Ukrainian Festival Orchestra

The Ukrainian Festival Orchestra (UFO) grew out of the chamber orchestra Collegium Musicum, founded in 2014 in Lviv, western Ukraine, by conductor Ivan Ostapovych and culture manager Taras Demko. The repertoire of the UFO includes music from the Baroque to the present, but its fundamental aim is to record Ukrainian classical music and popularise it all around the world – a celebration of Ukrainian music that Ivan Ostapovych describes as
‘a festival that lasts forever’. Among the major musicians with whom the UFO has worked are the violinists Noah Bendix-Balgley, Corey Cerovsek, Sergey Ostrovsky and Josef Spaček, pianists Antonii Baryshevskyi, Andrei Gavrilov and Vadym Kholodenko, cellist Jacob Shaw and the violinist-conductors Sigiswald Kuijken and Lev Markiz. Taras Demko is the director of the UFO, Ivan Ostapovych the conductor and artistic director, and Theodore Kuchar the principal guest conductor.
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