Strangers stopped to listen in the street when the windows were open and the girls from refugee family were practising
hen a Northumberland couple opened up their village home to a Ukrainian mother and her two daughters last year, they were responding to the plight of refugees escaping the Russian invasion. Having been told no more than that this was a musical family, Sheilagh Matheson and Chris Roberts offered two bedrooms and a honky-tonk piano.
in London. Her 12-year-old sister, Sasha, a violinist, has a scholarship to become a weekly boarder at the Yehudi Menuhin School near Leatherhead in Surrey. The girls and their older brother, Danylo, 25, were born in Simferopol in Crimea, from where the family fled in 2014, when the Russians took control. They moved to Irpin, near Kyiv, only to lose their father, Gennady, a professor of Ukrainian literature, in a fishing accident a year later.
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, the Royal Academy’s principal, said: “Khrystyna Mykhailichenko is an extraordinary talent of rare maturity for her age. She came and played the Chopin Ballade No 1 to me recently and revealed what a serious artist she is, almost as if the burdens of a hard life were being channelled through her playing. This was well beyond the carefree virtuosity one hears in this piece so often. It also had real grip and originality.
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