Exiled Ukrainian musicians create orchestra in Germany

The orchestra is named Mriya, the Ukrainian phrase for “dream” — as a result of its musicians dreamed of creating music regardless of the warfare. It was created in March by Ukrainians who  have fled their residence nation and since then, greater than 30 musicians have joined in.

Margaryta Grynyvetska is considered one of its newer members. The conductor of the Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater fled proper originally of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She met with two mates to create music collectively. “I did not imagine that our first meeting would take place on a big stage like the Berliner Philharmonie,” she informed DW.

On May 10, the Mriya Orchestra is taking the stage with a blended program of German classics and Ukrainian contemporaries on the live performance corridor in Berlin.

Working with a giant community

Backed by funding of the help group Alliance4Ukraine, the orchestra pays tribute to those that are standing up for Ukraine and serving to individuals go away their war-torn nation.

The musicians are additionally collaborating with the Berliner Philharmonie to create work alternatives for skilled artists from Ukraine.

When it involves discovering a spot to remain, on the lookout for rehearsal halls or live performance areas, the Hamburg-based group Culture Connects, which was created in 2018, gives concrete assist. Roman Ohem, chairman of the affiliation, has been organizing chamber concert events with Ukraine musicians in Germany for the final seven years. With the assistance of his pal, cellist Lev Kucher, he created the web site Mriya.de.

“For me, the whole thing is a very personal matter,” Ohem says. “We simply created a list of fleeing professional musicians from Ukraine using our contacts. They signed up with the aim that we help them.”

Roman Ohem has been concerned with musicians even in the course of the Syrian warfare and in addition helped out as a violinist in the Syrian exile orchestra. “In this manner, the musicians can blossom and are free,” he says. The playbook, this system and the rehearsal plans are thus all created by the musicians themselves.

Top-class program in Berlin

Everyone who performs in Mriya — males have additionally in the meantime joined in — has labored as knowledgeable musician in their nation.

The orchestra’s founder is the well-known violist Kateryna Suprun. Hanna Tsurkan, solo violinist for the “Carpathian Rhapsody” by the Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk, has gained prizes at a number of worldwide competitions and is a member of the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Before her stint as conductor in Odesa, Margaryta Grynyvetska additionally labored with the well-known conductor Oksana Lyniv, with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and in addition in Luxor, Egypt.

The program for the live performance on May 10 on the Berliner Philharmonie includesWolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos in E flat main (Piano Concerto No.10), performed by the Ukrainian star pianist Kateryna Titova and her prize-winning compatriot, pianist Artem Yasynskyy.

Johann Sebastian Bach’s well-known Violin Concerto in A minor can be featured. The orchestra can be taking part in music by up to date composers, together with Valentyn Silvestrov. His work “Silent Music” is at present being performed at a number of concert events in Germany.

The composer Myroslav Skoryk, whose work can be a part of this system, can be common for his string orchestra compositions.

For Margaryta Grynyvetska, taking part in music from her residence nation is a really emotional affair. She seen it at a live performance she was conducting in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius: “I was close to tears when I realized that our life, which we had in Ukraine, will never be the same again,” she stated. “I don’t know when I will go back to my beloved Odesa, in my house, my home. That is why it is very important for us to play this music, to have this connection with our country.”

Women in the bulk

The orchestra options largely feminine violinists and woodwind gamers. Men seem just for a short while, Margaryta Grynyvetska says. “All men are now soldiers are we are fighting at the cultural front, so to speak. That is our task.”

Roman Ohem is now advocating for male musicians to get a rare allow to depart Ukraine, however that’s troublesome. “They can leave the country only if their musical work abroad is of more use than them using weapons.” That is the one cause for approving journey overseas for male musicians.

Meanwhile, in Germany, Margaryta Grynyvetska usually has the sensation that the Ukraine warfare has already develop into a normality. “That is why it is important for us to show that war is a serious situation and that the Ukrainians desperately need help and support,” she says.

Support with enthusiasm

Anyone who thinks that Ukrainian musicians can play on the venues at no cost is flawed, says Roman Ohem. “We pay €11,000 ($11,600) in rent to the Philharmonie. There is no discount and I personally have taken a loan of €11,000 with my German account and the association.”

His modest stipend, which he obtained as a contract artist in the course of the pandemic, has additionally flowed into assist initiatives. “Our concerts are 100% charity, which means, everything that is surplus goes immediately to Ukraine.” The live performance in the Berlin Philharmonic is, amongst others, supported by the German orchestra basis, the Deutsche Orchester-Stiftung. The proceeds are used for medical assist for warfare victims. For Ukrainian concert-goers, the occasion can be free.

 

This article was initially written in German.

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