Ми Є! / WE ARE!
CONCERT IN SUPPORT OF UKRAINE
When: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 – 19:00
Where: St John’s Church, Waterloo
Waterloo Road London SE1 8TY United Kingdom
On January 26, a charity concert will take place at St. John’s Waterloo Church in support of Medical Life Lines Ukraine – a British foundation that supplies ambulances and other medical equipment to Ukraine.
The concert will feature young Ukrainian musicians who have found themselves in the UK due to the war, performing alongside their more experienced colleagues works by Ukrainian and British composers. Many pieces will be performed for the first time in the UK. Works by Victoria Poleva, Valentin Silvestrov, Myroslav Skoryk, Yuriy Shevchenko, and Vitaliy Hubarenko will be played alongside music by Sir Malcolm Arnold – the first British composer to draw on Ukrainian folklore.
Among the performers will be one of the most significant musicians in the UK, oboist and conductor Nicholas Daniel (OBE) – recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music and the Cobbett Medal for Chamber Music; the most notable young Ukrainian violinist, Dmytro Udovichenko, who has won major violin competitions in Montreal, Singapore, and Brussels; renowned Ukrainian-British pianist Sasha Grynyuk, winner of the Grieg Competition and the Guildhall Gold Medal; Natalia Ponomarchuk, chief conductor of the legendary Kyiv Chamber Orchestra; and Karen Wong, winner of the British Flute Society Young Artist Competition. They will be accompanied by the Another Chamber Orchestra, composed of young Ukrainian students and their more experienced British colleagues.
The idea for the concert belongs to violinist Roman Mints, a professor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and the co-creator of the legendary “Homecoming” festival, which took place in Moscow for 25 years. His recordings have been nominated for GRAMMY® and ICMA awards, and he is also a recipient of the Supersonic Award. As the author of dozens of concert programs, Mints has dedicated the last two years to promoting Ukrainian music and assisting Ukrainian musicians.
The goals of the project are to provide earning opportunities for needy Ukrainian music students, promote Ukrainian music, and express the support of the international community of musicians for Ukraine.
Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the charity Medical Life Lines Ukraine.
