Image: Myroslava Kisilevitch and Natasha Kislenko
The Santa Barbara Music Club celebrates its fifty-fifth season of serving the greater Santa Barbara community with free monthly concerts, Saturdays at 3:00. Our opening concert will be performed at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 4575 Auhay Dr., Santa Barbara, on October 19 at 3:00 and will feature pianists Myroslava Kisilevitch and Natasha Kislenko performing a program that includes a variety of European compositions of the nineteenth century.
The program will consist of Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor D. 940, Op. Post. 103, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “October, Autumn Song,” from The Seasons, Op. 37a, Cecile Chaminade’s Thème Varié in A Major, Op. 89, Maurice Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye, M. 60, and M. Lysenko’s Taras Bulba: “Overture” (arranged by Levko Revutsky). Through the genres of Fantasy and Variations, through the fairy tale characters, composers take us on a journey of transformation from light to dark, from turmoil to peace.
Program Details
for piano four-hands (1828)
(1797-1828)
- Allegro molto moderato
- Largo
- Scherzo. Allegro vivace
- Finale. Allegro molto moderato
(from The Seasons, Op. 37a), for piano (1875)
(1840-1893)
(1857-1944)
for piano four-hands (1910)
(1875-1937)
- Pavane de la belle au bois dormant: Lent (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty)
- Petit Poucet: Très modéré (Little Tom Thumb / Hop-o’-My-Thumb)
- Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes: Mouvt de marche
(Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas) - Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête: Mouvt de valse très modéré
(Conversation of Beauty and the Beast) - Le jardin féerique: Lent et grave (The Fairy Garden)
Arranged for piano four-hands by Levko Revutsky
(1842-1912)
The Performers
Myroslava Kisilevitch, piano, was born in Ukraine into a family of professional musicians. She earned MM and DMA Degrees from both the Lviv Higher State Music Academy and the University of Minnesota, and has concertized in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and the U.S. She has received critical acclaim for her large and varied repertoire, including many works of promiment Ukrainian composers. Miroslava was invited to perform chamber recitals on the Smithsonian Institute Recital Series by the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, CD, and in Chicago in a concert sponsored by the Ukrainian Museum of Chicago.
Natasha Kislenko, pianist, was born in Moscow, holds graduate degrees from the Moscow Tschaikowsky Conservatory and Southern Methodist University (TX), and earned her DMA Degree from Stony Brook University (NY). She has concertized in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the U. S., and has been prizewinner in piano competitions in both Europe and the U.S. Collaborative faculty member at the Music Academy of the West since 2004 and Principal Keyboard with the Santa Barbara Symphony since 2010, Dr. Kislenko is currently a Lecturer in the UCSB Department of Music.
