On November 28, 2023, the concert "Soldier's Songs by Karol Shymanovskyi" performed by the vocal ensemble "Topolia" as part of the students and teachers of the Kropyvnytskyi Music Vocational College, organized jointly with the Museum of Musical Culture named after Karol Szymanowski, was held in the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum.
    At the beginning of the event, Oleksandr Poliachok, director of the Museum of Musical Culture named after Karol Szymanowski, introduced the performers and talked about the idea of holding the concert: "Songs by Karol Szymanowski "To a Girl", "About a Deceived Soldier" and "Embroidered Hank" will be sung by students of the vocal class Pavlo Zadorozhny, Daniil Serhieiev and Maksym Anokhin, who are promising students of the leading singer of our region, Oleksandr Bezai. These songs were performed in Ukraine for the first time this year. The impetus for including them in the pedagogical and concert repertoire was the XXI art festival "Autumn with the music of Karol Szymanowski", in particular, the concert program "Karol Szymanowski: war in the life of an artist". In addition to Kropyvnytskyi, listeners in Cherkasy and Lviv got to know it. And in the hall of the Osmerkin Museum, another song was added to the program - "The First Brigade", which for Poles is one of the symbols of sacrifice and struggle for freedom. Music college teachers Volodymyr Kyselov (tenor) and Svitlana Kontsedalova (piano) will perform the song authored by the head of the military orchestra A. Bzhukhal-Sikorskyi, to the words of two other soldiers-officers. According to the recollections of contemporaries, this song raised the spirits of the soldiers who were going to attack.
    The musical compositions that Karol Szymanowski wrote during the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920, when Poland defended its independence, evoked special emotions in all those present, among whom were students and teachers of the art school named after O.O.Osmerkin, museum scientists, artists and fans of musical art, because the songs of brave soldiers resonate with the current heroic struggle of Ukrainians for the freedom and territorial integrity of their country.
The musical evening was held in the hall of the museum, where the exhibition "Invincible: Portraits of Contemporaries On the Background of War" is on display, in which there are many portraits of Ukrainian soldiers painted by the Kropyvnytskyi artist Olha Kolomiiets in the summer of 2022 in the regional hospital, where they underwent treatment and rehabilitation after injuries. and from where they went to the front again. It became a real symbol for all listeners and performers on the eve of the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is celebrated on December 6.

    On September 27, 2023, a traditional concert of students and teachers of music school No. 1 named after H.G.Neuhaus to the International Day of Music (October 1) and All-Ukrainian Artist's Day (October 8).
    Art is relevant even during the war, because it unites the Ukrainian people in a crucial period of the country's history, which is fighting for its independence and territorial integrity.
    Congratulating all the concert participants and listeners, the director of the music school, Yevheniia Maliavkina, noted that music is exactly the weapon that gives us the impetus to move forward, with the help of music we can convey important information that penetrates people's minds and helps to relax emotionally, motivates to creating a better one, and that we are grateful to our soldiers, thanks to whom we have the opportunity to create, because it is their heroism that gives us the strength to continue our work and believe in the Victory of Ukraine.
    The students of the school, including many who were forced to come to our city of Kropyvnytskyi from Bakhmut, Kherson, and Mariupol due to the war, with their piano, violin, flute, accordion and vocal performances not only charmed the connoisseurs present with their performing skills, but also proved that music raises morale. The concert program included the works of Ukrainian composers Yulii Meitus, Oleksandr Bilash, Volodymyr Chernenko, Oksana Herasymenko and world classics.
    The concert became truly festive thanks to pianists Domenika Dombrovska (teacher of Tetiana Shevchenko) and Maksym Khmara (teacher of Nataliia Yesaulenko), violinist Yelyzaveta Voloshynova (teacher of Tetiana Saprykina, concertmaster of Nataliia Yesaulenko), cellist Illia Sagun (teacher of Yevheniya Maliavkina, concertmaster of Olha Nikolayeva), vocalists Sofiia-Mariia Fannush and Mariia Hladun (teacher Ilona Krytska, concertmaster Nataliia Ukraintseva), flutist Olesia Anipchenko (teacher Ivan Mednikov, concertmaster Olha Nikolaieva), a duet of accordionists consisting of Oleksandr Tatarov and Denys Andrusiak (teacher Nina Holubieva).
    The song of the young musician, finalist of the "X-Faktor" vocal show Dmytro Volkanov with the words "I will draw on paper my native Ukraine without war" by voice teacher Ilona Krytska and guitarist Denys Holubiev caused special emotions in all those present. This became an artistic gift for the artists on the eve of their professional holiday and a symbolic accent of the concert, during which the Kropyvnytskyi artist Nataliia Kornilova painted portraits of young musicians as part of the "Art Studios" museum art project on the theme: "Portraits of contemporaries against the background of war."
    The original visual addition to the musical numbers was a thematic slide show, which was prepared by the organizer of the concert, the head of the piano department, Victoriia Delestianova. And the overall positive mood was created by the host of the concert Viktoriia Kulinich, who with pleasure got acquainted with the exhibition of graphic works of her fellow Mariupol artist Pavlo Ponomarenko "Untold Stories" presented in the museum and left him a poignant review: "With the mention of the city of Mary in Kropyvnytskyi."
    As a sign of gratitude for joint creative cooperation in holding cultural and artistic events with a patriotic theme during the martial law in Ukraine, the director of the museum, Vita Chernova, presented the school team with an Acknowledgment.
    And the musical evening ended with a traditional photo session in the memorial hall, which is decorated with an old grand piano, and near the charming museum building.

    On May 23, 2023, a solo concert was held at the Oleksandr Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum by the 8th-grade student of Music School No. 4 in the city of Kropyvnytskyi, winner of the All-Ukrainian and international music competitions Oleksandra Burlaka "On the Wings of Song".
    The director of the school, Olha Polevina, introduced the talented young singer, noting that the experienced solo singing teacher Svitlana Svyrydova has a unique ability to light stars in the musical sky, because Sasha Burlaka started singing at the age of six, and her charming voice opened up and acquired a vocal sound from children's songs to opera arias precisely under the skillful advice of a mentor who taught her not just to perform music with her voice, but to create a stage image of a song.
    In the musical arsenal of the school graduate, there are fifty victories at music competitions, at three of which she received the grand prize - the International Talent Competition "Home for the Soul" (Kyiv), the International Christmas Olympiad of various art forms "Winter Games 2022" (Ukraine - Poland ) and the All-Ukrainian open competition of performers "Gifted" (Kyiv). Oleksandra also took part in the International Art Competition Formula of Success "Spring Festival 2023" in Vienna (Austria), where she received the1st degree Diploma, and in the innovative project of the Choir School of Music Festival in Support of Peace "Prayer through the Mouth of Children - 2023" in Kropyvnytskyi.
    Oleksandra Burlaka's solo concert became a kind of summing up of her successful studies at a music school, where she mastered not only the art of singing, but also studied piano with teacher Oksana Kozhanova. Her original performance of the piece "The Thunderstorm" by the German composer Friedrich Burgmüller on the old museum grand piano was greeted with special applause by the audience.
    But shouts of "Bravo!" all those present, among whom there were many musicians, noted the vocal skills of the young singer. The program of the concert was composed in such a way that Oleksandra fully demonstrated the range of possibilities of her charming voice, performing with her accompanist Olena Maglevanova the songs "I love spring" by Volodymyr Kostenko to the words of Volodymyr Sosiura, "The wind howls along the forest" by Petro Hlushkov to the poem by Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian folk song "Gandzia" arranged by Fedir Nadenenko, as well as classical works - an aria from the opera "Zaporozhets across the Danube" by Semen Gulak-Artemovsky, which is, by the way, the first work of this genre with a libretto in Ukrainian, and Barbarina's aria from the opera " The Marriage of Figaro" by the brilliant Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A pleasant surprise was the performance of musical compositions in a duet with the teacher Svitlana Svyrydova, who was the host of the concert of her successful student. Vera Drobotenko's song "Cradle of the Future" and the humorous vocal piece "Cat Duet", the author of which is traditionally considered to be the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, did not leave anyone indifferent, and the loud applause was confirmation of that. And at the end of the concert, with gratitude to the Ukrainian soldiers-defenders who defend our land and give the youth the opportunity to study, Oleksandra Burlaka movingly performed the song "I will pray for Ukraine" by the contemporary singer Zoriana Roschuk.
    The young vocalist Oleksandra Burlaka was congratulated with the solo concert by the teacher of vocal and choral disciplines of the children's art school of the city of Kropyvnytskyi, Viktoriia Fidria, and the director of the O.O.Osmerkin Memorial Art Museum, Vita Chernova, who sincerely wished her the successful implementation of her life plans and musical projects.
    A photo session of the concert participants near the museum grand piano was also traditional, the director of the music school, Olha Polevina, couldn't resist touching the keys of it, performing her favorite melodies on the ancient instrument "Bluthner", which for almost one hundred and twenty years has been filling harmony with its velvety sound and instilling confidence in the undeniable victory of art.
    You can watch the video recording of Oleksandra Burlaka's solo concert "On the wings of a song" at https://youtu.be/8_jsK9eZAAY

