Our inaugural concert is centered around two of UMI’s guiding principles: the sounding of Ukrainian voices and the interpersonal connections that music can build.

The program will include songs by Ihor Sonevytsky, Yakiv Stepovy, Kryrylo Stestenko, and Stefania Turkewich, settings texts by Ivan Franko, Oleksandr Oles’, Lesia Ukrainka, Mykola Voron, and Vira Vovk.  The program will also include piano and cello pieces by Mykola Lysenko, Valentyn Silvestrov and Andrii Didorenko, four hand piano music by Theodore Akimenko and Olga Zaitseva-Herz's setting of Taras Shevchenko for voice, cello and piano.