A charity online concert of iconic Ukrainian academic musicians who left their homes due to the war is being organized in Lviv. The country’s leading musicians, who are currently in the city, will perform works that would have been heard in other peaceful cities to help raise money to support academic musicians affected by the war.
The program will feature works by Ukrainian composers: one of the preludes by Borys Lyatoshynsky, written during the evacuation during World War II, Valentin Silvestrov’s Serenade, Zoltan Almasha’s Microcosms and Svyatoslav Lunyov’s Mordonga, which now defends Kyiv with other volunteers. The program will be complemented by a part of Olivier Messian’s Quartet at the End of Time, a work written by the composer in a German concentration camp.
Artists:
- Anthony Baryshevsky, piano
- Alexey Semenenko, violin
- Orest Snail, violin
- Victor Rekalo, cello
- Zoltan Almashi, cello
- Dmytro Pashinsky, clarinet
All funds raised will be used to help academic musicians affected by the war, in collaboration with the NGO KYIV CONTEMPORARY MUSIC DAYS: https://en.kcmd.eu/support.
The concert will be broadcast from the main stage of the Lviv National Philharmonic, one of the key venues of academic music in the country, which has now become a logistics center for the distribution of medical and humanitarian aid.
FB event: The Unplayed Concert. Ukraine.
Website: www.unplayedconcert.com.
The concert will take place on March 24 at 18:00 – a month after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion. The live broadcast of the concert from the Lviv National Philharmonic will be available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hxvypN_onU.