    On March 29, 2023, a concert of violin music "Return" performed by female students of the Kropyvnytskyi Music Vocational College, organized jointly with the Karol Szymanowski Museum of Musical Culture, took place in the Oleksandr Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum.
    As the teacher of the college concertmaster Svitlana Kontsedalova noted, the name of the concert is symbolic, because it is not only the return of traditional student concerts in the museum, the arrangement of which was prevented first by quarantine, and then by war, it is also the return of all of us to ourselves, because overcoming suffering, pain and losses, rethinking the history and cultural traditions of the people, we are building a new consciousness, full of values of free citizens of an independent country. And the reproduction of the painting "Ukrainian Lyrical" from the collection of the Oleksandr Osmerkin museum with the image of an angel playing the violin, presented on the poster of the concert, is a return of the name and a tribute to the memory of its author, the Honored Artist of Ukraine Andriy Nadezhdin, who suddenly passed away last fall, after all many joint art projects were created with him, the presentations of which always took place in the museum.
    Therefore, the first performed work was "Nocturne in C sharp minor" by Frederic Chopin, it is also called posthumous, because it was published many years after the death of the composer. It was this nocturne that saved the life of the pianist Natalia Karp during the Holocaust in the concentration camp, whose commandant was so moved by her performance that he spared the musician and her sister, by the way, this very story was reproduced in an episode of the famous film by Steven Spielberg "Schindler's List".
    First-year student Kateryna Chitadze also impressed everyone present with her emotional violin playing of not only the nocturne, but also the Variations on a theme from Gioacchino Rosinni's opera "Moses" by Niccolò Paganini, the peculiarity of which is that they are performed on the same 4th string. Nataliya Karaban, teacher of the violin class at the Music College, told about this and many other interesting moments from the lives of the composers during the concert before the performances of her students, each of whom performed two works. An experienced teacher who has trained many students who, after graduating from the leading music academies in Ukraine, have become successful musicians, noted that nowadays young violinists have to study in rather harsh circumstances, but they enthusiastically and inspiredly master playing the magical instrument both remotely and under the cover of air alert time. The listeners were convinced of this during the performance of the second-year student Polina Lisovol "Rondo in G major" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Fritz Kreisler and "Andante from Concerto No. 7" by the Belgian composer Charles Auguste Beriot. Special applause was caused by the third-year student Alisa Belsh, who masterfully performed "Six Romanian Dances" by the Hungarian composer and musicologist-folklorist Bel Bartok and "Elegy" by the Hero of Ukraine by the People's Artist of Ukraine Myroslav Skoryk.
    For many of us, music is not only an aesthetic need, but also a source of spiritual resource. Therefore, during the war, when thoughts and emotions overwhelm each of us, classical music concerts become a kind of psychological medicine, especially for those who find themselves in difficult life conditions. This is not the first concert at the museum under martial law. In the memorial hall of the museum, a kind of musical living room, only the old grand piano "Bluthner" remained from the permanent exhibition, which with its venerable age of almost one hundred and twenty years courageously and steadfastly proves that art always wins and the proof of this is the art exhibition "INVINCIBLE" with portraits of contemporaries against the background of war - fighters and volunteers, rescuers and doctors, policemen and cadets, journalists and writers, musicians and artists, talented students, who are actually a generalized image of modern Ukrainians, burned by war, but indomitable and invincible in the fight for the territorial integrity and future of Ukraine. And the concert was traditionally a charity one, and the organizers transferred all the collected funds to the support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because, as one of the listeners, Mrs. Nataliya, who came to our city from Kramatorsk with her daughter Olenka, noted, it is precisely thanks to our defenders, who are now on front, music can be heard freely in Kropyvnytskyi and other cities of Ukraine.

    On October 17, 2022, a solo concert by Lviv pianist Yevhen Romanov took place in the O.O. Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum as part of the 20th Karol Szymanowski Art Festival in the small homeland of the composer "Autumn with the music of Karol Szymanowski", dedicated to the 140th anniversary of the birth of the world-famous Polish musician, whose childhood and youth were spent in Yelysavethrad (now Kropyvnytskyi).
    Oleksandr Polyachok, director of the Museum of Musical Culture named after Karol Szymanowski, who is the artistic director of the festival, greeted all those present and introduced Yevhen Romanov, a graduate of Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko.
    The program of the concert consisted not only the works by Karol Szymanowski, but also by talented Ukrainian composers - Yuzef Kofler, Vasyl Barvinskyi, Tadei Mayerskyi, Borys Lyatoshynskyi and Mykola Lysenko.
    The host of the concert was the teacher of the Kropyvnytskyi Music Vocational College, musicologist Olena Iievska, who interestingly told about the dramatic events in the life of prominent Lviv musicians and the peculiarities of their work - avant-garde composer Joseph Kofler, who died during the Holocaust, victims of Soviet totalitarianism Vasyl Barvinskyi and Tadei Mayerskyi, who was also persecuted by the Soviet authorities.
    Everyone present was especially impressed by the premiere performance of Josef Kofler's "Sonatina" and the refined sound with impressionistic colors of Vasyl Barvinskyi's "Prelude No. 2". With generous applause, the audience thanked pianist Yevgeny Romanov for his emotional reproduction of Borys Lyatoshynskyi's "Five Preludes", Tadei Mayerskyi's "Three Expressions" and Karol Szymanowski "Etudes No. 2 and No. 3" on the antique museum grand piano. And the musical evening ended with a brilliant performance of "Concert Polonaise No. 2" by Mykola Lysenko.
    The participants of the "Autumn with Karol Szymanowski" festival expressed their deep gratitude to the museum staff for the many years of creative cooperation, because the museum's memorial hall quite often features exclusive programs of concerts, during which listeners get to know music that is new to them.

    On September 30, 2022, a traditional concert of the creative team of music school No. 1 named after H.G. Neuhaus was held in the O.O. Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum dedicated to the International Day of Music - a holiday that is annually celebrated on October 1 at the initiative of the International Music Council under UNESCO.
    The martial law in the country and the fact that the museum exhibition was temporarily dismantled, and that the concert was twice interrupted by an "air alarm" siren, did not prevent the organizers from giving all those present positive emotions. It was not for nothing that the host of the concert, school teacher Viktoria Kulinich, who was brought to the city of Kropyvnytskyi from the heroic Mariupol by terrible events, noted: "Music is exactly the weapon that gives us the impetus to move forward. With the help of music, we can convey important information that penetrates into people's minds. It helps to relax emotionally, motivates to create something better, helps to become stronger and more stable."
    By playing the piano, violin, flute, guitar and accordion, as well as vocal performances, the teachers of the music school created an extremely harmonious atmosphere, which gave all listeners the opportunity not only to enjoy melodious compositions, but also to be filled with optimism and faith in victory. After all, the program of the concert consisted of musical works by famous Ukrainian composers - "Melody" by the Hero of Ukraine, People's Artist of Ukraine Myroslav Skoryk, "Rondo-Imprompt" by Yuriy Shchurovsky, "Kolomyika" by Mykola Koless, "The City Wakes Up" by Yuriy Shynkarenko and a song by Mykola Vedmedera to the words of Halyna Klok "There is no Ukraine without viburnum".
    The director of the music school Yevgenia Malyavkina congratulated all the participants of the concert and the listeners, noting that music always helps to think about the beautiful, love, appreciate and enjoy life, especially today, when the entire Ukrainian people stood up to protect their country.
    The director of the museum, Vita Chernova, thanked the staff of the music school for joint creative cooperation, noting that such artistic events as openings, concerts, theater performances are a real emotional healing not only for artists, because they give them a sense of necessity and importance, but also for all listeners and viewers who respect Ukrainian culture, its traditions and heroic history, and that no military aggression will be able to defeat the Ukrainian people, who are full representatives of high European culture.

    On August 3, 2022, a concert "Music on the Background of War" by a graduate student and graduate of the Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko, organized jointly with the Karol Shymanovsky Museum of Musical Culture, was held at the Oleksandr Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum.
    Laureates of all-Ukrainian and international music competitions, violinist Maria Polyachok and pianist Yevhen Romanov, performed the works of world-famous Ukrainian composers - "Romance for Violin and Piano" by Mykola Lysenko, the author of the music for the hymn "Prayer for Ukraine", "Five Preludes" by one of the founders of modernism and expressionism in the Ukrainian classical music of Borys Lyatoshynskyi, the "Expression" of the Lviv pianist and teacher Tadei Mayerskyi, who in the 1930s became interested in the innovative composer's dodecaphonic technique and tested its application in his works, and who in 1948 the totalitarian communist regime counted among the "formalists" and his work was sharply criticized, the same fate, by the way, befell the artist, painting professor Oleksandr Osmerkin at that time. During the concert, the works of European authors were also performed - "Grafe and fugue from the 2nd sonata for solo violin" by the German composer, the classics of musical art by Johann Sebastian Bach and "Concerto for violin with orchestra. The first part" of the British composer, the founder of the English composer school of the 20th century, Benjamin Britten.
    All those present were fascinated by the perfection of the sound of the works of talented musicians from the Baroque era to modern times. Among the audience of the concert there were many teachers of the Kropyvnytskyi College of Music, because Maria Polyachok is a graduate of this educational institution. Performing in one's hometown is always responsible and exciting. But Maria was not disturbed even by the fact that during the rehearsal on the eve of the concert, her favorite bow cracked and she had to urgently adapt to a new one. The violinist, as usual, pleasantly impressed everyone with her playing on an amazing instrument, and it was she who received the loudest applause.
    The host of the concert was Oleksandr Polyachok, director of the Karol Shymanovsky Museum of Musical Culture, who not only introduced the performers, but also talked about interesting facts from the life and work of the composers, most of whom learned about the terrible events of the First and Second World Wars, and about what their works , which were performed by young musicians, are especially consonant with the realities of the modern struggle of the Ukrainian people for freedom and territorial integrity. It was not for nothing that pianist Yevhen Romanov noted that the musical compositions he performed on the old museum grand piano reflect human thoughts, emotions, experiences, and hopes, because they were created with the soul, which means they instill in all of us faith in the invincible Ukrainian spirit.
     The concert was for charity, the organizers transferred all collected funds to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

