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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Virko Baley: 85th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Institute of America\, Music at the Institute present\nA TRIBUTE TO VIRKO BALEY: An 85th Birthday Celebration\nSeptember 15\, 2024  2:00 PM\nUkrainian Institute of America\n2 E 79th St\,  New York\, NY 10075\nVirko Baley is a Ukrainian-American composer in residence and distinguished professor of music emeritus at the University of Nevada. He serves as co-director of NEON\, an annual composers’ conference at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, and was the Music Director and Conductor of the Nevada Symphony Orchestra from 1980-1995. A recipient of a 2007 Grammy® Award as recording co-producer for TNC Recordings and the prestigious 2008 Academy Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, Baley’s accolades are numerous. \nThroughout his career\, Baley has tirelessly worked to disseminate accurate information about Ukrainian composers in the United States. He was awarded the Shevchenko Prize for Music in 1996 by the Ukrainian government and has authored numerous articles on various musical topics. He has contributed to both the New Grove Opera and the New Grove 2000 Dictionary of Music on the subject of Ukrainian music. Together with Ivan Karabyts\, Baley founded the first international music festival in Ukraine\, the Kyiv Music Fest. He co-produced and composed the music for Yuri Illienko’s film Swan Lake: The Zone\, which won two top prizes at Cannes in 1990\, and for Illienko’s last film\, A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa. He has led the Kyiv Camerata in recordings of over fifteen CDs of orchestral music by composers ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Valentyn Sylvestrov and Yevhen Stankovych\, and has worked with the Shevchenko Opera Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Virko Baley is a former Jacyk Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and a current vice-president of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the US. \nProgram – Music of Virko Baley\nEmily Dickinson Songbook for soprano and piano\nJourney After Loves for baritone and piano\nPersona II\, “Borys Liatoshynsky” for Solo Clarinet (B-Flat Clarinet)\nDreamtime Suite for clarinet\, violin and piano \nPerformed by  \nCorrine Byrne\, soprano\nThomas Meglioranza\, baritone\nReiko Uchida\, piano\nVictoria  Luperi\, clarinet\nSolomiya Ivakhiv\, violin \nAdmission: \nNTSh and UIA Members – free\nnon members: regular admission $35\nstudents/seniors $20 \nBuy Tickets Here
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