Music on Canvas
Town Crier, December 3, 2008Artistic Sounds
To the outside viewer, it might just look like a run-of-the-mill piano series. However, if one were to look closer, they would see that Maria Dolnycky’s Music on Canvas series isn’t ordinary by any means. Rather, it wouldn’t hurt to call it extraordinary. Read full review.
New Pathway, December 4, 2008
Colours and Keys at KUMF
A unique concert was held at the Canadian Ukrainian Art Foundation (KUMF) Gallery in Toronto on November 2. "Colours and Keys" was the opening event of the "Music on Canvas" concert series’ second season. The recital featured pianists Maria Dolnycky and Irina Semenova, and took place against the backdrop of abstract artwork by contemporary Canadian artists Sonia Cyhynka, Rina Gottesman, Leonore Johnston and Charlene Mandelbaum. Read full review.
Poetic Moods
American Record Guide, January/February 2008
If you enjoy Russian music as much as I do, you must get this. Chances are that most, if not all, of the music will be new to your ears. There is a fair amount of Scriabin's influence here, but very little of the Slavic melancholy associated with Rachmaninoff. Read full review.
La Scena, Winter 2008 Issue
Ce disque, qui propose un survol de la musique pour piano en Ukraine au XXe siècle, est une réussite complète. Réussite d'abord parce qu'on nous convainc la richesse de ce répertoire méconnu. Le choix des pièces, judicieux, réunit plusieurs horizons esthétiques: on passe notamment d'un romantisme très lyrique (Revutsky ou Kosenko) à l'écriture modérément atonale de Silvestrov (sa belle Sonate n'a rien à envier à ses œuvres pour orchestre). Read full review.
Poetic Moods continued
Wholenote Magazine, June, 2007
Maria Dolnycky's new CD, aptly titled “Poetic Moods”, is beautiful. From the moment you see the post-impressionist cover (by Olga Konoshchuk) until the last strains of Kosenko's Consolation Op.9 die away, you are liable to be dreamily transported. The pianist culminated a year of preparation in a recording done last November, at Humbercrest United. Read full review.
The Ukrainian Weekly, June 3, 2007
The CD, "Poetic Moods," recorded by the Toronto pianist Maria Dolnycky, explores the various creative moods of seven 20th century composers of Ukraine. Read full review.
Ukrainian News, Edmonton,
August 8 -21, 2007
Poetic Moods a welcome new recording
Poetic Moods samples nearly a century of solo piano music by Ukrainian composers. Although each of these composers has made significant contributions to the development of Ukrainian music within the European classical tradition and some have developed international recognition, their compositions are not familiar to North American audiences and are rarely performed. From this perspective, Dolnycky may be commended for her efforts to increase our exposure to the work of some of Ukraine’s most talented musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries. Read full review.