FULL A Christmas Tale (Andriy Bondarenko) Kyiv 2025
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: A Christmas Tale
- Composer: Bondarenko Andriy
- Libretto: Elena O'Lear based on Charles Dickens Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Kyiv KPI Culture and Arts Center, Kiev or Kyiv, Ukraine
- Recorded: January 11, 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: Pavlo Struts
- Orchestra:
- Chorus: Khreschatyk Academic Chamber Choir
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Yuriy Panytsia (PanyaRecords)
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Andriy Bondarenko was born in 1978 in Brovary, Kyiv region. At the age of 9 he became the winner of the children’s republican competition of composers. From 1989 to 1996 he studied at the Lysenko State Music School as a pianist. During these years he became a diploma winner of the Marian and Ivanna Kots composers’ competition (Kyiv, 1994) and a diploma winner of the Rachmaninoff competition of young pianists (Tambov, 1996)
In 1996-2000 he studied at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy, majoring in piano (class of Prof. V.O. Kozlov) and composition (class of Prof. I.F. Karabyts). During these years he became a diploma winner of the Horowitz Competition (1997), took master classes: “Technique for Composition” (Macedonia 1999), “Avantgardescwaz” (Austria 2000). Since 2001 – a member of the National Union of Composers of Ukraine.
In 2000-2003 he continued his studies as an assistant-intern at the National Music Academy as a pianist. During this period he received a prize at the international competition “Creating a Chamber Opera on a Biblical Plot” (St. Petersburg, 2003), in 2004 he was a scholarship holder of the “Gaude Polonia” program (Poland), within the framework of which he underwent an internship in Katowice as a composer for six months.
Since 2001, I have been working at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, and in 2006-2011, I taught at the National Academy of Managers of Culture and Arts. During this period, I wrote the first textbook on music informatics in Ukraine.
In 2009, he became one of the founders and the first Chairman of the Board of the Wikimedia Ukraine organization. In 2012, he was the curator of the first competition in Ukraine “Wiki Loves Monuments”. In 2015, he was the deputy chairman of the commission on culture, art and industry education at the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. As of 2020, he made 100,000 edits to the Ukrainian Wikipedia and created more than 6 thousand articles.
In 2011, he launched the project “World Classics in Ukrainian” , aimed at reviving the tradition of performing vocal works by composers of various national schools in Ukrainian translations. Within the framework of the project, in particular, the operas G. Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” (2014, translator – Olena O’Lear), S. Rachmaninov’s “Francesca da Rimini” (2019, translator – Maksym Strikha) were staged for the first time in Ukrainian translations, the vocal competitions “World Classics in Ukrainian” (2017, 2019) were held, several sheet music publications were prepared, etc.