This piece was created after meeting my favourite composer Arvo Pärt in the AP Centre in Laulasmaa, Estonia. There is nothing more to comment - let the music itself express my inspiration and gratitude ♡

Laulasmaa - Ksenia Stetsenko

“Anticipation” for orchestra strings is one of my first music compositions that was performed in concert and recorded professionally. I was 12 when I created it. This piece has an epigraph - the following lines of my favorite modern Ukrainian poet Ivan Malkovych:

Затінок власних дерев
вічно з собою ми носим —
й віримо, що не помрем:
просто прокинемось — осінь.


English translation:
We carry the shadows of our own trees 
with us in eternity,
and we believe we won’t die:
we will simply wake up
and realize that it’s autumn.

Conducted by Bohdan Dashak at the Lviv Philharmonic. 2012.

Очікування / Anticipation - Ksenia Stetsenko

"Ad Fontes" is a cycle of piano miniatures inspired by Ukrainian folk songs. It was premiered in April 2022 in Lviv Organ Hall as a part of the project "Ukrainian Live Classic: https://ukrainianlive.org/young-composers.

Those listeners, whose discovery of Ukrainian folk culture starts with this piece, are invited to listen to it as a way of rethinking heritage. Those who are familiar with Ukrainian music will recognize some glimpses of the melodies of the traditional Hutsulian "Arkan" dance, the Lemko song "Zrodylysia terky", and the famous Ukrainian folk song "Oj chyj to kin' stojit'" that Ksenia Stetsenko honors in the piece through her own style using modern techniques.

This is a studio recording of the composer's performance.

2022

Ad Fontes - Ksenia Stetsenko

У Пошуках Світла / Looking for Light - Ksenia Stetsenko

"Дума Про Дім / The Thought of Home"(2023) is my emotional reflection on the war that Russia has started in my home country, Ukraine. I share this music with the world asking for help - especially arming Ukraine now so it can defend itself -and the West - from it's neighbor's terror before it's too late. We need more than the world's deep concern; We need peace in Europe. Peace means freedom and democracy, not surrender and occupation. I hope that my music will remind others of this message.

Thank you for your support, and thank you for listening.
Ksenia Stetsenko

Ksenia Stetsenko

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