The State Pop Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in short time gains wide popularity not only in Ukraine but abroad as well. The success has come to the orchestra due to self-sacrificing and masterly work of the orchestra musicians and various repertoires that include almost all genres from adaptation of classical works to jazz compositions, from symphonies to smash hits. Musicians with inspiration perform symphony works of Beethoven and Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Dvorjak, Glinka and Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Maler, Gershvin and Brukner, Lyatoshynsky and Bortnyansky, Strauss and Elgar. The group collaborates fruitfully with leading modern composers and talented youth.
Such outstanding conductors as
Dominico Bartolucci, Karlo Fraeze, Paolo Arka, Mario Betta, Pier-Dominic
Ponnel, Alfredo Rugeles, Dvait Bennett have worked with the orchestra.
Famous
performers such as pianists Juzeppe Lalikato,
Borys Petrushansky, Leon Beits, Fabian Biazini, Joy Devis (trumpet),
Elison Eldridge (cello), Katia Richarelli (soprano), Carmen Sen-Saund
(soprano), Ukrainian singers Yevgenia Miroshnychenko, Dmytro Gnatyuk, Lidiya
Zabiliasta have appeared accompanied by the orchestra.
The orchestra has toured a lot;
repeatedly took part at international musical festivals in different countries
of the world. It has recently been permanent participator of the International
Festival “Kyiv Summer music Evenings”.
The Director of the State Pop
Symphony Orchestra is Yuriy Fedorenko, the Honoured Art Worker of Ukraine;
Artistic Director and Principal Conductor is Viktor Zdorenko, People’s Artist
of Ukraine.
Victor Zdorenko (Ukraine)
Victor
Zdorenko was born in 1946, in Kyiv. He got musical education at R.M.Glier Kyiv
State High Musical College and Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire (Opera-Symphony
Conductor’s Department), class of Prof. Gnedash.
On
graduating from the Conservatoire he worked as a conductor in the Conservatoire
opera studio; among premieres there are operas M.Lysenko “Nocturne”, J. Verdi
“Traviata” and others. During 1990-s he worked as Art Director of the National
Philharmonic of Ukraine; has toured a lot, performed with the State Symphony
Orchestra of Ukraine.
Now
Victor Zdorenko is the Art Director and Principal Conductor of the State Pop
Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Under the direction of him the orchestra gains
wide popularity not only in Ukraine but abroad as well. The orchestra has
toured in Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Holland, Lebanon, and Germany. The group
has performed with outstanding musician, among which: Olena Obraztsova, Dmytro
Khvorostovsky, Sergiy Krylov, Volodymyr Krainev, Pavlo Berman. A special page
of Victor Zdorenko’s creative biography is his permanent cooperation with
Ukrainian young performers and composers at concerts of international
festivals: “Kyiv Music Fest” and “Kyiv Summer Music Evenings”.
Victor
Zdorenko, People’s Artist of Ukraine, Professor, is the Head of Opera-Symphony
Conductor’s Department of the P.Tchaikovsky National Music Academy.