Petersfield Musical Festival paid a handsome tribute to Ukraine using the power of music to express support for its beleaguered people.

Chairman Philip Young began the Petersfield Orchestra’s flagship concert with the Ukrainian national anthem, to the clear delight of the audience.

The same spirit of solidarity was developed later in the concert when piano soloist Valentina Seferinova performed her own arrangements of two lyrical and moving pieces by early 20th-century Ukranian composer Victor Kosenko as an encore, called Melody and Ancient Dance.

Referring to a 2019 trip she made to record a piano concerto with the Ukranian Festival Orchestra, she said: “It was my way of expressing support to all Ukranians.”

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