Natalia Ponomarchuk

Natalia Ponomarchuk is a Ukrainian conductor and a graduate of the National Music Academy of Ukraine, where she studied with Allin Vlasenko. Her appointments have included leadership of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Dnipro Philharmonic, and conducting positions with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Kyiv Camerata and Ukrainian National Radio. She became chief conductor of the Kyiv Chamber Orchestra of the National Philharmonic in 2018.

A committed advocate of Ukrainian repertoire, she conducts Antonyuk’s Symphony No. 3 and Lorca cantata on this recording.