Contemporary Music in Odessa: the Festival “Two Days and Two Nights of New Music” in April 2017

Abstract

On April 22–23, 2017 a notable event happened in Odessa, Ukraine, – namely, the contemporary music festival “Two Days and Two Nights of New Music.” This festival has been organized since 1995by composer Karmella Tsepkolenko and her husband Oleksandr Perepelstya, who are directors of the Odessa-based Association for New Music. Every year, for two days in April, the concerts of the festival have started at 4 PM and have continued non-stop until late at night, about 3 or 4 AM, with merely short 15-minute intermissions between each concert. This year the festival “Two Days and Two Nights of New Music” in Odessa once again impressed and dazzled its audiences with its lively assortment of the most varied trends of new music and created a rare artistic environment, which was greatly appreciated by the composers and performers participating in it, as well as for the regular audiences of Odessa and among the guests from other cities and countries, who came to the city to savor the great celebration of new music. Keywords: contemporary music festivals, musical Odessa.