24/11/2013 Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Sergiy Vilka-flute piccolo
Tihon Shuliak-tuba
Vitaliy Kyianytsia-piano

Galina Ustvolskaya - Composition No. 1. Dona Nobis Pacem (1971)

24/04/15 Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Nazgul Shukaeva-extreme vocal
Dmitriy Pashinskiy-clarinet
Marianna Skrypa-violin
Zhanna Marchinska-cello
Vitaliy Kyianytsia-piano
Mikheil Menabde-conductor

Mathias Spahlinger - Vier Stücke (1975)

4/10/2015 Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Sergiy Vilka-flute
Dmitriy Pashinskiy-clarinet
Andriy Pavlov-violin
Zhanna Marchinska-cello
Vitaliy Kyianytsia-piano
Mikheil Menabde-conductor

Ignacy Zalewski - Entschwebung - Epitaph for Egon Schiele (2012)

31/10/2014 Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Andriy Pavlov-violin
Alexander Makarenko-violin
Natalia Onischuk-viola
Zhanna Marchynska-cello
Vitaliy Kyianytsia-piano
Sergiy Vilka-conductor

Anna Korsun - Isostasie (2011) for piano quintet

24/04/15 Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Sergiy Vilka-flute
Dmitriy Pashinskiy-clarinet
Mariana Skrypa-violin
Zhanna Marchynska-cello
Vitaliy Kyianytsia-piano
Mikheil Menabde-conductor


Ludmila Yurina - Silicon Interferences (2015) WP

31/10/2014 Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Mariya Kiyah-flute
Dmitriy Pashinskiy-clarinet
Andriy Pavlov-violin I
Olexandr Makarenko-violin II
Natalia Onischuk-viola
Zhanna Marchynska-cello
Vitaliy Kyainytsia-piano
Sergiy Vilka-conductor

Sergiy Vilka - Concerto a 8 (2014)

31/05/2015 Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Sergiy Vilka-flute
Andriy Dyomin-clarinet
Mariana Skrypa-violin
Zhanna Marchynska-cello
Vitaliy Kyianytsia-piano
Mikheil Menabde-conductor

Lidia Zielinska -  Rdza (2010) for ensemble and electronics

20/12/2015 Kyiv Contemporary Music Days
Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Sergiy Vilka-flute
Dmitriy Pashinskiy-clarinet
Andriy Pavlov-violin
Zhanna Marchynska-cello
Vitaliy Kyianytsia-piano
Yury Litun-conductor

Sanzhar Baiterekov - Halo (2012) for 5 performers

25/04/2015 "Two days and Two nights of New Music in Odessa"
Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Sergiy Vilka-flute
Mariana Skrypa-violin
Zhanna Marchynska-cello
Vitaliy Kyianytsia-piano
Mikheil Menabde-conductor

Sound engineer - Dmytro Ganush

Tristan Murail -  Feuilles à travers les cloches (1998)

20/12/2015  Kyiv Contemporary Music Days
Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Sergiy Vilka-flute
Dmitriy Pashinskiy-clarinet
Andriy Pavlov-violin
Natalia Onischuk-viola
Zhanna Marchynska-cello
Yury Litun-conductor

Sound engineer - Dmytro Ganush

Sebastian Hilli - Hypha (2014) for ensemble

6/11/2015 Performed by musicians of Sed Contra Ensemble:
Dmitriy Pashinskiy - clarinet
Nazar Stets - double bass

Pascal Dusapin - Laps (1987) for clarinet and double bass

20/12/2015 Kyiv Contemporary Music Days
Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:
Andriy Pavlov - violin
Zhanna Marchynska - cello
Vitaliy Kyianytsia - piano

Emilie Girard-Charest - Épanchements (2014) for piano trio

Performed by musicians of Sed Contra Ensemble:
Andriy Pavlov-violin
Nazar Stets-double bass

Hanna Kulenty - Going Up I (1995) for violin and double bass

6/06/2016 Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble:

Andriy Pavlov - violin I
Mariana Skrypa - violin II
Katherina Suprun - viola
Zhanna Marchynska - cello
Vitaliy Kyianytsia - piano

Morton Feldman - Piano and String Quartet (1985) - excerpt

Performed by Sed Contra Ensemble. 17/04/2016, Youth Music Forum (Kiev, Ukraine)

Vahram Sargsyan - deperson for ensemble (2013)

Sed Contra Ensemble was founded in 2013 by a group of young composers (Sergiy Vilka, Vitaliy Kyianytsia, Andriy Merkhel) from Kyiv, Ukraine. Musicians of Ensemble are postgraduate students from Tchaikovsky National Musical Academy of Ukraine. The priority objective of Ensemble is performing chamber music from the begining of XX century till nowadays, music of young composers, projects of electroacoustic and improvisational music, interdisciplinary projects. Sed Contra Ensemble is a permanent participant of major festivals in Ukraine, such as: "GogolFest", "Kyiv Music Fest", "Kyiv Contemporary Music Days", "Two days and two nights of New Music", "Lviv Hindemith Fest", "Donkult", "Musical season premieres", "FreeFest". Group participated in international projects "The interaction of dance and music" and "EM-Visia" as well as in "Alliance 22" and "Sonor Continuus" projects. Ensemble works with foreign composers and musicians.  Sed Contra Ensemble has actualized around 20 projects of different type and character. From 2015 Sed Contra collaborates with "Pechersk New Theatre" in Kyiv and actively implements interdisciplinary projects with leading artists of young age. Among common projects with theatre the most important are performance "Hesse. Parables" and Laboratory of Music and Theatre "Sound.Voice.Silence". Selected repertoire: Boulez, Murail, Sciarrino, Spahlinger, Ustvolskaya, Hindemith, Przybylski, Saariaho, Ablinger, Zagaykevych, Korsun, Zielinska, Szymanski, Yurina, Shymko, Kyianytsia, Vilka, Merkhel, etc. Email to contact - sedcontra.ens@gmail.com

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