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Humanitarian Fund Raiser for Ukraine Perth Concert Hall 27 3 2022 Photos Bohdan Warchomij March 28, 2022

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Rob Cowell

 

 

Tony Lennon addresses the Concert Hall audience

The Humanitarian Fund Raiser for Ukraine Perth Concert Hall 27 3 2022 organised by Rob Cowell and Irina Buesvska-Cowell with sponsorship from Tony Lennon and his wife Gwyneth and supported by media stories in the West Australian and the Subiaco Post was well attended by Perth music aficionados on a gloomy Perth afternoon. Sitting in the Hall with musicians on stage responding to a Peace initiative by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, with refugees in attendance from Ukraine, with young children performing at such a significant event, made one understand the consequences of war and the impact of politicians without moral parameters on the world we live in.

An 18 metre by 12 metre Ukrainian flag unveiled at Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe Beach and donated by Sculpture’s founder David Handley to Perth’s Ukrainian Association was suspended at the concert hall above the stage behind the performers.

Irina Buevska-Cowell’s 92 year old grandmother is trapped in a eighth floor Kharkiv apartment building, enduring the relentless bombing on a historic city that once was the capital of Ukraine and is now a target for total destruction. Irina graduated from the Kharkiv State Conservatorium of Music before continuing her studies at UWA in 2003. In the week leading up to the concert she found out that the Karkhiv Conservatorium had been bombed, with decades of history destroyed by a Russian bomb. Her grandmother is also in continuing danger from the ongoing attack on civilians throughout  Ukraine.

Akiko Miyazawa Photo Bohdan Warchomij

Ashley Smith Photo Bohdan Warchomij

Anna Bogachova Photo Bohdan Warchomij

The Concert for Ukraine featured singers Ashly Skye (member of Opera Australia) and Penny Shaw, violinist Akiko Miyazawa, cellist Michael Goldschlager, clarinetist Ashley Smith, and pianists Anna Bogachova and Anna Sleptsova. Ensemble music featured as well with Irina Buevska-Cowell performing with her children on violin and cello and a quartet of young girls performing a piece from the Erl King.

Photos Bohdan Warchomij

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