Maya Irgalina

Help Ukraine

Help Ukraine

Help Ukraine is a series of concerts organised in support of humanitarian organisations helping Ukraine. £5,438 have been donated to DEC Ukrainian Appeal and £1,237 to Belarusian Hub in Warsaw that is supporting Ukrainian refugees in Poland.

Project Programme

The programme included music by Ukrainian composers Skoryk and Kosenko, as well as Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert, Saint-Saëns, Scriabin, Montsalvatge, Ives etc.

About This Project

“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

Leonard Bernstein

Classical musicians from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Portugal, the UK and other countries united for this concert to support Ukraine.

Watch the ClassicFM video of Sasha Grynyuk and Roman Kosyakov rehearsing Mozart in preparation to one of the concerts (1,3 million views) >>

Here is a review by Christopher Axworthy of one of the first concerts in this project: War or Peace – The Help Ukraine Concert

Contributors

Olga Paliy, piano
Sasha Grynyuk, piano
Maya Irgalina, piano
Anna Ziman, violin
Ricardo Tauber, cello
Roman Kosyakov, piano
Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
Kamila Bydlowska, violin
Help Ukraine performers