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.
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
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.
