We are hosting our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts at 1.10pm, doors open at 12.30pm for refreshments. The concert will be in person and live-streamed on YouTube. We will have Maksim Artemenko and Lola Marchenko performing on the Piano and Oboe, who are LPMAM Ukrainian Refugee music students. The livestream link is here - https://youtu.be/McOqsIYcxlg

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.