Composer & Pianist Larysa Kuzmenko, Canadian | Contemporary classical Music

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Professional Photos

P.R. Photo

Larysa Kuzmenko - P.R. Photo.

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Portrait

Portrait of Larysa Kuzmenko by Veronica Kvassetskaia Tsyglan

"Lilith" Premiere

Premiere of "Lilith"" at the Jane Mallet Theatre. Left to right: Composer Larysa Kuzmenko, Artist Lilian Broca, & Poet Joy Kogawa.

Larysa & Christina Petrowska Quilico

February 5, 2010 - "In Search of Eldorado" Concert at Walter Hall celebrating the music of Larysa Kuzmenko. Left to right: Composer Larysa Kuzmenko, and Pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico.

Larysa Kuzmenko &
Christopher Plummer

September 22, 2011 - Toronto Symphony Orchestra's 90th season opening concert at Roy Thomson Hall featuring Tchaikovsky's Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture with the world première of Larysa Kuzmenko's "Behold the Night", a piece for children's chorus and orchestra, with text from A Midsummer Night's Dream. The famed Canadian Shakespearean actor Christopher Plummer narrates the text in William Walton's arrangement of Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario. Left to right: Composer Larysa Kuzmenko, and Actor Christopher Plummer.

Larysa Kuzmenko &
Peter & Lara Ounjian

September 22, 2011 - Reception at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel after the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's 90th season opening concert at Roy Thomson Hall featuring Larysa Kuzmenko's world première "Behold the Night", a piece for children's chorus and orchestra, with text from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Left to right: Composer Larysa Kuzmenko, and TSO Conductor Peter Oundjian and daughter Lara Ounjian.

Larysa Kuzmenko
on stage

Canadian Composer Larysa Kuzmenko on stage after the World Première of Behold the Night for Children's Chorus, a TSO commission. (Photo: John Loper)

Audio/Video

Radio Interview

"CBC Radio 2 94.1FM"
Bill Richardson interviews Larysa Kuzmenko about her Score "Behold the Night" for orchestra and children's choir that was premiered for the opening concert of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's 2011-12 season.

Behold The Night

TSO 90th Season Opening Concert
Behold The Night - Composed by Larysa Kuzmenko

OMNI "Kontakt"
TV Interview

"Kontakt" on OMNI TV
Michael Curry interview with Larysa Kuzmenko

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Radio Interview

"Classical 96.3FM" - Bill Anderson interview with
Veronica Kvassetskaia Tsyglan & Larysa Kuzmenko
Visit: The Portrait Society of Canada

Audio Clips

30 - 120 second audio clip samples - composed by Larysa Kuzmenko

Winds

“Winds” by Larysa Kuzmenko

C.C.C. Kei Wai Primary School (Ma Wan) Intermediate Choir Performance in Concert Hall, Shatin Town Hall 26 April 2008 60th Hong Kong School Music Festival Winners' Concert.

Posted by YouTube member enfantdr

Memoriam

“Memoriam for the victims of Chornobyl”
by Larysa Kuzmenko

Piano - Played by Becky t'Mannetje, Grade ARCT.
Posted by YouTube member stmelodies

Mysterious Summer's Night

“Mysterious Summer's Night”
by Larysa Kuzmenko

Piano - Played/Posted by YouTube member lambosuperleggera1

Romance

“Romance”
by Larysa Kuzmenko

Piano - Played by Damyan / Posted by YouTube member nudalman

Suite of Dances
- Not a Jig -

“Suite of Dances” - Not a Jig
by Larysa Kuzmenko

York University Faculty Concert Series, Mark Chambers Rehearsal
Piano - Christina Petrowska Quilico, Cello - Mark Chambers, Violin - Jacques Israelievitch

Personal

Koko - Larysa's newest addition to the family, an Abyssinian cat.

Koko - Larysa's newest additions to the family, an Abyssinian cat.

Trixie & Tara - Larysa's newest additions to the family.

Tara & Trisha - Larysa's newest additions to the family.

Trisha - Larysa's newest addition to the family.

Tasha - Larysa's cat who departed to cat heaven.

Tarot - Larysa's cat who departed to cat heaven

Wolfgang (Wolfy) taking a nap with his teddy bear - Larysa's sister's American Eskimo Toy, named after composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Wolfgang (Wolfy) resting at the cottage - Larysa's sister's American Eskimo Toy, named after composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Poem

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 Globe and Mail

Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011

Behold the Night

“Kuzmenko's new work, Behold the Night, is a two-movement setting of a pair of poems from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: "Over hill, over dale," and "Now the hungry lion roars." Scored for orchestra and children's choir, it's a harmonically conservative work – as charming and colourful as any film score by Danny Elfman or John Williams.

— Colin Eatock

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