The Windy Hill Guitar Ensemble and the Kachala Family will present a concert to benefit Ukraine on Sunday, June 12, at 4 p.m., at the South Congregational Church.
Performers Mattias and Stefan Kachala, are students at The Master’s School in Avon and members of a Ukrainian family with deep roots and extended family still living in Ukraine.
In addition to the Ukrainian National Anthem, the students of the Windy Hill Guitar Studio will play music arranged for classical guitar from the repertoire of the bandura orchestra Oy y Luiz Chervona Kalyna, and a setting of a poem by Ukrainian national poet laureate Taras Schevchenko (1814-1861) titled My Thoughts. They will also present Romance-Elegy for solo guitar by composer Leonid Hrabovsky, who was born in Kyiv in 1935.
Evelyn Danke, a junior at GMHS, will perform two pieces by Spanish guitarist and composer Francesco Tárrega (1852-1909), Lágrima and Adelita.
In addition, Shannon McCord of Granby, currently a student at Vassar College, Nicholas DeFranzo of East Granby, now studying at the University of Rhode Island, and Sue Canavan of Granby, will all play with the ensemble. Rick Handville, a Granby resident, will perform a meditative composition for solo piano.
The Kachala family and the Board of Christian Outreach at South Church have suggested places to send donations in support of the people of Ukraine and the list appears in the concert program.
Karen and Rick Handville are creating a video for those who cannot attend that will be available on the South Church YouTube channel when the concert is posted there.
Due to Covid-19 protocols masks and social distancing will be required for those attending in person. For more information contact Laura Mazza-Dixon at the Windy Hill Guitar Studio at 860-653-6146.