About Early Music Day
Ukrainian vocal ensemble PARTES (Dir: Natalia Khmilevska)
21 March 2025 - EARLY MUSIC DAY
Concert in the German Church, Old Town, Stockholm
About the Early Music Day 21 March – international day for early music.
Founded in 2013 as an initiative by Peter Pontvik, former president of REMA, and coordinated by the European network REMA (European Early Music Network / European Early Music Network) the EARLY MUSIC DAY is celebrated each year on March 21 – J. S. Bach's birthday and the first day of spring. In 2025 its 13th edition take place under the patronage of the European Commission, being celebrated throughout Europe and also outside of the continent with concerts, seminars and other events, several of which are broadcast locally (i.e. the Swedish Radio in Sweden) through the EBU (European Broadcasting Union). The Early Music Day connects initiatives on a national level in a joint European manifestation that simultaneously highlights local distinguishing features and the common ground of the continent’s musical history.
Information about the Early Music Day events can be found at the following links:
www.earlymusicday.eu
https://www.earlymusicsweden.se/evenemang/emd/
https://www.semf.se/series/early-music-day-2024
MORE INFO about vocal ensemble "Partes":
The ensemble “Partes” of the laboratory “Musica sacra Ukraine Open Opera Ukraine” (Kyiv). is conducted by music director and conductor Natalia Khmilevska.
Lecturer – musicologist, Candidate of the Arts, program director of “Open Opera Ukraine” Anna Hadetska. The ensemble PARTES was founded as a part of the “Musica sacra Ukraina: Partes Dimension” project, founded by Open Opera Ukraine in 2019. The project explores one of the most significant, original and little-studied of Ukrainian music history – polyphonic (partes) Ukrainian singing of the 17th-18th centuries.
“Musica sacra Ukraina” is a platform for the interaction of scientists, musicians, culture managers and curators whose activities in the means of presenting partes contribute to the development of interest and proper attention to this kind of music. The format of the project is a laboratory which is studying a music piece consequently – from processing and decoding the manuscript to its performance (live or recorded).
The concert concept for the 21 March comprises pieces by MYKOLA DYLETSKY, one of the most famous Ukrainian composers of the XVII century in coordination with an ensemble of Swedish Musicians, exploring works by Diletsky’s contemporary GUSTAV DÜBEN. Today the figure of Dyletsky actively represents the musical history of Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, as he studied at the Vilnius Jesuit Academy, worked in Moscow and Smolensk, but, according to his colleague and contemporary, remained "a citizen of Kyiv". Dyletsky's masterpieces have had a significant impact on the development of music both in Ukraine and beyond its borders, and it is probable that at one point they were performed here.
LINKS regarding PARTES:
https://operahouse.od.ua/en/events/ukrainian-barocco/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4N3ecwqYA&t (YouTube)
https://www.openopera.com.ua/partesnij-vimir?lang=en
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