Kiev Chamber Orchestra

KIEV CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Founded in 1963, the Kiev Chamber Orchestra has an honored place among the chamber ensembles of the world. In the past, the orchestra was under the direction of such prominent conductors as Anton Sharoev and Igor Blazkov, both distinguished with the highest artistic awards. The members of the ensemble are accomplished musicians bound together by their discipline and their highest level of musicianship and artistic performance.

Since1990 the Orchestra’s Principal Conductor and Artistic Director is Roman Kofman. The Kiev Chamber Orchestra has made many recordings and appears frequently on radio and television. It has to its credit ten records and seven compact discs. The Orchestra is equally renowned for performances of traditional classical repertoire as well as contemporary works. Such famous soloists as Gidon Kremer, Steven Izerlis, Liana Isakadze, Natalia Gutman, Elisso Virsaladze, Vladymyr Krainev, Alexei Lyubimov, Boris Pertgamenchikov, Misha Maitsky, Ivan Monigheti, Lucia Aliberti, Viktoria Lukyanets have performed with the Kiev Chamber Orchestra. Audiences in Eastern Europe, Korea, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, the United States of America, Japan and Mexico have reacted enthusiastically to the Kiev Chamber Orchestra during its tours in these countries. 

During the Concert Season 2009 – 2010, the Kiev Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Roman Kofman performs all the Mozart’s Symphonies in the Lysenko Concert Hall of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. Most of Mozart’s Symphonies will be performed in Ukraine by first.

The Orchestra has received outstanding reviews in many of the world’s major newspapers:

“Kiev Orchestra, rare delights. Conductor Roman Kofman and his orchestra gave the kind of performance that lives long in one’s memory”
The Washington Post, USA

The stunning virtuosity of soloists-violinists, enthusiasm of powerful sounding of orchestra and analytical control, as well as Roman Kofman’s inspiringly magical conducting led to the totally emotional performance and were subject to comprehensive expression of all value of performed pieces of music completely and wholly”
Neue Westfalische Zeitung, Germany

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