Chapel "DUMKA"

A team with almost 100 years of history and wandering soul will give a single concert in the Lviv Organ Hall on September 11.
"DUMKA" is the first letters of the name of the State Ukrainian Wandering Chapel, created on the basis of the choir "Dniprosoyuz" in 1919. For almost one hundred years, the band became the legend of choral music in Ukraine.Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, nominee of the Grammy awar  for the best choir performance. The National Honored Academic Chapel of Ukraine "DUMKA" presents to the whole world the uniqueness of Ukrainian singing. The repertoire of the chapel is extremely wide - from treating folk songs and early samples of Ukrainian choral music to the European Renaissance and symphonic works. Especially the team is proud of being the first, and often the only performer of many works of contemporary Ukrainian composers: Sylvestrov, Stankovych, Skoryk. Some of these works will be heard at the concert on September 11.
At this concert there will be a place for deep reflection, prayer enthusiasm and sincere joy.The evening will begin with the works of Polish composer Henrik Mykola Guretsky. The second block will feature Ukrainian spiritual songs written in the 19-20th centuries: Kyrylo Stetsenko, Mykola Leontovych, Olexander Koshyts, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Yevhen Stankovych, Dmytro Bortnyansky. And in the end, the Ukrainian ritual songs will be performed: Kupala by Stankovych and wedding songs by Zubitsky.