SUMMARY

US Ukrainian Activists (USUA) proudly presented a charity concert of Ukrainian music, featuring the talented Ukrainian-American pianist Pavlo Gintov, for the first time at La Maison Française, the Embassy of France in the USA. The program included pieces by renowned Ukrainian composers Serhiy Bortkiewicz, Viktor Kosenko, Myroslav Skoryk, and Oleg Bezborodko. About Pavlo Gintov: Pianist Pavlo Gintov has been described as “a poet of the keyboard” by Marty Lash of the Illinois Entertainer, a “musical storyteller” by the Japanese publication Shikoku News, and “a fantastic pianist and extraordinary artist” by Jerry Dubins of the Fanfare Magazine. Following his debut at the Kyiv Philharmonic Hall at the age of 12, Mr. Gintov has been touring throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the United States, appearing at such stages as Carnegie Hall in New York, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Teatro Verdi Nationale in Milan, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory and Kioi Hall in Tokyo. He has been a soloist with Tokyo Royal Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Shizuoka Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic under such conductors as Michiyoshi Inoue, Victor Yampolsky, Thomas Sanderling and Tomomi Nishimoto. Mr. Gintov graduated with honors from the Moscow State Conservatory, where he was a student of Lev Naumov and Daniil Kopylov. He holds a Doctor of Musical Art degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he studied with Nina Svetlanova.