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BRAMA, October 22, 2000, 11:00pm EDT


Ukrainian musicians delight audience in DC

- ©ArtUkraine.com/MW, 10/6/00
Solomiya Ivakhiv on the violin; Christina Anum-Dorhuso at the piano.

Two outstanding, young Ukrainian artists, Solomiya Ivakhiv on the violin and Christina Anum-Dorhuso on the piano gave a brilliant performance at the second benefit concert of the 2000-2001 cultural season sponsored by The Washington Group (TWG) Cultural Fund earlier this month. Christina Anum-Dorhuso opened the concert playing Johann Sebastian Bach's, "Partita in a-minor; BWV827". The next four numbers were performed on the violin by Solomiya Ivakhiv accompanied by Christina Anum-Dorhuso. Violin solos composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, Yevhen Stankovych, Myroslav Skoryk and Manuel de Falla were played to the delight of the audience by the 21 year old Solomiya Kvakhiv. The audience was captivated by the talent and skills displayed by the two young artists. The concert series this year is raising funds for the procurement of musical instruments for the Lviv Conservatory in Ukraine.

Christina Anum-Dorhuso of Odessa, Ukraine, has been studying at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia since 1997 with the distinguished piano pedagogue Eleanor Sokoloff. At Curtis, where all students receive full-tuition scholarships solely on the basis of merit, Ms. Anum-Dorhuso holds the David H. Springman Memorial Fellowship.

The 21 year-old pianist made her debut in 1987 at the Odessa National Conservatory. She has since performed as soloist with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kyiv Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Anum-Dorhuso is the recipient of the Prokofiev Award, the Krainev Award and the Maria I. Murowany Award. She has performed on Ukrainian national radio and television.

- ©ArtUkraine.com/MW, 10/6/00
Laryssa Chopivsky, director of TWG Cultural Fund (center) visits with the two artists after the concert.

Violist Solomiya Ivakhiv was born on April 3, 1980, in Lviv, Ukraine. She received first prize in the Y. Kocian International Competition in 1993 in the Czech Republic. At age 14, she concertized throughout Ukraine, Poland and Hungary. During her student years at the S. Krushelnytska Lviv Music Academy for highly talented students, Ms. Ivakhiv studied with Yuriy Golda and Oresta Kohut.

In 1997 she successfully auditioned for study with violinist Rafael Druian at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Presently Solomiya is the student of Ida Kavafian and Joseph Silverstein. In 1998, as part of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, she performed at the Verbler Music Festival in Switzerland and the J.F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. The orchestra toured Europe with conductor Andre Previn and concert artist Anne Sophie Mutter.

In January 2000, she returned to Ukraine to perform with the Lviv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra as the soloist in Saint-Saens Concerto No. 3 in B minor and Bruch's Concerto No. 1 in G minor. In June 2000, Solomiya won second prize at the Prokofiev International Competition.

When contacted to perform at The Washington Group's Cultural Series Solomiya responded, "I am so delighted and honored to give my to my native land and support the efforts of The Washington Group Cultural Fund in their fundraising to place new instruments in the hands of talented young musicians in Lviv, Ukraine, where I first started serious musical study. I am so pleased to give back to the community that gave me so much and gave me the early foundation to be accepted as a scholarship student at the prestigious and world renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia."

- ©ArtUkraine.com/MW, 10/6/00
Mr. and Mrs. Andriy Bihun (left) greet the performers at the reception held after the concert. The Bihun's lived in Kyiv for several years while Mr. Bihun represented the U.S. Department of Commerce in Ukraine.

The featured composer for this concert was Yevhen Stankovych who was born in 1942 in Svaliava, in the Zakarpattia Oblast of Ukraine. A prolific composer, since 1946 he has authored 10 symphonies, six chamber symphonies, an opera (Where The Fern Blooms), four ballets, a large number of works in the oratorical, vocal chamber and instrumental chamber genres, as well as incidental music to six music theater plays and more than 100 films.

At the Soviet Union collapsed, Stankovych wrote several monumental works commemorating Ukraine's victims. His "Kiddish: Requiem for Babyn Yar" was the composer's gift in memory of the Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazi forces in Kyiv in September 1941; "Requiem For Those Who Died Of Famine" commemorates the six million who perished of hunger in 1932-1933 in Soviet Ukraine; and "Black Elegy" is a remembrance of the victims of the Chornobyl tragedy.

The next concert in the series will be held Monday, November 13, 2000 and will feature Natalia Khoma on the cello and Volodymyr Vynnytsky on the piano. All concerts are held at The Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. Laryssa Chopivsky is Director of TWG Cultural Fund and Chrystia Sonevytsky serves as Chair of TWG Benefit Concert Series.

E. Morgan Williams
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