before the war, one could only dream about this - says the ukrainian pianist pavlo gintov. for the most part, ukrainian music remains something mysterious and unknown for them. and so far it seems to me that i manage to interest them, that is, as far as i can see, they like ukrainian music, they are usually very surprised that they have not heard it, that they do not know it, and they open it. as a musician, i was deeply impressed by this unknown piano repertoire, i was interested to hear not only pavel's first-class performance, but also to learn about the soul of the ukrainian composers who wrote this music. in in the program of the performance in washington, in addition to lysenko, lyatushynskyi, skoryk, the works of unknown, even for ukrainians, composers who were expelled by the soviet authorities for immigration. these compitos... and let's say, serhiy bortkevich, fedir yakymenko, i will play their works in a concert today, and i discovered them only when i was already living in america, and because of the events of 2014, because i started collecting. this repertoire