Ukrinform’s national rating ‘Infoboom-Classical Music 2024’ announces winners

This is reported by Ukrinform.

“Ukrinform's national rating ‘Infoboom-Classical Music 2024’ is being held for the first time, and the agency plans to make it an annual event to cover the landscape of Ukrainian classical music, support the industry and musicians during the full-scale war, and create a musical ‘guide’ for audiences,” said Liubov Baziv, the head of the rating's organizing committee.

The said that the experts chose the winners in 12 nominations. In one nomination, there were even two winners, she noted.

Thus, according to the experts, the winners are:

in the nomination “Best Classical Music Festival of 2024” – Kyiv Baroque Fest 2024;

in the nomination “Best Release of the Year” – Disc “Listen to me, my pele”: Rachynsky / Berezovsky from en era Ukraine and Academia Musica Antigua Leis;

in the nomination “Best Orchestra (Symphony or Chamber) of the Year" – the national ensemble Kyiv Camerata;

in the nomination “Best Performer of the Year” – Bohdana Pivnenko (viin);

in the nomination “Best Choir of the Year” – Lviv Municipal Choir “Homin” and Municipal Chamber Choir “Kyiv”;

in the nomination “Best Musical Performance” – “Dialogues of the Carmelites” by Francis Poulenc from the Lviv National era;

in the nomination “Best Choral Conductor” – Natalia Khmilevska;

in the nomination “Best Symphony Conductor” – Vodymyr Sirenko;

in the nomination “Best Composer” – Ivan Nebesnyi;

in the nomination “Best Producer, Manager, Curator” – creative tandem Ivan Ostapovych/Taras Demko (Lviv);

in the nomination “Best Music Critic” – Maryna Hordienko;

– in the nomination “Best Event of the Year in Classical Music” – “GAIA-24. era del Mondo by Illia Razumeiko and Roman Grygoriv.

As Ukrinform reported, to promote the achievements of various cultural spheres and support artists during the full-scale war, Ukrinform launched annual ratings in 2024: National rating “Infoboom-Cinema”, Kyiv rating “Theater Infoboom” and National rating “Infoboom-Classical Music 2024”. The winners of the movie and theater ratings were announced in December.