Already on Sunday, December 3, the XXIII International Festival of Contemporary Improvisational Music Jazz Bez opens. The festival includes 30 musicians from Ukraine, Poland, the Netherlands, Portugal and the USA, different music and different locations in the city.
Jazz Bez International Festival is one of the largest and longest-lasting festivals in Ukraine. And the only cross-border one: the activities take place in parallel in two countries — in Ukraine and in Poland. This year, the festival will unite Lviv, Drohobych, Vynnyky, Ternopil, Rivne and Uman, and in Poland – Przemyśl, Krakow and Lublin.
ХХІІІ Jazz Bez is organized by the NGO “Virmenska 35” and the Institute of Cultural Strategy with the support of the Polish Institute in Kyiv, the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Lviv, Kredobank, America House Lviv and the Lviv City Council.
XXIII Jazz Bez program in Lviv / December 3-12
Sunday, December 3
Mykhailo Balog and ΕΣΧΑΤΟΦΟΝIΑ
Dominican Cathedral, 7:30 p.m. Facebook event.
Friday, December 8
Serhiy Fedorchuk and the New musette project “Jazz Rehabilitation”
Markiyan Ivashishyn’s chapel near Dzyga (or Dzyga, if it’s winter!), 18:00
Pavlo Tabakov improvises in the carol “Jazz Christmas”
Dzyga, 19:00
Saturday, December 9
Jazz Bez Kids: musical improvisations for children with Iryna Vakulina
Dzyga, 12:00
Musical and poetic symphony “Unbreakable: I believe, I hope, I love – I live” (UA/PL)
Rafal Sarnetsky – guitar, Viktor Pavelko – saxophone, Yuriy Shepeta – piano,
Oleksandr Lebedenko – drums, Ihor Zakus – bass, author and composer of the project.
Lesy Theatre, 7 p.m. Concert tickets here.
Lecture-training “Why does favorite music restore?”
The neuropsychologist of the Unbroken Center, Evelia Bilska, reads
Dzyga, 19:30
The main jam session Jazz Bez
We invite all musicians of the festival!
“Kvartyra 35” / Dzyga (Virmenska, 35), 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 10
GANNA with jazz (UA/DE) and Spinifex with free jazz (NL/PT)
Lesy Theatre, 6 p.m. Here are tickets for the evening!
American vocalist Ray Brawn and quartet: Andriy Arnautov, Oleksiy Petukhov, Mykhailo Yevtushenko, Leonid Petkun
Emily Resort (Vynniki), 6 p.m. Here is the Facebook event.
Monday, December 11
Jazz Bez Junior: lectures for motivation
Lecture “From a dream to an idea”, Marta Bilska / Institute of Cultural Strategy
Lecture “From idea to action”, Solomiya Tkach / Institute of Cultural Strategy
Lecture “Tolerance in modern culture”, Volodymyr Beglov / America House Lviv
Lviv National Music Academy named after M. Lysenko, 12:00
Jazz Bez Junior: master classes for future musicians
Master classes from American, Ukrainian and Dutch musicians for students of the jazz department and their joint concert!
M. V. Lysenko National Academy of Arts, orchestra hall, 1:00 p.m
More about ХХІІІ Jazz Bez on the pages of the festival on Facebook and Instagram!