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1998

"Unsurpassed choral music from Ukraine. On Friday evening (14.08.98) а live broadcast from Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen was presented to radio listeners. But they could not see everything that was happening on the stage, neither could they see the enthusiasm of the audience that stood up, applauding and waving handkerchiefs.
The choir performed with discipline and accepted applauds in а very artistic manner. Some choirs do not pay particular attention to this. The "Kyiv" Chamber Choir impressed us with its fresh and talented recreation of traditions that are fairly distant from our choral singing, but are appealing when they are voiced so beautifully".

("Roskilde Dagblad"; August 17, 1998; Knud Cornelius)

1997

"In its concert of sacred music on Sunday evening at Carnegie Hall, the Kiev Chamber Choir offered evidence that the revival of Ukrainian music has been proceeding apace. The choir has specialized in liturgical works, including the study and interpretation of ancient manuscripts written in long-forgotten regional forms of musical notation.
Hobdych drew from it а disciplined, well-blended sound that was appealingly varied in colour and flexible when the music demanded broad dynamics".

("The New York Times"; December 23, 1997; Allan Kozinn)

"In musical parlance а chamber ensemble conjures an image of delicacy and lightness and intricate textures rather than blocks of sound. The Kyiv Chamber Choir (from Kiev, Ukraine), which performed at the George Mason University Center for the Arts on Saturday, throws those images into а cocked hat.
The group has only 21 singers, but what singers they are - big, marvellously focused voices, the kind that might easily hold their own on the opera stage but without the kind of operatic vibrato that can make an ensemble rattle. They can sing wonderfully clean unisons and the basses have low E's to die for."

("The Washington Post"; December 22, 1997; Joan Reinthaler)

1995

"Today it is hard to imagine Ukrainian culture without "Kyiv Chamber Choir". It is appropriate that we greet the XXI century together with this group, since the future of Ukrainian art is with it".

("Ukraina moloda"; December 15, 1995; N. Semenenko)