New Music in Ukraine: Dina Pysarenko

Born in Donetsk (Ukraine), Dina Pysarenko is a pianist,
accompanist at the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy of Ukraine,
soloist of the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv and a laureate of the Levko
Revutsky Award (2014) as well as the 6th International S.
Prokofiev Competition (Saint-Petersburg, 2013). While still
studying at the Donetsk Specialized Music School for gifted
children, Dina was twice a laureate of the International
Competition in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Kyiv. She graduated
with Honours from Sergey Prokofiev Donetsk State Music Academy in
2009, where she studied with Prof. Lidiya Adamenko. Eager to
embrace various styles in her repertoire, Dina devotes particular
attention to contemporary music: since 2006 she has premiered a
number of pieces by living composers, such as Yevhen Petrychenko,
Serhiy Piliutykov, Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin and Oleksiy
Voytenko, performing at important Ukrainian festivals such as
KyivMusicFest, GogolFEST, Donbas Modern Music Academy, etc.

Together with Ukho Ensemble Kyiv under the baton of Luigi
Gaggero, she has given the Ukrainian premieres of several
important pieces of the 20th and 21st centuries, including À
propos du concert de la semaine dernière by Samuel Andreyev,
...quasi una fantasia... by György Kurtág, Kammerkonzert by
Klaus-Steffen Mahnkopf, and the Piano concerto of György Ligeti.
Dina participated in a conducting masterclass held by maestro
Luigi Gaggero with the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv, making her debut as a
conduc- tor with Intégrales by Edgard Varèse (2016) and Epicycle
by Iannis Xenakis (2018).

Since 2009, Dina Pysarenko has accompanied the class of Prof.
Valeriy Ivko, one of the founders the of Ukrainian domra school.
In the 2013/14 season she was accompanist at the Anatolii
Solovyanenko Donetsk Opera and Ballet Theatre. She has also
participated in three opera productions staged in the National
Opera of Ukraine by Ukho agency and directed by Luigi Gaggero:
Limbus-Limbo by Stefano Gervasoni (2016), Pane, sale, sabbia by
Carmine Emmanuele Cella (2017), and Luci mie traditrici by
Salvatore Sciarrino (2018). This interview was recorded on March
9th, 2022.

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