Classical Piano Concert & Ukrainian Christmas Performance

Classical Piano Concert & Ukrainian Christmas Performance

14.12. 2024 

Teater Katapult

Karen Wegeners Gade 8, 8000 Aarhus

18.00-20.00

Price 150,-dkk

Part 1

Musician and theater actor Oleksandr Bondar

Ukraine

Education

National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P. I. Tchaikovsky

Master's Degree, Specialization: Opera Preparation and Music Directing

(Second-year Master's student)

Diploma Thesis: Production of M. V. Lysenko's opera Sappho

Awards and Titles

Laureate of the Kyiv Pectoral Award 2023 for Best Supporting Role.

2024 Scholar of the Kyiv Richard Wagner Society

The program includes works by Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Schumann, and others.

Part 2

Vertep is a traditional Ukrainian Christmas theatrical performance in which a group of people or puppets reenact scenes of Jesus Christ's birth, as well as humorous secular episodes from folk life. A distinctive feature of Vertep is the inclusion of caroling and "shchedruvannya"—participants go from house to house, singing Christmas songs, greeting the hosts, and wishing them happiness, health, prosperity, peace, and a bountiful harvest.

We invite you to enjoy a Christmas story, listen to Christmas songs, and hear the world-famous Shchedryk, the melody of which inspired the song "Carol of the Bells" by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych. The performance will feature a choir ensemble, as well as instrumental renditions on piano, guitar, and domra by theater actors!

Theater "Vilnyi Ptakh"

Christmas performance "Vertep" — Director: Dana Vorona, Kyiv

Singing Ensemble "Spivanochky" — Choral singing, Leader: Olena Pavlenko, Kharkiv

Oleksandr Bondar — Piano accompaniment, Kyiv