BEXLEY, Ohio — Capital University is turning to an international composer to highlight a week-long festival.

What You Need To Know

  • Alla Zagaykevych started playing the piano when she was a little girl and eventually learned how to electronically compose her own music in Paris 

  • Zagaykevych is a Ukrainian composer who is performing in Capital University's NOW Festival

  • The NOW Festival theme this year is "Art in time of Conflict" 

Ukrainian composer Alla Zagaykevych traveled from Kyiv, Ukraine, to share her electronically composed music and her classical piano skills with students.

It’s part of the Columbus area school’s “NOW Festival.” The theme this year is “Art in Time of Conflict.”

Zagaykevych started playing piano when she was a little girl because her grandmother was a soprano singer. When she was older, she traveled to Paris to learn how to compose her own music electronically because she wanted to contribute to every musical element in a song. 

Amid the war between Russia and Ukraine, Zagaykevych believes music is a language we all understand and that the world needs to be more open-minded in order for us to have less violence. 

“I think it’s very important for us to invite the artist in some conversation,” Zagaykevych said. “Some collaboration with other people in the time of conflict or the time of war.”

Zagaykevych will perform at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Capital University’s Huntington Recital Hall for the NOW festival’s third concert of the week. 

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