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 .