Enjoy your summer in the City! Come to BRAC!

Enjoy your summer in the City!

Come to BRAC!

Join us tonight for an engaging evening 

filled with music, culture and conversation.

Classical Pianist Helen Ryba will delight with an 

an intriguing selection of 20th century music.

June 27th at 7PM 

BRONX RIVER SOUNDS:  

June 2019 Performing Arts SeriesContinues....

With Pianist Helen Ryba at on June 27th at 7pm.

Ukrainian classical pianist Helen Ryba, who will offer a program of rarely performed 20th century works for piano  

in our new event space!

Including a composition by Florence Price, the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra.

Ms. Ryba's program will feature Bach's Chaconne in D minor as well as works by lesser-known composers, Viktor Kosenko, Myroslav Skoryk, and Florence Price. The program will be performed on our recently donated Yamaha baby-grand piano.This is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy a selection of rarely performed works by artists whose identity informed their compositional choices. 

Florence Price's life as a black woman in a segregated society found expression in her exploration of the sonata form. Price helped to broaden the definition of what American classical music could represent. Likewise, Kosenko and Skoryk's works helped expand the musical vocabulary to include Ukrainian folk melodies, some of which weave their way through these works and connect us to Ms. Ryba's homeland. 

Ms. Ryba studied at the Mykola Lysenko Music school and Gliere Music College in Kiev, Ukraine. She works as a piano teacher and vocal coach in NJ and NY, focusing on creative and technical skills, ear training, sight reading, as well as music history and theory. An accomplished solo pianist, Ryba's career highlights include the complete Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier and The Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach.

Ms. Ryba will play the following works of music at BRAC:

1.       Bach-Busoni                       Chaconne in D-minor BWV 1004

2.       Viktor Kosenko                 Consolation op. 9

3.       Viktor Kosenko                 Allemande op. 19

4.       Florence Price                   Sonata in E-minor movements I and II.

5.       Myroslav Skoryk               Prelude and Fugue in F-Major

To RSVP go to  

www.bracbx.eventbrite.com

Suggested Donation: 

$10 adults, $5.00 seniors & youth through age18

FREE for currently enrolled Students in BRAC's Education program

Or Pay what you can.

This program is supported in part with City funds by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, including Council members, Ritchie Torres, Andrew Cohen, Andy King, Ruben Diaz Sr. and Mark Gjonaj, as well as BronxCare Health System and individual donors.