Composer Shchetynsky: “I’ve Coped with the Challenge to Impress American Music Lovers by my Clarinet Concert”

25.06.2010

Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Shchetynsky has just come back from the New Paths in Music festival held in New York. He presented to the audience a new concert written specifically for the festival. “I had a challenge to impress American music lovers by the clarinet concert. It is a vivid, emotional work which has permitted a soloist to show his virtuosity. The audience’s reaction let me understand that the challenge was fulfilled,” the artist says.

It’s not the first time the New Paths in Music festival is organized. This year it was dedicated to the search of talented artists from CIS countries. “American musicians performed works of composers from Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. The organizers deliberately didn’t invite composers from Russia so that the public could understand that there are a lot of talented people from other countries in the territory of the former USSR. It has become a pleasant surprise that they not only identify us as Eastern-European artists, but also know about our composer schools,” Oleksandr Shchetynsky points out. The composer says the participation in the festival let him establish contacts with famous musicians from New York, who will perform his work in one of the American chamber halls in future.

The composer’s trip to the modern classical music festival has become possible due to support of Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Open Ukraine Foundation.

Oleksandr Shchetynsky is a Ukrainian composer. He won six international composers’ contests in Austria, Switzerland, Poland, France and Luxemburg with his orchestra and vocal compositions. Shchetynsky is the author of 100 pieces of art: operas, vocal symphonic and choral compositions as well as chamber ensemble and solo compositions.

The festival website http://www.newpathsinmusic.org/

Personal website http://www.is.svitonline.com/shchetynsky/