KRONOS QUARTET
David Harrington, violin John Sherba, violin Hank Dutt, viola Sunny Yang, cello
Lincoln Center Out of Doors Thursday, July 25, 2013
KRONOS at 40
Mariana Sadovksa / Chernobyl. The Harvest. U. S. premiere
I. Doroha. Дорога( The Road) II. Zhnyva. Жнива( The Harvest) III. Platch. Плач( Lamentation) IV. Rai. Рай( Paradise)
Kronos Quartet with special guest Mariana Sadovska, voice and harmonium
Mariana Sadovska( b. 1972) Chernobyl. The Harvest( 2013)
Born in Lviv, Ukrainian singer, actress and composer Mariana Sadovska crosses all borders in her work, creating her own innovative compositions and arrangements in dialogue with ancient traditions. Archaic midsummer night invocations, wedding songs and emigrant chants from remote villages in rural Ukraine get a singular turn and transmute into contemporary sound, from folk to avant-garde.
Sadovska was trained as a classical pianist at Lviv’ s National Music School, and later joined Les Kurbas Theatre, one of Ukraine’ s leading theater companies. In the 1990s Sadovska worked as a principal actor, composer, and music director with the Teatr Gardzienice in Poland, acclaimed for its virtuoso“ anthropological-experimental” performances rooted in rugged fieldwork in isolated rural areas of the world.
Since 2001 she has been composing vocal music for different international theatre and music ensembles in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and the USA. Her composition SCLAVI – the song of an emigrant with Farm in the Cave of Prague was nominated for the Alfred-Radok Award. The Rusalka Cycle: songs between the worlds toured many festivals like the Giving Voice Festival, Globalize: Cologne in Germany, and Revolutions International Theatre Festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico.