Emerging Voices: Ukrainian Composer. Antonii Baryshevskyi is a jury member of the special project at the Gaudeamus Festival 2026

Gaudeamus, Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, and the Ukrainian Institute in The Netherlands team up for a special project to be presented at the Gaudeamus Festival 2026. We would like to give the opportunity to an emerging Ukrainian composer to write a new composition for the IEMA-Ensemble, to be presented in the Gaudeamus Festival 2026.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2026, 12 pm CEST (Amsterdam GMT).

You will hear whether your piece has been chosen via a personal reply by email on Friday, May 1, 2026.

Jury

Jury members will be: Dietmar Wiesner and Rainer Römer (IEMA-Ensemble), Antonii Baryshevskyi and Liubov Morozova (on behalf of the Ukrainian Institute in the Netherlands), and curator Jonás Bisquert (Gaudeamus). Jury selection is irrevocable.

More information here.

TO ALL ALIVE CD review

Thank you,dear Ondrej Vesely for the amazing review on our album TO ALL ALIVE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12sdf5l7XSI

"....Au vent sur la pointe des pieds (On tiptoe in the wind) literally "flies" across the keyboard in chromatically teeming motifs. The aesthetics of expression in this part is more contemporary and tense, but does not lose its communicativeness. An even greater culmination of tension is brought by the final part To All Resurrected, in which the original signal motif escalates into a fascinating multi-layered counterpoint. Both marginal parts of the cycle are the bearer of vehemently tense music, where Baryshevskyi leaves his whole soul, as if he plays it with superhuman energy, acquired at the cost of a pact with the devil.

However, what brought me the greatest joy was the way Shalygin works with simple, straightforward motifs. He finds inspiration in means that most would overlook. Moreover, he manages to process them in such a way that they sound extremely contemporary and expressively up-to-date. The entire project is the result of a long-standing friendship and artistic journey of two artists who, in a time of war and personal upheaval, transformed their experience into music, full of unyielding beauty, hope and strength. If you find the time and a moment of concentration, you will beautifully lose yourself in this recording.

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(SPLEN)DOOR TO UKRAINE: A Guide to Ukrainian Music

Season 4 of a series of chamber concerts and contemporary/electronic experimental music. The aim of organising this series is to introduce the Dutch public to the hidden gems of Ukrainian music from the second half of the 20th century and to enter into the artistic context of Ukraine at that time.

Antonii Baryshevsky, the Ukrainian pianist and curator of this series, will perform the music.

Ihor Sukhorukov, a Ukrainian culture enthusiast, will help explore the music's context.

28th September – Ukrainian Cinema club: Glyadelov. Focus on infinity

19th October – Ukrainian cinema club. La Paliciada

9th November - SILENT DIALOGUE. Early Ukrainian & Dutch Animation 1920–1930s

25th November – Chamber music concert. NotaBene Chamber Group

30th November – Chamber music concert. Écoute! – Écoute! – C’est moi..!

18th, 20th December – Ukrainian cinema club. YOU ARE THE COSMOS by Pavlo Ostrikov.

28th December – Chamber music concert. Carol of the bells.

25th January – Ukrainian cinema club. Pamfir by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk.

24th February – Ukrainian cinema club. My Dear Theo. Documentary by Alisa Kovalenko (2022)

28th February – Chamber music concert. WILL REMAIN Music by Ukrainian composers for panflute and piano. Taras Berchtold, panflute; Anastasiia Bohodysta, piano

6th March – TBA

12th March – NOTABENE CHAMBER GROUP. Beethoven| Liatoshynsky | Silvestrov | Shchetynsky

16th March – Improv set. Antonii Baryshevskyi and Albert Saprykin.

25th March – Ukrainian cinema club. Women's voices

5th April – Ukrainian cinema club. The mousetrap by Serhii Kastornykh

7th April – Chamber music concert. INNER LANDSCAPES

Sonatas and miniatures for cello and piano. Denys Karachevtsev, cello and Darya Dadykina, piano.

26th April – Piano Recital. Svyatoslav Lunyov. Portrait of the composer. Antonii Baryshevskyi, piano

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Highlights from the third edition of the (SPLEN)DOOR TO UKRAINE: A Guide to Ukrainian Music series.

1st, 6th May – Experimental. VESNYANKY [SPRING SONGS]. – Ukrainian folk songs reimagined by an electroacoustic ensemble. Maryana Golovchenko (voice), Oksana Mukosii (viola), Vladyslav Petryk (clarinet), Anna Antipova (violin, electronics), Antonii Baryshevskyi (piano, synth)

25 May – Cinema. Me and Felix/ Rock. Paper. Grenade (2022) by Iryna Tsikyk. Watch trailer here.

1st June – Classic. Contemporary Ukrainian virtuosity in a context – New solo violin works that redefine the meaning of virtuosity today performed by violinist Orest Smovzh.

20th July – Cinema. Ukrainian New Wave. Short films. Before dawn. A screening of contemporary Ukrainian short films, curated by the Dovzhenko Centre. Watch trailer here

30th July – Chamber music concert. Beethoven, Silvestrov, Stankovych, Ravel –

Chamber music recital by Queen Elisabeth Competition laureate Dmytro Udovychenko and pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tuqjUnDkbw

More about previous edition No.2 and edition No. 1