Project Leaders

Anna Hadetska

Co-founder and Programme Director of Open Opera Ukraine, Ph.D. in Arts History, music expert. During 2006-2009, she underwent postgraduate studies at the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, Chair of Theory and History of Culture. In 2013, she defended Ph.D. thesis (speciality 26.00.01. - Theory and history of culture (History of Arts)) "Ballroom dancing as a phenomenon of the culture of Romanticism in the creative biography of M.I. Glinka" (academic adviser – Doctor of Arts, Professor S.V. Tyshko). Since 2009 – a lecturer (acting assistant professor) at the Chair of Theory and History of Culture of the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. As a lecturer, she cooperates with different educational and cultural organisations and institutions ("Cultural Project", Kyiv-Mohyla Business School).

Yevgeniya Ignatenko

She studied Musical Art – Musical Studies in Ukraine (Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, class of Nina Herasymova-Persydska), and Byzantine chant and musical palaeography in Greece (L. Angelopoulos, М. Alexandru). Since 2002 – a lecturer at Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. Ph.D. in Musical Art (2006). Scholar of A. Onassis Foundation (2008, 2015). Member of the International Musicological Society Study Group “Music of the Christian East and Orient”, and of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Study Group for Palaeography of Byzantine Music. She edited and prepared for printing the book “Partesny Concertos of the 17^th  – 18^th centuries from the Kyiv Collection” (in cooperation with Nina Herasymova- Persydska, Kyiv, 2006), and is the author of more than 40 scientific articles.

Nataliya Khmilevska

Co-founder and Programme Director of Open Opera Ukraine, Ph.D. in Arts History, chorus master, conductor, coach in Baroque vocal. During postgraduate studies at the Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, she studied the specificity of the performing style of the Baroque and Renaissance music, founded Vox animae ensemble of old music. As the art director and a singer of the ensemble, she intensely toured and took part in prestigious international festivals. She is an active participant of master classes and schools of Baroque singing (Kyiv-Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Italy). Since April, 2018 - art director and conductor of the first in Ukraine Baroque amateur chorus B.A.C.H. Musical director of the research laboratory for study and performance of Ukrainian Baroque music under Musica sacra Ukraina project.