    On June 24, 2022, a solo concert of the 7th-grade student of the piano music school No. 3 of the city of Kropyvnytskyi, laureate of the All-Ukrainian and international music competitions Kyryl Fedoseev, organized by his teacher Iryna Ivanova, was held in the O.O.Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum.
    For the second time, the talented young pianist demonstrated his ability to play the piano on an old museum grand piano to fans of musical art. He performed a new concert program, which consisted of the works of the classics of European music Johann-Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frederic Chopin, as well as Ukrainian composers Serhiy Bortkevych, whose name was kept silent for many years for political reasons and only in 2000 began to gain recognition in Ukraine thanks to the supporter of his work, Mykola Sukach - Honored Worker of Arts of Ukraine, artistic director and chief conductor of the Chernihiv Academic Symphony Orchestra "Philharmonia", and Viktor Kosenko, whose works are included in the golden fund of Ukrainian piano music, and his name is Zhytomyrskyi music college.
    Iryna Ivanova, the deputy director of educational work at music school No. 3 in the city of Kropyvnytskyi, who is a piano teacher, talked about the new achievements of her student during the past academic year, his victories at various music competitions held in various formats both online and and live.
    Among the listeners of the concert, in addition to teachers of the piano class of city music schools, there were also cadets of the Donetsk State University of Internal Affairs, which moved from Mariupol to Kropyvnytskyi. Future lawyers visited the museum for the first time and were fascinated by the artistic performance, so they actively responded to the musical performance of Kirill Fedoseev with loud applause and shouts of "Bravo!"
    Yevgenia Malyavkina, the director of Heinrich Neuhaus Music School No. 1, sincerely wished Kirill Fedoseev new creative heights, because it was in this educational institution that he got to know the piano for the first time. Words of gratitude were also addressed to the young pianist's parents, who support him in his studies and competitive performances.
    And the event ended with a traditional photo session and creative communication in the memorial hall of the museum. And as Iryna Ivanova noted: "With faith in the Victory of Ukraine, we all expect the restoration of the museum exhibition with paintings by Oleksandr Osmerkin and an ancient lantern that enchants visitors with its shimmering shine.

    On May 27, 2022, a solo concert by Kateryna Misko, a 3rd-year violin student of the Kropyvnytskyi Music Vocational College, was held in the O.O. Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum.
    In the memorial hall of the museum - a kind of musical living room, the decoration of which is now only an old grand piano, since the exposition was temporarily dismantled due to the state of war in the country, the young violinist Kateryna Misko, together with concertmaster Svitlana Koncedalova, performed the works of one of the creators of world music classics by the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and the outstanding representative of the "golden age" of Finnish art, composer Jan Sibelius.
    As Nataliya Karaban, a music college teacher of the violin class, noted at the beginning of the concert performance: "Katya Misko is a laureate and winner of numerous all-Ukrainian and international music competitions and festivals. With her solo concert, she supports the performance of Ukrainian musicians at the Jan Sibelius International Violin Competition, which is currently being held in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. It is noteworthy that academic violinists under the age of 30 participate in this competition, and in the first round they usually perform a piece by J.S.Bach."
    Concert listeners, among whom there were also those who had to come to our city from Kharkiv, enthusiastically accepted the performance of the violinist, who already masterfully masters her favorite instrument, but plans to continue her studies at the music academy after graduating from college.
    At the end of the musical meeting, there was loud applause and flowers from fans of musical art and sincere congratulations from the director of music school No. 1 named after Heinrich Neuhaus to Yevgenia Malyavkina, who told about interesting moments from the student life and successful studies of Kateryna Misko at this school and about her solo concert at the Oleksandr Osmerkin museum a few years ago. Special words of gratitude were expressed by the director of the museum, Vita Chernova: "This is the first concert in the museum under martial law. Ukrainian youth are talented, and most importantly, patriotic and brave, who, bravely perceiving the realities of modern life, with their creativity gives us all an optimistic mood and instills confidence in our Victory."

    On October 13, 2021, the concert "Composer Oleksandr Shchetynsky presents the concert "Karol Szymanovsky and the music of four centuries"" was held in the O.O. Osmerkin Art Memorial Museum as part of the 19th Karol Szymanowski Art Festival in the small homeland of the composer "Autumn with the music of Karol Szymanowski" , which took place in Kropyvnytskyi on October 3 - 13, 2021.
    Oleksandr Polyachok, the director of the Karol Shymanovsky Museum of Musical Culture, who is the artistic director of the festival, greeted all those present and introduced the host of the concert, the well-known modern Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Shchetynskyi.
    The program featured the works of the outstanding Polish composer Karol Szymanowsky, whose childhood and youth were spent in Yelysavetgrad, now Kropyvnytskyi, the brilliant Italian virtuoso violinist and composer Niccolo Paganini, the talented Ukrainian composer and teacher, the honored artist of Ukraine Valentyn Bibyk, and the host of the concert, laureate of numerous international music competitions of Oleksandr Shchetynskyi.
    Students of the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Academy of Music, flutist Roman Ievsky and violinist Maria Polyachok, performed musical works solo and in a duet. At the piano was the composer Oleksandr Shchetynskyi, who not only accompanied, but also personally performed his own works.
    With loud applause and shouts of "Bravo!" listeners perceived musicians' performances. Everyone present was especially impressed by a kind of musical performance, when Roman Ievskyi and Maria Polyachok, performing the author's composition of Oleksandr Shchetynskyi, involuntarily moved around the hall, creating the effect of stereo sound.
    And the musical evening ended with a creative interaction of the concert participants with the honored artists of Ukraine, choirmaster Yuri Lyubovych and musicologist, candidate of art history Maryna Dolgikh, who visited the event, and a traditional collective photo shoot in the museum's memorial hall.

    On September 29, 2021, a traditional concert of students, teachers and creative teams of music school No. 1 named after H.G. Neuhaus "To the International Day of Music" took place in the O.O.Osmerkin Art and Memorial Museum. Playing the piano, violin, cello, flute and bandura, as well as vocal performances, young musicians created an extremely harmonious atmosphere, which gave all listeners the opportunity not only to enjoy melodious compositions, but also to be filled with optimism and positive emotions, which are so necessary in the current controversial time.
    It is symbolic that this is a joint artistic event of the city's cultural institutions - a music school and a museum, which are united by the fact that they are housed in elegant buildings - architectural monuments of the end of the 19th century, built according to the projects of the talented Yelisavetgrad architect Yakiv Pauchenko, the 155th anniversary of whose birthday is celebrated this year.
    All those present were enchanted by the velvet sounds of the ancient grand piano, which is the decoration of the former house of the architect Yakiv Pauchenko, which now houses the museum of his nephew, painting professor Oleksandr Osmerkin. The listeners especially liked the performance of the ensemble of violinists "Rays of Light". Young musicians under the guidance of teacher Oleksandr Romanchenko performed the extremely lyrical composition " Ash trees " by the famous Ukrainian composer-songwriter Oleksandr Bilash. Students of the 8th grade - vocalist Maria Maistrenko, violinist Sofia Chernenko and cellist Andriy Chernov - took part in the concert, as well as those who had just begun to master musical instruments. Playing the bandura, which is a true symbol of Ukrainian culture, did not leave anyone indifferent. An appropriate visual addition to the musical numbers was a thematic slide show prepared by the organizer of the concert, the head of the piano department, Victoria Delestyanova. The performances of the hosts of the concert - the teacher of the piano department Nataliya Dubina and the student of the school Dmytro Kokhan - were solemnly elegant.
    And the festive musical event ended with a performance by the ensemble of stringed and bowed instruments "Dyvosvit", one of the leaders of which is the director of the school Yevheniya Malyavkina. She is the one who came up with the idea of holding concerts in the museum, during which the worldview of young musicians is expanded and the most important task of the school is fulfilled - education of high aesthetic tastes. In her welcome speech after the concert, Yevgenia Viktorivna noted the importance of the students' performances in front of the audience, because quarantine restrictions have become a real test for many. And yet, overcoming shyness and embarrassment in front of the audience, the young musicians decisively and skillfully demonstrated their professional potential, which was appreciated by the thunderous applause of the audience.
    As a sign of gratitude for joint creative cooperation, the school team received a thank you from the museum, and all concert participants received heart-shaped chocolates. A traditional photo session was also held - students and their teachers were happy to take pictures near the old museum grand piano and in the interiors of the exhibition halls.
    This is how the autumn concert became a gift to fans of musical art and all teachers for Teacher's Day.

    On June 17, 2021, O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum hosted a concert of a piano student of the 7th year of Music School No.3 of the town of Kropyvnytskyi “A Solo Concert of Fedosieiev Kyrylo”. It was organized with the support and assistance of the parents by his teacher Iryna Ivanova.
    While introducing her talented student, Iryna Oleksiivna mentioned: “Kyrylo has been studying with me for 4 years. It’s not his first solo concert. In May 2019, he had his first concert. For the past two years, there were several brightest events: a performance on International Competition “Chestnut Grand Piano” in Kyiv. Also in 2020, we were invited to record a program “Six Poetic Pictures of Edvard Grieg” on the TTV channel, by the way in this very museum hall. The same year, Kyrylo got the title of the laureate of the 3rd all-Ukrainian Competition of Young Pianists named after Serafyma Mohulevska, which took place in Odesa. And also a Grand Prix at the Open Audition and Competition among Performers “Ukrainian Resonance” in Kyiv, the first places at the 2nd Open Competition and Festival “Karabyts-Debut” in the town of Toretsk in the Donetsk Region, 2nd all-Ukrainian Competition among Pianists “Your Starts, Ukraine” to the memory of Liudmyla Ginzburg in Odesa, and the 1st all-Ukrainian Competition of Piano Music “Piano Junior” in Cherkasy. At the 1st Open all-Ukrainian Competition among Young Musicians “Step to Success” in Odesa in 2020, he received a special prize from the jury member Anna Ulaieva from Austria. The award-winning places at other international and all-Ukrainian competitions among young musicians. 16 competitions in a year! Due to the pandemic and lockdown restrictions, the majority of the competitions are held online. As the result of the preparation for the competitions, we have a program which we would like to present”.
    Everyone who came to the concert, these was mainly piano teachers of the municipal music schools, were fascinated by the performance of a young piano player Kyrylo Fedosieiev, who performed the classic pieces of famous composers - Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Ferenc Liszt, and Serhii Rakhmaninov. The works of the great Ukrainian composers also were perfumed, among them – Myroslav Skoryk and Viktor Kosenko, as well as the musicians from Yelisavethrad with a worldwide fame Karol Szymanowski and Felix Blumenfeld.
    The teacher of the Department of Piano of his native Music School No.3 wished Kyrylo Fedosieiev success and creative inspiration The director of the Music School No.1 named after Heinrich Neuhaus Yevheniia Maliavkina joined wishes and also presented the pianist with a booklet of the school; she also mentioned that he started his studies in this school and his elder brother Mykyta has recently finished it. Special words of appreciation were said to the parents of the talented young musicians for their support and assistance at the thorny way of the performer.
    Flowers, presents, sincere greetings on a successful solo concert, and of course a photoshoot with Kyrylo Fedosieiev at the museum grand piano, which according to Iryna Ivanova “Breathes with history”.

