Anna Stavychenko: The 1991 Project
In the face of a war aiming to erase Ukrainian national identity, preserving Ukrainian music becomes a pillar of resilience and resistance. In this episode of Atelier, Reid Hall’s new podcast, Anna Stavychenko, a tireless advocate, describes her efforts to safeguard Ukrainian musical legacy and provide refuge for displaced talents.
Anna Stavychenko is a musicologist, music critic, and classical music manager. Last year Anna was a Harriman Resident at Reid Hall, and this year her visionary organization, the 1991 Project, is one of the Displaced Artists Initiatives.
Listen to Anna’s curated playlist, an introduction to Ukrainian composers here.
Atelier is produced by the Columbia Global Paris Center, a Columbia University initiative housed at Reid Hall.
A graduate from the National Music Academy of Ukraine, Anna Stavychenko is a musicologist, music critic, and classical music manager. She pursued her PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and the Richard Strauss Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. She is an Executive Director of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of the “Open Music City” Public Initiative, and Chief Executive Officer of the Lyatoshynsky Club, which aims to research, perform, and promote the Ukrainian repertoire of the 20th-21st centuries. Since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, she has also been the curator of special projects of the Sinfonia Varsovia, launched to integrate the Ukrainian repertoire into the programs of this prominent Polish orchestra and create special events for Ukrainian refugees and their children. Stavychenko is also the head of a special mission of the Philharmonie de Paris, designed to provide temporary contracts with French national orchestras to Ukrainian musicians who were forced to leave their homeland because of the war.
