Natalia Ponomarchuk “models the interior of the music with her bare hands” in debut with the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra
On the 8 December, lauded conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk made her highly anticipated debut with the Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra at the Wunderino Arena in Germany. The programme featured Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 (The Age of Anxiety) with
Natalia Ponomarchuk: “War has its sounds. I recognise them wherever they appear”
Natalia Ponomarchuk was in Odesa when the war began. She was with the National Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra rehearsing the Dvořák Violin Concerto, Vaughan Williams’s “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis”, and Stravinsky’s “Song of the Nightingale”. The concert was