The project’s concert programmes, bringing together works by Ukrainian and European composers, will be staged at leading venues across Europe, including the Pohoda Festival (Trenčín, Slovakia), the Bethlehem Chapel (Prague, Czech Republic), the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Philharmonic, Klangraum Graz (Graz, Austria), CULTUS Ružinov (Bratislava, Slovakia) and the Budapest Music Centre (Budapest, Hungary).
The project’s geographical reach is expected to continue expanding. Participants include the INSO-Lviv Academic Symphony Orchestra, the Kyiv Camerata National Ensemble of Soloists (featuring Susanna Chakhoyan and Lyubov Ostrovska), Johannes Krebs and Olena Miso.
Schedule of the first concerts for July 2026:
1 July (Graz, Austria): A chamber music programme featuring Olena Miso (piano) and Johannes Krebs (cello). The programme will include works by Franz Schubert, Boris Lyatoshynskyy and Viktor Kosenko.
11 July (Trenčín, Slovakia): A performance by the INSO-Lviv Orchestra, conducted by Georgian conductor Nikoloz Rachveli, on the open-air stage of the Pohoda Festival, featuring the programme Music of the Danube region. The programme will include the premiere of a work by Slovak composer Haimoni Balgavá.
28–31 July (Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest): An international tour by the Kyiv Camerata ensemble under the baton of conductor Ivan Cherednichenko. The programme features works by Ukrainian composers (V. Barvinskyy, O. Kozarenko, O. Rodin, Z. Almashi and V. Zubytskyy) alongside those of their European counterparts (F. Liszt, B. Bartók, I. Želenka, H. Valhava, A. Dvořák and Z. Kodály).
The Polyphony of the Danube project aims to revitalise dialogue on Europe’s shared cultural heritage, transcend historical boundaries and create new meanings within the common cultural space of Central and Eastern Europe.