The Paris Philharmonic launched the movement to help the musicians of the Kyiv National Orchestra. That of Metz took the ball to welcome them.
Never without my violin!
Daria and Diana are professional violinists, inhabited by the passion for classical music to the point of making it their profession. But the recent conflict between Ukraine and Russia has forced them into exile, leaving their families, one in the east of the country in Lviv and the other at the Polish border.
At the time of fleeing, none failed to take away their most precious possession, their violin.
When they talk about their escapes, they each confess that for nothing in the world they would have abandoned their instrument. In a smile, Diana compares hers to a childand Daria jokes that she even forgot to bring a gala outfit that is essential to her job as a professional musician. On the other hand, she would never have forgotten her dear violin.
Solidarity orchestras
The Philharmonie de Paris has launched a solidarity operation with the kyiv orchestra. The objective is to welcome around forty refugees, thanks to appeals from theFrench Association of Orchestras and the Association of French Operas (also called the Réunion des Opéras de France). After the Orchester de Lyon it is the turn of that of Metz to follow the movement.
Moreover, with regard to the level of excellence of the Metz ensemble, David Reiland is the Music Director of the Orchester National de Metz. took the time to select the musicians. Unlike other Metz instrumentalists, they are not permanent. Their contracts are for two months and correspond to a need from the ONM, which was looking for two violinists to fill long-term absences.
The two violinists were impressed by the excellence of the Messin orchestra, while confessing some apprehensions due to the imminence of the concert on Saturday May 21, despite a 100% Russian program with which they are familiar (Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich). Administrative procedures prevented the two young women from rehearsing as much as they would have liked.
– Alexandre Mottot
Diana and Daria were conquered by the welcome, solicitude and attentions of their new colleagues. With Japanese, Korean, the 72 musicians recently led by a guest conductor of Estonian origin Kristiina Poska, are used to international collaborations, and even distant horizons. The Orchester Nationale de Metz has just returned from a recent trip to South Korea.
The universal language of music
Satoko, a perfectly bilingual Japanese violinist, finds this welcome initiative as happy as it is natural. Also excited about solidarity between musicians, she does not hesitate to multiply the signs of complicity between violinists.
Although language remains a barrier when it comes to discussing details, the Orchester Nationale de Metz knows that music crosses borders and differences thanks to the emotions it arouses and a form of soul supplement that speaks to sensibility.
Daria and Diana are not to be outdone and thank the various institutions that have made it possible to carry out this project.
And tomorrow?
The two violinists willingly admit their long-term desire to return home, “at home” in a country at peace again. This idea is also accompanied by need to keep playing and creating.
You can realize the talent of the two violinists and all their colleagues, for example in the piece Mireille by Charles Gounod, it will be on June 03, 05 and 07, at the musical city of Metz.