    On March 31, 2021, a concert “Musical Gifts” was held in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The concert was performed by the students of Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko who with their performance congratulated the violin teacher of Kropyvnytskyi Music Professional College Nataliia Karaban with her 70th anniversary.
    The host of the concert Olena Iievska mentioned that the title of the concert is symbolic because all the musicians know that it is the title of the cycle of canons, fugues, and other musical works of a great German composer Johann Sebastian Bach created in 1747 for the so-called royal theme and dedicated to Frederick II, King of Prussia.
    The violin players Mariia Poliachok, Kateryna Pauchenko, and Nataliia Martyniuk, who studied at Nataliia Mykolaivna Karaban, together with the teachers of the college, music historian Olena Iievska and accompanist Svitlana Kontsedalova decided to make a music gift to Nataliia Karaban, and as students of the Music Academy please their teacher with their professional performance on a charming instrument. The violinists invited their fellow student from Lviv Olha Tishchenko to participate in the concert. She visited the town on Inhul for the first time and was impressed with the architecture of the historical center. Also, the flutist Roman Iievskyi performed a musical gift. He is also the college graduate. A pleasant surprise was the performance of the duo of the flutist Roman Iievskyi and his father guitar player Ihor Holyshev.
    At the end of the musical evening, the administration of Kirovohrad Music Professional College handed Nataliia Karaban Letter of Acknowledgement for her pedagogical work. She has been working in the college since 1990. In 1979, Natalia Karaban graduated from Odesa State Conservatory named after A.V.Nezhdanova, now Odesa National Music Academy named after Antonina Nezhdanova. She has been working as a violin teacher for 46 years and taught many students who became famous musicians.
    The jubilee was congratulated by her colleagues – alto teacher of Music College Oleksandr Klimas and teachers of Music School No.3 violinists Alina Dovha and her daughter Daryna. The museum director Vita Chernova presented Nataliia Karaban with Letter of Acknowledgement from the staff of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum and a souvenir cup with the image of the museum building. It was the appreciation for the numerous concerts and performances she has organized in the museum during the presentations of exhibitions.
    The concert was broadcasted live on one of the social media because due to the lockdown restrictions to the public events the number of listeners was limited. The possibility to be present online at the concert was arranged by Mariia Poliachok.
    A traditional photoshoot of the participants of the concert was held in the museum halls.

    On February 26, 2021, a performance of a violin student of Kropyvnytskyi Music Professional College Kateryna Misko took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum at the opening of the personal exhibition of graphic works “Life power of Fedir Lahno’s creative work” within the art project “Laureates of the Regional Award in Fine Art and Study of Art named after Oleksandr Osmerkin”.
    In the memorial museum hall, a so-called music hall with its gem – an old grand piano with a velvety sound, a young violinist Kateryna Misko together with her teacher Nataliia Karaban and accompanist Svitlana Kontsedalova performed incredibly romantic pieces of music of the 19th century written by the German composer and conductor Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 (g-moll) and the world-known Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini’s Adagio Flebile from Violin Concerto No.4 in D minor. The listeners were impressed by a solo performance of Polish Caprice written by a talented composer, music historian, pianist and violinist, graduate of Warsaw Conservatory Grażyna Bacewicz.
    Everyone present was fascinated by the magical sounds of the violin, which celebrated love that knows no obstacles. And it was in tune with Fedir Lahno’s philosophical drawings.
    At the end of the event, the museum director Vita Chernova thanked the musicians for their performance which made the vernissage a perfect event. She also mentioned that musical concerts in February have already become a good tradition and told that Kateryna Misko has already performed in the museum; and in 2015, she had her solo concert as a student of Music School No.1 named after H.H.Neuhaus. The audience greeted the violinist with applause. She also was congratulated on her recent birthday and got the presents from the museum.

    On June 20, 2020, the concert “A Concert Prima Vista…” was held in the memorial hall in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The concert was performed by the laureates of all-Ukrainian and international music competitions, students of Lviv National Musical Academy named after Mykola Lysenko violinist Mariia Poliachok and flutist Roman Iievskyi. The piano part was performed by an accompanist of Kropyvnytskyi Music College Svitlana Kontsedalova. The concert host was the teacher of the college Olena Iievska.
    Everyone present was fascinated by the perfect sound of the works by the world-known composers from the Baroque epoch and till the modern times - Johann Sebastian Bach and his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and also a French violinist Jean-Delphin Alard, English composer and band director Sir William Walton, and a Soviet composer of Ukrainian origin Serhii Prokofiev.
    There were many teachers of the Music College among the audience because Mariia Poliachok and Roman Iievskyi graduated from this educational establishment. The teachers yelling “Bravo!” was the highest evaluation of the former students’ skills.
    The first performance of “The Violin Concerto” by William Walton in Kropyvnytskyi by Mariia Poliachok was welcomed with great fascination. The concert was written in 1939, a worrisome year before the war. Also, Roman Iievsky’s performance of “Scherzo” from “The Sonata for Flute and Piano in D Major” by Serhii Prokofiiev, written in 1943, when the war reached many countries, brought the crowd to their feet.
    At the end of the art event, which was held according to the anti-epidemic measures - face-mask requirements, temperature screening, and social distancing, the museum director Vita Chernova expressed deep gratitude to the participants of the concert for their music gift to Day of the museum opening for the visitors (June 21, 1994) and presented young musicians with the souvenirs “Butterflies of happiness” created in the carpeting technique by Merited Folk Art Artists of Ukraine Oleksandra Prenko. The director also wished the successful realization of creative plans and projects. Vita Chernovapresented flowers to the students’ teachers and also mothers Svitlana Kontsedalova and Olena Iievska She expressed her admiration for the talented children.

    On February 3, 2020, O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum hosted a concert of the students of the Department of Orchestra String Instruments of the Kirovohrad Musical College Musical Pattern.
    Such February music meetings have already become traditional. The incredibly creative atmosphere of the memorial building that preserves the art traditions of the Pauchenko-Osmerkin family encourages youth to perform in this museum hall. And the ancient Bluthner grand piano which is more than 100 years old fascinates with its smooth sounding and allows to touch the history and feel the spirit of the era when great composers created their works.
    The worshipers of musical art got aesthetic pleasure and incredible emotions from the concert. The musical event was noticeable for the fact that experienced teachers of Musical College announced the performances of their students.
    The violin player Maryna Ivanchenko suggested listening to her 2nd-year students Polina Tsobenko and Aidan Aliieva who performed works by Austrian composer of the 18th century, representative of the Viennese School Joseph Haydn, Italian composer of the 19th century Alfredo Piatti, a famous Czech cellist, virtuoso, composer, and pedagogue of the middle of the 19th century – the beginning of the 20th century David Popper, and a prominent Soviet composer, pedagogue, and public figure Dmytro Kabalevskyi.
    A 1st-year alto student Mykhailo Bozhenko impressed everyone with his performance. His teacher Oleksandr Klimas announced his student and told about the incredible instrument and about the composers Johann Christian Bach, a German composer, representative of Baroque and Rococo, the eleventh and the youngest son of the genius musician Johann Sebastian Bach, and Russian composer, bandmaster, and pedagogue Oleksandr Hlazunov whose works were suggested to the concert program.
    The listeners got the brightest emotions from the performance of the 4th year violin class Kateryna Pauchenko who performed the works of German composer of the 18th century Johann Sebastian Bach, Finnish composer of the end of the 19th century – the middle of the 20thcentury Jean Sibelius, and Spanish violinist and composer of the middle of the 19th century – the beginning of the 20th century Pablo de Sarasate. A violin class teacher Natalia Karaban told the facts of the life and work of the composer.
    Everyone who visited the concert enjoyed it and was filled with bright thoughts. The visitors greeted the young musicians, their teachers and accompanists Svitlana Kontsedalova, who noted the great sound of the grand piano, with loud applause.
    The museum staff also thanked for the magical moments of communicating with classical musical art. The museum director Vita Chernova presented all the participants with the poster. The poster depicted a fragment of the painting “In the hall of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum” by a modern Kropyvnytskyi artist Yurii Vintenko.
     The musical meeting was finished with a traditional photoshoot near the memorial grand piano and leaving autographs on the concert poster.

