Serenading the Summer Moon

Join in the fun as duo Slywotzky & Sytkowski perform a program of opera arias and show tunes, classical and popular song.

a concert/cabaret of songs in English, French and Ukrainian

Slywotzky & Sytkowski perform together at various venues in NYC, at The Loft at Hermit Woods Winery in Meredith, NH and at Williams Hall in Key West, FL.

Contralto Vira Slywotzky has performed principal roles with major American opera companies such as Seattle Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Center for Contemporary Opera and Sarasota Opera and has appeared in concert with orchestras in New York and New England. She has sung recitals, concerts and cabarets in many of New York City’s premiere performance venues, large and small, from The Duplex to Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall. Internationally Slywotzky has performed in Canada, France, Hungary, Russia, Sweden and Wales.

A champion of new music, Slywotzky has premiered more than 30 vocal works.

Since February 2022, Slywotzky’s fundraising performances have served to collect over $180,000 to help soldiers and civilians in Ukraine in their fierce fight to survive the ongoing attacks from the east and to ensure a peaceful and democratic future for Ukraine.

David Sytkowski, pianist and vocal coach, is a Visiting Artist in Residence at Bard College and the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where he is Director of Music for Opera Workshop, leads the Musical Theatre Performance Workshop, coaches singers and teaches private piano.

VOWEL MOVEMENTS, a subversive classical/cabaret/drag collaboration with Pretty Lamé, premiered at Hudson Hall in June 2023 through the support of New York State Council on the Arts, and was remounted for ICA Miami in February 2024. Sytkowski was music director for Urinetown at The Fisher Center at Bard in April 2024. Other recent productions include Handel’s Rodelinda with RB Schlather at Hudson Hall in October 2023 and Sir John in Love for the Bard Music Festival August 2023.

In September 2019, Sytkowski made his Joe’s Pub debut in Under The Influence with the legendary Justin Vivian Bond. This led to Auntie Glam’s Happy Hour, a weekly livestream that Zachary Woolf proclaimed one of “The Best of the Year’s At-Home Divas” (New York Times).