Nadia Tarnawsky
The boundless plains - songs from the Steppe
Nadia Tarnawsky…
spent much of 2017 and 2018 in Ukraine as a recipient of a Fulbright award. In 2011 she received a Traditional Arts Fellowship from Artist Trust and an Artist Support Residency from Jack Straw Productions. She sang under the tutelage of Yevgeny Yefremov with Ensemble Hilka of New York in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster in Ukraine. A recording of this repertoire was released on the Smithsonian Folkways label. She has taught and sung traditional Ukrainian folk songs in many venues in North America and Europe, and has performed with Cappella Romana, Trobár, Apollo's Fire, the Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble and Ukrainian Village Voices.