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Music in the blood (from left): Mother Viktoria Tkachenko and father Volodymyr Dotsenko are professional guitarists, daughter Olha Dotsenko plays the piano.
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A Ukrainian family is trying to gain a foothold in Gauting.
Gauting
– “We are very grateful to the Germans,” says Volodymyr Dotsenko.
After fleeing Ukraine, the music professor found a new home in Gauting with his wife Viktoria Tkachenko and daughter Olha Dotsenko.
At the recent “kitchen concert” with Ukrainian borscht with the Gautingen couple Christiane and Dr.
Klaus Wagner thrilled the musical family of 30 listeners.
He heard the professional musicians for the first time at the benefit concert of the Evangelical Church Music Association in the Christ Church in Gauting, says host Dr.
Klaus Wagner.
The artist couple are award-winning guitarists, and their daughter is a pianist.
The aim of the private concert was to support the family of musicians, who had already given benefit concerts for Ukraine in Munich and the Schlossberghalle Starnberg, with a donation, because: “When people make music together, it creates something peace-making and calming.”
The young pianist opened the concert with a dramatic improvisation “Hommage à Edith Piaf” by Francis Poulenc.
The romantic intermezzo by Johannes Brahms was followed by a shimmering “Star Rain” performed with rhythmic tapping by the guitar duo Tkachenko and Dotsenko.
After the syncopated jazz piece “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” and the wistful tango “En Skai” came the climax: with her fingers flying over the keys and a perfect touch, the 25-year-old played “Un sospiro” from Études No. 3 by Franz Liszt rousing and fast-paced.
As a thank you there was applause from the 30 listeners and donations.
As the young pianist told Starnberger Merkur after the concert, she had to flee with her mother, who taught at the University of Kharkiv, after Russia attacked her homeland in April 2022.
They initially found accommodation in Starnberg through contacts with Prof. Kristin von der Goltz, who teaches baroque cello.
The father, a professor emeritus at the University of Kharkiv, was only allowed to leave the country after his 60th birthday because of compulsory military service.
After the Russian bombardment and siege of Kharkiv almost two years ago, their home was destroyed: “There was no water, no electricity, no food and only one loaf of bread a day for an entire family - and no connection for four months,” says the mother .
Her own parents died in Kharkiv, which has now been recaptured.
The award-winning guitarists continue to work with their Ukrainian students at the university: the two teach online from Gauting.
Pianist Olha Dotsenko, who lives with her parents in Gauting, is completing postgraduate studies in fortepiano at the Munich University of Music.
Because she doesn't get any student loans, she earns her way through her studies by taking piano lessons.
She also occasionally plays the organ in the Christ Church.
In any case, the Ukrainian musical family is very happy about further performance opportunities for donations, emphasizes Henrike Duchon from the Helpers' Circle.
You can contact her at 0175/572 00 66.
Christine Cless Wesle