The 7th LvivMozArt International Festival runs August 2026 — 12 concerts across Lviv, Kyiv, Odesa. Special guest — Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.
LvivMozArt — the international academic music festival founded by Oksana Lyniv in 2017 — celebrates its seventh edition in August 2026. The programme spans 18 days (10-27 August) with 12 concerts across Lviv (8), Kyiv (2), and Odesa (2). The anniversary festival concept: 'Music on the Front Line' — dialogue between Western Europe and Ukraine through musical forms. Festival headliner is the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra with a Wagner + Lyatoshynsky programme. This is the orchestra's first performance in Ukraine in its entire history (founded 1872). The performance is scheduled at Lviv Opera House on 18 August — the day before the start of Bayreuth-2026, where Lyniv will be the principal conductor (see separate news). Other guests: Sir Antonio Pappano (resident conductor), Jordi Savall (programme 'European Baroque on Ukrainian Soil'), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Ukrainian partners — NSO Ukraine, Lviv National Philharmonic, KSO Kyiv Symphony. The programme includes 4 Ukrainian premieres: 2 new works by Ukrainian composers (Skoryk Foundation grant recipients — see PR1), 1 re-orchestrated version of forgotten works by Borys Lyatoshynsky, 1 collaborative composition by a German-Ukrainian authorial duo. Tickets available through the official festival website from February 2026.
