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10.24.06

Contact: Arts at Emory, Nancy Condon, 404-727-1687

From Russia with Love: Ukrainian Organist Koshuba and Pianist Daughter Perform at Emory's Schwartz Center

Not many 14-year-olds get to travel across the globe to perform in concert, but on Nov. 5 at 4 p.m. in the Schwartz Center, Ukrainian concert pianist Viktoriya Koshuba will join her father, Volodymyr, on stage. In this recital, Volodymr performs an organ passacaglia of Dimitri Shostakovich, transcriptions of Tchaikovsky, a work by Borodin, and an organ arrangement of Mussorgsky’s “Great Gate of Kiev!” The program concludes with an organ and piano duet by Alexandre Guilmant, in which the artist is joined by Viktoriya.

Now on his 11th tour of the United States, Volodymyr has a growing international reputation for his musical and artistic performances as a concert organist. He began his career playing the piano, and once served as pianist for the Kiev State Philharmonic Orchestra. He has many credits to his name, including being elected a member of the Italian Music Academy. In 1988 he was awarded the title “Honored Artist" of the Ukraine, and has been named an honorary citizen to Kyoto, Japan. He has served as chief organist at the Kiev Concert Hall since 1981 and performed extensively in Europe, North and South America, and Japan. He currently teaches at the M.M. Lysenko School of Music, where he once studied piano.

Daughter Viktoriya has been studying music since she was five years old, and is touted as one of the top pianists under the age of 20. In 2002 she was awarded the Grand Prix in two international competitions, onein Turino, Italy, the other in Paris. In 2004 she played under the French conductor Jean-Mari LeRoy in Chernovtsy, Ukraine. Viktoriya takes an active part in her father’s concerts in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities, and in 2004 and 2005 she performed with her father in Chicago, Rochester, Pittsburgh and Miami.

Information: 404-727-5050 or www.arts.emory.edu.

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