    On January 27, 2020, O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum hosted a concert of young composers – laureates of the 4th All-Ukrainian Festival and Competition of Ukrainian Academic Music “Classic-project” dedicated to the prominent Ukrainian composer Yulii Meitus.
    A concert “Musical evenings in the house of the Meitus family” to the composer’s anniversary (January 28) was traditionally held within the festival. The concert was organized by Music School No.1 named after Heinrich Neuhaus. The school is located in the house where a talented musician was born. On the initiative of the school principal Yevheniia Maliavkina, who also was the concert host, this year's event took place in the museum of Professor of Painting Oleksandr Osmerkin. And it is quite symbolic. First of all, school and museum buildings were constructed at the end of the 19th century on the projects of a talented architect Yakiv Pauchenko, the artist’s uncle. The buildings are architectural gems of the historical center of our town. Second of all, the creative and artistic development of the prominent townsmen Yulii Meitus, Heinrich Neuhaus, and Oleksandr Osmerkin who were contemporaries, fell on a difficult and rather controversial Soviet era. Art educational establishments, as mentioned by Yevheniia Maliavkina, who is the head of the Council of Directors of Out-of-School Secondary Art Education Facilities of Kirovohrad region and a member of the Board of All-Ukrainian Council of Directors of Out-of-School Secondary Art Education Facilities, must not only give professional knowledge to pupils but also attract youth to studying the history of native land, developing high aesthetic taste and patriotic feelings to Ukraine.
    The concert of young composers – pupils of musical schools of the town of Kropyvnytskyi is a bright confirmation to that. The following pupils presented their own musical works – violin players Yelizaveta Voloshynova and Sofiia Chernenko, pianists Vladyslava Kocherzhenko, Anastasiia Slynchenko, Mariia Mazurenko, Tymofii Kanarian, Kateryna Khudoiarova, Danylo Kostenko, Andrii Svyrydov, Sofiia Lutsko, bandura players Anastasiia Sydorenko and Bazhena Onolova, domra player Mariia Sosnovska, vocalists Ilona Burlakova, Dmytro Kozlitin, Anna Chumachenko, Oleksandra Baranok who also is fond of visual arts and became a laureate of the art competition “Youth Palette” named after Leonid Bondar in 2018, and DanyloNikolenko, a student of College of Construction. A teacher of the most winners of the competition is a famous music historian, Ph.D. in Art History Maryna Dolhikh.
    And some works by the young composers, such as a piece for two violins and a piano by Yelysei Simokop were performed by the teachers, and a song by Viktoriia Kholodovska on the poem by Nataliia Zabila – by a vocal ensemble of the chore Zorynka from the studio of pedagogical practice of the Musical College. An optimistic mood was created by the instrumental ensemble of the teachers of Musical School No.3 by performing Tango written by the pupil Danylo Vorobiov under the supervision of Mariia Slobodian. Everyone was fascinated by the performance of the laureate of the 1st degree Yelizaveta Tsarenko who performed a patriotic composition – the author’s song with the lyrics by H.Panchokha “To the Ukrainian warriors” accompanied by the violin and piano. The accompanist was a composer's creative work class teacher Olha Kapitonenko.
    After the concert, the participants were congratulated by the members of the organizing committee of the festival and competition Classic Project, the principal of Musical School No.2 named after Yulii Meitus Merited Worker of Culture of Ukraine Valentyna Revenko who noted the talents of the pupils and their high level of preparation to the creative competition. She also informed that the head of this year’s competition Bohdan Froliak, a composer, laureate of the National Award named after Taras Shevchenko, assistant professor of the Subdepartment of Composition of Lviv National Musical Academy named after Mykola Lysenko, highly rated the works of young composers for their uniqueness and musical expressiveness.

    On January 15, 2020, a scientific and educational event was held in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The event was organized within the work of methodological association of teachers of piano departments of music schools of Kropyvnytskyi.
    The head of the Heinrich Neuhaus Folk Memorial Museum within Music School No.1 named after H.H.Neuhaus Tetiana Furlet delivered a report on the topic of “Pedagogy and the basic principles of the teaching of Heinrich Neuhaus”.
    The interesting illustration to the event became the exhibition from the museum collection. The exposition consisted of the photographs of the prominent piano player and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus, his family, parents Gustav and Olha Neuhaus – the founders of the musical school in Yelisavethrad, and descendants, also piano players, son Stanislav, grandson Henry Jr., and grand grandson Adrian from Israel during the visit to our town, and books of the literary heritage of the world-known musician. The experts' attention was drawn by the exhibited main theoretical work of Heinrich Neuhaus On Art of Playing the Piano, which was published in 1958 for the first time and later translated into 16 languages, as well as a unique three-volume edition of Reflections. Autobiographic notes. Diaries. Selected Articles, published in 2008, which includes articles, detailed explanation of lessons of the great pianist, memoirs about him. Notably, the epistolary heritage of the musician is comprised by the 4th volume of this edition. Letters of Heinrich Neuhaus written by him during the most dramatic period of his life were published in the volume for the first time. The compiler of the volume and the author of the introduction article is the art director of Saratov philharmonic, Merited Art Worker of Russia, a pianist Anatolii Kats, who communicated with the musician’s daughter Militsia Neuhaus in person.
    The bright accent of the methodological presentation became the demonstration of fragments of the documentary film showing Heinrich Neuhaus during the lessons and while communicating with his pupils. The voice of the maestro, his comments on playing the piano, and the performance of the musical works got the creative atmosphere filled with thrilling and positive emotions. Comments of the participants of the methodological lecture proved the above written.
    At the end of the event, the principal of School No.1 named after H.H. Neuhaus Yevheniia Maliavkina thanked Tetiana Furlet, who is an experienced piano teacher, for successful pedagogical work and active educational activity on the promotion of life and work of a prominent fellow-musician Heinrich Neuhaus. The biggest achievement is the annual All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Pianists within the festival Neuhaus Musical Meetings to the anniversary of the great artist in Kropyvnytskyi in April.

    On December 18, 2019, before St.Nicolas Day – one of the greatest winter holidays for children and adults, O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum hosted a presentation of a musical fairy-tale “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” involving pupils of Musical School No.1 named after H.H.Neuhaus.
    The organizer of the event, piano teacher Nataliia Yesaulenko prepared an interesting theatrical play based on the story by famous German writers of fairy tales Grimm brothers.
    The musical play was performed by pupils of the lower grades who in the costumes looked like real artists. They fascinated everybody present with their songs and performance on various musical instruments – sopilka, violin, guitar, domra, accordion, and of course grand piano. There were many children among the audience; they watched the main characters of the fairy tale with great interest.
    Although the majority of the guests remember the animated movie about Snow White by the American Walt Disney Company of 1937, which was the first movie made in full color and is considered the best cartoon of all the times, they were impressed by the performance of young musicians, their sincerity and supported the actors with loud applause.
    After the fairy tale, the director of the Musical School No.1 named after Heinrich Neuhaus, Yevheniia Maliavkina congratulated all the participants of the event, including the pupils, the teachers, and the parents. She pointed to the performance of young actors, their musical and theatrical skills, thanked the parents for their active participation in the preparation of the play.
    The director of Art School named after Oleksandr Osmerkin, Hanna Tymofiienko, also made a congratulatory speech. She came to the play with the young painters. The director drew attention to the importance of such art events in the development of aesthetic taste and broadening the world-view of pupils.
    The museum director, Vita Chernova, admired all the participants of the musical play for their performing skills, presented them with sweets, and highly valued the beautiful setting, which created a magical atmosphere. The director suggested leaving the setting in the museum memorial hall for the winter holidays as a photo zone for the museum visitors.

    On December 5, 2019, O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum, at the suggestion of Yevheniia Maliavkina the director of Musical School No.1 named after Heinrich Neuhaus, hosted an open lesson “Musical expressive means for the work on plays of cantilena manner” for the first time.
    Participants of the methodological event were piano teachers of the municipal musical schools. They were interested in the educational process demonstrated by an experienced teacher Nataliia Kauliuk and her pupil Viktoriia Shashkova.
    Play “Dreams” by Achille-Claude Debussy was chosen for the lesson. Achille-Claude Debussy was an outstanding French composer of the 19th – 20th centuries, a pianist, a founder of musical impressionism, who was guided by French musical tradition in his work. He expressed in music fast-changing impressions as the most delicate shades of human emotions and natural events.
    The teacher has chosen the play not incidentally. Claude Debussy created the impressionist melodics that is characterized by flexibility and at the same time by blurring. And it unfolded the topic of the lesson. As is commonly known, cantilena (from Italian – a song) is wide, easily sang, melodious music both vocal and instrumental. Besides, the term also means melodiousness of the music itself or the manner of its performance. Both meanings can be applied to the name of the Medieval music and poetic genre.
    When starting the lesson, the teacher Nataliia Kauliuk introduced her talented pupil, a graduate of the 8th grade, Viktoriia Shashkova. She is a many times laureate of the all-National musical competition “Classical Meridian” (Kyiv) and international musical competition “Golden Lyre” (Dnipro). The exhibition of the author’s drawings of a young piano player was an illustration to the demonstration lesson. She reflected her impressions, feelings, thoughts, emotions that aroused when she performed piano plays written by the genius composer.
    The piano teachers were impressed by the successful lesson. They noticed a mutual understanding between the teacher and the pupil, technical control of the instrument pedals by the pupil, which added a special mood during the performance of cantilena plays, and also a harmonious atmosphere in the museum and incredible sound of the memorial grand piano “Bluthner” of the respectable age, 1904, in fact, the contemporary of the performed musical works.
    At the end of the event, the school director Yevheniia Maliavkina expressed her gratitude to the teacher Nataliia Kauliuk, who has been working in the school for more than twenty years after graduation from Musical College and Musical and Pedagogical Department of Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University named after V.Vynnychenko. She introduces new methods of teaching piano, taught many pupils who continued their education in musical higher education institutions. The school director also mentioned that it was symbolic that the open lesson was conducted in the museum, because the teacher’s birthday is on December 8, on the same date as the birthday of Oleksandr Osmerkin, a talented artist and pedagogue.
    So, let’s hope that productive creative cooperation between musical schools and the museum will continue and more open lessons will be held. Such cooperation promotes musical and visual arts and educates high aesthetic taste in children and adults.

