The Holy Sepulchre Church and LPMAM collaboration presents a weekly concert series by musicians from the Ukraine Conservatoires. Free to attend concert with retiring collection shared by the musicians and Holy Sepulchre's Music in the Community Fund.

We will have Maksim Artemenko and Lola Marchenko performing on the Piano and Oboe, who are LPMAM Ukrainian Refugee music students.

Programme:

Maksim Artemenki - 2 Scherzos by Chopin

Lola Marchenko - Britten 1st Metamorphosis for solo oboe

Biographies

Maksim artemenko, piano Undergraduate Student from from Kharkiv University

Maksim is a 19 years old pianist from Kharkiv. He started piano at 6 years old and he was at his 3rd year of bacheloer at the Kharkiv University of Arts under the guidance of prof. O.V. Fekete when the war started. He won several international competitions in such cities as: Kharkiv (Cherny Competition, “Kharkov Assemblies”) Zaporozhye (“Chords of Khortitsa”, where I received the 1st prize), Narva (Chopin Competition). “I lived in Kharkov all my life and because of the war I lost the opportunity to live in my city and study.”

Lolita Marchenko, oboe Undergraduate Student from Lviv University
Lolita was a 1st year undergraduate student of Lviv National Academy of Music named after. M.V. Lysenko, specialization in orchestral woodwind and percussion instruments when the war started. She was also the Secretary of Student Self-Government of the Lviv National Academy of Music, and head of the chummery, responsible for the settlement of refugees from eastern Ukraine. She is a Laureate of the All-Ukrainian competition of wind and percussion victors “Sofievsky Surmy”, Uman city (III place), 2nd Prize at “Dniprovsky Surmi” competition in Dnipro, 1st Prize at “Your Dream” Kropyvnytskyi city.

Holy Sepulchre, the National Musicians’ Church and the London Performing Academy of Music are excited to announce that in response to the war in Ukraine, some of the rooms, including the Henry Wood Room at the church will be used for students from the Ukraine Conservatoires to restart their studies since arriving here under the visa scheme. In addition, the intention is for the church to also be used for regular concerts to provide performance opportunities for the students and generate income to fund the collaboration.

The collaboration between Holy Sepulchre and LPMAM is in response to the war in Ukraine, and provides a place for tuition, rehearsals and concerts for musicians from the Ukraine Conservatoires (https://hsl.church/give)