The Holy Sepulchre Church and LPMAM collaboration presents a weekly concert series by musicians from Ukrainian conservatoires.
Free to attend - retiring collection shared between the musicians and Holy Sepulchre's Music in the Community Fund.
PROGRAMME
Bach Sonata for Violin no.1 in G minor BWV1001:
1. Preludio [3’50]
Paganini Caprice no.16 in G minor: Presto [2’30]
Wieniawski Caprices Op.10 no.3 [6’30]
Mykola Lysenko Elegy "Sum" (Sadness) [8’00]
Bruch "Kol Nidrei” Op.47 [12’00]
Mozart "Kegelstatt" Trio in E-flat major, K.498 for violin, viola and piano:
1. Andante [5’22]
2. Minuetto [5’17]
3. Rondò. Allegretto [8’00]
PERFORMERS
Lalita Melenchuk, viola
Lalita is a 21 year old violist from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She is the winner of several international competitions, including 1st Prize at the I international festival-competition named after Bogodar Kotorovich “Maestro-Fest”, Music Talent Award at the Gifted Youth International Competition, XIV International “Kharkiv Assemblies”, Tchaikovsky Festival in Trostyanets and Lugansk Contest-Festival. She studied at the Kotliarevsky Kharkiv National University and performed at the masterclasses of Y.Tkanov (Kyiv), A. Below (Austria), M.Risanov (UK) and V.Mikita (Germany). She has been a student of Prof.Hana Gubenko at LPMAM since October 2021.
Yuliia Mats, piano
Yuliia is a 19 year old pianist from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She graduated with honours from Kharkiv Mozart Music School in piano, vocal, guitar, and played in the percussion orchestra on the vibraphone, winning several competitions in each instrument and full scholarship to continue her studies at the Kharkiv Secondary Specialized Music School. She is now a student at the Kharkiv National University of Arts, with scholarship for high academic performance. She is the winner of many international competitions, such as the “Feurich-Virtuos” in Lviv, Chopin Piano Competition in Narva, Kharkiv Assemblies Music Competition.
Nikita Vikhorev, violin
Nikita is a 21 year old violist from Odessa, Ukraine. He graduated in violin and conducting at Nikholaiv College of Music Art before joining the London Performing Academy of Music for the Undergraduate Performance program at Kharkiv university. He performed extensively as soloist for Classical and Crossover, with recitals broadcast on television, including the opening of the concert season in Kharko.
Prof. Hiroaki Takenouchi, piano
Hiroaki is the Head of Piano at London Performing Academy of Music. As a soloist, he has appeared on many concert platforms including Wigmore Hall, Tokyo Opera City and the South Bank Centre. He has also performed at festivals in Bath, Cheltenham and Salzburg and given recitals in the UK, Japan, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy and Canada. His more unusual projects have included a recital for the Rarities of Piano Repertoire Festival in Husum (Germany), a BBC Four documentary The Prince and the Composer on the life and music of Parry and BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week, for which Hiroaki has recorded solo piano works by William Sterndale Bennett and Alexander Campbell Mackenzie. More recently he was invited to make further recordings for the programme, this time of Hélène de Montgeroult, Doreen Carwithen and Johanna Müller-Hermann amongst others, as part of BBC Radio 3’s initiative, the ‘Forgotten Women Composers Project’. He has albums released by LORELT, SOMM and NMC.
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 Ukraine music 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 Ukrainian music conservatoires (https://hsl.church/give)