    On October 4, 2019, a traditional concert “To International Music Day” of the pupils of Musical School No.1 named after H.H.Neuhaus was held in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
    Viktoriia Delestianova, the head of the Piano Department and the organizer of the event, prepared an interesting video that was turned on while young piano players and violinists, bandura and guitar players, cellists and saxophonists, and vocalists were performing. The video created a harmonious atmosphere for the listeners who plunged into the world of music.
    Everybody present enjoyed listening to piano duos who performed dance melodies “Carnival for two”, “Brazilian Carnival”, “Waltz”, and also Ukrainian songs “Sunrise”, “Silk braid”, “My land” performed by young solo singers and ensemble “Muzychne Siaivo”. The composition “Story” performed by bandura teacher Oksana Horobchenko also impressed the guests.
    The hosts – Yaroslav, a pupil of the lower grades, and the teacher Alina Leontiienko, told the history of International Music Day.
    The director of Musical School No.1 named after H.H.Neuhaus, Yevheniia Maliavkina congratulated all the participants of the event, including pupils and their teachers. She said that cooperation between the school and the museum is important and productive because it promotes musical and visual arts, as well as develops high aesthetic taste in children and adults. To prove all the above, Vita Chernova, the museum director, handed a Letter of Appreciation to the school staff. A sweet gift, a chocolate record, for the participants of the event was an addition to the Letter of Appreciation.

    On October 4, 2018 a traditional concert “To International Music Day” of the music school No 1 named after H.H.Neuhaus took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. It was prepared by the head of Piano Department Viktoriia Delistianova. The young musicians created an incredibly harmonious atmosphere by performing on piano and violin, guitar and cello, clarinet and saxophone, and also by the vocal performances. So, all the present were taken on the trip to the world of music.
    A wonderful vernissage of the Art School named after O.O.Osmerkin has become a great tradition. The school joins a musical festivities with pleasure and organizes interesting exhibitions of pupils’ works. Paintings, graphic works, and collage compositions depicting still life staging of different musical instruments were presented at the current exhibition. The works show the perception of the world of music by children.
    While expressing thanks to all the participants of the event – both the pupils and their teachers – for the preparation of the exhibition, the director of the music school No 1 named after H.H.Neuhaus Yevheniia Maliavkina and a teacher of the Art School named after O.O.Osmerkin Svitlana Hnoieva mentioned that such joint art events are a good idea because they nurture high aesthetic sense in children and also promote widening of the music and art schools pupils’ world-view, mutual interest in music and fine art, successful realization of their creative skills.
    After the festive event, all the participants received presents from the museum. The young musicians got music books, and students r the art school – drawing-books and brushes. The museum also wasn’t left without a present – a wonderful album “Fine Art – the past and the present” with the reproductions of the works of fellow-artists among whom is Oleksandr Osmerkin was given to the museum collection by Yevheniia Maliavkina. It was rather symbolic right before Artist Day.

    On April 24, 2018 a concert “Images of the last centuries” took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The concert was performed by the Municipal chamber choir under the direction of Merited Worker of Culture of Ukraine Yurii Liubovych.
    This unique team is famous beyond Ukraine because it is a laureate and holder of grand prix of the prestigious all-Ukrainian and International choir festivals and competitions. The choir was founded in 1978 by a talented musician and an incredibly creative personality Yurii Liubovych, who had been the director of the Music College in our town for more than 20 years. He also founded and had been a mastermind of the children’s choir festival “Golden Orpheus” for nearly a decade and a half. It was aimed not only at the development and promotion of choral singing, but first of all propaganda of classical music art. There are a lot of programs on the chamber choir’s repertoire; they include both spiritual orthodox and catholic music, and works of German, French, Italian, American, Russian, and of course Ukrainian composers.
    The current concert became another sensation for the worshipers of choir singing who came to the music hall of the museum. Everybody were fascinated by the professional performance of the works by Italian composer, one of the founders of opera genre, a great master of madrigal Claudio Monteverdi, German and English composer of the baroque era George Frideric Handel, who greatly influenced a genius and the most popular classic composer of the Viennese School Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose works also were performed.
    The informative speeches of the hostess – a famous music expert, teacher of Music College Olena Iievska, were listened to with no less interest. She told the history of the madrigal creation. It is a secular literary and music and poetry genre of the Renaissance on a love topic. Also, less known life and work events of the talented musicians, whose compositions were performed, were shared with the audience.
    The performance of the accompanist, teacher of Music College Svitlana Kontsedalova, was a pleasant surprise for the audience. Usually, a choir performs without accompaniment. So the ancient grand piano “Bluthner” of 1904 played again. It is a decoration of the memorial hall. By the way, Svitlana Kontsedalova was the first to ouch its key buttons after its arrival to the museum form Moscow according to the testimonial of the widow of the artist Nadiia Heorhiivna Osmerkina in 1998.
    The high-class choir which by its unsurpassed professional level of preparation, unique performance skills, and exquisite repertoire arouse unforgettable feelings in the audience. The loud applause, Shouts “Bravo!”, a lot of flowers proved it.

    On March 20, 2018 in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum, a concert of the pupils and teachers of Kirovohrad Music School No.1 named after H.G.Neuhaus “Muses –Geniuses – Europe” took place. Pupils of Kirovohrad School of Art named after O.O.Osmerkin also participated in the concert.
    The music event was a special one. Its authors, the teachers of the department of piano Olena Nadutenko and Zhanna Koloskova developed a program that included Muse and Artist. They organized a real trip to European countries – Norway, Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Spain and of course Ukraine. It was perfectly illustrated with a visual backdrop of the reproductions of paintings of the most famous artists, which are the symbols of the countries.
A wonderful addition to the event was an exhibition of the drawings of the pupils from Kirovohrad School of Art named after O.O.Osmerkin. The drawings depicted Eifel Tower in Paris, a gondolier in Venice, an artist on the plein-air in Greece, ancient streets of Prague, and beautiful architectural buildings of our town Kropyvnytskyi, which upside with European landmarks.
    Fascinated by the heard and seen, all the present have been congratulated young artists with applause for a long time. The director of the Music School No.1 named after H.G.Neuhaus Yevheniia Maliavkina and of the School of Art named after O.O.Osmerkin Hanna Tymofiienko thanked all the participants of the event – both pupils and their teachers – for the preparation of the concert and the exhibition. Also, they mentioned that organization of such art events is a good idea because they not only educate high aesthetic taste with the children but also contribute to the broadening of the outlook of the pupils of music and art schools, mutual interest in musical and fine art, successful realization of their talents.
    And the museum director Vita Chernova on behalf of the museum staff expressed thanks to the art educational establishments for their participation in the museum project “Music living-room”. Also, she presented the souvenirs, Chinese lanterns, suggesting to fly them at the graduation of young musicians and artists asking to fulfill their cherished dreams.

    On February 7, 2018 in O.O.Osmerkin Museum,a concert of the students of Kirovohrad Musical College under the supervision of the teacher in violin Nataliia Karaban and accompanist Svitlana Kontsedalova.
    All the present were fascinated by the skillful performance of timeless works of world-famous composers Petr Chaikovskyi, Camille Saint-Saens, and Karol Szymanowski by Mariia Poliachok, Nataliia Martyniuk, and Kateryna Pauchenko. By the way, Karol Szymanowski is related to our town, because a genius Polish composer got his first music education in Elisavethrad (now Kropyvnytskyi), in the music school of Gustav Neuhaus his second cousin once removed and a father of a famous Russian musician Heinrich Gustavovych Neuhaus. So relevant and very informative was a report of the director of the Museum of Music Culture named after Karol Szymanowski Oleksandr Poliachok about the prominent fellow countryman and about the annual music festival named after Karol Zaymanowski that is held in our town.

   On October 4, 2017 a traditional concert of pupils of Kirovohrad Music school№1 named after H.H.Neuhaus “To International Music Day” in the memorial hall of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
   The best pupils of the school participated in the concert – laureates of regional, all-Ukrainian and international competitions. All the present were fascinated by solo performances of the pianists, violinists, bandura players, accordion players and saxophonists, and also performance of musical compositions by string quartet, vocal ensembles “Sribliasti dzvinochky” and “Mriia” accompanied by vivid video materials that were shown on screen. The hosts of the concert – Queen of Music and her faithful helpers G Clef and Bass Clef told about music art. The gem of the event was an exhibition of drawings and products frompolymer clay by the pupils of the school on music theme.
   After the concert the director of Music school№1 named after H.H.Neuhaus Ye.V.Maliavkina thanked to all the participants – the pupils, the teachers, the accompanists, and also the museum for hospitality. And the museum director V.V.Chernova congratulated everyone on International Music Day and presented to the music school a photograph of the performance of the ensemble of violinists during the festive occasions on account of handing Regional Award in fine arts and study of art named after Oleksandr Osmerkin in 2013. The photograph depicts pupils of the school many of whom have already been studying in Kirovohrad Music College.

   On June 8, 2017 a concert of a senior student of the Department of orchestral string instruments of Kirovohrad Music College Mykhail Karpushchenkov in the memorial hall of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. Mykhailo came to our town in 2014 together with three other students from the East of the country where he studied at Donetsk Music College.
   Mykhailo Karpushchenkov included works of the composers he admires most to the concert program. He calls the composers “his friends in life” – world-famous Johann Sebastian Bach, Czech violinistSamuel Barber, ingenious Alfred Schnittke and modern Ukrainian composer and pedagogue, in due time, senior editor of a publishing house “Muzychna Ukraina”, YuriiShchurovskii. Also the performer prepared an informative video presentation about life and work of the composers. The presentation was voiced by Mykhailo’s teacher N.M.Karaban, who also conducted the concert.
   After the concert Mykhailo Karpushchenkov thanked everyone who came to his recital. Special words of thanks were addressed to his mentor N.M.Karaban, who presented him with interesting books on musicology, and to the accompanist S.V.Kontsedalova. And the museum director V.V.Chernova thanked to the violinist for wonderful music evening and presented him in loving memory about our town with numerous souvenirs – tourist map, set of postcards, booklet and ceramic magnet with a new name “Kropivnitskii”.

