Vadim Neselovskyi at Ukrainian Institute Of America

First Set: Solo piano — music from Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City

Neselovskyi will share material from his acclaimed 2022 Sunnyside release Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City, an album that began as a love letter to his father during a terminal struggle with cancer and became, in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, a tribute to Ukraine’s beauty and cultural legacy. Odesa was included in Best of 2022 roundups from The Boston Globe and All Music Guide, and cited in “5 Classical Albums You Should Listen To Right Now” from The New York Times....

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First Set: Solo piano — music from Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City

Neselovskyi will share material from his acclaimed 2022 Sunnyside release Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City, an album that began as a love letter to his father during a terminal struggle with cancer and became, in the wake of Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, a tribute to Ukraine’s beauty and cultural legacy. Odesa was included in Best of 2022 roundups from The Boston Globe and All Music Guide, and cited in “5 Classical Albums You Should Listen To Right Now” from The New York Times.

Second Set: Premiere of a work-in-progress — “Ukrainian Diary” for Piano and String Trio

Neselovskyi will premiere selected movements from a new project, “Ukrainian Diary” for Piano and String Trio, an album-length suite of his reflections on current events in Ukraine starting from the date of invasion: February 24, 2022. The full piece is planned for a late 2023 premiere in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. But New Yorkers will have a chance to hear several movements exclusively. The lineup is Neselovskyi on piano with the Gokse Trio featuring violinist Bengisu Gokse, violist Taisiya Sokolova and cellist Thiago Da Silva.

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