Kyiv Baroque Fest – 2025 Closing Werkstatt

A project by the Youth Music Center in partnership with the National Philharmonic of Ukraine

The festival’s closing event will feature a concert of world premieres, as all the works  to be performed were created during the festival and will come to life for the first time at the Kyiv Baroque Fest – 2025 Finale.

Participants of the “Werkstatt” project, initiated by the Youth Music Center, explored questions such as:
— What might a Ukrainian Renaissance have been like if it had taken place in our history?
— What would its musical dimension sound like?
— Could we imagine it by drawing on related musical traditions?

Over three months, young composers worked on new pieces that construct a possible sound of a Ukrainian rebirth, combining diverse traditions and practices.
Blending electronics and Baroque instruments, folk roots and contemporary compositional techniques,  under the mentorship of German composer Sven-Ingo Koch, the artists explored new sonic worlds.

The result of this collaboration –  five new ensemble works will receive their world premieres in this concert.

Supported by the Goethe-Institut Ukraine