The Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv, newly appointed principal guest conductor of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, has dedicated her forst concert to the Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth, like herself born in the border town of Brody.
Lyniv, 46, is music director of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.
The first opportunity to experience Oksana Lyniv with the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra will be on Sunday, January 12, 2025. To mark the 130th birthday of the Austrian-Jewish writer Joseph Roth, who, like Lyniv, was born in Brody, there will be a literary-musical program entitled “Echoes of Remembrance: Jewish Traces in Brody”. The concert with works by Yevhen Orkin, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Johann Sebastian Bach will take place at 6 pm in the Düsseldorf Synagogue (Paul-Spiegel-Platz 1, 40476 Düsseldorf). Registration at https://jgdus.de/anmeldung/ is necessary.
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