Santa Barbara Music Club 2024-25 Season Premier Concert October19, 2024

The Santa Barbara Music Club celebrates its fifty-fifth season of serving the greater Santa Barbara community with free monthly concerts, Saturdays at 3:00.  Our opening concert will be performed at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 4575 Auhay Dr., Santa Barbara, on October 19 at 3:00 and will feature pianists Myroslava Kisilevitch and Natasha Kislenko performing a program that includes a variety of European compositions of the nineteenth century. Admission free.

The program will consist of Franz Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor D. 940, Op. Post. 103, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “October, Autumn Song,” from The Seasons, Op. 37a, Cecile Chaminade’s Thème Varié in A Major, Op. 89, Maurice Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye, M. 60, and  M. Lysenko’s Taras Bulba: “Overture” (arranged by Levko Revutsky).  Through the genres of Fantasy and Variations, through the fairy tale characters, composers take us on a journey of transformation from light to dark, from turmoil to peace.

Our performers: Myroslava Kisilevitch, pianist, was born in Ukraine into a family of professional musicians. She earned MM and DMA degrees from both the Lviv Higher State Music Academy and the University of Minnesota, and has concertized in Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and the U.S. She has received critical acclaim for her large and varied repertoire, including many works of prominent Ukrainian composers. Miroslava was invited to perform chamber recitals on the Smithsonian Institute Recital Series by the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, DC, and in Chicago in a concert sponsored by the Ukrainian Museum of Chicago.

Natasha Kislenko, pianist, was born in Moscow and holds graduate degrees from the Moscow Tschaikowsky Conservatory and Southern Methodist University (TX).  She earned her DMA degree from Stony Brook University (NY). She has concertized in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Turkey and the U. S., and has been prizewinner in piano competitions in both Europe and the U.S. Collaborative faculty member at the Music Academy of the West since 2004

and Principal Keyboard with the Santa Barbara Symphony since 2010, Dr. Kislenko is currently a Lecturer in the UCSB Department of Music.

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This and all concerts offered by the Santa Barbara Music Club are open to the public with free admission.  For more information about this concert as well as future and past concerts, see our website www.SBMusicClub.org

The mission of the Santa Barbara Music Club is to contribute to the musical life of our community through the following:

• Presentation of an annual series of concerts, free to the public, featuring outstanding performances by Performing Members and invited guests;
• Presentation of community outreach activities, including bringing great music to residents of area retirement homes;
• Aiding and encouraging musical education by the disbursement of scholarships to talented music students whose permanent address is in Santa Barbara County.

For more information about programs, to join, or to donate, please visit our website, http://sbmusicclub.org.