   On May 25, 2017 took place a concert performed by viola students of Kirovohrad Music College in the memorial hall of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The event was organized by a well-known in our town musician and pedagogue O.F.Klimas. His viola students Viktoria Moiseenko, Elizaveta Basheva, Dmytro Kukoviakin and violinist Maria Poliachok performed works of German composers of Baroque epoch G.Ph.Telemann, J.S.Bach, K.Ph.Stamitz, and also of the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries German conductor M.F.Bruch and Czech virtuoso cellist D.Popper. The woks were performed solo, duo, trio and accompanied by piano (accompanists T.F. Haranina and S.V.Kontsedalova).
   The gem of the event was a very captivating story of O.F.Klimas about the origin of viola and about famous masters who made this instrument – outwardly viola resembles violin, but a bit bigger in size, and also about prominent composers of the past centuries and modern times who wrote concert plays exactly for viola.
   The museum director V.V.Chernova scincerely thanked all the participants of the concert for wonderful moments of communication with classic musical art. O.F.Klimas colleague – lecturer in violin N.M.Karaban highly appraised the students’ performances, mentioning the difficulty of the concert program. By the way, N.M.Karaban often organizes concerts of her talented students in the museum.
   And a sign-off of the musical evening was a traditional photo shoot of the participants near the memorial grand piano and autographs on the poster of the concert.

   On May 17, 2017 took place a joint art project of the museum and Kirovohrad Music School №1 named after H.H.Neuhaus – Music fairy tale “Shoo!” in the memorial hall of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The project was organized within the framework of cultural and art event “A visit to the museum” dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the artist and pedagogue O.O.Osmerkin and to International Museum Day (May 18).
   Students of the music theatre “Tale” under the supervision of O.V.Misko and accompanist O.B.Ivashkevych showed to the worshipers of music art a very interesting theatrical performance based on the play by Valeria Zimina “Shoo! or the Story of the cat Filofei”. The young artists skillfully brought across touching storyline about humanity and sympathy, love to animals and the environment, awakening of the responsibility for those, that we domesticated. Exactly this musical took the first place at this year regional competition among pupils of after-school specialized art educational establishments “Parostok” in the nomination “Musical theatre”, that was held in Kirovohrad Academic Regional Puppet Theatre on March 27 on International Theatre Day.
   At the end of the musical evening the director of Kirovohrad Music School №1 named after H.H.Neuhaus Ye.V.Maliavkina congratulated the museum stuff on International Museum Day, and the museum director V.V.Chernova handed Letter of appreciation and presented ceramic cat (own work of Kropyvnytskyi artist, a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Oleksandr Firsov) to the young musicians.

   On April 17, 2017 “Easter concert” took place in the memorial hall of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The concert was performed by laureates of the national and international musical competitions a student of Kirovohrad Music College, violinist Mariia Poliachok and a graduate of the same college and currently flute student of Lviv National Music Academy named after Mykola Lysenko Roman Ievskii. Piano part was played by the college accompanist S.V.Kontsedalova, who is an initiator of this festive music event.
   All the present were fascinated by the perfection of performance of the works by world-known composers from the XVIII century and till the present. An interesting part of the concert were educational narrations of the college teacher O.O.Ievska about the origin of the works and their authors - Niccolo Paganini, Johann Sebastian Bach, Jacques Ibert, Bela Bartok, Astor Piazzolla.
   And after the concert the museum director V.V.Chernova expressed sincere gratitude to the participants of the concert and gifted a reproduction of a painting of a talented fellow artist A.Yu.Lipatov “Easter evening” 1998, which was presented by the author to the museum collection.

  On March 29, 2017 a concert “Meeting on Dvortsova Street” took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The concert was performed by the students of Kirovohrad Music College conducted by violin teacher Natalia Mykolaivna Karaban and accompanist SvitlanaVolodymyrivna Kontsedalova.
   All the present could listen to the works of world-known composers Niccolo Paganini, Johann Strauss, Robert Schumann, Fritz Kreisler, Benjamin Godard, Serhii Rakhmaninov, Bela Bartok, William Kroll. The audience had a unique opportunity to enjoy melodious sounds of violin accompanied by piano and to travel through time from the beginning of the XIX century and till modern times.
   The students Maria Poliachok and Kateryna Pauchenko impressed everyone with their skills, the girls finished Kirovohrad Music school№1 named after H.H.Neuhaus. Impressive performances were also given by Natalia Martyniuk, Mykhailo Karpushchenkov, who came to our town from Donetsk where he studied at Music College. All the present were fascinated by Andrii Hrebenchukov’s performance of “Etude” by modern Georgian composer Merab Partskhaladze. Andrii studied to play piano in Novopraha Children’s School of Art, Oleksandria district, Kirovohrad region.
   After the concert all its participants both students and teachers received loud applause and words of gratitude. All the musicians also autographed the concert poster hoping for future creative meetings.

  On October 5, 2016 a traditional concert of pupils of Kirovohrad Children’s Musical School №1 named after H.Neuhaus “Travelling through the world of music…”, dedicated to International Day of Music, took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
   The concert program was composed in a way to present bright musical compositions of different countries of the world – Norway, Spain, Hungary, Italy, France, Germany, mysterious East and Ukraine. Stories about those countries were illustrated by video with magnificent landscapes.
   Young musicians created extremely harmonious atmosphere by their performances on piano and flute, violin and cello, as well as vocal performances.
   Director of Musical School №1 named after H.NeuhausYe.Maliavkina thanked all the participants of the concert – pupils, teachers, accompanists and the museum staff for hospitality. And the museum director V.Chernova congratulated all the present on International Day of Music and presented ceramic penny whistles, made by kirovohrad artist, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, laureate of Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldry and veksilology and decorative and applied art named after YakivPauchenko in nomination “decorative and applied art” M.Firsov, to the musical school. The ceramic penny whistles may be used as musical instruments, that were proved by the pupils at once.
    After the event all the participants took photographs in the memorial hall of the museum.

   On October 2, 2016 a chamber concert “At the crossroads of times and fates” was held in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum within the framework of “XIV Musical festival named after Karol Szymanowski “Szymanowski and Hubarenko”, September 29 – November 4, 2016, Kropyvnytskyi.
   The program of musical performances included: V.Hubarenko “Letters of love” op. 18 (1970) - Monoopera in 4 parts for soprano and string orchestra (performing in version for piano), libretto by V.Hubarenko based on the short story by H.Barbusse “Tenderness”, and also vocal and piano miniatures of K.Szymanowski, F.Chopin, I.Hubarenko, V.Silvestrov, M.Shukh performed by laureates of international competitions Valeria Tulis (soprano) – soloist of Kyiv National Academic Theatre of operetta, soloist of opera school of National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P.Chaikovskii, owner of international decoration incinematographic art “Debut” and OlhaVashchuk (piano) – associate professor of National Music Academy of Ukraine named after P.Chaikovskii. The author of the project Maryna Cherkashyna-Hubarenko- Doctor of Art, professor, member of the Academy of Arts of Ukraine, made an opening statement. She also presented her recently published collection of poetry to the museum.
   Worshipers of music art who came to the museum were delighted with heard and impressed by highly professional skills of the performers, who, by the way, appraised grand piano “Bluthner” 1904, which beautifies the memorial hall, and thanked the museum staff for preservation of the musical instrument and for special artistic atmosphere of the museum.An initiator and organizer of the festival OleksanderPoliachok – director of the Museum of Musical Culture named after K.Szymanovski and head of Kirovohrad union of Poles “Polonia” named after K.Szymanovski, spoke with the words of gratitude and wishes of further creative success..

   On May 26, 2016 graduates wereawarded Certificates on graduation from Kirovohrad music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
   It is symbolic that this event assembled the pupils, their teachers, parents and friends in so-called music hall of the museum, because many of the graduates had performed in the very same hall many times, among them – violinists Mykhailo Solonchenko and Kateryna Pauchenko, pianist Veronika Karelina, cellist Mykyta Sobchenko and many other young musicians.
   Guests of the event were met by the school brass band. The event was started with National Anthem of Ukraine sang by all the present. The school director Ye.Maliavkina made a congratulatory speech and awarded the certificates to the graduates wishing them happy life and creative development.
Also all the guests were fascinated by the festive concert performed by this year graduates and beginners.
    After the concert pupils run balloons with wishes into the sky, hoping for the bright future and fulfilment of all the desires.

   On April 14, 2016 “Concert of violin music” took placein a so called music hall of O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. It was performed by the students of Kirovohrad Music College under the direction of a violin teacher Natalia Karaban and accompanist SvitlanaKontsedalova.
   All visitors of the museum had an opportunity to listen to music works by world-known composers of XVII – XX century J.S.Bach, S.Rahmaninov, I.Frolov and Ya.Sibelius. The works were performed by the violinists Adrii Dibrova, Anna Maitalo, Mariia Poliachok and a pianist Anastasia Opryshko. Host of the concert was a student of Theory of Music Department Yuliia Kholodova, who told about the composers and stories of the creation of the immortal music plays. It helped the listeners to plunge into the certain epoch and perceive music more consciously. All the present were especially impressed by the performance of the 4th year students Anna Maitalo and Andrii Dibrova, who professionally played works of one of the prominent musicians of the present time – Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
   The concert participants – both the students and the teachers received a storm of applause from the present. The museum stuff presented to the performers ceramic goods of a well-known Kirovohrad artist Olexander Firsov from the series of his works “Toys”, with a wish those souvenirs to become talismans in a realization of creative plans.

   On December 29, 2015 a folk ensemble of Kirovohrad music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus visited O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum to congratulate its stuff on New Year and Christmas.
   Theatrically-musical performance of young musicians brightly reflected traditions and rites of Ukrainian culture “Leading of the Goat” (“Vodinnya Kozy”) during New Year holidays, but in a modern way. The performance was humorous and full of interesting novelties, such as recording of folk fortune telling and experienced doctor, student of Hause M.D.
   The museum stuff had met Christmas carolers with grateful applauses and sweet presents and after the concert took pictures with the participants of the folk group and its head N.Stepur and the school director Ye.Malyavkina.

