Composer & Pianist Larysa Kuzmenko, Canadian | Contemporary classical Music

ACTIVITIES

Piano Concerto CD Release

Larysa Kuzmenko's Piano Concerto has been released on Centre Discs (Canadian Music Centre), featuring Christina Petrowska and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Memoriam CD Release

In Memoriam to the Victims of Chornobyl has been released on CD, performed by Yaroslav Senyshyn, on the Platon label.

Recent Commissions

New work for the Mississauga Children's Choir entitled "Daffodils", which will be premiered early in 2010
New work for the Cantabile Children's Choir in Kingston, Ontario, entitled "The Owl and the Pussycat"
Ontario Arts Council commission for the Metis Quartet with Orchestra London
Ontario Arts Council commission for the Riverdale Ensemble, was premiered February 5 of 2010.

Feburary 5 of 2010

An all-Kuzmenko concert will be presented by the NYCO Music Festival at Walter Hall in the Edward Johnson Building in Toronto. This will be a benefit concert for the Festival.

January of 2009

Larysa was the Composer In Residence for Memorial University's New Music Festival in St. John's Newfoundland. Several of her works were presented, including "In Search of Eldorado", Suite of Dances, and "In Memoriam to the Victims of Chornobyl."

August of 2008

Dreams for Choir and Piano Trio was presented at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, featuring the Gryphon Trio and the Elmer Iseler Singers, directed by Lydia Adams.

Boosey and Hawkes

Boosey and Hawkes has published several new works, including "Dreams" for Choir and Piano Trio, "Stars", "Wind", and "Night", all for SSA, and "Gaude Virgo Gloriosa" for Woman's Choir and Piano.

MEMORIAM

“Memoriam for the victims of Chornobyl”

Has recently been published by Plangere Publications and is available through them at www.plangere.com. Plangere is also publishing Fantasy for Solo Cello and "In Search of Eldorado" in versions for mezzo soprano and soprano.

LATEST REVIEWS

The Wholenote Magazine

April 1 ~ May 7, 2010

Kuzmenko's Piano Concerto,
Pianist "Christina Petrowska Quilico" on Compact Disc.

“The Work is flamboyantly virtuosic and Petrowska Quilico takes full advantage of the opportunity to rise to the occasion... It is a well-crafted, dramatic work that would be well at home on any mainstream orchestral concert and, deserves to be heard more often.

David Olds (DISCoveries Editor)

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LINKS TO COLLEAGUES

Gary Kulesha - Canadian
Composer, Pianist, & Conductor.

Shauna Rolston - Canadian
Award winning cellist.

Anton Kuerti - Canadian
Critcal Acclaim Pianist.

Christina Petrowska Quilico - Canadian
Critcal Acclaim Pianist.

Joy Kogawa - Canadian
Poet and Novelist,
Awarded the Order of Canada.

Platon Promotions - Management and
recording company dedicated
in promoting performing musicians.