decided to create something new in the genre of acapella, something really interesting and extraordinary, intriguing and expressive, international and exclusive. Thereby a vocal septet "Simnot" appeared, which, despite of its young age, has become well-known to Ukrainian audience...
Yurii Ilchuk and ensemble of the sacred music "Kanon"
The ensemble of the sacred music "Kanon" was created in May 1991 in Cherkasy by choral singing enthusiasts, united by fascination with the masterpieces of native sacred musical culture, almost unknown at that time to the general public, and a great desire to convey them to a wide audience...