A piano recital of the famous Ukrainian pianist Antuanetta Mishchenko is dedicated to the work of Viktor Kosenko. The composer’s life is marked by a brilliant career, fame and high appreciation of his contemporaries. Viktor Kosenko succeeded in receiving European musical education and immortalised his name as an unsurpassed lyricist. A brilliant pianist, creator of the cultural life of Zhytomyr and Kyiv, whose work influenced subsequent generations of composers. At the same time, Kosenko lived with the constant fear of being destroyed by the totalitarian machine of communism.
We invite you to a concert of the piano music of one of the most influential figures in the European musical culture of the 20th century Viktor Kosenko.
Soloist: Antuanetta Mishchenko
Program of the concert
Viktor Kosenko
Prelude in E-flat minor from the cycle “Four Preludes for Piano”, No. 1, Op. 2 (1911).
Two poems-legends, Op. 12 (1921).
Dedicated to Anhelina Kosenko.
Two etudes
24 pieces for piano for children, Op. 25 (1936):
Antuanetta Mishchenko
Was born in 1992. She started to play piano at the age of six and played her first grand performance when she was seven.
From 2004 to 2017 she studied with a famous Ukrainian pianist Prof. Valeriy Kozlov. She graduated from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy in 2014 and from Konzert Exam in 2017.
Antuanetta Mishchenko is a laureate of various international competitions. The VІІІ International Competition of Young Pianists in memory of Vladimir Horowitz (V prize), the 1st Piano Island Festival (III prize) and the 4th Krystian Tkaczewski International Piano Competition (II prize) are among them.
Antuanetta took master-classes from different professors, such as Yakov Kasman, Vadim Rudenko, Teresa Dussault, Norma Fisher, Ilya Scheps, Michael Bulychev-Okser, Dmitri Alexeev, Dmitri Bashkirov, Sergei Edelmann, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Piotr Paleczny, Olga Kern, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Krystian Tkaczewski and Yuri Didenko.