   On October 1, 2015 a concert “Music is the language of feelings” of pupils and creative teams of Kirovohrad music school №1 named after H. Neuhaus took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.The concert was dedicated to the International Day of Music.
   The concert program presented all the variety of music art. The audience had an opportunity to hear accordion, saxophone, flute, dulcimer and many other musical instruments. The soloists impressed by their performance skills – violinists Mykhaylo Solonchenko, Kateryna Mis’ko, Arina Sesmiy and Kateryna Pauchenko, pianists Veronika Karelina and David Savits’kiy, bandura players Hanna Shatilova and Dar’ya Poltorak, guitarists Yevhen Vlasov, Illya Bolharov and Vladyslav Yakovlev, vocalists Elizabeth Liver and a teacher Halyna Sekerzhyns’ka. The performances of ensembles –stringed and bow instruments  “Dyvosvit” and folk instruments “Musyky” - were very emotional.
   «You watched the performances of the best pupils of the school – laureates of regional, all-Ukrainian and international music competitions”, - mentioned Ye.Malyavkina, the director of Kirovohrad music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus, in her welcoming speech. She thanked to all the participants, organizers and hosts of the concert. During the concert hosts told with enthusiasm interesting facts from history of music art.
   The museum director V.Chernova, congratulated all the guests on International Day of Music and gave to the music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus reproduction of the painting of a well-known Kirovohrad artist, Merited Worker of Culture of Ukraine L.Bondar “Portrait of Merited Worker of Culture of Ukraine Ju.Khilobokov” 1994. Recently a commemoration meeting dedicated to the 90th anniversary of a famous Kirovohrad musician – a prominent violinist, organizer and conductor of a chamber orchestra Juryy Khilobokov took place in the school. Ju.Khilobokov worked as a teacher in music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus and in Kirovohrad Musical College.
   A wonderful evening of music left no one indifferent. Loud applauses and flowers were a sincere appreciation to the performers. And students of Kirovohrad Professional Lyceum of Consumer Service, who came to the museum and enjoyed listening to the performances of the young musicians and their teachers, gifted a handmade souvenir to the music school.

   On July 4, 2015, the day before an ancient holiday, a presentation of musical and theatrical play “ On Midsummer Day” was held in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum. The play was performed by folk ensemble “Mill” that was created on the basis of Kirovohrad Museum of Musical Culture named after K.Szymanowski and aimed at performing traditional musical folklore of our region.
   Members of the ensemble, among whom are teachers of Kirovohrad Musical College, their former and present students, went on the folk expeditions and learned singing from village singers, so they performed Ukrainian songs in a traditional folk manner. Songs from the village of Tymoshivka (homeland of a well-known Polish composer Karol Szymanowski) entered the repertoire of the ensemble thanks to recordings of Kirovohrad folklorists Nataliya and Olexander Tereshchenko. The ensemble presented a new program to the audience, it included lullabies, Christmas, Easter, Midsummer Day, wedding, Cossacks, Tchoomaks’ and other songs which reflect a person’s fortune from the birth to the grave and annual cycle of folk rites from Christmas to Midsummer Night. The new program would be presented at the XXXVIII festival “Days of Karol Szymanowski’s music” in the end of July in Polish town Zakopane.
   A festive atmosphere was in the museum during the concert, it sent back all the present to the world of grandmother’s stories and mother’s fairy-tales. And an exhibition of carpet works by Kirovohrad master, member of the National Union of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine Valentyna Dobrovol’s’ka, who had just become a laureate of Regional Award in the sphere of architecture, heraldy and veksilology and decorative and applied art named after Yakiv Pauchenko, served a wonderful decoration.

   On June 11, 2015 a concert of Ann Hrechanuk, 3rd year student of violin class of Kirovohrad Musical College, took place in O.O.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
   Listeners, enjoying wonderful sounds of the violin accompanied by the piano (accompanist Svitlana Kontsedalova), had a unique opportunity to make a journey through time and listen to the works of world-known composers of the XVII – XX centuries – German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler and Finnish composer of Swedish origin Jean Sibelius. A gem of the concert was “American quartet” by Czech composer, one of the founders of Czech national musical school Antonin Dvorak performed by student quartet – violinists Anna Hrechanuk and Anna Maytalo, viola player Valeriya Tyhnyan and cellist Vitaliy Tkachenko.
   The host of the concert was an experienced violin pedagogue Natalia Karaban who told about her student Anna Hrechanuk, repeated winner of regional and all-Ukrainian musical competitions and festivals. Anna liked violin since her childhood because her mother was a teacher in Oleksandriya music school.

   On May 22, 2015 took place a musical and theatrical event “In search of a beautiful Dulcinea” performed by pupils and teachers of piano class of Kirovohrad music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus.
   “Corrida”, “Flamenco”, “Night in Toledo”, “Festive Cordoba”, “Spanish dance”, “Granada” – is an incomplete list of musical works that were performed at the concert. The Hosts of the evening were doughty knight Don Quixote played by cellist Mykyta Sobchenko and his faithful companion Sancho Panza finely played by violinist Mykhaylo Solonchenko.
   The audience had an opportunity to listen to not only young pianists, pupils of 2nd – 8th forms, but also to graduates, now first year students of the Art Department of Kirovograd State Pedagogical University named after V.V.Vynnychenko – vocalist Alice Zhytinska and guitarist Olexander Baloh. The gem of the Spanish extravaganza was choreographic etude performed by 8 year pupil of piano class Lolita Rud’ – a talented pianist and composer who is a member of folk choreographic ensemble “Rosynka”.
   All the worshipers of musical art enjoyed an interesting trip to sunny Spain. Flowers, congratulations and “Bravo!” shouts were a sincere thank to the young musicians.
   The director of Kirovograd music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus spoke to the participants and the organizers of the art event after the concert. She noticed that pupils’ participation in such theme musical plays gives them opportunity to fully uncover their talents.

   On April 30, 2015 took place a concert of a pupil of the 8th form of piano class Lolita Rud “A touch of an angel. A recital of a young composer Lolita Rud’”. Lolita Rud – is a young composer and performer – pianist, singer, concertmaster. As a pianist she is a laureate of all-Ukrainian and international musical competitions. For the third year she has been an active participant as a concertmaster of the school ensemble of string and bow instruments “Dyvosvit” .
   Her artistic path had begun when Lolita was eight and studied at composition class of PhD in Art History M.Dolhikh. Lolita has become a winner of competition between young composers within the framework of the regional festival of Ukrainian academic music “Classic-proekt”, which is dedicated to the memory of Ukrainian composer Yu.Meitus (2010, 2012, 2014). In 2010 she received her first award in the nomination “composer creativity” of International festival and competition “Zirky Pektorali” in Dnipropetrovsk.
   Lolita Rud’s works of different genres were performed by the pupils of musical school and the student of Kirovohrad Musical College during the recital of the young composer. Lolita accompanied to the performers. A premiere work for violin and piano “An encounter” was performed at the concert by the teacher O.Romanchenko, who, by the way, teaches Lolita to play the violin.
   The host of the evening was Lolita Rud’s teacher of composition PhD in Art History M.Dolhikh, who enthusiastically told about unique musical talents of her pupil.
   After the concert Lolita Rud was congratulated by the director of Kirovograd music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus Ye.Malyavkina and the museum director V.Chernova, who presented the booklet “Moments from life of Osmerkin Museum. Photo exhibition of Alexander Kolominov” (2014), where one can find photo of Lolita Rud playing the grand piano in the memorial hall of the museum. Also Lolita received a lot of greeting from the worshipers of her talent.

   On March 13, 2015 took place a solo concert “Music is my life!” of the 3rd grader of violin class Arina Sesmiy. Arina has been studying at T.Saprykina class since 2012. She won all-Ukrainian and international musical contests, took part in Open All-Ukrainian festival of chamber and symphonic music named after Yu.Khilobokov in Kirovograd. She is a member of composite ensemble of violinists and ensemble of stringed and bow instruments “Dyvosvit”, which, by the way, has successfully performed at the Grand-concert of the winners of regional and international festivals “Constellation of talents” in Kyiv and received the Diploma for high mastery signed by the Minister of Culture of Ukraine.
   Also Arina is successfully studying at piano class and with pleasure attends school creative group “Music theatre”. In addition she attends composition class of a teacher PhD in Art History M.Dolhikh. Arina is a laureate of regional competition of young composers in memory of Yuliy Meytus. And during the concert Arina’s work “Elegy” was performed by the pupil, violinist Mykhaylo Solonchenko.
   Arina’s solo programme included classic works by the composers of XVII-XIX centuries Ch.Gluck, J.Quantz, J.Accolay, and modern works by A.Komarovskyi, V.Homolyaka and Ukrainian folk song edited by P.Scholtz “Falcon is flying”.
   After the concert Arina Sesmiy was congratulated by the director of Kirovograd music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus Ye.Malyavkina who mentioned that pedagogical stuff makes a lot of effort to develop musical talents of each pupil harmoniously.

   It has become a good tradition to organize concerts of pupils and teachers of Kirovograd children’s music school №1 named after H.Neuhaus in so called musical salon of A.A.Osmerkin Art-Memorial Museum.
   On February 13, 2015 took place a solo concert “With love in the heart” of the 4th grader of violin class Kateryna Misko. Young musician’s repertoire included not only classical compositions by Charles Dancla, Giovani Grazioli and Federigo Fiorillo, but also works by Ukrainian composers Borys Lyatoshynski “Melody on Ukrainian folk theme”, Vadym Homolyak “The Carpathian legend” and our fellowman Yuliy Meytus “Variations on Ukrainian theme”.
   Kate has been dreaming to be a violinist since her childhood. And it was her wish, not her parents’, to go to the music school. There she masters playing the instrument sounds of which are fascinating under the guidance of T.Saprykina.
   At eleven years Kate has a lot of awards. She is a laureate of regional and all-Ukrainian competitions, she performs in the ensemble of stringed and bow instruments “Dyvosvit”. Kate does not stop and this year she began to master piano.
    Kate, as a real artist, received a lot of flowers and presents, and also “Valentine cards” from her classmates after the concert.