The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra has announced its 2025 Resilience Tour set for this August.

The tour will take the ensemble through Warsaw, Wroclaw, Lucerne, Vilnius, Jürmala, Bucharest, Amsterdam, and London.

One program will feature the Prelude and “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde” featuring soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen as well as Kolomiiets’ “Suite from ‘The Mothers of Kherson'” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. On other programs, Willis-Sørensen will take on Strauss’ “Four Last Songs.” The Kolomiiets will be swapped out with the “Tannhäuser” overture on some programs, while Beethoven’s symphony will be substituted with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8. On other programs, violinist Alexandra Conunova will be performing Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor. Ukrainian composer Victoria Vita Polevá’s “Bucha Lacrimosa” will also be featured in two performances.

“For the fourth time since the onset of Russia’s brutal invasion, we’ll be touring in support of Ukraine’s right to be free,” said conductor Keri-Lynn Wilson, who will conduct the tour. “Our program features Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, whose iconic opening four notes, amongst many other things, came to symbolize allied resistance to Naziism during the Second World War. Let them be a symbol to the world of our resistance today.

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