Wed - April 19, 2023, 4:00 pm

Richard Cameron-Wolfe Presented in Ukraine Lecture Series

Richard Cameron-Wolfe Presented in Ukraine Lecture Series

On Wednesday, April 19, Richard Cameron-Wolfe offered a lecture-conversation titled "Artist Responses to War and Social Conflict", during the KharkivMusicFest event series Music between Peace and War the event originating in Kharkiv, Ukraine. During the presentation he cited historical examples from the past hundred years as well as examples from his own compositions - creations referencing not only military war but also social polarization/conflicts between religions, races, men and women, heterosexual/non-binary gender identification, between political parties, and between nations.

Then, on Thursday, April 20 - sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Kharkiv Academy of Culture, and the National Academy of the Arts of Ukraine - the Culture and Information Society of the XXI Century conference presented a lecture by guitarist-scholar Maksym Trianov, postgraduate student at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, titled Guitar Ensemble in the Works of Richard Cameron- Wolfe. Maksym Trianov has been an active participant in the creation of Cameron- Wolfes guitar ensemble works, as both editor and performer: for example, the 2016 cantata Breathless, the 2019 guitar quartet Mirage desprit, and the soon to be ACA-published 2023 sextet Arcturus.

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